Krassner's account tells of founding The Realist, befriending and then alienating Norman Mailer, dropping LSD with Groucho Marx, serving as confidante to Lenny Bruce, starting the Yippie party with Abbie Hoffman, and finding solace in fatherhood and stand-up comedy. Photos.
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Krassner's account tells of founding The Realist, befriending and then alienating Norman Mailer, dropping LSD with Groucho Marx, serving as confidante to Lenny Bruce, starting the Yippie party with Abbie Hoffman, and finding solace in fatherhood and stand-up comedy. Photos.
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Near Fine. Advance Uncorrected Reader's Proof. 331 pp. Softcover. Near Fine copy: wraps show light soil. Contents are clean and bright. Unmarked text. Proof copy in wraps.
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Near fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed to a famous entertainer 'To Johnny Steele-fellow comedian, fellow Bay Arean, fellow Martian-enjoy your a** off! ' by author on the first free endpaper. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. Audience: General/trade. 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket has mild edgewear. Book as new except for soft creases in the first few pages. Krassner is an American author, journalist, comedian, and the founder, editor and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine The Realist. He first came to promenance as one of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and as a founding member of the Yippies. The title is a quote from his FBI dossier. He has received an American Civil Liberties Unio'n Uppie (Upton Sinclair) Award and has been inducted into the Countercultural Hall of Fame. He is the author of' One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Satirist' and Who's to Say What's Obscene? Politics, Culture and Comedy in America Today. ' Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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Misadventures in the Counter Culture. Fine and very bright in like dustjacket with crisp text throughout. Very attractive. Short line to bottom edge. Gift quality. Nicely illustrated with vintage photographs. There was no one like Krassner.