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? In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian shows that one answer to these ques...

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Main Author: McMillian, John Campbell
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
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  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: "Our Funder, the Mimeograph Machine": Print Culture in Students for a Democratic Society
  • Chapter Two: A Hundred Blooming Papers: Culture and Community in the 1960s Underground Press
  • Chapter Three: "Electrical Bananas": The Great Banana Hoax of 1967 and the Underground Press
  • Chapter Four: "All the Protest Fit for Print": The Rise of Liberation News Service
  • Chapter Five: "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
  • Chapter Six: Questioning Who Decides Participatory Democracy in the Underground Press
  • Chapter Seven: From Underground to Everywhere: Alternative Media Trends Since the Sixties.