The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - R Rated

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a 1968 nonfiction book by Tom Wolfe[2]written in the New Journalism literary style. The book presents a firsthand account of the experiences of Ken Kesey and a group of psychedelicenthusiasts, known as the Merry Pranksters, who traveled across the United States in a colorfully-painted school bus they called Furthur.[3] Kesey and the Pranksters became famous for their use of psychedelic drugs (such as LSD) to achieve expansion of their consciousness.[4] The book chronicles the Acid Tests (parties with LSD-laced Kool-Aid) and encounters with notable figures of the time (Hells Angels, Grateful Dead, Allen Ginsberg), and describes Kesey's exile to Mexico and his arrests.