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Paul Wolfowitz, Edward Teller, Herman Kahn, Harold Brown, Robert Birgeneau, Ash Carter etc.) you’d do well going to exactly the same place where you’ll find “the best minds”, according to him. Unfortunately, what he doesn’t mention is that if you wanted to find the most genocidal minds of his-and our-generation (e.g. Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.” I would certainly try the physics department or the music department first - and after that biochemistry. No offense intended, but it would never occur to me to look for the best minds in any generation in an undergraduate English department anywhere. For one thing, I believe that the best minds of my generation were probably musicians and physicists and mathematicians and biologists and archaeologists and chess masters and so on, and Ginsberg’s closest friends, if I’m not mistaken, were undergraduates in the English department of Columbia University. Who wouldn’t? It just doesn’t have much to do with me or what happened to my friends.

Kurt Vonnegut expressing a rather unpopular viewpoint in 1973-even more so now: Full of penetrating insight and fascinating literary gossip, the book is a major contribution to the core Beat canon. preserving intact the story of the literary movement Ginsberg led, promoted and never ceased to embody' The New York Times Book Review The Best Minds of My Generation presents the best of these candid, intimate and illuminating lectures, revealing Kerouac, Burroughs and the rest of the Beats as Ginsberg knew them: friends, confidantes, literary mentors and fellow visionaries in a group who started a revolution. In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem 'Howl', Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation - partly to preserve his own memories of those years. A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his lectures

The best minds of my generation