leary

=Timothy Leary=


 * Directions**: Use the following questions and resources to learn more about your individual. Take careful notes; you may not simply cut and paste from the Internet into your notes. Keep careful track of your sources for your Works Cited. Based on your research, you will create a profile of your individual to share with the class. This profile should provide basic background information on your individual //and// provide an overview of his/her stance on our main questions: where is the U.S. headed from here? what are the primary issues/concerns facing our nation? how would deal with these issues and concerns?


 * Questions to consider as you research:**
 * What was the "counterculture" and what factors contributed to its development in the mid to late 1960s?
 * How would you describe this counterculture? Who was attracted to it?
 * What vision of the future did the counterculture articulate/debate? How did they view the government? people in authority in general?
 * How does Leary fit into this counterculture?
 * What happened to the counterculture between 1967 (the summer of love) and 1968? Pay attention to what the Summer of Love DVD has to say about this. You can also check out the [|web site].

He's going to represent the hippie movement/counter culture that was developing out in San Francisco during this era. 1967 was the summer of love and that's critical to your project. The library has the DVD of the PBS special.
 * Resources**


 * PBS: Summer of Love: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/
 * The New Yorker, "Acid Redux: The Life and Times of Timothy Leary": http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/06/26/060626crbo_books
 * New York Times, "Timothy Leary, Pied Piper of Psychedelic '60s Dies at 75," http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1022.html
 * Time Magazine, "Was Timothy Leary Right?": http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1612717,00.html