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Copyright Copyright © 2018 Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis Cover design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich. Cover photograph by Getty Images. Cover copyright © 2018 by Hachette Book Group, Inc. Hachette Book Group supports the right to free expression and the value of copyright. The purpose of copyright is to encourage writers and artists to produce the creative works that enrich our culture. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book without permission is a theft of the authors’ intellectual property. If you would like permission to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), please contact [email protected]. Thank you for your support of the authors’ rights. Twelve Hachette Book Group 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104 twelvebooks.com twitter.com/twelvebooks First Edition: January 2018 Twelve is an imprint of Grand Central Publishing. The Twelve name and logo are trademarks of Hachette Book Group, Inc. The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher. The Hachette Speakers Bureau provides a wide range of authors for speaking events. To find out more, go to www.hachettespeakersbureau.com or call (866) 376-6591. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Minutaglio, Bill, Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Minutaglio, Bill, author. | Davis, Steven L., author. Title: The most dangerous man in America : Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon & the hunt for the fugitive king of LSD / Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis. Other titles: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the hunt for the fugitive king of LSD Description: New York : Twelve, [2018] Identifiers: LCCN 2017032575| ISBN 9781455563586 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781478923664 (trade pbk.) | ISBN 9781455563609 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Leary, Timothy, 1920–1996—Travel—Foreign countries. | Fugitives from justice—United States—Biography. | Escapes—California—San Luis Obispo County. | Psychologists— United States—Biography. | Radicalism—United States—History— 20th century. | Counterculture—History—20th century. | LSD (Drug)—History—20th century. | United States—Politics and government— 1969–1974. Classification: LCC HV8658.L43 M56 2018 | DDC 150.92 [B] —dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017032575 ISBNs: 978-1-45556358-6 (hardcover), 978-1-45556360-9 (ebook) E3- 20171102-JV-PC Contents COVER TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT DEDICATION EPIGRAPH AUTHORS’ NOTE PRELUDE: Some Bad Guy PART I: YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION WE THROW AWAY THE KEY THE GREAT FEAR PURPLE LIZARDS ARES, GOD OF WAR MADMAN WARGASM YOU GOTTA PITCH LOVE REVOLUTIONARIES ARE YOU SLEEPING WITH HIM? HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT OFFING PIGS? JUJU EYEBALLS THEY CAN CARRY GUNS ACID IS GROOVY I’M NINO DYNAMITE AND HAIR DYE BE FREE, PRISON GUARDS SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL UNDERGROUND YOU’RE TOO HOT ARMED AND DANGEROUS PLAYING HOUSE DOPE AND DYNAMITE A GOOD TEST FOR YOUR DISGUISE PART II: THE SHELTERING SKY THE BADDEST MOTHERFUCKER GINSENG WINE I’LL BEAT HIM TO DEATH WITH A MARSHMALLOW INTERRACIAL HARMONY DEAD PIGS AND DIRTY DISHES GENIAL GENIUS UNLEASHED ANGELS DRUG-SNIFFING DOGS WE BURY PEOPLE GET THIS MOTHERFUCKER OUT OF THE COUNTRY PAY THESE MOTHERS OFF MOTHERFUCKERS EVERYWHERE THAT’S WHAT THEY HATE TO SEE ESCALATE THE VIOLENCE THE FIRST LESSON A REVOLUTIONARY LEARNS HE DROPPED FROM THE SKIES A PLANET OF PURITY YOU’RE REALLY BUSTED THIS TIME TWO THOUSAND LIGHT YEARS FROM HOME HIS MIND HAS BEEN BLOWN BY ACID SUPREME SERVANTS VOODOO TAPES IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS SHIT A VANISHING PINPRICK REVOLUTION WITHOUT REVELATION PART III: HIGH ON A MOUNTAIN I’LL SHOW YOU EUROPE GOLDFINGER I’LL PAY ALL THE BILLS KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS SQUARE IN THE PUSS WAR ON DRUGS BRING US DR. LEARY SOME KARMIC MISTAKE THE POPE OF DOPE PHANTASMAGORIA AT LEAST HE’S OUR HITLER THEY SAY IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY A VICTORY FOR LOVE I OWN TIMOTHY LEARY THE WORLD CHANGED FOREVER ALWAYS ERR IN EXCESS HE JUST ISN’T WELL SCREWED ON HE HAS DESTROYED MORE LIVES THE GODDESS LAKSHMI GARDEN PARTY HE HAS TAKEN LEAVE OF HIS SENSES PART IV: HAPPYLAND PEACE WITH HONOR PURPLE HAZE SUPER BOWL AGENT BURKE THE KING’S NEPHEW LEARY HIGH AGAIN A QUIET HIJACKING MAKE THEM STOP A FREE MAN EPILOGUE POST-CREDITS PHOTOS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS ALSO BY BILL MINUTAGLIO AND STEVEN L. DAVIS A NOTE ON SOURCES BIBLIOGRAPHY ENDNOTES MISSION STATEMENT NEWSLETTERS For Michael Horowitz and Robert Barker, for saving the archives. For Rosemary, Joanna, and everyone who shared their stories. Richard Nixon famously called Timothy Leary “the most dangerous man in America.” —NEW YORK TIMES When Nixon called me that, I was thrilled. The president of the United States, whom many Americans and the rest of the world thought was a crazed, psychotic danger, for him to be calling me that… that’s my Nobel Prize, that’s my bumper sticker, that’s my trophy on the wall. —TIMOTHY LEARY If Richard Nixon is not sincere, he is the most dangerous man in America. —DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

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Copyright Copyright © 2018 Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis Cover design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich. Cover photograph by Getty Images. Cover copyright © 2018 by Hachette Book Group, Inc. Hachette Book Group supports the right to free expression and the value of copyright. The purpose of copyright is to encourage writers and artists to produce the creative works that enrich our culture. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book without permission is a theft of the authors’ intellectual property. If you would like permission to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), please contact [email protected]. Thank you for your support of the authors’ rights. Twelve Hachette Book Group 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104 twelvebooks.com twitter.com/twelvebooks First Edition: January 2018 Twelve is an imprint of Grand Central Publishing. The Twelve name and logo are trademarks of Hachette Book Group, Inc. The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher. The Hachette Speakers Bureau provides a wide range of authors for speaking events. To find out more, go to www.hachettespeakersbureau.com or call (866) 376-6591. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Minutaglio, Bill, Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Minutaglio, Bill, author. | Davis, Steven L., author. Title: The most dangerous man in America : Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon & the hunt for the fugitive king of LSD / Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis. Other titles: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the hunt for the fugitive king of LSD Description: New York : Twelve, [2018] Identifiers: LCCN 2017032575| ISBN 9781455563586 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781478923664 (trade pbk.) | ISBN 9781455563609 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Leary, Timothy, 1920–1996—Travel—Foreign countries. | Fugitives from justice—United States—Biography. | Escapes—California—San Luis Obispo County. | Psychologists— United States—Biography. | Radicalism—United States—History— 20th century. | Counterculture—History—20th century. | LSD (Drug)—History—20th century. | United States—Politics and government— 1969–1974. Classification: LCC HV8658.L43 M56 2018 | DDC 150.92 [B] —dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017032575 ISBNs: 978-1-45556358-6 (hardcover), 978-1-45556360-9 (ebook) E3- 20171102-JV-PC Contents COVER TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT DEDICATION EPIGRAPH AUTHORS’ NOTE PRELUDE: Some Bad Guy PART I: YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION WE THROW AWAY THE KEY THE GREAT FEAR PURPLE LIZARDS ARES, GOD OF WAR MADMAN WARGASM YOU GOTTA PITCH LOVE REVOLUTIONARIES ARE YOU SLEEPING WITH HIM? HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT OFFING PIGS? JUJU EYEBALLS THEY CAN CARRY GUNS ACID IS GROOVY I’M NINO DYNAMITE AND HAIR DYE BE FREE, PRISON GUARDS SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL UNDERGROUND YOU’RE TOO HOT ARMED AND DANGEROUS PLAYING HOUSE DOPE AND DYNAMITE A GOOD TEST FOR YOUR DISGUISE PART II: THE SHELTERING SKY THE BADDEST MOTHERFUCKER GINSENG WINE I’LL BEAT HIM TO DEATH WITH A MARSHMALLOW INTERRACIAL HARMONY DEAD PIGS AND DIRTY DISHES GENIAL GENIUS UNLEASHED ANGELS DRUG-SNIFFING DOGS WE BURY PEOPLE GET THIS MOTHERFUCKER OUT OF THE COUNTRY PAY THESE MOTHERS OFF MOTHERFUCKERS EVERYWHERE THAT’S WHAT THEY HATE TO SEE ESCALATE THE VIOLENCE THE FIRST LESSON A REVOLUTIONARY LEARNS HE DROPPED FROM THE SKIES A PLANET OF PURITY YOU’RE REALLY BUSTED THIS TIME TWO THOUSAND LIGHT YEARS FROM HOME HIS MIND HAS BEEN BLOWN BY ACID SUPREME SERVANTS VOODOO TAPES IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS SHIT A VANISHING PINPRICK REVOLUTION WITHOUT REVELATION PART III: HIGH ON A MOUNTAIN I’LL SHOW YOU EUROPE GOLDFINGER I’LL PAY ALL THE BILLS KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS SQUARE IN THE PUSS WAR ON DRUGS BRING US DR. LEARY SOME KARMIC MISTAKE THE POPE OF DOPE PHANTASMAGORIA AT LEAST HE’S OUR HITLER THEY SAY IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY A VICTORY FOR LOVE I OWN TIMOTHY LEARY THE WORLD CHANGED FOREVER ALWAYS ERR IN EXCESS HE JUST ISN’T WELL SCREWED ON HE HAS DESTROYED MORE LIVES THE GODDESS LAKSHMI GARDEN PARTY HE HAS TAKEN LEAVE OF HIS SENSES PART IV: HAPPYLAND PEACE WITH HONOR PURPLE HAZE SUPER BOWL AGENT BURKE THE KING’S NEPHEW LEARY HIGH AGAIN A QUIET HIJACKING MAKE THEM STOP A FREE MAN EPILOGUE POST-CREDITS PHOTOS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS ALSO BY BILL MINUTAGLIO AND STEVEN L. DAVIS A NOTE ON SOURCES BIBLIOGRAPHY ENDNOTES MISSION STATEMENT NEWSLETTERS For Michael Horowitz and Robert Barker, for saving the archives. For Rosemary, Joanna, and everyone who shared their stories. Richard Nixon famously called Timothy Leary “the most dangerous man in America.” —NEW YORK TIMES When Nixon called me that, I was thrilled. The president of the United States, whom many Americans and the rest of the world thought was a crazed, psychotic danger, for him to be calling me that… that’s my Nobel Prize, that’s my bumper sticker, that’s my trophy on the wall. —TIMOTHY LEARY If Richard Nixon is not sincere, he is the most dangerous man in America. —DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

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From Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, authors of the PEN Center USA award-winningDallas 1963,comes a madcap narrative about Timothy Leary's daring prison escape and run from the law.On the moonlit evening of September 12, 1970, an ex-Harvard professor with a genius I.Q. studies a twelve-foot hig
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