The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test "He who makes a beast of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man- -Dr. Johnson- A quote from the first page of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las ... an opinion on the times and people. Tom Wolfe wanted a more realistic approach when he wrote The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. The vibrant colorful history of the times is beautifully portrayed in this book. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (further referred to as TEKAAT), is a now-classic portrait of the coterie which gave the "hippie- world of the ... which never explain, in retrospect, what actua...

• Word Count: 1008
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School