"Editor Paul Buhle's graphic history "The Beats"--with riffs from cats such as Harvey Pekar and Trina Robbins--burns like a Roman candle." --"Vanity Fair""" """"The Beats" is as fresh and pertinent as the latest scholarly history, only far more entertaining." --Studs Terkel "A new angle on a familiar story . . . ["The Beats"] gives the hipsters back their body language. In a book that is largely about license and the enlightened rebel, it is easy to find reflections of both in the graphic form." "--"John Leland, "The New York Times Book Review" "Well researched and . . . absorbing." --Richard Pachter, "The Miami Herald" "Eye-catching . . . An illustrated look back at a very real part of American pop-culture history, when beat culture of the '40s and '50s--sandwiched between the improvisational nature of jazz and the recklessness of rock 'n' roll--began to speak to a part of a generation at odds with mainstream society. One word sums it up: Cool." --Cary Darling, "Fort Worth Star-Telegr