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

Richardson, Peter

ISBN 10: 1595584390 / ISBN 13: 9781595584397

Published by The New Press, 2009

About this Item

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First printing. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Bound in red boards with title information to spine in silver. 247 pages with notes, sources and index. Not price clipped. NEW. Not read. All corners pointed. Binding firm, without stress creasing and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not written in or marked and clean and bright. Dust jacket same. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America
• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1595584390
• ISBN 13: 9781595584397
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Magazines
  • Politics
  • History

About this title

Synopsis

A Mother Jones "Best Book of 2009," A Bomb in Every Issue uncovers the largely untold story of Ramparts magazine, the spectacular San Francisco muckraker that captured the zeitgeist of the '60s and repeatedly scooped the New York Times, changing American journalism forever.

Launched in 1962 as a Catholic literary quarterly, Ramparts quickly transformed into a "radical slick," winning a George Polk Award in 1967 for its "explosive revival of the great muckraking tradition." According to the Los Angeles Times, the magazine "not only blew the cover off the biggest stories of the era, it also helped set the ideological agenda for its core demographic, the New Left, and forced the mainstream press to follow its lead."

Ramparts' list of contributors―including Noam Chomsky, César Chávez, Seymour Hersh, Angela Davis, and Susan Sontag―formed a who's who of the American left. Although Ramparts folded for good in 1975, former staffers founded Rolling Stone and Mother Jones and include some of the most illustrious names in journalism (names like Robert Scheer, Jann Wenner, and Warren Hinckle), and Ramparts remains an inspiration to investigative journalists today.

About the Author

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.