Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America

by John McMillian

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195319923

ISBN13:9780195319927

Release Date:February 2011

Publisher:Oxford Univ PR

Length:294 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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20th Century Communication & Journalism Communication & Media Studies History Journalism Journalism & Nonfiction Media Studies Social Science Social Sciences Textbooks

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