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

by John McMillian

Book Overview

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"