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Thoroughly engaging...Packing his book with strange, wonderful scenes, Lattin argues that America would never be the same because of an unlikely quartet that did time-and drugs-at Harvard in the early 1960s. -- New York Post Lattin weaves the biographies of these brilliant men into a compelling tale of possibilities and disappointments, angels and demons, triumph and tragedy, a page-turner that can stand proudly alongside its fictional counterparts. -- Northern Dutchess News This groovy story unfurls-chronicling the lives of men who were brilliant but damaged, soulful but vengeful, zonked-out but optimistic and wry-like a ready-made treatment for a sprawling, elegiac, and crisply comic movie...I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy just about every page. -- New York Times A colorful tale. -- Boston Globe With equal parts keen historicity and great humor, Lattin chronicles how these founding fathers of the so-called New Age movement in the US and worldwide met at Harvard in the early 60s and-despite rivalries, infighting, and backstabbing-managed to change the spiritual landscape for generations to come. -- Chicago Sun-Times

A colorful tale. -- Boston Globe Thoroughly engaging...Packing his book with strange, wonderful scenes, Lattin argues that America would never be the same because of an unlikely quartet that did time-and drugs-at Harvard in the early 1960s. -- New York Post Lattin weaves the biographies of these brilliant men into a compelling tale of possibilities and disappointments, angels and demons, triumph and tragedy, a page-turner that can stand proudly alongside its fictional counterparts. -- Northern Dutchess News With equal parts keen historicity and great humor, Lattin chronicles how these founding fathers of the so-called New Age movement in the US and worldwide met at Harvard in the early 60s and-despite rivalries, infighting, and backstabbing-managed to change the spiritual landscape for generations to come. -- Chicago Sun-Times This groovy story unfurls-chronicling the lives of men who were brilliant but damaged, soulful but vengeful, zonked-out but optimistic and wry-like a ready-made treatment for a sprawling, elegiac, and crisply comic movie...I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy just about every page. -- New York Times

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Don Lattin is one of the nation's leading journalists covering alternative and mainstream religious movements and figures in America. His work has appeared in dozens of US magazines and newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle, where he covered the religion beat for nearly two decades. Lattin has also worked as a consultant and commentator for Dateline, Primetime, Good Morning America, Nightline, Anderson Cooper 360, and PBS's Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. He is the author of Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge, and Following Our Bliss: How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today, and is the coauthor of Shopping for Faith: American Religion in the New Millennium. Visit the author online at www.DonLattin.com. John Pruden is an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. His exposure to many people, places, and experiences throughout his life provides a deep creative well from which he draws his narrative and vocal characterizations. His narration of The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers was chosen by the Washington Post as a Best Audiobook of 2010.

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