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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Campbell McMillian |
ISBN: | 9780195319927 0195319923 |
OCLC Number: | 641525225 |
Description: | xiv, 277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- "Our Funder, the Mimeograph Machine": Print Culture in Students for a Democratic Society -- A Hundred Blooming Papers: Culture and Community in the 1960s Underground Press -- "Electrical Bananas": The Great Banana Hoax of 1967 and the Underground Press -- "All the Protest Fit for Print": The Rise of Liberation News Service -- "Either We Have Freedom of the Press -- Or We Don't Have Freedom of the Press": Thomas King Forcade and the War Against Underground Newspapers -- Questioning Who Decides Participatory Democracy in the Underground Press -- From Underground to Everywhere: Alternative Media Trends Since the Sixties. |
Responsibility: | John McMillian. |
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Abstract:
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.
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... this is a work of serious scholarship ... * Roz Kaveney, Times Literary Supplement * Smoking Typewriters is an impressively researched history of the emergence of the underground press in the 1960s. ... a work with remarkable contemporary resonance * Aurelie Basha i Novosejt, Journal of Contemporary History * Read more...

