After reading Agents of Chaos, my understandingof Tom Forcade is that he was a bit of a madman in a madtime whose idiosyncrasies and ego served as engines for hisperpetual motion. A newbiography of Forcade, titled Agents of Chaos: Thomas KingForçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s andwritten by Sean Howe, also leans in that direction. Like the Zippies (which, as Howe details,ultimately became the Youth International Party or Yippies),Forcade comes across as a dadaist living an impromtu drama.