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Pioneer of Inner Space: The Life of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Hasheesh Eater: The Life of Fritz Hugh Ludlow, Hasheesh Eater
 
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Pioneer of Inner Space: The Life of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Hasheesh Eater: The Life of Fritz Hugh Ludlow, Hasheesh Eater (Taschenbuch)

von Donald P. Dulchinos (Autor)
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  • Taschenbuch: 320 Seiten
  • Verlag: Autonomedia (November 1998)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 1570270716
  • ISBN-13: 978-1570270710
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,9 x 14,7 x 2 cm
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This is the first biography of writer Fitz Hugh Ludlow.
This is my first book, and it's the never-before-told story of a true American original. Twenty-one-year-old Fitz Hugh Ludlow became the best-selling author of The Hasheesh Eater in the years before the Civil War. His best-seller related his visionary experiences with large, oral doses of hashish, along with his religious, philosophical and medial reflections on the altered states they produced. He became a celebrated figure in the Bohemian circles of New York City, along with such friends as Walt Whitman. A short-story writer, drama and music critic and a journalist, he mingled with the high society of New York while dissolutely wandering among the disreputable, hard-drinking literati.

Ludlow's journey to the West Coast on the Overland Stagecoach in 1863 was a bold leap into the unknown, and his dispatches to the East were devoured by an eager public. In the company of renowned painter Albert Bierstadt (who later married Ludlow's ex-wife in a scandalous love triangle), he talked politics with Mormon leader Brigham Young and traded witticisms with Mark Twain in California, whom he encouraged to seek a wider audience in the East. Ludlow later wrote perhaps the first great novel on the theme of alcohol abuse, and then became a leading expert in the treatment of opium addiction after the Civil War.

"The most long-awaited of any 19th-century American biography. Through a wealth of newly discovered data, Dulchinos describes the circumstances that led to the making of the 'American DeQuincey'. Fitz Hugh Ludlow has at last found his biographer." - Michael Horowitz, founder, Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library

"Drinking buddy of Whitman and Twain, New York Bohemian of the Sixties (the 1860's that is), pioneer psychedelic psychonaut and frontier Pythagorean, America's first Hasheesh Eater and confessional junky - this is the definitive biography of our psychic great-grandfather - Fitz Hugh Ludlow." - Hakim Bey, author, Temporary Autonomous Zones

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4.0 von 5 Sternen Important material about an unjustly neglected author, 11. März 1999
Von Robert L. Champ (Hyattsville, MD USA) - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen
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It is unfortunate that the recent readership for Fitz Hugh Ludlow's writing has been confined mostly to counterculture types perusing reprints of his most famous work, _The Hasheesh Eater_. Ludlow in his time was a popular writer, and he deserves a wider readership than he presently has. Donald Dulchinos's new biography will, one hopes, help him find that new audience in the years to come. To this end, one of the most valuable parts of the book is the discussion of Ludlow's short stories, and novels like _The Primpenny Family_ and _The Household Angel_. Here Dulchinos provides synopses, copiously illustrates Ludlow's ready satiric bent, and analyzes the increasing maturity of an artist who died far too young (age 36). (In passing, he also produces a valuable introduction to the publishing of books and periodicals during the 1850s and '60s).

Dulchinos's book presents Ludlow's life in a balanced way, though he clearly likes his subject. He pulls together information that has previously existed only in unpublished letters and diaries, and makes valuable connections between Ludlow's work and his life-story. The picture that emerges is that of a brilliant and well-educated man whose inner demons often found an outlet in his fascination first with hashish and then opium. In addition, Dulchinos shows Ludlow as a caring humanitarian who first brought the opium addiction crisis among Civil War veterans to the attention of the American public, and who worked to cure many of the veterans who contacted him, sometimes to the point of supporting them out of his own not particularly deep pockets.

The book is written in a lively style and is not overly laden with details, as are some biographies which drown important events in a sea of trivial information. The book does have two problems, but these rest more with the publisher than with Dulchinos. First, it is poorly proofread; indeed, one suspects that it was never proofread at all. Second, it lacks an index. An index, though onerous to prepare, is an invaluable asset, especially in a book that attempts to break new ground for an unjustly neglected author.

Ludlow led an interesting life; Dulchinos has told that life well, drawing all the strands together. Anyone with an interest in nineteenth-century literature, literary life, and social conditions will find it well worth reading.

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