January 7, 2010

“If you remember the ’60s,” as the saying goes, “you weren’t there.”

That’s only one of the cherished myths that Don Lattin debunks in “The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America” (HarperOne: $24.99). It’s a fast, funny, and savvy book that dishes about some of the most celebrated figures in the American counterculture.