Just as Lennon projected himself in his professional life—often with sexually explicit language and nude photographs that alienated fans and shocked public sensibilities—Mintz says the portrait of Lennon that emerges from the secret journals is “unfiltered, uncensored. Straight from the heart, or straight from the chip on the shoulder or wherever it’s coming from—but not internalizing the anger. And there was a great deal of anger inside John Lennon [from] wherever all that comes from.”
