John McMillian – Smoking Typewriters

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Start: 02/25/2011 7:00 pm

How did the New Left uprising of the 1960s happen? What caused millions of young people to suddenly decide that American society needed to be completely overhauled? In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian shows that one answer can be found in the emergence of a dynamic underground press. Following the lead of papers like the Los Angeles Free Press, young people across the country launched hundreds of mimeographed pamphlets, flyers, magazines, and underground newspapers. With writers who actively participated in the events they described, underground newspapers spoke directly to their readers, reflecting and magnifying the spirit of cultural and political protest.