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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Jann Wenner: The Rolling Stone Generation
Description: Jann Wenner has had an outsized impact on Bay Area history, music, popular culture and the world of magazines.In 1967, with the founding of Rolling Stone magazine in San Francisco, Wenner not only created the "bible of the counterculture," he helped catalyze a generation of young people into a force that would go on to transform the politics and lifestyles of much of the country. In his deeply personal new memoir, Like a Rolling Stone, Wenner vividly describes an epoch of cultural change that swept America and beyond, and the role his magazine played in it. His book g...