read The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
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I think I read that book. I certainly recognize the title.
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test is about the drug culture in early sixties in California. It concentrates heavily on Ken Kesey. Kesey was a grad student at Stanford, and volunteered to be a subject of a psych study there, where he was given drugs, including LSD.
Kesey later was the founder of the hippie movement. He got a group of hangers on called the Merry Pranksters. They painted a bus in dayglo colors (originally highway paint used for high visibility,) wrote the book, One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. One part that has stuck with me was a passage that describes them getting in the bus and driving through the streets in San Francisco, painted in dayglo colors and throwing things to people walking by. While that conduct is normalized now, it was shocking in the early sixties.
The CIA got involved with Stanford, Harvard, and UC Berkley. I think Kesey was one of their early operatives/experiments.
Slide in this already too long post, but what people think of as the fifties actually extended until Kennedy was assassinated. What we think of as the sixties started with Kennedy's assassination and continued until Nixon was removed from office.