{"product_id":"shadow-of-a-year-the-1641-rebellion-in-irish-history-and-memory-9780299289546","title":"Shadow of a Year: The 1641 Rebellion in Irish History and Memory","description":"Counterculture icon and best-selling author of the anti-authoritarian novels \u003ci\u003eOne Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSometimes a Great Notion\u003c\/i\u003e, Ken Kesey said he was too young to be a beatnik and too old to be a hippie. \u003ci\u003eIt s All a Kind of Magic\u003c\/i\u003e is the first biography of Kesey. It reveals a youthful life of brilliance and eccentricity that encompassed wrestling, writing, farming, magic and ventriloquism, CIA-funded experiments with hallucinatory drugs, and a notable cast of characters that would come to include Wallace Stegner, Larry McMurtry, Tom Wolfe, Neal Cassady, Timothy Leary, the Grateful Dead, and Hunter S. Thompson. Based on meticulous research and many interviews with friends and family, Rick Dodgson s biography documents Kesey s early life, from his time growing up in Oregon through his college years, his first drug experiences, and the writing of his most famous books. While a graduate student in creative writing at Stanford University in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Kesey worked the night shift at the Menlo Park Veterans Administration hospital, where he earned extra money taking LSD and other psychedelic drugs for medical studies. Soon he and his bohemian crowd of friends were using the same substances to conduct their own experiments, exploring the frontiers of their minds and testing the boundaries of their society. With the success of \u003ci\u003eOne Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest\u003c\/i\u003e, Kesey moved to La Honda, California, in the foothills of San Mateo County, creating a scene that Hunter S. Thompson remembered as the world capital of madness. There, Kesey and his growing band of Merry Prankster friends began hosting psychedelic parties and living a hippie lifestyle before anyone knew what that meant. Tom Wolfe s book \u003ci\u003eThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test\u003c\/i\u003e mythologized Kesey s adventures in the 1960s. Illustrated with rarely seen photographs, \u003ci\u003eIt s All a Kind of Magic\u003c\/i\u003e depicts a precocious young man brimming with self-confidence and ambition who through talent, instinct, and fearless spectacle made his life into a performance, a wild magic act that electrified American and world culture. \u003cbr\u003e Rick Dodgson has pored over Kesey s published and unpublished writings, interviews, and historical records to write a colorful biography of this charismatic American character. The resulting portrayal challenges assumptions about Kesey s place in the counterculture. \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Dodgson s painstaking research unearths hidden gems of Kesey s life that marked him as a fascinating figure. \u003ci\u003eH-Net\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Gibney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299289546\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2013 pg. 81\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Gibney earned his doctorate in history at Trinity College Dublin and is author of \u003ci\u003eIreland and the Popish Plot\u003c\/i\u003e. A guide for the popular Historical Walking Tours of Dublin offered by Historical Insights Ireland, he is a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eHistory Ireland \u003c\/i\u003emagazine and scholarly journals. He has been a research fellow at the University of Notre Dame and the National University of Ireland, Galway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40189602627699,"sku":"9.7803E+12","price":28.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_370acea4-58cb-40b4-a9df-504ac76053d8.jpg?v=1655817183","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/shadow-of-a-year-the-1641-rebellion-in-irish-history-and-memory-9780299289546","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}