Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Allen Ginsberg, Itzhak Perlman, F. Murray Abraham, John Hope Franklin, Eric Alterman, Abraham Maslow, E. San Juan, Jr., KC Johnson, Agnieszka Holland, Ben Lerner, Ad Reinhardt, Jack Gelber, Stephen J. Solarz, Jason Eckardt, Carey Harrison, Albert Schatz, Rohit Jivanlal Parikh, Paul Edwards, Wilbur Knorr, Noah Creshevsky, Tania Leon, John Hospers, Matthew Lipman, David Grubbs, Metamotivation, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Amy Hempel, Richard Kessel, Arthur Berger, John Boardman, Maureen Howard, Charles Dodge, Mac Wellman, Ernest G. McClain, Marie Rutkoski, Roman Popadiuk, Frederic Ewen, Thomas Molnar, Wilson Carey McWilliams, Douglas Geers, Bela Kiraly, Kay S. Hymowitz, David Laibman, Calvin Hicks, Moustafa Bayoumi, Arthur Rosenberg, Douglas Townsend, Timothy Shortell, Julie Agoos, Neely Bruce, Ursula Oppens, Agustin Anievas, Homer Jacobson, Andrew L. Erdman, Sharon Zukin, Jill Hoffman, Frederic M. Wheelock, Elmer Sprague, Edwin G. Burrows, Jaymes Marsh, Anthony Stevens-Arroyo. Excerpt: Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997) was an American poet who vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression. In the 1950s, Ginsberg was a leading figure of the Beat Generation. Ginsberg's epic poem "Howl," in which he celebrates his fellow "angel-headed hipsters" and harshly denounces what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States, is one of the classic poems of the Beat Generation. The poem, dedicated to writer Carl Solomon, has the opening: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed bymadness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawnlooking for an angry fix... In October 1955, Ginsberg and five other unknown poets gave a free reading at an experimental art gallery in San Francisco. Ginsberg's "Howl" electrified the a...