In Seven Dirty Words, journalist and cultural critic James Sullivan
tells the story of Alternative America from the 1950s to the present,
from the singular vantage point of George Carlin, the Catholic boy for
whom nothing was sacred. A critical biography, Seven Dirty Words is an
insightful (and, of course, hilarious) examination of Carlin’s body of
work as it pertained to its cultural times and the man who created it,
from his early days as a more-or-less conventional comedian to his
stunning transformation into the subversive comedic voice of the
emerging counterculture. Sullivan also chronicles Carlin’s struggles
with censorship and drugs, as well as the full-blown renaissance he
experienced in the 1990s, both personally and professionally, when he
became an elder statesman to a younger generation of comics who revered
him. Seven Dirty Words is nothing less than the definitive biography of
an American master who changed the world and also a work of cultural
commentary that frames George Carlin’s extraordinary legacy.
Unabridged.
Read by Alan Sklar.
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