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Originally Posted by Dead-Air
That's an awesome book if you keep in mind the cultural impact it had. It was hugely influential on the anarcho-communist side of the hippie movement, and Kesey and the like were really into it. Also the stuff about the First Lady's astrologer influencing presidential politics was incredibly prescient since Ron and Nancy actually did that two decades later!
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I see lots and lots of parallelism between the book and current events as well. Especially between the Fosterites and Scientologists.