STICKY FINGERS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JANN WENNER AND ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. First Edition, first printing. Signed by Hagan on the title page& uncommon thus. The story of Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone's founder, editor, and publisher, and the pioneering era he helped curate, is told here for the first time in glittering, glorious detail. Joe Hagan provides readers with a backstage pass to storied concert venues and rock-star hotel rooms; he tells never before heard stories about the lives of rock stars and their handlers; he details the daring journalism (Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, P.J. O Rourke) and internecine office politics that accompanied the start-up; he animates the drug and sexual appetites (truncated) of the era; and he reports on the politics of the last fifty years that were often chronicled in the pages of Rolling Stone magazine. Tall 8vo., boards in dust jacket; 547 pages. Illustrated.. Near fine (covers nice; contents clean & tight) in very nice d/j. With small sticker on the front cover of the dust jacket stating the book was signed at Book Soup- a bookstore in West Hollywood, California. (Inventory #: 57659)