Like a rolling stone : a memoir

Jann Wenner has been called by his peers "the greatest editor of his generation." His deeply personal memoir vividly describes and brings you inside the music, the politics, and the lifestyle of a generation, an epoch of cultural change that swept America and beyond. The age of rock and roll in an era of consequence, what will be considered one of the great watersheds in modern history

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ISBN: 9780316415194
Physical Description xv, 576 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Edition First edition.
Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2022.

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Like a Rolling Stone : A Memoir

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Like a Rolling Stone : A Memoir

Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Prologue: The Last Days	p. xi
Part 1	Beginnings
1	Rainbow Road	p. 3
2	The School on the Hill	p. 12
3	Berkeley	p. 22
4	Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out	p. 31
5	London Calling	p. 41
6	Jane	p. 47
Part 2	Rolling Stone
7	The First Issue	p. 57
8	A Family Affair	p. 65
9	Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, and the Naked Beatle	p. 72
10	A Brief Visit to Planet New York	p. 81
11	Trans-Oceanic Comics Company	p. 85
12	Me and Boz, Sittin' on Otis' Porch	p. 92
13	Talking Bob Dylan	p. 95
14	Altamont and the End of the Innocence	p. 100
15	Helter Skelter	p. 106
16	John Lennon and Hunter Thompson Drop By	p. 115
17	Lennon Remembers	p. 125
18	Putting Together the Home Team	p. 130
19	The House on California Street	p. 138
20	A Day in the Lire	p. 144
21	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	p. 150
22	The Beast Stirs in Big Sur	p. 155
23	Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail	p. 158
24	Truman and Andy, Paul Bowles and Uncle Earl	p. 168
25	A Wonder of American Journalism	p. 178
26	From Elko to Egypt	p. 182
27	Farewell to Ralph J. Gleason	p. 190
28	Becoming Bicoastal	p. 194
29	The Scoop of the Seventies	p. 204
Part 3	The Empire
30	The Big Apple	p. 211
31	John Belushi, Incoming	p. 220
32	Our Tenth Anniversary	p. 225
33	Christmases with Jackie	p. 235
34	The Dry Heaves	p. 244
35	Asleep at the Wheel	p. 250
36	The Dream Is Over	p. 255
37	Fuck the NRA	p. 259
38	God Has His Hands Full	p. 265
39	Diamond Rash, Limousine Elbow	p. 271
40	The Hall of Fame	p. 278
41	The Bonfire of the Vanities	p. 286
42	The Gift of God	p. 293
43	Yoko and the Gorbachevs	p. 301
44	My Father's Death	p. 306
45	Altitude Adjustments	p. 311
46	The King and Queen of Pop	p. 316
47	Blue Highways	p. 323
48	Bill Clinton and the Three Stooges	p. 329
49	A Visit to the White House	p. 338
50	The Death of Jackie Onassis	p. 345
51	Matt	p. 350
Part 4	Settling Down
52	Passages	p. 361
53	A Visit from Jane	p. 369
54	The Best Magazine in America	p. 375
55	Only the Good Die Young	p. 379
56	All Out for Al	p. 383
57	My City of Ruins	p. 392
58	My Private Idaho	p. 398
59	Watching the River Flow	p. 405
60	Kerry Loses	p. 411
61	Hunter Thompson, R.I.P.	p. 420
62	Hunter Redux with Johnny Depp	p. 427
63	Magazine Wars	p. 430
64	They Say It's Yer Birthday	p. 438
65	The Wheel of Life	p. 445
66	Is It Rolling, Bob?	p. 451
67	Burning Man	p. 463
68	'Higher and Higher'	p. 472
69	The Runaway General	p. 476
70	The Wrecking Ball	p. 484
71	The Road to Rio	p. 490
72	The Million-Pound Shit Hammer	p. 498
73	Bad Moon Rising	p. 505
74	The Gathering Storm	p. 512
Part 5	Goodbye to All That
75	Selling Rolling Stone	p. 525
76	The Road to Recovery	p. 538
77	My Last Letter from the Editor	p. 546
	Acknowledgments	p. 555
	Permissions and Credits	p. 557
	Index	p. 561

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