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Also by Tom Wolfe:

Back To Blood, November 2012
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I Am Charlotte Simmons, August 2005
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The Right Stuff, November 2001
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A Man in Full, November 2001
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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, October 1999
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Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, October 1999
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, October 1999
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The Bonfire of the Vanities, December 1988
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THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST
By: Tom Wolfe

Counter Culture novel

Bantam
October 1999
432 pages
ISBN: 0553380648
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Fiction

Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD-induced "acid tests" all along the way. Long considered one of the greatest books about the history of the hippies, Wolfe's ability to research like a reporter and simultaneously evoke the hallucinogenic indulgence of the era ensures that this book, written in 1967, will live long in the counter-culture canon of American literature.

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CBS Sunday Morning - January 15, 2006