 | Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press, Part 1 Subjects: Underground press publications -- United States; Human rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Vietnam War 1961–1975 -- Protest movements -- United States; 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 (as well as those to be included in Part 2, forthcoming) represent a wide range of publications: counterculture, gay, lesbian, feminist, Puerto Rican, Native American, Black, socialist, Southern consciousness, prisoner's rights, New Age, rank-and-file, military, and more. The edition includes forewords by former Chicago Seed editor Abe Peck, radical attorney William M. Kunstler, and Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos , along with an introductory essay by Ken Wachsberger. 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 of the National Writers Union. |
