by Tom Wolfe
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Psychedelics, History, and Fiction.
They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. But, fortunately, Tom Wolfe was there, notebook in hand, politely declining LSD while Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters fomented revolution, turning America on to a dangerously playful way of thinking as their DayGlo conveyance, Further, made the most influential bus ride since Rosa Parks's. B...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Psychedelics, History, and Fiction.
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Jordan Peterson
Clinical psychologist and author
“Gets you into the world of psychedelia and that era of the ‘70s.”
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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