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Pat Thomas author
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author of “Allen Ginsberg: Material Wealth”and “Listen Whitey! Sounds of Black Power” and “Did It! Jerry Rubin”
- reissue producer / liner note writer for
Fire Records
Yes - the photography was quite unique then and now - plus it was a gatefold, I believe
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Pat Thomas, Peter Hale & Neeli Cherkovski, discussing the book “Material Wealth, Mining the Personal Archives of Allen Ginsberg” at City Lights books in San Francisco - photo by Kevin Connelly
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“Doing the TV talk show was like getting a PhD. It wasn't that I was smarter than the guy who'd joined the sales program at Sears, but if I'd done that, I wouldn't have met Betty Friedan, Bobby Seale, Jerry Rubin, Jane Fonda. It was an education not available in any university.”
- Phil Donahue
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
ah, the golden age of prime time television talk shows - when guests like Stokely Carmichael could chew the fat with hosts like Dick Cavett - without peddling their latest book or pushing their new movie.
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
ah, the golden age of prime time television talk shows - when guests like Stokely Carmichael could chew the fat with hosts like Dick Cavett - without peddling their latest book or pushing their new movie.
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
“Doing the TV talk show was like getting a PhD. It wasn't that I was smarter than the guy who'd joined the sales program at Sears, but if I'd done that, I wouldn't have met Betty Friedan, Bobby Seale, Jerry Rubin, Jane Fonda. It was an education not available in any university.”
- Phil Donahue
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
November 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM