Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press, Part 2

Edited by Ken Wachsberger

Published by: Michigan State University Press

Series: Voices from the Underground

Imprint: Michigan State University Press

Publishing Date: 2012-04-01

456 Pages, 0.00 x 0.00

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This enlightening book offers a collection of histories of underground papers from the Vietnam Era as written and told by key staff members of the time. Their stories, building on those presented in Part 1, represent a wide range of publications: countercultural, gay, lesbian, feminist, Puerto Rican, Native American, Black, socialist, Southern consciousness, prisoners’ rights, New Age, rank-and-file, military, and more. Wachsberger notes that the underground press not only produced a few well-known papers but also was truly national and diverse in scope. His goal is to capture the essence of “the countercultural community.” This book will be a fundamental resource for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of a dramatic era in U.S. history, as well as offering a younger readership a glimpse into a generation of idealists who rose up to challenge and improve government and society.

Contents

Foreword - Susan Brownmiller

Preface - Ken Wachsberger

Soldiers Against the Vietnam War: Aboveground and The Ally - Harry W. Haines, with appendices by Harry W. Haines and James Lewes

Fast Times in the Motor City: The First Ten Years of the Fifth Estate, 1965–1975 - Bob Hippler, with an appendix by Patrick Halley

Fag Rag: The Most Loathsome Publication in the English Language - Charley Shively

The Kudzu: Birth and Death in Underground Mississippi - David Doggett

The Wong Truth Conspiracy: A History of Madison Alternative Journalism - Tim Wong

New Age: Worker Organizing from the Bottom Up - Paul Krehbiel

Ain’t No Party Like the One We Got: The Young Lords Party and Palante - Pablo “Yorúba” Guzmán

Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom, Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend: The Story of Hundred Flowers - Ed Felien

The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance - Ginny Z. Berson, with appendices by Ginny Z. Berson and Charlotte Bunch

At This End of the Oregon Trail: The Eugene AUGUR, 1969–1974 - Peter Jensen

Karl and Groucho’s Marxist Dance: The Columbus Free Press and Its Predecessors in the Columbus Underground - Steve Abbott

“Raising the Consciousness of the People”: The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service, 1967–1980 - JoNina M. Abron

Both Sides Now Remembered: Or, The Once and Future Journal - Elihu Edelson

It Aint Me Babe: From Feminist Radicals to Radical Feminists - Bonnie Eisenberg, with help from Laura X, Trina Robbins, Starr Goode, and Alta, with appendices by Laura X and Trina Robbins

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Ken Wachsberger is a long-time writer, editor, and author, as well as an early member, a book contract adviser, and a former national officer in the National Writers Union.

. . . an important project. That information needs to be available.

—Country Joe McDonald, leader of Country Joe and the Fish

Let me say from the start that this is the most thorough and comprehensive book in print about the underground newspapers of the 1960s. Ken Wachsberger, the editor of the volume, sees the papers of the Vietnam Era as the forerunners of today‘s radical blogs and so he means his book to be relevant for the current generation and it is indeed greatly relevant to today . . .

—Jonah Raskin, The Rag Blog

In an era when events linger in popular memory for increasingly smaller increments of time, Voices from the Underground serves us all by bringing back to life those rebel shouts and rants, as well as the thoughtful critiques and criticism that marked the 1960s and ’70s oppositional press. Without a World Wide Web or Internet to connect and inform those who refused the official version of events, it fell to the intrepid youth of that period to create a lively media that unraveled lies, put forth a vision, and gave a clenched fist and a raised middle finger to power.

—Peter Werbe, Fifth Estate staff member since 1966; Detroit radio broadcaster and talk show host

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