Timothy Leary's "Flashbacks" (1990)

Los Angeles, California, US: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc. (book, memoir, biography), 1990.
9.25" x 6.125" x 1.125", 407 pages, softcover, ISBN 0-87477-497-7.

Flashbacks: A Personal and Cultural History of an Era. a memoir by Timothy Leary of his life until 1976, as published in an expanded softcover edition by Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc. (Losa Angeles, California, US) in 1990. 

William S. Burroughs supplies both the foreword to this edition as well as a blurb to the back cover ("A glittering panorama of the sixties."). 

This book also contains multiple references to Burroughs, particularly in chapter 13 ("Hostile Territories") which leads with a short biography of Burroughs.

A photograph of Leary and Burroughs together in Lawrence, Kansas is in the photo section.

Shoaf II.264.

Note that the original silver hardcover printing by J. P. Tarcher, Inc. (1983, Los Angeles, ISBN 0-87477-177-3) lacks the Burroughs foreword and the blurb. 9.5" x 6.5" x 1.375", 397 pages.

Contents: 

• William S. Burroughs: foreword
• Timothy Leary: Flashbacks:
• "Prologue: My Conception of My Conception"
• "Part 1: Metamorphosis: The End of the Old":
• biography of Dante Alighieri
• "1. Search for the Key":
• "October 22, 1955, Berkeley, California"
• "Spring 1959, Florence, Italy"
• biography of William James
• "2. Harvard Department of Visionary Experience":
• "January 1960, Cambridge, Massachusetts"
• biography of Mark Twain
• "3. Reunion with Widow Douglas":
• "Spring 1960, Harvard University"
• "1920-1930, Springfield, Massachusetts"
• "February 1960, Indian Orchard, Massachusetts"
• biography of Frank Barron
• "4. Sacred Mushrooms of Mexico":
• "Summer 1960, Cuernavaca, Mexico"
• biography of Aldous Huxley
• "5. Harvard Drug Research":
• "Fall 1960, Cambridge, Massachusetts"
• "1925-1935, Springfield, Massachusetts"
• "October 1960, Indian Orchard, Massachusetts"
• biography of Allen Ginsberg
• "6. Politics of Ecstasy":
• "December 1960, Harvard University"
• "1932, Springfield, Massachusetts"
• "December 1960, Newton Center"
• biography of Neal Cassady
• "7. Secrets of the Beatniks":
• "December 1960, Harvard University"
• biography of Arthur Koestler
• "8. Getting High on Toil and Suffering":
• "Fall 1960, Harvard University"
• 1932, Springfield, Massachusetts"
• "Fall 1960, Harvard University"
• biography of Jack Kerouac
• "9. Literary Elites and Black Hope":
• "Fall 1960, New York City"
• "1926-1930, Indian Orchard, Massachusetts"
• "Fall 1960, New York City"
• biography Richard Alpert
• "10. Partner in Time":
• "Winter-Spring 1961, Harvard University"
• "1936-38, Springfield, Massachusetts"
• "January 1961, Newton Center, Massachusetts"
• biography of Ralph Metzner
• "11. Prisoners to Prophets":
• "March 1961, Harvard University"
• "August 1940, West Point, New York"
• "March 1961, Concord State Prison"
• biography of Robert Gordon Wasson
• "12. Drugs Are the Origin of Religion and Philosophy":
• "Spring 1961, Harvard University"
• biography of William Seward Burroughs
• "13. Hostile Territories":
• "Summer 1961, Harvard University"
• "November 1940, West Point, New York"
• "Harvard University, September 1961"
• biography of Walter H. Clark
• "14. Miracle of Good Friday":
• "Spring 1962, Harvard University"
• "February 1941, West Point, New York"
• "Spring 1962, Harvard University"
• biography of Maynard Ferguson
• "15. The Ultimate Aphrodisiac":
• "Spring 1962, Newton Center, Massachusetts"
• biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "16. Ambushed by the Harvard Squares":
• "Spring 1962, Harvard University"
• "August 1941, Indian Orchard, Massachusetts"
• "Spring 1962, Harvard University"
• biography of Oscar Janiger
• "17. The Hollywood Connection":
• "May 1962, Hollywood, California"
• "Fall 1942, Tuscaloosa, Alabama"
• "May 1962, Hollywood, California"
• biography of Hassan-i-Sabbah
• "18. Psychedelic Summer Camp":
• "Summer 1962, Zihuatanejo, Mexico"
• "January 1943, Fort Eustis, Virginia"
• biography of Alan Watts
• "19. Farewell to Harvard":
• "Fall 1962-Winter 1963, Harvard University"
• "1947, Berkeley, California"
• "Winter 1962-1963, Harvard University"
• biography of Carlos Castaneda
• "20. Earthly Paradise":
• "May 1963, Mexico"
• "1930-1935, Camp Norwich, Berkshire Hills"
• "May 1963, Mexico"
• biography of Wilhelm Reich
• "21. Islands in the Sun":
• "June 1963, Newton Center, Massachusetts"
• "1953, Berkeley, California"
• "June 1963, Newton Center, Massachusetts"
• "October 21, 1955, Berkeley, California"
• "July 1963, Newton Center, Massachusetts"
• "Part 2: Paedomorphosis–Juvenilization":
• biography of Fitz Hugh Ludlow
• "22. Life on a Grounded Space Colony":
• "September 1963, Millbrook, New York"
• biography of Robert Anton Wilson
• "23. Experiments at Millbrook":
• "Winter 1963-1964, Millbrook, New York"
• biography of Ken Kesey
• "24. Pranksters Come to Millbrook":
• "Summer 1964, Millbrook, New York"
• biography of Hermann Hesse
• "25. Himalayan Honeymoon":
• "Winter 1964-1965, Japan-India"
• biography of Sri Krishna Prem
• "26. Wisest Man in India":
• "March 1965, Himalayas"
• biography of Mary Eno Pinchot Meyer
• "27. Dissipative Structures":
• "June 1965, Millbrook, New York"
• biography of Georges I. Gurdjieff
• "28. Busted at Laredo":
• "Fall 1965, Millbrook, New York"
• biography of Margaret Fuller
• "29. The Peat Moss Caper":
• "Winter, 1965-1966"
• biography of Marshall McLuhan
• "30. Altered States":
• "Summer 1966"
• biography of Aleister Crowley
• "31. Emergence of the Drug Culture":
• "January 1967"
• biography of James Joyce
• "32. Brotherhood of Eternal Love":
• "Fall 1967, Laguna Beach, California"
• biography of Socrates
• "33. Cultural Evolution Versus Political Revolution"
• biography of Paolo Mantegazza
• "34. Twenty-Four Steps to Freedom":
• "January 1970, Orange County, California"
• diagram of "Timothy Leary's Escape Route from Northwest Area of California Men's Colony, San Luis Obispo"
• biography of Julien Offray de la Mettrie
• "35. The Exiles":
• "September 23, 1970, Paris"
• biography of Albert Hoffman
• "36. Landlocked in the Alps":
• "May 1971, Geneva"
• biography of Paracelsus
• "37. Captured in Kabul":
• "Winter 1972-1973, Switzerland"
• photo section
• biography of John Lilly
• "38. Folsom Prison":
• "January 1973"
• biography of Thomas Pynchon
• "39. Escape Plot":
• "Vacaville Prison, April, 1974"
• biography of Giordano Bruno
• "40. Kidnapped by the Feds":
• "August 1974"
• biography of Gerard K. O'Neill
• "41. Freedom?":
• "September 1975, San Diego"
• "Epilogue"
• "Afterword"
• "Notes"