The following copy is from the Georgia Center for the Book, an outstanding organization that stages many of the author appearances we have mentioned here.
Historian John McMillian joins us with a fascinating new look back at the ’60s: Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America
. The book, published by Oxford University Press, is a ”compact, sharply etched, tour-de-force recollection of rebellious young journalists” who stormed the barriers of the mainstream media and forever changed American journalism and publishing. It’s a well researched and audacious examination of the many counterculture weeklies that popped up in the era of Vietnam, drugs and rock and which laid the foundation for today’s seemingly limitless alternative journals.
