 The counterculture provides another focus—the Ash Grove folk music club, the LA Free Press, KPFK radio, and the Free Clinic.In addition to being an advocate for liberal causes and transparency in government, he wrote two books about Lennon, and has described Lennon's song "Imagine" as being a "hymn to idealism" with relevance today.He has been criticized by reporters for having a left-oriented bias in his books, sometimes leading to a revisionism regarding Lennon's political orientation.