How a Satirical Editor Became a Yippie Conspirator in Ten Easy Years

The best satirical and humorous writer of the American underground is Paul Krassner, editor of The Realist. His many thousands of devotees will be happy to learn that at last the best of his writings from ten years of the Realist are available here and now—and what a bonanza it is!
Paul Krassner started his magazine in mid-1958. From the very beginning, readers found him intrepid, outrageous, witty, incorrigible, generous, incorruptible—and unpredictable. He is also highly inventive, and where no news exists, he often invents it to enliven the scene—or make a cogent point.
Politicians and bigots are Krassner’s chief targets. Some of his most notorious pieces have been about politicos. He also likes to write about sex, smoking pot, war, protest, television, films, hangups of all sorts, astrology, dwarfs, abortion, civil rights, and other matters. And among his favorite subjects are such compatriots as Mort Sahl, Ken Kesey, Richard Nixon, LBJ, Woody Allen, Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller, Dick Gregory, Terry Southern, and many others who have helped make our culture and social climate what it is today.
“The truth,” says Krassner, “is silly putty.” He goes on to prove it in these wild, satirical, thoughtprovoking pages which mirror, Krassner-fashion, our times. No one will be able to agree with everything Krassner says or believes, but it is unlikely that any reader will find him anything but attention- riveting.