I recently listened to the audiobook of "Agents Of Chaos: Thomas King Forcade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s" and came away more puzzled than anything. I learned a lot about the founding of High Times Magazine, the marijuana-centered journal of the counterculture. Founded in 1974 by prankster, dealer, money launderer, and publisher Tom Forcade, High Times took the best ideas of the underground and independent press and combined them into a juggernaut. Yes, it was about pot, but also so much more than pot. Art, music, politics, horticulture, just about anything could be found between its covers. So of course a book about how it all came together would have to be good, right? Indeed, it would. But Agents of Chaos doesn't give you just the story of the founding of a popular magazine. It includes the life story of publisher Forcade. And that's a lot of story - the man lived a crazy life and was the source of much of the chaos around him. The book goes d...
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