Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine

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A New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year (Dwight Garner)A New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year (Janet Maslin)A New York Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year A USA Today Top 10 Book We Loved Reading in 2017A San Francisco Chronicle Books of 2017 An incendiary romp through the heyday of rock and roll and a revealing portrait of the controversial founder of Rolling Stone magazine, with candid look backs at the era from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Elton John, Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, and others.Lennon. Dylan. Jagger. Belushi. Leibovitz. The story of Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone’s founder, editor, and publisher, is an insider’s trip through the backstages of storied concert venues, rock-star hotel rooms, and the political ups and downs of the latter half of the twentieth century, right up through the digital age.     Supplemented by a cache of extraordinary documents and letters from Wenner’s personal archives, Sticky Fingers is the story of a mercurial, wide-eyed rock and roll fan of ambiguous sexuality but unambiguous ambition who reinvented youth culture, and marketed the libertine world of the late sixties counterculture in a stylish, glossy package that would stand for decades as a testament to the cultural power of America.     In stunning detail, Joe captures the extraordinary lives constellated around a magazine that began as a scrappy rebellion and became a locus of power, influence, and access–drawing on hundreds of hours of reporting and exclusive interviews. The result is a fascinating and complex portrait of Jann Wenner that is also a biography of popular culture, celebrity, music, and politics in North America over the last fifty years.

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