In this Book
- Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press, Part 1
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Michigan State University Press
- Series: Voices from the Underground
This enlightening book offers a collection of histories of underground papers from the Vietnam Era as written and told by key staff members of the time. Their stories (as well as those to be included in Part 2, forthcoming) represent a wide range of publications: counterculture, gay, lesbian, feminist, Puerto Rican, Native American, Black, socialist, Southern consciousness, prisoner's rights, New Age, rank-and-file, military, and more. The edition includes forewords by former Chicago Seed editor Abe Peck, radical attorney William M. Kunstler, and Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos, along with an introductory essay by Ken Wachsberger.
Wachsberger notes that the underground press not only produce a few well-known papers but also was truly national and diverse in scope. His goal is to capture the essence of "the countercultural community."
A fundamental resource for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of a dramatic era in U.S. history.
Table of Contents
- Preface to the Voices from the Underground Series
- pp. xxv-xxxii
- Messaging the Blackman
- pp. 1-34
- The Joy of Liberation News Service
- pp. 139-157
- off our backs: The First Four Decades
- pp. 157-184
- oob and the Feminist Dream
- pp. 185-194
- The Guardian Goes to War
- pp. 253-266
- Muckraking Gadflies Buzz Reality
- pp. 267-298
- About the Authors
- pp. 343-346
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2011