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This Is Burning Man: The Rise of a New American Underground (10th Anniversary Edition) Kindle Edition
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"When I received a copy of THIS IS BURNING MAN, I trembled...It is amazing to follow how the art world comes together to form the Burning Man, celebrate the Burning Man, then return him to ashes."--Perry Farrell
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateAugust 19, 2014
- File size1957 KB
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"Burning Man is a wondrous topic, and Brian Doherty handles it well." -- Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin
"I loved this book! -- Margaret Cho
This book will teach you many weird things that you ought to be eager to know." -- Bruce Sterling, author of The Zenith Angle
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- ASIN : B00MVM6JMI
- Publisher : Brian Doherty (August 19, 2014)
- Publication date : August 19, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 1957 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 330 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #709,846 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #240 in Pop Culture in Graphic Design
- #321 in Pop Culture (Kindle Store)
- #1,929 in Pop Culture Art
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About the author
Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com. He is the author of three previous books, including Radicals for Capitalism: A History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement and Gun Control on Trial. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, National Review, and The Weekly Standard, among other publications. He has been a commentator on hundreds of radio and TV shows, including The O’Reilly Factor and Glenn Beck Show. He lives in Los Angeles.
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If you have never been to the event, and you want to know what it's like, and your friends haven't told you a thousand stories, read this book.
If you have been to That Event In The Desert, read this book.
If your friends can't finish a story about Burning Man in any sort of cohesive way, read this book.
Brian Doherty gets it and is also able to tell the stories about it in a compelling and gorgeous way.
read this book.
The first part of the book describes the history of the burning man event, how Larry Harvey one day decided to burn a wooden man in the golden gate park and how it created an audience of people who organized around the burning of the man. He decided to do it again and slowly the burning man event was created. It describes how Larry hooked up with several other groups and how they moved to the middle of nowhere, in the desert. The stories about the early days of the burning man event are insane and clearly describes the sense of freedom that's part of the burning man event.
The second part of the book focuses more on the later years of burning man and describes the different viewpoints as it follows several different people and their burning man history. It talks about the art creation, the city build-up, the city cleaning, the expressions of total freedom and the shared sense of making the event a better place. Near the end of the book, it tells how burning man has now grown and how, unfortunately, the original atmosphere started changing and how everything is slightly more controlled. That's probably inevitable for growing an event like burning man.
The book is exceptionally well researched and the writing style is clear. The author tells the many stories from his research while linking it with his own experience and his own opinion. I enjoyed reading burning man, recommended for everyone interested in the burning man event.
Read this, you wont be disappointed.
If you've never attended the event, this book is NOT a primer on what to do or how to prepare. Go to the Burning Man site, and read through the survival guide.