Reviews
"Hagan creates a moving portrayal of a complicated, brilliant, flawed man who genuinely moved the needle on American culture... An engaging biography and a lasting legacy for the keeper of rock-'n'-roll's watchtower." --Kirkus Reviews, "Hagan has delivered a supple, confident, dispassionately reported and deeply well-written biography... Come for the essayist in Hagan, stay for the eye-popping details and artful gossip... It's a joy to read and feels built to last." -- Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Gripping" --The New Yorker "Explosive...the book's dishy back story is already media legend...jaw-dropping...wildly entertaining...delicious and meticulous." --USA Today "Hagan, to his credit, approached the book not as a rose-tinted 'authorized biography' but as a serious work of narrative journalism....He also, through his nuanced portrait of Wenner, shows us how thoroughly the publication reflected its founder, warts and all." --The Washington Post "Hagan creates a moving portrayal of a complicated, brilliant, flawed man who genuinely moved the needle on American culture... An engaging biography and a lasting legacy for the keeper of rock-'n'-roll's watchtower." --Kirkus Reviews "[A] searingly honest biography... Hagan has provided an entertaining insider's history of a legendary magazine." --Publishers Weekly "Hagan has fashioned a fascinating biography of acontroversial figure and the iconic publication he started." --Booklist (starred review), "Gripping" --The New Yorker "Hagan, to his credit, approached the book not as a rose-tinted 'authorized biography' but as a serious work of narrative journalism....He also, through his nuanced portrait of Wenner, shows us how thoroughly the publication reflected its founder, warts and all." --The Washington Post "Hagan creates a moving portrayal of a complicated, brilliant, flawed man who genuinely moved the needle on American culture... An engaging biography and a lasting legacy for the keeper of rock-'n'-roll's watchtower." --Kirkus Reviews "[A] searingly honest biography... Hagan has provided an entertaining insider's history of a legendary magazine." --Publishers Weekly "Hagan has fashioned a fascinating biography of acontroversial figure and the iconic publication he started." --Booklist (starred review), "Hagan has delivered a supple, confident, dispassionately reported and deeply well-written biography... Come for the essayist in Hagan, stay for the eye-popping details and artful gossip... It's a joy to read and feels built to last." -- Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Gripping" --The New Yorker "Explosive...the book's dishy back story is already media legend...jaw-dropping...wildly entertaining...delicious and meticulous." --USA Today "Hagan has written a barn burner, fast and funny and gossip-filled (he names names) and also big--so big that it can stand as a case study of the entire era. The Boomers' experience was Wenner's experience, and it all showed up in his magazine, and now shows up here: the Beatles and the Stones; hallucinogens and cocai≠sex, sanctioned and illicit, open and hidden (Wenner lived a closeted life until he was nearly 50); politics and protests, the war; the lifestyles of the ever more rich and famous; infirmity and old age." --The Atlantic "While Hagan's exhaustive reporting and gossip-stuffed storytelling immerse us deeply into Wenner's saga... What comes through is Wenner's curious magic... Sticky Fingers chronicles his mercurial life and his soon-to-end tenure at the magazine that defined a generation... [It] is the story of a magazine that could rise to brilliance." --The Wall Street Journal "Sticky Fingers offers a fascinating insight into the relationship between Wenner, his writers and some of the most storied musicians and celebrities of the late 20th century." --The Guardian "Hagan, to his credit, approached the book not as a rose-tinted 'authorized biography' but as a serious work of narrative journalism....He also, through his nuanced portrait of Wenner, shows us how thoroughly the publication reflected its founder, warts and all." --The Washington Post "[Hagan] is a marvelous stylist. He has a genuine passion for music and does a superb job of explaining the cultural shifts the magazine has navigated, from Richard Nixon's presidency to the era of Donald Trump." --Bloomberg "Explosive... brutally honest... The 574 pages detail everything." --SPIN "Hagan creates a moving portrayal of a complicated, brilliant, flawed man who genuinely moved the needle on American culture... An engaging biography and a lasting legacy for the keeper of rock-'n'-roll's watchtower." --Kirkus Reviews "[A] searingly honest biography... Hagan has provided an entertaining insider's history of a legendary magazine." --Publishers Weekly "Hagan has fashioned a fascinating biography of acontroversial figure and the iconic publication he started." --Booklist (starred review), "Hagan has delivered a supple, confident, dispassionately reported and deeply well-written biography... Come for the essayist in Hagan, stay for the eye-popping details and artful gossip... It's a joy to read and feels built to last." -- Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Gripping" --The New Yorker "Hagan, to his credit, approached the book not as a rose-tinted 'authorized biography' but as a serious work of narrative journalism....He also, through his nuanced portrait of Wenner, shows us how thoroughly the publication reflected its founder, warts and all." --The Washington Post "Hagan creates a moving portrayal of a complicated, brilliant, flawed man who genuinely moved the needle on American culture... An engaging biography and a lasting legacy for the keeper of rock-'n'-roll's watchtower." --Kirkus Reviews "[A] searingly honest biography... Hagan has provided an entertaining insider's history of a legendary magazine." --Publishers Weekly "Hagan has fashioned a fascinating biography of acontroversial figure and the iconic publication he started." --Booklist (starred review)
