 Acid Dreams:
by Martin A. Lee, Bruce Shlain
The Complete Social History of Lsd : The Cia, the Sixties, and Beyond
This fascinating study examines how the CIA tested LSD on unwitting residents
of Greenwich Village and San Francisco. Of particular interest are profiles
of Timothy Leary, LSD chemist Ronald Stark and others.
The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, and the End of History by Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna is considered to be "the cultures foremost spokesman for the psychedelic experience," He is an underground legend as a brilliant raconteur, adventurer, and expert on the use of mind-altering plants.
This book takes you on a mesmerizing journey deep into the Amazon as well as into the hidden recesses of the human psyche and the outer limits of our culture giving you startling visions of the past and the future.
High
Priest
by Timothy Leary, Howard Hallis (Illustrator)
Original account of the psychedelic research and life at Harvard, from 1960
to 1962. Each chapter contains part of the storyline, plus an I Ching hexagram,
comments, quotations, and illustrations. Chronicles 16 psychedelic trips
taken in the days before LSD was made illegal. The trip guides or "high
priests" include Aldous Huxley, Gordon Wasson, William S. Burroughs,
Godsdog, Allen Ginsberg, Ram Dass, Ralph Metzner, Willy (a junkie from New
York City), Huston Smith, Frank Barron and others. The first new edition
of HIGH PRIEST in over 25 years and includes a foreword by Allen Ginsberg,
as well as a new introduction by Timothy Leary.
 Expecting to Fly: A Sixties Reckoning
by Martha Tod Dudman
 All Dressed Up by Jonathon Green
Jonathon Green was at the heart of Sixties counter-culture, working on many of the underground magazines, including the infamous 'Oz'. In this detailed account of that pivotal decade, Green paints an affectionate picture of a society being transformed by a youth culture determined to create a better, alternative world through sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.
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 Amazing Dope Tales by Stephen Gaskin
Go back in time to the dawn of the psychedelic era with Gaskin's "Amazing Dope Tales" - a personal account of acid trips, telepathy, occult phenomenon, and the San Francisco music scene during Haight-Ashbury's Summer of Love.
 The Brotherhood of Eternal Love: From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler and David May (2007) 
 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)
This book sure did cause a ruckus when it first came out !!
The Hippie Trip :
by Lewis Yablonsky
The classic First Hand Account of the Beliefs, Drug Use and Sexual Patterns
of hippies in American by a noted sociologist. Includes interviews and analysis. This book is often used as a reference for studies and stories about hippies.
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Love, Not War:
The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History by David Allyn
The sexual revolution of the 1960's and 1970's is an important subject about
which almost no documentation or analysis remains. David Allyn's Harvard
U. Ph.D. dissertation, repackaged in this book, is one of the very few books
about that subject currently in print.
Draws upon first-hand accounts, diaries, interviews, and period research,
historian Allyn traces the course of the events, ideas, and personalities
that drove the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
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The Seven Sisters of Sleep: The Celebrated Drug Classic by Mordecai Cooke