The Counterculture and the Covert: A History of Psychedelics

Uncovering sidelined legacies and clandestine operations, authors Susannah Cahalan and John Lisle explore the forgotten histories of psychedelics. In The Acid Queen, Cahalan chronicles the life of Rosemary Woodruff Leary, not as a mere accessory to her husband Timothy Leary but as a psychedelic pioneer and leader of the counterculture in her own right. In Project Mind Control, Lisle reveals the untold career of Sidney Gottlieb and his role in the CIA’s deadly mind control project, MKULTRA, and the suppressed stories of MKULTRA’s victims.