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Historical Context Behind Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Historical Context Behind Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. A brief introduction to the social, political, and economic turmoil that changed America during just one decade. A world full of the same. Social boiling points: Communist Scare Levittowns Commodification

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Historical Context Behind Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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  1. Historical Context Behind Ken Kesey’sOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest A brief introduction to the social, political, and economic turmoil that changed America during just one decade.

  2. A world full of the same • Social boiling points: • Communist Scare • Levittowns • Commodification • Segregation of society

  3. Break on Through: The Creation of the Counterculture • The Haight Ashbury • Beatnik Writers and other Influences • Jazz musicians based in Harlem • Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac • Emergence of Psychedelic Retail Shops • Albert Hoffman and LSD • Owlsey Stanley and his distribution empire • On the other side of the pond: Timothy Leary • “Turn on, tune in, drop out” • Psychedelic Literature and uses

  4. Ken Kesey: A rebel • Kesey’s history with LSD • Stanford Psych Ward • Tim Leary’s LSD literature • Kesey’s Approach • Recreational use • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) • Shocking, controversial, and was attempted to be banned from 1974-2000 • A symbol for the repression society place upon the up and coming baby boomers

  5. Aftermath of Cuckoo’s Nest Acid Tests Very Merry Pranksters

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