John Mcmillian

Smoking Typewriters

The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America

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Produktbeschreibung

The first examination of the underground press in the 1960s and its contribution to the growth of the New Left in America.

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What caused the New Left rebellion of the 1960s? In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian argues that the "underground press" contributed to the New Left's growth and cultural organization in crucial, overlooked ways.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 167mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780195319927
• ISBN-10: 0195319923
• Artikelnr.: 30205936

Autorenporträt

John McMillian is co-editor of The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of an American Radical Tradition (New Press, 2005), The New Left Revisited (Temple, 2003), and Protest Nation: Words that Inspired a Century of American Radicalism (New Press, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1. "Our Founder, the Mimeograph Machine": Print Culture in Students
for a Democratic Society
* 2. "A Hundred Blooming Papers": Culture and Community in the 1960s
Underground Press
* 3. "Electrical Bananas": The Underground Press and the Great Banana
Hoax
* 4. "All the Protest Fit to Print": The Rise of Liberation News
Service
* 5. "Either We Have Freedom of the Press or We Don't Have Freedom of
the Press": The War against Underground Newspapers
* 6. "Questioning Who Decides": Participatory Democracy in the
Underground Press
* 7. "From Underground to Everywhere": Alternative Media Trends Since
the Sixties
* Afterword
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index