The Best Minds of My Generation av Allen Ginsberg

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<p><b>A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement''s most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his lectures<br><br></b>In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem ''Howl'', Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation - partly to preserve his own memories of those years. <i>The Best Minds of My Generation</i> presents the best of these candid, intimate and illuminating lectures, revealing Kerouac, Burroughs and the rest of the Beats as Ginsberg knew them: friends, confidantes, literary mentors and fellow visionaries in a group who started a revolution.<br><br>''Marvellous ... spellbinding ... preserving intact the story of the literary movement Ginsberg led, promoted and never ceased to embody'' <i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br><br>''An awesome exhaustive feat ... fascinatingly readable'' <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br>''Astonishingly intimate ... Full of penetrating