MSNBC - Prose laureate of the Age of Paranoia: "In 1971, at the beginning of his big-time fame, he'd already written the obit for the '60s, a time when 'you could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.' But by then, 'with the right kind of eyes, you can almost see the high-water mark -- that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.' "