"An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. "An astonishing book" (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, and the 1960s

"Tom Wolfe is a groove and a gas. Everyone should send him money and other fine things. Hats off to Tom Wolfe!" --Terry Southern

"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is not simply the best book on the hippies, it is the essential book...the pushing, ballooning heart of the matter...Vibrating dazzle!" --The New York Times

"Some consider Mailer our greatest journalist; my candidate is Wolfe." --Studs Terkel, BookWeek

"A Day-Glo book, illuminating, merry, surreal!" --The Washington Post

"Electrifying." --San Francisco Chronicle

"An amazing book…A book that definitely gives Wolfe the edge on the non-fiction novel." --The Village Voice

"Among journalists, Wolfe is a geniune poet; what makes him so good is his ability to get inside, to not merely describe (although he is a superb reporter), but to get under the skin of a phenomenon and transmit its metabolic rhythm." --Newsweek