John Mcmillian

Smoking Typewriters

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780199376469
• ISBN-10: 0199376468
• Artikelnr.: 40621627

Autorenporträt

John McMillian is Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University. He is the author of Beatles vs. Stones and the co-editor of The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of an American Radical Tradition , The New Left Revisited, Protest Nation: The Radical Roots of Modern America, and The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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