On this edition of A Novel Idea, host Suzanne Lang talks with Peter Richardson, author of A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America; and American Prophet: The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams; he is the book review editor at the National Memo, and teaches American Culture at San Francisco State University. 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the project known as the Grateful Dead. No Simple Highway - A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead is Peter Richardson's colorful story of the band, the times, the community and the music of the Grateful Dead.

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