David Sandison. (2007). Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero. Chicago Review Press.

David Sandison. 2007. Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero. Chicago Review Press.

David Sandison, Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero. Chicago Review Press, 2007.

David Sandison. Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero. Chicago Review Press, 2007.

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This fascinating and in-depth biography of Neal Cassady takes a look at the man who achieved immortality as Dean Moriarty, the central character in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. A charismatic, funny, articulate, and formidably intelligent man, Cassady was also a compulsive womanizer who lived life on the edge. His naturalistic, conversational writing style inspired Kerouac, who lifted a number of passages verbatim and uncredited from Cassady’s letters for significant episodes in On the Road. Drawing on a wealth of new research and with full cooperation from central figures in his life—including Carolyn Cassady and Ken Kesey—this account captures Cassady’s unique blend of inspired lunacy and deep spirituality.

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   • source: Stephen Davis, author, Bob Marley, Hammer of the Gods, and Jim Morrison
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     "Sexy, primal, pot-dealing, speed-rapping Cassady emerges from these pages as a fire-breathing Western rover, eternally on the road."

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   • source: Paul Maher, author, Kerouac: The Definitive Biography
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     "A myth-shattering account of one of the most important figures of the beat generation."

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   • source: Stanley Booth, author, The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
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     "This memorial to Neal Cassady, done with the assistance of Neal's wife Carolyn, will probably remain the gold standard."

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     "The authors . . . do an excellent job in putting the reader in the passenger car."

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     "A full-scale biography of the maddest of the 'mad ones.'"

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     June 19, 2006
     Neal Cassady's wild life has been unreliably chronicled many times, most famously by Jack Kerouac, who portrayed him as the mythically restless Dean Moriarity in On the Road
     . The primary goal of this new biography is to separate the facts of Cassady's life from the various legends that surround it. Thus, the narrative begins with numerous true and fabricated versions of its subject's birth, after which it diligently pursues the facts behind Cassady's often exaggerated road trips and sexual encounters. While a great deal of the book recounts Cassady's influential friendships with Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, the character who is most vividly and sympathetically brought to life is Carolyn Cassady, Neal's wife for 20 years. Carolyn served as his rarely heeded conscience, and her presence in the tale repeatedly reminds the reader of the consequences of Neal's selfish and destructive activities. The story clips along steadily and the prose is consistently sharp, but Sandison (Jack Kerouac
     ), who died in 2004, and Vickers (21st-Century Hotel
     ) offer scant analysis of Cassady's character. The authors do have a strong sense of movement and scope, however, which renders this a crucial tool in understanding the life, if not the mind, of Neal Cassady. 16 b&w photos.

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     The late Sandison ("Ernest Hemingway: An Illustrated Biography"), who died in 2004, and freelance writer Vickers ("21st-Century Hotel") turn their attention to Neal Cassady, model for the character of Dean Moriarty in Beat writer Jack Kerouac's "On The Road". Drawing on Cassady's correspondence, interviews with those who knew him, and previous works by memoirist Carolyn Cassady (the subject's widow), biographer Tom Christopher, and others, Sandison and Vickers portray Cassady as all too human -a desperate, lost soul who was plagued by contradictions and sought personal fulfillment and spiritual salvation. Debunking the mythology that grew up around Cassady as a result of his appearance in works by Kerouac, Ken Kesey, and Tom Wolfe, the authors attempt to separate the life from the legend. They present Cassady as someone who wanted to be a good husband and father but was unable to conquer his demons, which included sex, drugs, gambling, and an innate restlessness. Ironically, it was these very demons that ensured Cassady's place in American literature. Recommended for academic and larger public libraries." - William Gargan, Brooklyn Coll. Lib., CUNY"

     Copyright 2006 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     September 1, 2006
     Beat icon Neal Cassady is remembered for his devastating good looks, daredevil ways, sexual voraciousness, casual cruelty, and "creative unruliness." He was a god of freedom and hedonism to the writers who forged the Cassady myth, primary among them Allen Ginsberg, who was overtly in love with the expediently bisexual wanderer, and Jack Kerouac, who loved Cassady in theory and Cassady's remarkable wife, Carolyn, in practice. Beat enthusiasts know the basics, but biographer Sandison, who passed away while working on this definitive portrait, and Vickers, who so ably completed it, provide a swarm of freshly stinging facts and newly minted reminiscences via extensive interviews that reveal Cassady's rampaging 41 years in full. Growing up rough in Depression-era Denver, Cassady's conquests and crimes were legion, his hungers insatiable. He became a "charismatic sociopath" with "priapic magnetism" and an onerous lack of empathy. From his legendary cross-country escapades and high-velocity letters and rants to prison terms, a stint with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and early death, Cassady blazes across these midnight pages like a falling meteorite.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)

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