LEARY, Timothy; Dick Gregory, intro; Yossarian, illus.
LEARY, Timothy; Dick Gregory, intro; Yossarian, illus.
NY: High Times Press, 1974. First edition. 31pp; b&w illus. Saddle-stapled in illustrated wraps. About very good, with rubbing and toning to covers.
Scarce publication by American psychologist and counterculture icon Timothy Leary (1920-1996); a conspiracy-inflected work written during the Watergate scandal while Leary was incarcerated in Folsom Prison. With discussions of "various issues of "neurological politics," including Watergate mastermind G. Gordon Liddy spying on the Millbrook commune in 1966, the CIA and "bugging," secrecy and the electronic media, and the "curse" of the presidential oval office" (Horowitz, An Annotated Bibliography of Timothy Leary, A17). With black-and-white illustrations throughout by "Yossarian," the pseudonym of underground cartoonist Donald Schenker. The debut publication of the short-lived imprint of High Times magazine.
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