Like a rolling stone

Book review of 'Sticky Fingers'

Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine

Author: Joe Hagan

Publisher: Knopf 

Pages: 560  

Price: $29.95 

After a career spent editing zeitgeist-tilting writers like Hunter S Thompson and Tom Wolfe, tapping the journalist Joe Hagan to write his biography “was essentially Jann Wenner’s last great assignment,” Hagan observes in an afterword to Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine, and “there was no way in hell I was going to screw it up.”

Screw it up Hagan did, according to Wenner, who has called the final product “deeply