"Drawing upon extensive interviews with Dylan's friends and fellow eyewitnesses--including Marianne Faithful, Steven Tyler and Allen Ginsberg--the founding editor of Rolling Stone presents a kaleidoscopic biography of the rock icon, providing a new perspective on the man, the myth and the musical legend."--Publishers description.

Foreword: Letter to Bob -- Prologue: Something was happening but I didn't know what it was: that afternoon with Bob -- Introduction -- Creation myths -- The Hall of Early Folk Memories -- Woody Junior -- Li'l Abner on Bleecker Street -- Folk Messiah -- The Zimmerman letter -- From a Buick 6 -- The hallucinated alphabet -- Bob gets wired -- How does it feel? Self portrait at 24 frames per second -- Ballad of a thin man -- Godzilla vs. Mothra: two icons of the '60s meet under false pretenses -- That wild Mercury sound: what are Shakespeare, Memphis Minnie, Jackie DeShannon, John Lennon, Achilles, Napoleon XIV, Lesley Gore, and Johann Sebastian Bach doing on this album? -- After the ambulances go -- Somebody got lucky but it was an accident -- Fifty-four minutes inside Bob's brain -- Who is Tiny Montgomery? -- The cowboy angel rides: John Wesley Harding -- The invisible man goes to Nashville -- The amnesia -- How Dylan became Dylan, sort of -- Under the rings of Saturn -- The second coming of Bob -- Bob's wild west (village) show -- Epiphany in room 702 -- Down the road -- When I paint my masterpiece -- The enigma variations.