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

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Sources -- Introduction -- 1 "Our Founder, the Mimeograph Machine": Print Culture in Students for a Democratic Society -- 2 A Hundred Blooming Papers: Culture and Community in the 1960s Underground Press -- 3 "Electrical Bananas": The Underground Press and the Great Banana Hoax of 1967 -- 4 "All the Protest Fit to Print": The Rise of Liberation News Service -- 5 "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 -- 6 Questioning Who Decides: Participatory Democracy in the Underground Press -- 7 "From Underground to Everywhere": Alternative Media Trends since the Sixties -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

What caused the New Left rebellion of the 1960s? In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian argues that the "underground press" contributed to the New Left's growth and cultural organization in crucial, overlooked ways.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.