Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

Marketer turned poet impresario Allen Ginsberg turned on to acid under the observation of Palo Alto’s Mental Research Institute a few years after he piqued America’s interest with his claim to know the best minds of his generation and where to find them.19 A Stanford creative-writing hotshot named Ken Kesey was turning on around the same time, right down the road.