... in San Francisco. Captain William Hanrahan of the SFPD busted up the reading, confiscated copies of the poem and arrested City Lights owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti for obscenity. Ironically, this made HOWL a best-seller. During Ginsburg's trial, Kerouac's book ON THE ROAD was published. LOOK MAGAZINE attacked the book and the "beat- identity it popularized for turning the American value system upside down: "The beats are against every aspect of current American ... Society Mom, Dad, politics, marriage, the savings bank, organized religion, to say nothing of the automatic dishwasher, the s...

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