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Smoking Typewriters : The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative
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Smoking Typewriters : The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America Hardcover - 2011 - 1st Edition

by McMillian, John

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  • Title Smoking Typewriters : The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America
  • Author McMillian, John
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 294
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Incorporated, New York
  • Date 2011-02-17
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4283627-6
  • ISBN 9780195319927 / 0195319923
  • Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.1 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Radicalism - United States - History - 20th, Press and politics - United States - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010026243
  • Dewey Decimal Code 071.309

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From the publisher

How did the New Left uprising of the 1960s happen? What caused millions of young people-many of them affluent and college educated-to suddenly decide that American society needed to be completely overhauled?

In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian shows that one answer to these questions can be found in the emergence of a dynamic underground press in the 1960s. Following the lead of papers like the Los Angeles Free Press, the East Village Other, and the Berkeley Barb, young people across the country launched hundreds of mimeographed pamphlets and flyers, small press magazines, and underground newspapers. New, cheaper printing technologies democratized the publishing process and by the decade's end the combined circulation of underground papers stretched into the millions. Though not technically illegal, these papers were often genuinely subversive, and many of those who produced and sold them-on street-corners, at poetry readings, gallery openings, and coffeehouses-became targets of harassment from local and federal authorities. With writers who actively participated in the events they described, underground newspapers captured the zeitgeist of the '60s, speaking directly to their readers, and reflecting and magnifying the spirit of cultural and political protest. McMillian pays special attention to the ways underground newspapers fostered a sense of community and played a vital role in shaping the New Left's highly democratic "movement culture."

Deeply researched and eloquently written, Smoking Typewriters captures all the youthful idealism and vibrant tumult of the 1960s as it delivers a brilliant reappraisal of the origins and development of the New Left rebellion.

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Citations

  • Kirkus Best Books, 12/01/2011, Page 2207
  • Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/2010, Page 1253
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/17/2011, Page 0

About the author

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.

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