"The most important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish, not shock-shock is a worn-out phrase-but astonish - Where you find smugness you find something worth blasting-and I want to blast it." -Terry Southern, 1964. In DAD STRANGELOVE Nile Southern tells the astonishing tale of his legendary father; Terry Southern, a satirist and reluctant '60s icon (Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider, The Loved One, Candy, Barbarella, The Magic Christian) who helped forge many of the cultural signposts that defined his extraordinarily creative and turbulent times. His impulse to satirize a society consumed by militarism and greed are hilariously dark cautionary tales that continue to resonate today.