A Bomb In Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America

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An account of the rise and fall of Ramparts magazine, which, for almost a decade in the 1960s, was a leading leftist publication, combining radical content, sophisticated design and public relations to shape political journalism. Featuring interviews with David Horowitz, Peter Collier, Adam Hochschild, Christopher Hitchens, Seymour Hersh, Noam Chomsky and others, this book situates the magazine amidst the student movement in Berkeley, the rise and fall of the Black Panthers and the Summer of Love, while assessing the magazine's impact on politics and the media.

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"It's a great delight to see this key chapter in the history of American journalism at last get the readable, judicious history it deserves." Adam Hochschild, author of Half the Way Home and Bury the Chains

"Richardson tells Ramparts story in jaunty prose . . . with delightful anecdotes." Chicago Sun-Times

"Richardson has peppered his account with lively comments, most of them from reporters who cut their eyeteeth in newspapers long before the 1960s." San Francisco Chronicle

"An excellent history that shouldnt be ignored." Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior

Author Bio

Peter Richardson is the author of A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America (The New Press). He is an editor at University of California Press, a lecturer at San Francisco State University, and a book reviewer at Truthdig. He lives in Richmond, California.