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Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir Audiobook
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Rolling Stone magazine founder, co-editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a memoir from the heart of classic rock and roll.
Jann Wenner has been called by his peers “the greatest editor of his generation.”
His intensely personal memoir vividly describes and brings you inside the rock-and-roll era—not just the music but also the politics, the culture, the entire seismic generational change that swept America and beyond.
As both a reporter and a player, Wenner writes with the clarity of a journalist and the private knowledge of an insider. He takes us into the life and work of his many friends—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 journalistic and generational journey ended up in the Oval Office with his legendary interviews with Bill Clinton and Barak Obama, leaders to whom Rolling Stone gave it’s 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 not just one man’s life but the life of an entire generation.
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“Readers will surely feast on all the behind-the-scenes candy featuring the likes of Bono, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Bette Midler, and countless other stars.”
— Vanity Fair
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"A wildly entertaining romp that will stir feelings of envy.”
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“Rock may be dead, but Jann Wenner is still rolling…he still has something of the whirlwind about him.”
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“Rollicking read.”
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"Over the top.”
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“A rip-roaring and speedy ride through the excesses, excitements, and tragedies of our generation. Alternately thrilling, bedeviling, and deeply moving.”
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“A touchingly honest memoir from a man who recorded and shaped our times and of a grand life well lived. It is wonderfully deep and rewarding reading.”
— Bruce Springsteen
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A New York Times bestseller
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month
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An AARP Magazine Editors’ Pick of Best Books of Fall
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About Jann S. Wenner
Jann S. Wenner was born in New York City and raised in San Francisco and Marin County. He founded Rolling Stone in 1967. Over the ensuing decades, Rolling Stone won many awards for its design, photography, public service, and journalism and was instrumental in launching the careers of many groundbreaking journalists and photographers. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the youngest inductee ever in the American Society of Magazine Editor’s Hall of Fame.
About Jann S. Wenner
Dennis Boutsikaris is a two-time OBIE award winner. He has received five Audie Awards and seven Golden Earphone Awards for his work in over 100 audiobooks and was voted one of the Best Voices of the Year by AudioFile magazine. He has appeared in numerous Broadway, television, and film roles. He played Mozart on Broadway in Amadeus and has appeared on television shows including Shameless, The Good Wife, House M.D., Grey’s Anatomy, ER, and Law & Order.