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John Perry Barlow (October 3, 1947 – February 7, 2018) was an American poet, essayist, cattle rancher, and cyberlibertarian political activist who had been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He was also a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and an early fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Early life and education Barlow was born in Sublette County, Wyoming near the town of Cora, the only child of Norman Walker Barlow (1905–1972), a Republican state legislator, and his wife, Miriam Adeline Barlow (née Jenkins, later Bailey; 1905–1999), who married in 1929. Barlow's paternal ancestors were Mormon pioneers. He grew up on Bar Cross Ranch in Cora, Wyoming, a 22,000-acre (8,900 ha) property his great-uncle founded in 1907, and attended elementary school in a one-room schoolhouse. Raised as a devout Mormon, he was prohibited from watching television until the sixth grade, when his parents allowed him to "absorb televangelists". Although Barlow's academic record was erratic throughout his secondary education, he "had his pick of top eastern universities... simply because he was from Wyoming, where few applications originated". In 1969, he graduated from Wesleyan University's College of Letters. He claimed to have served as Wesleyan's student body president until the administration "tossed him into a sanitarium" following a drug-induced attempted suicide attack in Boston, Massachusetts. After two weeks of rehabilitation, he returned to his studies. In his senior year, he became a part-time resident of New York City's East Village and immersed himself in Andy Warhol's Factory demimonde, cultivating a friendship with Rene Ricard and developing a brief addiction to heroin. As he neared graduation, Barlow was admitted to Harvard Law School and was contracted to write a novel by Farrar, Straus and Giroux at the behest of his mentor, the autodidactic Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and historian Paul Horgan. Initially supported by a $5,000 or $1,000 advance from the publisher, he decided to eschew these options in favor of spending the next two years traveling around the world, including a nine-month sojourn in India, a riotous winter in a summer cottage on Long Island Sound in Connecticut, and a screenwriting foray in Los Angeles. Barlow eventually finished the novel, but it was rejected by several publishers (including Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and remains unpublished. During this period, he also "lived beside Needle Park on New York's Upper West Side and dealt cocaine in Spanish Harlem". Career Grateful Dead At age 15, Barlow became a student at the Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, Colorado. There he met Bob Weir, who later co-founded the Grateful Dead. Weir and Barlow maintained a close friendship through the years. As a frequent visitor during college to Timothy Leary's facility in Millbrook, New York, Barlow was introduced to LSD; he later claimed to have consumed the substance over 1,000 times. These transformative experiences led him to distance himself from Mormonism. He went on to facilitate the first meeting between the Grateful Dead and the Leary organization (who recognized each other as kindred souls in spite of their differing philosophical approaches) in June 1967. While on his way to California to reunite with the Grateful Dead in 1971, Barlow stopped at his family's ranch, not intending to stay. His father had suffered a debilitating stroke in 1966 before dying in 1972, resulting in a $700,000 business debt. Dismayed by the situation, Barlow changed his plans and began practicing animal husbandry under the auspices of the Bar Cross Land and Livestock Company in Cora, Wyoming, for almost two decades. To support the ranch, he continued to write and sell spec scripts. In the meantime, Barlow was still able to play an active role in the Grateful Dead while recruiting many unconventional part-time ranch hands from the mainstream as well as the counterculture. Prior to his death in 2018, John Byrne Cooke intended to produce a documentary film (provisionally titled The Bar Cross Ranch) that documented this era. Barlow became interested in collaborating with Weir at a Grateful Dead show at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York, in February 1971. Until then, Weir had mostly worked with resident Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. Hunter preferred that those who sang his songs stick to his "canonical" lyrics rather than improvise additions or rearrange words. A feud erupted backstage over a couplet in "Sugar Magnolia" from the band's most recent release (most likely "She can dance a Cajun rhythm/Jump like a Willys in four-wheel drive"), culminating in a disgruntled Hunter summoning Barlow and telling him "take [Weir]—he's yours". In late 1971, with a deal for a solo album in hand and only two songs completed, Weir and Barlow began to write together for the first time. They co-wrote songs such as "Cassidy", "Mexicali Blues" and "Black-Throated Wind", all three of which remained in the repertoires of the Grateful Dead and of Weir's varied solo projects. Barlow subsequently collaborated with Grateful Dead keyboardist Brent Mydland, a partnership that culminated in four songs on 1989's Built to Last. He also wrote one song ("The Devil I Know") with Mydland's successor, Vince Welnick. Internet activism In 1986, Barlow joined The WELL, an online community then known for a strong Deadhead presence. He served on the company's board of directors for several years. In 1990, Barlow founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) with fellow digital-rights activists John Gilmore and Mitch Kapor. As a founder of EFF, Barlow helped publicize the Secret Service raid on Steve Jackson Games. His involvement is documented in The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (1992) by Bruce Sterling. EFF later sponsored the groundbreaking case Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service in support of Steve Jackson Games. Steve Jackson Games won the case in 1993. In 1996, Barlow was invited to speak about his work in cyberspace to a middle school classroom at North Shore Country Day School. This event was highly influential upon the life of then-student Aaron Swartz: Swartz's father Robert recalls Aaron coming home that day a changed person. That year, Barlow also wrote "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace", a widely disseminated creed for the Internet. In 2003, Barlow met the recently appointed Brazilian Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil at the event Tactic Media Brazil to discuss the perspectives of digital inclusion and political participation, which in the following years helped shape Brazilian governmental policy on intellectual property and digital media. In 2004, the two began working together to expand the availability and variety of Brazilian music to remix and .... Discover the John Perry popular books. Find the top 100 most popular John Perry books.
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Design as Art
Bruno MunariHow do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever....
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The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh & Ronald de LeeuwA new selection of Vincent Van Gough's letters, based on an entirely new translation, revealing his religious struggles, his fascination with the French Revolution, his search for ...
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The Visitors
Caroline ScottFrom the highly acclaimed author of The Photographer of the Lost, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick, comes a tale of a young war widow and one lifechanging, sundrenched visit to Co...
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The Doll Princess
Tom BennWinner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year AwardIt's Manchester, July 1996, the month after the IRA bomb, and the Evening News is carrying reports of two ...
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Jerry Garcia
Insight EditionsMore than a musician, the Grateful Dead’s founder Jerry Garcia was also a prolific artist who created hundreds of paintings, drawings, and prints. Get to know another side of this ...
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The Forsyte Saga
John GalsworthyThe Forsyte Saga is the first part of John Galsworthy’s magnificent, wellloved Forsyte Chronicles, which trace the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty ye...
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Three Men and a Maybe
Debbie CarbinBeth Sheridan likes her life the way it is. OK, so her job's a little dull and her social life leaves a lot to be desired. But none of that really matters because Beth is in love w...
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Bad Earth 25
Manfred WeinlandIm Schatten der Mächtigen Die Marsstation befindet sich nun an Bord der RUBIKON II und mit ihr auch ein bei vollem Bewusstsein befindlicher Nathan Cloud, der davon träumt, nach ü...
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After the Bugles and Llano River
Elmer KeltonTwo novels from seventime Spur Award–winning author Elmer Kelton, "truly a Texas legend" (former Texas Governor Rick Perry), After the Bugles and Llano River. After the BuglesJoshu...
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She
H. Rider HaggardOn his twentyfifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. It contains a letter recounting the legend of a white sorceress who rules an Africa...
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Henri Matisse
Alastair SookeHenri Matisse by Alastair Sooke an essential guide to one of the 20th century's greatest artists'One January morning in 1941, only a fortnight or so after his seventyfirst birthda...
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Australia According To Hoges
Paul HoganStories and yarns about my favourite bits of Down UnderPaul Hogan's ancestors were a couple of Irish blowins who arrived in the colony of New South Wales by boat, with a little ass...
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Le Vieil Homme et la Guerre
John ScalziJ’ai fait deux choses le jour de mes soixantequinze ans : je suis allé sur la tombe de ma femme. Puis je me suis engagé. À soixantequinze ans, l’âge requis, John Perry n’est pas le...
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Second Chance Love in Point Perry
Joanne SpeirsTwo broken hearts learning how to live and love again.After a devastating tragedy shakes Erin's world, she returns to her hometown of Point Perry seeking solace and a fresh start...
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Bad Earth 22
Manfred WeinlandEin Regime wird entlarvt Wer sind die Herren der Erde? Während Scobee vor einen leibhaftigen Master gerufen wird, verlässt Cloud mit Shen Sadako und den anderen Mitgliedern der G...
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Lady Gaga A to Z
DKLearn from Lady Gaga’s career experiences and discover how you, too, can be an ally, unafraid to be your truest self, and let your creativity flourish.Lady Gaga is a modernday Rena...
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Pursued
Jud WilhiteChristian faith isn't blind obedience to a set of rules and regulations; it is entering into a relationship with a God who pursues usnot to punish, but to love. As the leader of Ce...
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High On Arrival
Mackenzie PhillipsNot long before her fiftieth birthday,Mackenzie Phillips walked into Los Angeles International Airport. She was on her way to a reunion for One Day at a Time, the hugely popular 70...
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Death Comes to the Ballets Russes
David DickinsonLondon, 1912, and the famed Ballet Russes have come to London to perform. Anticipation is high, for Diaghilev’s troupe is renowned throughout Europe. At the end of their famed pe...
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Bad Earth Sammelband 6 - Science-Fiction-Serie
Manfred Weinland, Susan Schwartz, Alfred Bekker & Marc TannousDer sechste Sammelband der atemberaubenden ScienceFictionSerie jetzt zum SupersparpreisAm Vorabend des KriegesCy, der Aurige, und Algorian, der Aorii, haben das Komplott der Jay'na...
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The Trial of the Century
Gregg Jarrett & Don YaegerNATIONAL BESTSELLERA gripping and comprehensive history of the iconic attorney Clarence Darrow and the famous Scopes Monkey Trial, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ...
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Swansong
Kerry Andrew‘Swansong is the real thing, right from the start: spiky, strange and contemporary, but always with a dark undertow of myth and folklore tugging at its telling…this is a brilliant ...
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Writings from the Zen Masters
Various Authors, Paul Reps & Nyogen SenzakiThese are unique stories of timeless wisdom and understanding from the Zen Masters. With rich and fascinating tales of swords, tigers, tea, flowers and dogs, the writings of the Ma...
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A Different Stage
Gary BarlowTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERJoin national treasure Gary Barlow as he opens the curtains on his remarkable life in this stunning autobiography, from his fascinating early life to his...
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The Silver River
Jim MoginieA moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary band Midnight Oil.For fifty years, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Jim ...
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Zambia 2007
John PerryA travel notebook from an expedition to Zambia. Visiting Ikelenge Sacred Heart Deaf Ubit, the Victoria Falls and South Luangua game reserve
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John F. Gaisford v. Perry Neuschatz
Fourth District Court of Appeal of FloridaANDREWS, Judge. This is an appeal by defendant, John F. Gaisford, from a final summary judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff, Perry Neuschatz.
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The Philosophy of Modern Song
Bob DylanThe Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume Oneand since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began...
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Liveforever
Andres CaicedoAndrés Caicedo's novel Liveforever is a wild celebration of youth, hedonism and the transforming power of music.María del Carmen Huerta lives a respectable middleclass life in Colo...
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The Shamanic Powers of Rolling Thunder
Sidian Morning Star Jones & Stanley KrippnerEyewitness accounts of Rolling Thunder’s remarkable healings, legendary control over the weather and animals, and inspiring teachings Includes accounts of Rolling Thunder by his gr...
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Imaginings Of Sand
André BrinkTHE BOOK: A narrative counterpoint between two women, two South Africas. Kristien Muller returns from London to her homeland to fulfil a promise. Her grandmother lies on her deathb...
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On Painting
Leon Alberti & Cecil GraysonArtist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and b...
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The Pancatantra
Visnu Sarma & Chandra RajanFirst recorded 1500 years ago, but taking its origins from a far earlier oral tradition, the Pancatantra is ascribed by legend to the celebrated, halfmythical teacher Visnu Sarma. ...
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Ai Weiwei Speaks
Hans Ulrich Obrist'If artists betray the social conscience and the basic principles of being human, where does art stand then?' Ai Weiwei artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist e...
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Bad Earth 26
Alfred BekkerAm Vorabend des Krieges Cy, der Aurige, und Algorian, der Aorii, haben das Komplott der Jay'nac aufgedeckt und konnten CLARON, die Allianz der organischen Völker, vor den heim...
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No Way Back
Theodor Fontane, Helen Chambers & Hugh RorrisonA rich and enjoyable novel about marriage, love and betrayal, from the great German realist Theodor Fontane. Charming, cheerful Count Holk is delighted to be called away from his s...
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The Babysitter
Liza Rodman & Jennifer JordanThis chilling true story and “harrowing account of the evil that can lurk around the edges of girlhood” (Carolyn Murnick, author of The Hot One)reminiscent of Ann Rule’s classic Th...
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If You Should Fail
Joe Moran'There is an honesty and a clarity in Joe Moran's book If You Should Fail that normalises and softens the usual blows of life that enables us to accept and live with them rather th...
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John A. Pace v. Russell R. Perry
Fifth District Court of Appeal of FloridaORFINGER, J. The appellee, as plaintiff, filed an action in equity to set aside a money judgment entered against him several years earlier, alleging that service of process had bee...
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Lives of the Artists
Giorgio Vasari & George BullBeginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. G...