MOMENTAN AUSVERKAUFT
Über dieses Produkt
Product Identifiers
PublisherGrand Central Publishing
ISBN-100306923912
ISBN-139780306923913
eBay Product ID (ePID)24058357187
Product Key Features
Book TitleAgents of Chaos : Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2023
TopicEditors, Journalists, Publishers, Social History
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorSean Howe
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight22.3 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2023-010876
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Who was Tom Forçade? A revolutionary guru? A hippie con man? An undercover cop? In Sean Howe's brilliant book, he's a weird one-man secret history of Seventies America, a mystery man who keeps showing up everywhere from the early underground press to the punk-rock explosion. Agents of Chaos turns this bizarre tale into an obsessively fascinating and addictive epic, like a countercultural thriller. This book is a jigsaw puzzle that also turns out to be a mirror."-- Rob Sheffield, author of Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World, "A gob-smacking roller coaster ride through the 1970s. Who knew the 'Me Decade' had such a wild, frightening, and, yeah, chaotic underbelly? An unending marvel chronicling the unsung hero of the underground press. Time to remove 'un' from 'unknown' and finally bestow Tom Forcade, faults and all (there are many!) to his rightful place among the founding fathers of First Amendment freedom fighters."-- Tom O'Neill, author of Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, "A cautionary tale from the countercultural past, full of revolutionary glory and ugly criminality.... An impossibly tangled drama, but Howe chronicles it expertly. A fascinating resurrection from the dark side of the 1960s and '70s."-- Kirkus Reviews (starred), "[Howe] create[s] a vivid narrative look at the forces that were driving (and being driven by) a cultural transformation, giving the reader ringside seats to the battles within and without the movement....While the broad outlines of this story have been extensively studied and explored, Howe gives us a granular, ground-level account loaded with big personalities and small conflicts, and trusts us to recognize the larger connections....Complex, hilarious, and deeply bizarre....Howe does some valuable research into Forcade's past and uncovers some surprising details...he lets Forcade's unbelievable, incoherent, impossibly American career speak for itself, wisely allowing readers to draw their own conclusions....Who Thomas King Forcade really was and why he did what he did will probably always remain a mystery, but the times and circles in which he moved will always provide clear lessons about the limits of dissent, the power of dreams, the corruption of power, the determination of the powerful, and the all-consuming lure of the fast buck."-- Spectrum Culture, "Like an obsessed detective hunting a man without a face, Sean Howe has turned the life of Tom Forcade into a detailed metaphor explaining why the seventies were sublime, why the seventies failed, and how those two things are intractably connected. No stone has been left unturned, and many have been overturned twice."-- Chuck Klosterman, author of The Nineties, "As Howe's book describes in colorful, rollicking detail, Tom Forcade lived a life any outlaw would envy. In a culture where the outlaw holds a certain allure and respect, even though they all too often end up dying a violent death, Agents of Chaos gives Tom Forcade's life the renown it deserves."-- Counterpunch
Dewey Decimal070.92
SynopsisThe life and times of High Times ' enigmatic founder Thomas King Forçade, an underground newspaper editor and marijuana kingpin who--between police raids, smuggling runs, and outrageous stunts--battled both the US government and fellow radicals. Cover illustration by legendary comics artist Bill Sienkiewicz. At the end of the 1960s, the mysterious Tom Forçade suddenly appeared, insinuating himself into the top echelons of countercultural politics and assuming control of the Underground Press Syndicate, a coalition of newspapers across the country. Weathering government surveillance and harassment, he embarked on a landmark court battle to obtain White House press credentials. But his audacious exploits--pieing Congressional panelists, stealing presidential portraits, and picking fights with other activists--led to accusations that he was an agent provocateur. As the era of protest faded and the dark shadows of Watergate spread, Forçade hoped that marijuana could be the path to cultural and economic revolution. Bankrolled by drug-dealing profits, High Times would be the Playboy of pot, dragging a once-taboo subject into the mainstream. The magazine was a travelogue of globe-trotting adventure, a wellspring of news about "the business," and an overnight success. But High Times soon threatened to become nothing more than the "hip capitalism" Forçade had railed against for so long, and he felt his enemies closing in. Assembled from exclusive interviews, archived correspondences, and declassified documents, Agents of Chaos is a tale of attacks on journalism, disinformation campaigns, governmental secrecy, corporatism, and political factionalism. Its triumphs and tragedies mirror the cultural transformations of 1970s America, wrought by forces that continue to clash in the spaces between activism and power., At the end of the 1960s, the mysterious Tom For ade suddenly appeared, insinuating himself into the top echelons of countercultural politics and assuming control of the Underground Press Syndicate, a coalition of newspapers across the country. Weathering government surveillance and harassment, he embarked on a landmark court battle to obtain White House press credentials. But his audacious exploits-pieing Congressional panellists, stealing presidential portraits, and picking fights with other activists-led to accusations that he was an agent provocateur.As the era of protest faded and the dark shadows of Watergate spread, For ade hoped that marijuana could be the path to cultural and economic revolution. Bankrolled by drug-dealing profits, High Times would be the Playboy of pot, dragging a once-taboo subject into the mainstream. The magazine was a travelogue of globe-trotting adventure, a wellspring of news about "the business," and an overnight success. But High Times soon threatened to become nothing more than the "hip capitalism" For ade had railed against for so long, and he felt his enemies closing in.Assembled from exclusive interviews, archived correspondences, and declassified documents, Agents of Chaos is a tale of attacks on journalism, disinformation campaigns, governmental secrecy, corporatism, and political factionalism. Its triumphs and tragedies mirror the cultural transformations of 1970s America, wrought by forces that continue to clash in the spaces between activism and power.
LC Classification NumberPN4874.F5185H69 2023
