Gospel of the Hippie Movement
WOLFE, Tom The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. New York: Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 1968.
8vo. Original white cloth, spine lettered in orange, pink and blue with publisher's imprint in green; orange endpapers and top edge light blue; illustrated dust jacket designed by Milton Glaser with photograph of the author on rear wrapper taken by Jacques Lowe; pp. [11] 416; spine a little bumped at top and bottom, minimal internal crease at top of dust jacket spine; otherwise near fine.
First edition.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is Tom Wolfe's iconic counterculture classic, relaying the chronicles of Ken Kesey and his 'Merry Prankster' cohort as they travel the USA on their vividly painted school bus "Further", spreading the word of LSD, their conduit to an elevated state of mind, along their journey.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test has been lauded the quintessential gospel of the hippie movement and was crucial in encouraging the ideologies of the Merry Pranksters into discussion amongst the general public.
As Jarvis Cocker writes of the indelible influence the book had on his own perception; "How do revolutions happen? How does an idea spread from one mind until it takes over an entire society? This is the only book I can think of where you can see that process at work."
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