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Who described Leary as "a hero of American consciousness"?

  • Allen Ginsberg

  • Bob Dylan

  • John Lennon

  • Martin Luther King Jr.

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Allen Ginsberg, a prominent figure of the Beat Generation, described Leary as "a hero of American consciousness". Ginsberg was drawn to Leary's ideas of consciousness expansion and psychedelic drugs, and he believed that Leary was helping to open up new ways of thinking about the world.
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