When Rolling Stone Rocked Culture

As made clear with the McChrystal piece, Rolling Stone's articles
and writers can shake things up just as much as their covers or
photographers. Acid proponent Ken Kesey (left) wrote his last article,
about the 9/11 attacks, for the magazine. Tom Wolfe (center) was a major
contributor to the publication, and would go on to become one of the
late 20th century's most celebrated novelists. Jann Wenner hired Cameron
Crowe as one of his editors, and his charge would later go on to become
a major Hollywood director. Crowe recounted his wild days as a Rolling
Stone journalist in the film Almost Famous. Other major Rolling
Stone pieces have included an exposé on the death of nuclear-plant
worker Karen Silkwood and a chronicle of the life of Vietnam veteran Ron
Kovic.