... became a fashion legend as well as one of rock-n-roll. Literature and writers of the 1950s helped bring about the beatnik movement. Desensitized and disillusioned from WWI, writers such as Herbert Huncke, Carl Solomon, and Neal Cassidy created controversial poetry and novels that challenged society's beliefs. Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road in 1957, embodied this movement with his bitter, comic rants against society. Political ... activist and poet Alan Ginsberg showed anger and idealism in his esoteric works. This generation of writers inspired the beatnik style of pencil skirts, s...

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... 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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