About the book
Tom Wolfe's 1968 work of New Journalism follows Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, a band of psychedelic enthusiasts who crossed the United States in a painted school bus named Furthur. At the wheel is Neal Cassady, the model for Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Wolfe records the Acid Tests, parties built around LSD, lights and noise that began at Kesey's home in La Honda, California, along with the group's encounters with the Hells Angels, the Grateful Dead and Allen Ginsberg. The account also covers Kesey's flight to Mexico and his arrests. It drew modest literary praise, notably for the clear narrative Wolfe kept amid an often intoxicated scene.
Jocko Willink said he picked it up by chance when he needed a mental break from constant war, and valued it as the complete opposite of that world.
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Jocko Willink (Founder/Echelon Front)
I needed a little bit of a mental rest and I was just embroiled, everything was war all day long, and eventually I needed a mental break from that. And a random book that happened to be in this location I was at was The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe. Which is about the 60' and it's about hippies and it's abot psychedelics drugs and it was a good mental break because it was obviously the complete opposite of what I was experiencing at the time. And it kind of got me out of it.
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