by Tom Wolfe, Michael Prichard
"What we are, we're going to wail with on this whole trip."What Ken Kesey is is a prick, so let's not get any delusions about that. But most great leaders are pricks, and the case Wolfe is making in this masterful biography is that Kesey, in his way, was a great leader. His early days on the Furthur...
He got me inside their heads, which is no mean feat. Fantastic.
At the time I read this I was enchanted with Wolfe as a journalist. In retrospect, his response to the subject matter seems not quite right. He's a debunker who yearns to believe, I think, not the aloof observer he thinks he is.
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