I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary

President Nixon called him the most dangerous man in America, while Terence McKenna believed he made more people happy than anyone else in history. Few People have divided opinion as strongly as Dr. Timothy Leary. Leary, a brilliant behavioral psychologist, persuaded millions to tune in, turn on, and drop out. His influence was so wide-ranging that he had enormous impact on shaping the post-modern 21st century world. Foreword 8 I'll Free You, My Love 12 2 The Children Will Grow Up Wondering About Their Mother 13 3 But Don't You Think He's Just a Little Bit Square? 22 4 Then He Licked the Spoon 33 5 Jesus Christ, Do I Have to Fuck Every Girl Who Comes to This Place? 44 6 Thou Shalt Not Alter the Consciousness of Thy Fellow Man 58 7 Everyone, Compared to Him, Was Boring 67 8 I Want to Hit it Right Square in the Puss 75 9 WARNING: I Am Armed and Should Be Considered Dangerous 83 1o The Girl Began to Sing Arabic Love Songs 1o9 95 ii Just Say That on January the Ninth We Busted Leary 104 12 He Is Not Going to Die: They Will Have to Kill Him 115 13 Fortunately, Neuberg Had Been Armed With a Consecrated Magical Dagger 122 14 I Pledge That (1) I Shall at No Time Possess Any Illegal Drug 131 15 A Blizzard Descended on the Mountains 136 The Music of Paradise 16o 22 17 3o Gallons of Hash Oil, 2.5 Tons of Hashish, 1.5 Million LSD Tablets and Tens of Thousands of Dol 178 18 I Will Die Before I Go Back to America! 189 i9 I'm Not in the Twentieth Century 196 20 Naked Apart From a Pair of Long White Gloves and a Shotgun 207 21 Can I Shoot You? 217 22 Scum! Fucking Traitor! 226 23 On Houdini's Grave at Halloween 239 Acknowledgements 249 Selected Bibliography 262 Notes 263 "Dr. Timothy Leary was a brilliant behavioral psychologist who was sacked from Harvard for his experiments with psychedelic drugs, and responded by persuading millions to "tune in, turn on and drop out." He then escaped from jail in California, fled from America with the help of terrorists, was kidnapped by revolutionaries in Africa and became entrapped by an exiled arms dealer in Switzerland. His life was, in the words of his goddaughter Winona Ryder, "flat-out epic grandeur," but there is more to Timothy Leary than sex, drugs, and adventure. His cultural influence was so deep and wide ranging that the post-modern 21st century world is profoundly shaped by his life. I Have America Surrounded is the first book to explain not only what Timothy Leary did, but why he did it."--Jacket A portrait of the controversial behavioral psychologist discusses how he was villainized, heralded, and ultimately terminated from Harvard for his experiments with psychedelic drugs; his sensational escape from prison; and his influence on the post-modern twenty-first century world. Outlines the life of this controversial, divisive, and influential man