{"product_id":"acid-hype-american-news-media-and-the-psychedelic-experience-hardback-9780252039195","title":"Acid Hype; American News Media and the Psychedelic Experience (Hardback) 9780252039195","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAcid Hype\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAmerican News Media and the Psychedelic Experience\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStephen Siff (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780252039195\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 May 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages, 16 black \u0026amp; white photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.54 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Siff provides two parallel narratives about LSD. The first focuses on the history of LSD, its popularity beginning in the mid-1950s and its fall from grace a decade later; the second concerns the way in which media attention to LSD changed journalistic methods. Recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"The rich content of consumer magazines, especially those published before television became culturally dominant, remains largely unexamined by media historians. \u003ci\u003eAcid Hype\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates how rewarding study of mass-circulation magazines can be. Who could anticipate Stephen Siff would find that such bedrock Republicans as Henry and Clare Boothe Luce personally embraced hallucinogenic drugs and encouraged their use in the pages of \u003cu\u003eLife\u003c\/u\u003e and \u003cu\u003eTime\u003c\/u\u003e?\"--Joseph Bernt, Professor Emeritus of Journalism, Ohio University\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Stephen Siff. . . is never less than shrewd and readable in his assessment of how various news media differed in method and attitude when covering the psychedelic beat.\"--\u003ci\u003eInside Higher Ed\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \"This examination of the media's heightened interest in LSD in the 1950s and 1960s is an important book. Painstakingly researched, it provides a highly interesting trip through an era where it seemed all Americans were aware of the drug and many were taking it. This study unquestionably will be cited extensively by historians.\"--Patrick S. Washburn, Professor Emeritus, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University \"\u003ci\u003eAcid Hype\u003c\/i\u003e is a conscientiously researched, thoughtfully conceptualized, and clearly written account of the media's significant role in manufacturing the LSD craze in America in the late 1960s.\"--\u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e \"A well-researched work of narrative history.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e \"This examination of the media's heightened interest in LSD in the 1950s and 1960s is an important book. Painstakingly researched, it provides a highly interesting trip through an era where it seemed all Americans were aware of the drug and many were taking it. This study unquestionably will be cited extensively by historians.\"--Patrick S. Washburn, Professor Emeritus, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University \"Stimulating and enjoyable.\"--Matthew C. Ehrlich, author of \u003ci\u003eRadio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \"Siff does a very good job of explaining the relationship between the legal system and social environment, as well as the key players in government and society during the so-called psychedelic years in the United States. This makes \u003ci\u003eAcid Hype\u003c\/i\u003e especially valuable as a resource.\"--Sammye Johnson, Carlos Augustus de Lozano Chair in Journalism, Trinity University, and co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Magazine from Cover to Cover\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNow synonymous with Sixties counterculture, LSD actually entered the American consciousness via the mainstream. \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e, messengers of lumpen-American respectability, trumpeted its grand arrival in a postwar landscape scoured of alluring descriptions of drug use while lesser outlets piggybacked on their coverage with stories by turns sensationalized and glowing. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcid Hype\u003c\/i\u003e offers the untold tale of LSD's wild journey from Brylcreem and Ivory soap to incense and peppermints. As Stephen Siff shows, the early attention lavished on the drug by the news media glorified its use in treatments for mental illness but also its status as a mystical--yet legitimate--gateway to exploring the unconscious mind. Siff's history takes readers to the center of how popular media hyped psychedelic drugs in a constantly shifting legal and social environment, producing an intricate relationship between drugs and media experience that came to define contemporary pop culture. It also traces how the breathless coverage of LSD gave way to a textbook moral panic, transforming yesterday's refined seeker of truths into an acid casualty splayed out beyond the fringe of polite society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments   xi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Midcentury Media's Trip with LSD   1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Early Restrictions on Drug Speech, 1900-1956   17\u003cbr\u003e 2. Introducing LSD, 1953-1956   42\u003cbr\u003e 3. Creating a Psychedelic Past, 1954-1960   68\u003cbr\u003e 4. Research at the Intersection of Media and Medicine, 1957-1962   89\u003cbr\u003e 5. Luce, Leary, and LSD, 1963-1965   115\u003cbr\u003e 6. Moral Panic and Media Hype, 1966-1968   145\u003cbr\u003e Postscript: Psychedelic Media   181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes   191\u003cbr\u003e Index   227\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520662892824,"sku":"9780252039195","price":87.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/acid-hype-american-news-media-and-the-psychedelic-experience-hardback-9780252039195","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}