bThe life and times of iHigh Times'i enigmatic founder Thomas King Forcade, an underground newspaper editor and marijuana kingpin who battled both the U.S. government and fellow radicals, in a whirlwind narrative of bloody brawls, car chases, police raids, and smuggling runs--assembled from exclusive interviews, archived private correspondences, and declassified documents.b p At the end of the 1960s, the mysterious Tom Forcade suddenly appeared on the scene, insinuated himself into the top echelons of the political counterculture, and took over operations of the Underground Press Syndicate, a coalition of newspapers across the country. Even as he weathered government surveillance and harassment, he embarked on a landmark court battle to obtain White House press credentials. But his outrageous stunts--like pieing Congressional panelists, stealing presidential portraits, and picking fights with other activists--led to charges that he was an agent provocateur. He claimed that he was just