Fascinating.rigorously researched.[ The Most Dangerous Man in America ] offers the pleasures of the tick-tock genre. Much like Leary himself, the book is plenty of zany fun - The New York TimesOne of the decade's most audacious and exciting stories, told with page-turning panache - The Boston Globe.[A] rip-roaring tale of hallucinogenic drugs, revolutionary politics and an intercontinental standoff.Minutaglio and Davis have taken a largely forgotten chapter from the recent past and turned it into a vigorous page-turner - San Francisco ChronicleIt's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' decade - Wall Street Journal The Most Dangerous Man in America is a wild ride across time, space, and multiple cosmic planes during an era when America came close to losing -- or finding? -- its mind. Leary and Nixon: surely no other country on earth could have produced such a perfectly, surreally antithetical pair. Crack open this book and prepare to have your mind blown by the reality of this very strange tale - PEN/Hemingway and O.
Henry Prize-winning author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: StoriesA pitch-perfect, exhilarating work about one of the strangest chapters in the American experience, one so exciting that even the postscript rivets.A stroke of narrative genius - Booklist (Starred Review)A riveting international chase between a tenacious but paranoid cat and a wily but delusional mouse. Minutaglio and Davis are superb storytellers, and throughout the narrative, they nimbly move between their two converging subjects. Their account is expertly detailed and blessedly fat-free - Kirkus (Starred Review)The glory of [ The Most Dangerous Man in America ] is its fast-paced, rollicking narrative that brings the freakishness of the revolutionary 1970s to life. Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis have pulled off a meticulous observation of their subjects with turns of phrases that pop with pleasure. I galloped through the book; could not put it down - New York Times bestselling author of The Train to Crystal City.