Jon Wiener is a member of the history department at the
University of California at Irvine and the author of Social Origins
of the New South.
"By setting Lennon squarely within his era, Wiener's study is
exemplary. Lennon does not appear 'larger than life,' but as
passionately involved in it."--Michael S. Kimmel, Newsday
"Stands out as one of the few [books] that don't want to deify,
dish the dirt about or otherwise exploit the slain former Beatle. A
sympathetic documentary history of Lennon's political thinking
(which went through many phases), Come Together says that during
the counterculture's flowering, rock music, had real clout in the
American political arena. Certainly some government officials
thought so, or they wouldn't have initiated deportation proceedings
after Lennon aligned himself with the activist left. Jon Wiener . .
. obtained twenty-six pounds of FBI and Immigration and
Naturalization Service files on Lennon under the Freedom of
Information Act, and there is some grim humor in his chapter about
this material."--Stephen Holden, New York Times Book Review
"Documents the campaign of surveillance and harassment against
Lennon by the FBI and the involvement of the Nixon Administration
at the highest levels in ordering and overseeing this campaign. All
the deliberate abuses of power revealed in the Watergate scandal
make their appearance here as well."--Ian McMahan, American Book
Review
"When history professor Jon Wiener made a Freedom of Information
request to the federal government for the late John Lennon's file,
he could hardly have hoped for a richer payoff."--Time
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