Uncensored, uncontained, and thoroughly demented, the memoirs of Paul
Krassner are back in an updated and expanded edition. Paul Krassner,
"father of the underground press" (People magazine), founder of the
Realist, political radical, Yippie, and award-winning stand-up
satirist, shares his stark-raving adventures with the likes of Lenny
Bruce, Abbie Hoffman, Norman Mailer, Ken Kesey, Groucho Marx, and
Squeaky Fromme, revealing the patriarch of counterculture's ultimate,
intimate, uproarious life on the fringes of society.
Whether he's writing about his friendship with controversial comic Lenny
Bruce, introducing Groucho Marx to LSD, his investigation of
Scientology, or John Kennedy's cadaver, no subject is too sacred to be
skewered by Krassner. And yet his stories are soulful and philosophical,
always authentic to his iconoclastic brand of personal journalism.
As Art Spiegelman said, "Krassner is one of the best minds of his
generational to be destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical,
naked--but mainly hysterical. His true wacky, wackily true autobiography
is the definitive book on the '60s."
