abstract:The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test was written by Tom Wolfe in 1968. The book is remembered today as an early – and arguably the most popular – example of the growing literary style called New Journalism.
Michael had sketched with perfect strokes a California phenomenon much as another Eastern skeptic, Tom Wolfe, had done 33 years earlier with California crazies of a different bent in TheElectric Kool-Aid AcidTest.