<b>¿Enclosed in this beautiful package, please find: an agile mind, a perfect style, a canny and undeceivable heart, and a welcome, enduring presence in the reader¿s life.¿ --Michael Chabon</b><br><br>A portrait of a keen social observer at the center of the last 50 years of cultural life, captured through a vivid selection of O¿Brien¿s own writings on music to fashion to downtown art and, just as importantly and unexpectedly, the political temperature of America.<br><br>Glenn O¿Brien collaborated with visual artists, writers, fashion houses, and musicians throughout his almost 50-year career. <i>Intelligence for Dummies</i> gathers Glenn O¿Brien¿s essays, aphorisms and tweets, to create a portrait of the artist as cultural bellwether, complimented by artwork and photographs from his collaborators. A full color, hardcover edition, <i>Intelligence for Dummies</i> is a deeply personal aper¿into Patti Smith and Jean Michel Basquiat¿s New York, and the culture of money that ensued. It also