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Definitive biographies include Robert Greenfield, Timothy Leary (2006); and John Higgs, I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary (2006). Leary’s involvement in popularizing psychedelics and his role in the 1960s counterculture were treated in Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain, Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD, and the Sixties Rebellion (1985); and Don Lattin, The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America (2010). Robert Forte (ed.), Timothy Leary: Outside Looking In (1999), is a collection of reminiscences and interviews with Leary’s cohort.
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| Add new Web site: CBC - Timothy Leary on the possibilities of LSD. | Oct 24, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Oct 18, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | May 27, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fresh Air Archive - Timothy Leary. | May 07, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Texas at Austin - Harry Ransom Center - Timothy Leary. | Dec 10, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Letter from America by Alistair Cooke - Timothy Leary (1920 -1996). | May 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Bard Digital Commons - Timothy Leary. | Mar 21, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: The New York Public Library - Archives and Manuscripts - Timothy Leary papers. | Dec 13, 2024 | ||
| Added cross-references. | Aug 15, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Introduction to Timothy Leary: The Harvard Years. | Mar 07, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Jan 26, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - Father Of The Psychedelic Movement, Timothy Leary. | Oct 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard - Timothy Leary's legacy and the rebirth of psychedelic research (PDF). | Aug 18, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Licensing Site of Timothy Leary. | Apr 28, 2023 | ||
| Added a cross-reference to psilocybin mushroom. | Mar 03, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of Timothy Leary. | Sep 01, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 04, 2017 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Mar 13, 2014 | ||
| New bibliography added. | Mar 13, 2014 | ||
| Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Timothy Leary. | May 06, 2009 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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