The Beats (Hardcover)

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  • "The Beats" is as fresh and pertinent as the latest scholarly history, only far more entertaining." --Studs Terkel

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  • AuthorHarvey Pekar
    BindingHardback
    Cat No. 1794960
    EAN 978080909496752200
    GenreHumour
    ISBN 9780809094967
    PublisherHill & Wang
    TypeBooks

  • "The Beats" is as fresh and pertinent as the latest scholarly history, only far more entertaining." --Studs Terkel

    "This lively graphic history spotlights the 1950s youth revolt that said no to conformity and opened the way to a new world of unfettered imagination." --Franklin Rosemont, cofounder of the Chicago Surrealist Group

    "Capturing the flavor of that poetic era with style and wit, The Beats is a slice of countercultural history that's enhanced by its unique visual format." --Paul Krassner, author of "One Hand Jerking: Reports from an Investigative Satirist"

    "This graphic history has a grittiness and attention to difficult anecdote that brings a classic American romantic venture, with all its deviant sexual and economic 'crazy wisdom, ' down to the gritty realism of pen-and-ink earth." --Edward Sanders, author of "America: A History in Verse"

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