Wolfe takes a walk on the wild side with Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters and writes about the 1960s hippie culture.

Reviews

"Tom Wolfe is a groove and a gas. Everyone should send him money and other fine things. Hats off to Tom Wolfe!"--Terry Southern

""The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test "is not simply the best book on the hippies, it is the essential book . . . the pushing, ballooning heart of the matter . . . Vibrating dazzle!"--"The New York Times

""Some consider Mailer our greatest journalist; my candidate is Wolfe."--Studs Terkel, "Book Week

""A Day-Glo book, illuminating, merry, surreal!"--"The Washington Post

""Electrifying."--"San Francisco Chronicle

""An amazing book . . . A book that definitely gives Wolfe the edge on the nonfiction novel."--"The Village Voice

""Among journalists, Wolfe is a genuine poet; what makes him so good is his ability to get inside, to not merely describe (although he is a superb reporter), but to get under the skin of a phenomenon and transmit its metabolic rhythm."--"Newsweek"