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Chapter I Black Shiny FBI Shoes Summary and Analysis
Tom Wolfe writes about Ken Kesey, a promising young writer, during Kesey's experimentations with LSD from about 1961 to 1964. Kesey leaves his home in Oregon to do post-graduate work on a creative writing fellowship at Stanford University. There he encounters LSD and other psychoactive drugs while volunteering as a research subject. The effects of LSD on Kesey's perceptions draw him and others into the regular use of LSD, marijuana and amphetamines. A small version of the drug culture that is to follow develops.
In the late 1960s, Tom Wolfe seeks out Ken Kesey, drug-culture icon, for an interview. Kesey is to be let out of jail on a bond that his friends have raised by putting up three houses for collateral. Kesey has been charged with two counts of marijuana possession. The FBI caught him when he returned to San Francisco in...
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