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Can't Find My Way Home : America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000

America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000

By: Martin Torgoff

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Paperback | 1 May 2005 | Edition Number 1

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From the narcotic allure of the bebop and Beat generations to the psychedelic 1960s, Vietnam, the cocaine-fueled disco era, the crack epidemic, and the ecstasy-induced rave culture, illegal drugs have profoundly shaped America's cultural landscape. In Can't Find My Way Home, journalist and filmmaker Martin Torgoff chronicles what a long strange trip it's been as the American Century became the Great Stoned Age.
Weaving together first-person accounts and historical background, Can't Find My Way Home is a narrative vast in scope yet rich in intimate detail. Torgoff tells the stories of those whose lives became synonymous with the drug culture, from Charlie Parker, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and John Belushi to ordinary people who felt their consciousness "expanded" or who plumbed the depths of addiction. He also examines the broader impact of drugs on society and politics, from the war on drugs to the recovery movement, and the continuing debate over drug policy. A vivid work of cultural history that neither demonizes nor romanticizes its subject, Can't Find My Way Home is a provocative and fascinating look at how drugs have entered the American mainstream.

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"As pleasantly and richly intoxicating as a double hit of Humboldt County, California's finest....Torgoff ranges widely in documenting the profound influence of drugs on postwar America."
-- Nick Gillespie, The Washington Post Book World

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Preface	p. 1
Fearless, Immune, and Ready for All	p. 5
Bop Apocalypse	p. 17
Psychedelic Spring	p. 68
Everybody Must Get Stoned	p. 105
White Light, White Heat	p. 156
Next Stop Is Vietnam	p. 174
Find the Cost of Freedom	p. 196
The Golden Age of Marijuana	p. 258
Out of the Closets and into the Streets	p. 294
The Last Dance	p. 308
Hangin' Bangin' and Slangin'	p. 344
Spiritus Contra Spiritum	p. 366
Nouveau Psychedelia	p. 387
Just Say Know	p. 420
The Temple of Accumulated Error	p. 456
Acknowledgments	p. 475
Notes	p. 477
Bibliography	p. 509
Index	p. 525
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Can't Find My Way Home : America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000

America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000

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