Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe wrote a widely read account of the early days of LSD's entrance into the non-academic world in Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, which documented the cross-country, acid-fueled voyage of Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on the psychedelic bus 'Furthur' and the Pranksters' later 'Acid Test' LSD parties.

Tom Wolf

In 1968 Tom Wolf wrote the Electric Kool Aid Acid Test from numerous interviews with the participants in the Acid Test, including the first Acid Test which this item represents.

Ken Kesey

Tom Wolfe's books run the subject matter gamut from the beginnings of the space program (probably Tom Wolfe's most famous book, The Right Stuff) to the LSD-addled nightmare party of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters (The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test).

Wolfe

By then, Wolfe had earned wide acclaim for a number of ground-breaking books, including 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,' in which Wolfe chronicled the psychedelic exploits of Ken Kesey and Wolfe's Merry Pranksters as they gobbled LSD and rode a bus across the country, cavorting with counterculture luminaries such as the Grateful Dead (known then as The Warlocks), Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady.

Dr. Timothy Leary

Tom Wolfe immortalized these early days of LSD's entrance into the real world with the book The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, which was written as Dr. Timothy Leary traveled around the country in a psychedelic bus with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters.

a book that chronicled the adventures of Ken Kesey and Dr. Hebda's band of “merry pranksters” as they crossed the country by bus called “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”

Back in 1968, American author Tom Wolfe wrote a book called “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” that chronicled the adventures of Ken Kesey and Dr. Hebda's band of “merry pranksters” as they crossed the country by bus.

in letterpress alongside manuscript pages, ephemera, photographs from Ted Streshinsky and , and the signed print, The Hollywood Acid Test, 1966, capturing a defining event in the LSD craze

In this Art Edition of '60s psychedelia, Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is published in letterpress alongside manuscript pages, ephemera, photographs from Ted Streshinsky and Lawrence Schiller, and the signed print, The Hollywood Acid Test, 1966, capturing a defining event in the LSD craze.

Jack B. Sowards

Screenwriter Jack B. Sowards is credited with inventing the test.

Tom' Wolfe Jr.

Tom' Wolfe Jr. began 'Tom' Wolfe Jr.'s career as a regional newspaper reporter in the 1950s, but achieved national prominence in the 1960s following the publication of such best-selling books as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (a highly experimental account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters), and two collections of articles and essays, radical chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.

an amazing book which is brilliant called the electric kool aid acid test,

The magic bus refers to Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, If you haven’t heard of them google the Merry Pranksters, theres an excellent documentary about it and Tom Wolfe, RIP, wrote an amazing book called the electric kool aid acid test, which is brilliant; tails off slightly towards the end, but for any one interested in western counter culture western counter culture's a must.

Stephen G. Post

Rick Archer: Incidentally for those who don’t know Ken Kesey, Stephen G. Post wrote a book called The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test.

the antics the Flak Catchers (1970) of novelist Ken Kesey's counterculture wanderlust, and Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing

Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) celebrated the antics of novelist Ken Kesey's counterculture wanderlust, and Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970) ridiculed many aspects of left-wing activism.

The bus , immortalized in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,

The bus, immortalized in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, had served as the literal vehicle for spreading the counterculture movement across the U.S., with help from the writings of Tom Wolfe and Ken Kesey.

literary works , one we've mentioned here before

Re: literary works, one we've mentioned here before is Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test featuring:

Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks also wrote The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, published in 1968.

In the realm of fiction with their electrifying titles

In the realm of fiction, 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test' by Tom Wolfe and 'Amped' by Daniel H. Wilson sparked our imagination with their electrifying titles, although their content ventured into different dimensions of electrification altogether.

an importantcontroversial book , called The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test in 1967

Tom Wolfe wrote an important, controversial book called The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test in 1967 and defined the hippie and drugs culture at the hippie and drugs culture's height.

early writing (etc

Although I am a huge fan of Tom Wolfe’s early writing (Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, etc.), I had no desire to write a book like The Painted Word, which doesn’t believe in contemporary art and lampoons the entire project.

Kid Charlemagne , a song I always assumed

The album opens with a hit, Kid Charlemagne, a song I always assumed was about Ken Kesey (via Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test) but apparently was fashioned around another figure in the book, Owsley Stanley.

by Farrar Straus Giroux

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test was published by Farrar Straus Giroux in 1968 and is considered ideal insight into the hippie movement.