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Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

In this New York Times bestseller, Rolling Stone founder, co-editor and publisher Jann Wenner offers a "touchingly honest" and "wonderfully deep" memoir from the beating heart of classic rock and roll (Bruce Springsteen).

Jann Wenner has been called by his peers “the greatest editor of his generation.”

His deeply personal memoir vividly describes and brings you inside the music, the politics and the lifestyle of a generation, an epoch of cultural change that swept America and beyond. The age of rock and roll in an era of consequence, what will be considered one of the great watersheds in modern history. Wenner writes with the clarity of a journalist and an essayist. He takes us into the life and work of Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Bono and Bruce Springsteen, to name a few. He was instrumental in the careers of Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe and Annie Leibovitz. His journey took him to the Oval Office with his legendary interviews with Bill Clinton and Barak Obama, leaders to whom Rolling Stone gave its historic, full-throated backing. From Jerry Garcia to the Dalai Lama, Aretha Franklin to Greta Thunberg, the people Wenner chose to be seen and heard in the pages of Rolling Stone tried to change American culture, values and morality.

LIKE A ROLLING STONE is a beautifully written portrait of one man’s life and the life of his generation.

Audiobook available, read by Dennis Boutsikaris

Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir
by Jann S. Wenner

  • Publication Date: June 27, 2023
  • Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction
  • Paperback: 592 pages
  • Publisher: Back Bay Books
  • ISBN-10: 0316415294
  • ISBN-13: 9780316415293