Smoking typewriters : the Sixties underground press and the rise of alternative media in America / John McMillian.

Smoking typewriters : the Sixties underground press and the rise of alternative media in America /

"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? Historian John McMillian shows that one answer to these questions can be found in th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McMillian, John Campbell
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Underground press publications > United States > History > 20th century.
Radicalism > United States > History > 20th century.
Press and politics > United States > History > 20th century.
Nineteen sixties.
Electronic books.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.

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