How I Got to Be This Hip: The Collected Works of One of America's Preeminent Journalists

Spanning some three decades of twentieth-century history, from the 1960s through the 1980s, a collection of essays by one of America's leading journalists shares his social commentary on Woodstock, Charles Manson, the Patty Hearst kidnapping, and other aspects of the changing American scene. Original.

Barry Farrell was one of the premier writers of his era, a writer's writer, revered by his peers. He started at Time in 1961, then became a staff writer for Life in the late 1960s, where he wrote a column every other week, alternating with Joan Didion. He then moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970s and was West Coast Editor of Harper's. He also taught writing. Barry Farrell died in 1984.