Bob Brown, a mostly forgotten figure of the first half of the twentieth century, was nonetheless an original, one of the most colorful and versatile individuals of his time. Publisher, inventor, poet, cookbook writer, pulp fiction writer, self-proclaimed 'fiction machine, ' revolutionary, world traveler, Greenwich Village bohemian, European expatriate – you name it and Brown lunged at it with both hands. Though today largely a footnote to other people's stories, Brown has finally gotten a book of his own, a meticulously researched work that traces the rollicking life and times of a larger-than-life individual while also offering a whirlwind tour through every important cultural and political movement of his era.––-Constance Rosenblum, author of Gold Digger: The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce