MEDIA COOL

This is one of the best things ever written about Lennon. Wiener, a history professor and former ’60s activist, made headlines when he obtained 26 pounds of FBI and Immigration files on Lennon through the Freedom of Information Act (he and the ACLU are currently suing the Reagan administration for the remainder of Lennon’s “national security” FBI files), and the book mainly focuses on John’s political life (from the Fab Four through his death), how it related to rock ’n’ roll, and how it led to the harassment and persecution he and Yoko felt from Nixon’s blue meanies.