MixedThe Los Angeles Review of Books\"Deeply researched and written with cheeky panache … Though Hagan claims the New Journalism of Hunter Thompson and Tom Wolfe inspired his ‘no-holds-barred’ account, Sticky Fingers reads more like Rolling Stone’s most salacious profiles — with lots of sex and drugs and rock and roll. No less than Wenner, Hagan knows what sells. The nuggets he extracted from the rich vein of source material at his disposal are priceless, and he embeds them into his narrative in ways certain to stimulate publicity and move units … Hagan’s tidy narrative linking Wenner’s yearning for wealth, fame, and power with Rolling Stone’s redefinition of celebrity and role in launching our present-day ‘age of narcissism’ is simply too pat. And at times, Hagan’s unrelenting emphasis on Wenner’s sex life distracts from and overwhelms his account of Wenner’s contributions to journalism and American culture.\
