Author and historian Dennis McNally has written extensively on the Grateful Dead, including the 2002 authorized biography “A Long Strange Trip.” In his new book, “The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties,” McNally (who also served as the Dead’s publicist in the 1980s and 1990s) …
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Rosemary Woodruff Leary was once a one-named media heroine married to one of the most infamous men of all time, the ex-Harvard psychologist and high priest of LSD, Timothy Leary. Now she’s a footnote — barely acknowledged if mentioned at all in the history of the counterculture and psychedelic renaissance …
Read More »Joanna Harcourt-Smith Recounts Her Bond With Timothy Leary in Clip From New Errol Morris Doc
Timothy Leary‘s longtime partner Joanna Harcourt-Smith recalls one of her early trips with the acid advocate in the first look at Errol Morris‘ upcoming documentary on Leary, set to premiere on Showtime later this year. The as-yet-titled film was inspired by Harcourt-Smith’s memoir, Tripping the Bardo With Timothy Leary: My …
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