Episode Transcript: #1877 - Jann Wenner

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You've been a part of some wild changes in this country, my friend.

Well, I think I start my life, my book out at a time in the 50s in the Eisenhower era

None of all of this what we see today was conceivable.

I mean, let alone carrying around telephones in your pocket or being able to talk to people, you know, on your wristwatch.

But I came along in the 50s with the post-war baby boom, and it was the largest population cohort in American history,

and it became the most educated, the best educated, and also the wealthiest,

because America was going through this great boom of financial boom after winning the war.

And when we came of age in the early 60s, and people, I turned 21, and whenever it was, mid-60s,

so I mean, as we grow up, we kind of discovered that America wasn't what they told us it was going to be.

You know, that life, liberty, and a pursuit of happiness, which I believed in deeply, it wasn't that way.

You know, in fact, first off, we were running this segregation system, Jim Crow.

I mean, blacks, people, human beings were kept in the most worst circumstances, and it was an outrage to see that.

And then all these other things started becoming apparent, the hypocrisy of the society we were in,

and that's the stuff that Dylan was writing about.

And boom, boom, boom, all of a sudden we're in a war.