Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965 by Lisa Phillips

“…nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history….For without exception the cultural treasures (the historian) surveys have an origin which he cannot contemplate without horror. They owe their existence not only to the efforts of the great minds and talents who have created them, but also to the anonymous toil of their contemporaries. There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”

-Walter Benjamin