Originally published: 2019. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
Literary and cultural historian James Riley descends into this underworld and traces the historical and conspiratorial threads connecting art, film, poetry, politics, murder and revolt. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the Manson Family and Roman Polanski, ley-line hunters and Illuminati believers, Aldous Huxley, Joan Didion and the Beat poets, radical protest movements and occult groups all come together in Rileys gripping narrative. Steeped in the hopes, dreams and anxieties of the late 1960s and early 70s, The Bad Trip tells the strange stories of some of the periods most compelling figures as they approached the end of an era and imagined new worlds ahead.
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