Mania: The Story of the Outraged and Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural Revolution
A Nonfiction, History, Biography book. And then Ehrlichs climax: Let there be light. Let there be honesty. Let there be...
By the time Lucien Carr stabbed David Kammerer to death on the banks of the Hudson River in August 1944, it was clear that the hard-partying teenage companion to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and William S. Burroughs might need to reevaluate his life. A two-year stint in a reformatory straightened out the wayward youth but did little to curb the wild ways of his friends. Mania tells the story of this remarkable group—who strained against the conformity of postwar America, who experimented with drink,...
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And then Ehrlichs climax: Let there be light. Let there be honesty. Let there be no running from nonexistent destroyers of morals. Let there be honest understanding. In the end the four-letter words will not appear draped in glaring headlights, but will be submerged in the decentralization of small thinking in small minds. Ronald K.L. Collins, Mania: The Story of the Outraged and Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural Revolution //
If you're into the Beats, you're gonna dig this book. You know who you are. It's a fast moving survey of all those crazy cats and their long-suffering chicks - Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Cassidy et al. For the authors, Ronald Collins and David Skover, it's a labor love. More soon. Look for a full review of Mania in the Washington... A very interesting and informative book, well researched, and exciting to read. I would recommend this to anyone interested in the movement and writings of authors in the late 40s/50s as well as the historical impact of the trial against City Lights Bookstore and Allen Ginsburg's poem "Howl" and the case of censorship and free speech... Lively group biography of the Beats that traces the relationships, antics, and influences that bound them together.
