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03350aam a22003618i 4500 001 06CA4C38253111EE91433F782CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230718010455 008 230414s2023 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023010876 020 $a 0306923912 020 $a 9780306923913 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a PN4874.F5185 $b H69 2023 082 00 $2 23/eng/20230414 100 1 $a Howe, Sean, $e author. 245 10 $a AGENTS OF CHAOS : $b THOMAS KING FORCADE, HIGH TIMES, AND THE PARANOID END OF THE 1970S / $c Sean Howe. 263 $a 2308 264 1 $a New York : $b Hachette Books, $c 2023. 300 $a pages cm 500 $a 2023/08/29 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "At the end of the 1960s, the mysterious Tom Forcade suddenly appeared on the scene, insinuated himself into the top echelons of the political counterculture, and took over operations of the Underground Press Syndicate, a coalition of newspapers across the country. Even as he weathered government surveillance and harassment, he embarked on a landmark court battle to obtain White House press credentials. But his outrageous stunts-like pieing Congressional panelists, stealing presidential portraits, and picking fights with other activists-led to charges that he was an agent provocateur. He claimed that he was just trying to "advance international surrealism." As the movements of that decade faded, Forcade saw a new path forward-marijuana, he believed, couldbe used as a tool for cultural and economic revolution. The goal was simple: what Playboy had done for sex, High Times would do for marijuana, dragging a taboo subject into the mainstream. Bankrolled by drug-dealing profits, the magazine was a travelogueof globe-trotting adventure and a wellspring of news about "the business" from a worldwide network of sources. With regular updates on legislation, advice for would-be entrepreneurs and charts of price fluctuations, the glossy magazine used a distinctlycosmopolitan sensibility that simultaneously legitimized and commodified drug culture. Its editorials-which warned against corporate interests descending upon legalized weed and international drug wars serving as cover for imperialist adventures-would prove to be prophetic. But High Times soon threatened to become nothing more than the "hip capitalism" that he'd railed against for so long, and Forcade felt his enemies closing in. Agents of Chaos is an entertaining, fast-paced tale about attacks on journalism, campaigns of disinformation, governmental secrecy, corporatism, and political factionalism. The tragedies and triumphs of Tom Forcade mirror the cultural transformations of 1970s America, wrought by forces that continue to clash today in the tenuousspaces between unrest, activism, and power"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Forcade, Thomas King. 610 20 $a Underground Press Syndicate. 630 00 $a High Times. 650 0 $a Journalists $z United States $v Biography. $9 80829 650 0 $a Marijuana $x Social aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Marijuana $x Law and legislation $z United States. 650 0 $a Drug legalization $z United States. $9 86566 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20230718013204.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=06CA4C38253111EE91433F782CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search