James Campbell's "This Is the Beat Generation" (1999)

London, England: Secker & Warburg (book, biography, history, 1st), 1999.
9.5" x 6.25" x 1.125", 320 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 0-436-20498-3.

This Is the Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris by James Campbell, as first published in hardcover by Secker & Warburg (London, England) in 1999. 

This is a history of the main Beat Generation writers, and contains multiple Burroughs-related images as well as a large number of references to William S. Burroughs.

There is also a copy of the 2000 Vintage softcover edition of this book in the archive, in rather well-read shape.
7.75" x 5" x 0.875", 320 pages, softcover, ISBN 0-099-28269-0.

Not in Shoaf.
Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5).

Contents: 

• Author's Note
• Part I: "I can feel myself drifting...":
• 1. Crazy wisdom
• 2. The first cut-ups
• Behind the beat: "Hipikats"
• 3. The muses: Huncke-junkie and Neo-Cassady
• Behind the beat: "Naked Neal"
• 4. The little auto
• Behind the beat: "Neurotica"
• 5. The place of dead roads
• Behind the beat: "The scroll"
• 6. Beat, in black and white
• Behind the beat: "Broyard"
• Part II: "...further and further out"
• 7. Sutra on the subway
• Behind the beat: "City Lights"
• 8. You're a Genius all the time
• Behind the beat: "As good as Proust"
• 9. Death to Van Gogh's Ear
• 10. The birth of the beatnik
• Behind the beat: "as he leaps Updike swing"
• 11. Terminal cut-up
• Notes
• Index