Smoking Typewriters
Smoking Typewriters

Author: John McMillian

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-08-13

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0199376468

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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.

The Campaign Against the Underground Press
The Campaign Against the Underground Press

Author: Geoffrey Rips

Publisher:

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Reports on illegal surveillance and harassment of the independent press movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and details the efforts of the FBI, CIA, NSA, and other agencies to silence dissident voices of the antiwar, youth, women's, and minority rights movements. Contains reproductions of pages from underground press publications and previously classified government documents.

Off the Books
Off the Books

Author: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780674044647

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In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate and remarkable ways in which a community survives. The result is a dramatic narrative of individuals at work, and a rich portrait of a community. But while excavating the efforts of men and women to generate a basic livelihood for themselves and their families, Off the Books offers a devastating critique of the entrenched poverty that we so often ignore in America, and reveals how the underground economy is an inevitable response to the ghetto's appalling isolation from the rest of the country.

One Nation Underground
One Nation Underground

Author: Kenneth D. Rose

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2004-05

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0814775233

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Why some Americans built fallout shelters—an exploration America's Cold War experience For the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout shelter was a curiously American preoccupation. Triggered in 1961 by a hawkish speech by John F. Kennedy, the fallout shelter controversy—"to dig or not to dig," as Business Week put it at the time—forced many Americans to grapple with deeply disturbing dilemmas that went to the very heart of their self-image about what it meant to be an American, an upstanding citizen, and a moral human being. Given the much-touted nuclear threat throughout the 1960s and the fact that 4 out of 5 Americans expressed a preference for nuclear war over living under communism, what's perhaps most striking is how few American actually built backyard shelters. Tracing the ways in which the fallout shelter became an icon of popular culture, Kenneth D. Rose also investigates the troubling issues the shelters raised: Would a post-war world even be worth living in? Would shelter construction send the Soviets a message of national resolve, or rather encourage political and military leaders to think in terms of a "winnable" war? Investigating the role of schools, television, government bureaucracies, civil defense, and literature, and rich in fascinating detail—including a detailed tour of the vast fallout shelter in Greenbriar, Virginia, built to harbor the entire United States Congress in the event of nuclear armageddon—One Nation, Underground goes to the very heart of America's Cold War experience.

The Book in Movement
The Book in Movement

Author: Magalí Rabasa

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2019-05-08

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0822986868

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Over the past two decades, Latin America has seen an explosion of experiments with autonomy, as people across the continent express their refusal to be absorbed by the logic and order of neoliberalism. The autonomous movements of the twenty-first century are marked by an unprecedented degree of interconnection, through their use of digital tools and their insistence on the importance of producing knowledge about their practices through strategies of self-representation and grassroots theorization. The Book in Movement explores the reinvention of a specific form of media: the print book. Magalí Rabasa travels through the political and literary underground of cities in Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile to explore the ways that autonomous politics are enacted in the production and circulation of books.