![]() The then-novelty of a Hollywood film star entering politics and becoming governor of California gave Reagan considerable air time on British TV. But the amiable old duffer who occupied the White House was a very different person from the often sinister figure I described in 1967, when the present piece was first published. Ronald Reagan's presidency remained a complete mystery to most Europeans, though I noticed that Americans took him far more easily in their stride. Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan prompted Doubleday in 1970 to pulp its first American edition of The Atrocity Exhibition. In 1990 JGB gave the following commentary to RE/Search publications: His illustrations are bang-on late 1960s line art - check the hat tips to Peter Max, Yellow Submarine, Eye Magazine, Laugh-In, etc. Foreman, of course, is JGB's buddy and was the art director of Ambit magazine. ![]() My copy is further distinguished by being signed by both Ballard and the artist, Michael Foreman. and my sources have located at least five. but he thinks there's probably less than 10. ![]() ![]() Even the super-informed Lloyd Currey doesn't know how many are really out there. ![]() This edition was destroyed by the publisher before distribution, scheduled for June 12, 1970, so it's difficult to tell how many escaped the pulper. The Terminal Collection: The Doubleday Atrocity Exhibition ![]()
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