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Informationen zum Autor Pat Thomas is the author of Listen, Whitey! The Sights & Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975, Did It! Jerry Rubin: An American Revolutionary, and co-editor of Invitation to Openness: The Jazz & Soul Photography of Les McCann 1960-1980. In co-operation with the Estate of Allen Ginsberg, Thomas edited the visual tome Material Wealth: The Personal Archives of Allen Ginsberg, with a forward by poet Anne Waldman, which won a PEN award in 2024. Thomas was the co-editor of Ernie in Kovacsland: Drawings, and Photographs from Television's Original Genius and Grievous Angels, Trout Masks, and American Beauties: 1970s Rock & Roll Photography of Ginny Winn with an introduction by Maria Muldaur. He lives on America's left coast. Klappentext This is the first art book and biography of Yippie Jerry Rubin. Zusammenfassung This overstuffed coffee table book is not only the first biography of the infamous and ubiquitous Jerry Rubinâ?"co-founder of the Yippies! Anti-Vietnam War activist! Chicago 8 defendant! social-networking pioneer! and a proponent of the Yuppie eraâ?"but a visual retrospective! with countless candid photos! personal diaries! and lost newspaper clippings. It includes correspondence with Abbie Hoffman! Norman Mailer! John Lennon & Yoko Ono! Eldridge Cleaver! the Weathermen! and interviews with more than 75 of Rubinâ??s friends! foes! and comrades. It reveals Rubins' and the Yippiesâ?? historical-and-bizarre personal interactions with the likes of Allen Ginsberg! Bob Dylan! Charles Manson! Mick Jagger! and other iconic figures of the era.
