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Mother American night : my life in crazy times / John Perry Barlow with Robert Greenfield.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Crown Archetype, [2018]Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 270 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781524760182
  • 1524760188
  • 9781524760199
  • 1524760196
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Not dead enough -- The Little Red Bull -- Norman and Mim -- Home on the ranch -- Fountain Valley -- Getting into college -- Wesleyan -- Good old Grateful Dead -- Summer of love -- Harvard Yard -- Fair-haired boy -- An incredible week -- The journey east -- Coming home -- New York, New York -- Mexicali blues -- Sugar magnolia -- Looks like rain -- Cassidy -- John F. Kennedy, Jr. -- Heaven help the fool -- Adult behavior -- Éminence grise -- Global sociopath -- Feel like a stranger -- Word processing -- Welcome to Apple -- A little light -- the ivory gavel -- A call from the White House -- Phiber Optik and Acid Phreak -- A visit from the FBI -- EFF -- Timothy Leary redux -- Who's NeXT -- Meeting Cynthia --Living with her -- Losing her -- Rehab -- A gold rush of the heart -- He's gone -- Timothy Leary's dead -- Kennedy-Nixon -- Two funerals -- Brazil -- the pure water project -- The Freedom of the Press Foundation -- Hell in a bucket -- Love forgives everything.
Summary: "[This] is the wild, funny, heartbreaking, and often unbelievable (yet completely true) story of an American icon. Born into a powerful Wyoming political family, John Perry Barlow wrote the lyrics for thirty Grateful Dead songs while also running his family's cattle ranch ... Blessed with an incredible sense of humor and a unique voice, Barlow was a born storyteller in the tradition of Mark Twain and Will Rogers. Through intimate portraits of friends and acquaintances from Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia to Timothy Leary and Steve Jobs, [this book] traces the generational passage by which the counterculture became the culture, and it shows why learning to accept love may be the hardest thing we ever ask of ourselves"--Amazon.com.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography Barlow, J. B258 Available 33111009206364
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Mother American Night is the heartrendingly sad, hysterically funny, and often unbelievable yet always completely true story of a singular individual. Referred to by more than one publication as "The Most Interesting Man in the World," Barlow has throughout his life maintained close relationships with such diverse cultural figures as Bob Weir, Jerry Garcia, Timothy Leary, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Steve Jobs. During his long and varied career, Barlow has written the lyrics to 30 songs by the Grateful Dead while also running his family's cattle ranch. Despite being a freely self-confessed acidhead, he served as a campaign manager for Dick Cheney during his run for Congress in 1978--the same year he hosted 18-year-old JFK Jr. at his ranch for some summer seasoning. When he was 42, Barlow became a renowned internet guru who began vigorously defending the right for all to use it freely by co-founding the Electronic Freedom Foundation in 1990.

A brilliant thinker and writer, he has over the course of the past half century somehow managed to be at the cutting edge of popular culture. And as impressive as his accomplishments have been, Barlow's dramatic personal life reads like the story of a generation writ large. Blessed with an incredible sense of humor and a unique voice that comes right off the page, Barlow is a born storyteller in the tradition of Mark Twain and Will Rogers.

Not dead enough -- The Little Red Bull -- Norman and Mim -- Home on the ranch -- Fountain Valley -- Getting into college -- Wesleyan -- Good old Grateful Dead -- Summer of love -- Harvard Yard -- Fair-haired boy -- An incredible week -- The journey east -- Coming home -- New York, New York -- Mexicali blues -- Sugar magnolia -- Looks like rain -- Cassidy -- John F. Kennedy, Jr. -- Heaven help the fool -- Adult behavior -- Éminence grise -- Global sociopath -- Feel like a stranger -- Word processing -- Welcome to Apple -- A little light -- the ivory gavel -- A call from the White House -- Phiber Optik and Acid Phreak -- A visit from the FBI -- EFF -- Timothy Leary redux -- Who's NeXT -- Meeting Cynthia --Living with her -- Losing her -- Rehab -- A gold rush of the heart -- He's gone -- Timothy Leary's dead -- Kennedy-Nixon -- Two funerals -- Brazil -- the pure water project -- The Freedom of the Press Foundation -- Hell in a bucket -- Love forgives everything.

"[This] is the wild, funny, heartbreaking, and often unbelievable (yet completely true) story of an American icon. Born into a powerful Wyoming political family, John Perry Barlow wrote the lyrics for thirty Grateful Dead songs while also running his family's cattle ranch ... Blessed with an incredible sense of humor and a unique voice, Barlow was a born storyteller in the tradition of Mark Twain and Will Rogers. Through intimate portraits of friends and acquaintances from Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia to Timothy Leary and Steve Jobs, [this book] traces the generational passage by which the counterculture became the culture, and it shows why learning to accept love may be the hardest thing we ever ask of ourselves"--Amazon.com.

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