Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947- 1954

35 years after his death, Jack Kerouac remains a fascinating and enigmatic literary figure. Hailed as the king of the beats, Kerouac was held up as an icon of a literary and cultural movement. But how much did Jack Kerouac actually identify with that movement? As it turns out, not much. He more closely associated himself with the working-class and viewed his writing as hard work, challenging himself with quantitative goals in his literary projects.

In Windblown World, Douglas Brinkley gathers a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of Jack Kerouac's life.

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