VOICES FROM THE UNDERGROUND editor Ken Wachsberger Discusses Book, History of the Underground Press
Channel: peaceedcenter
Date: 2012-01-04

Ken Wachsberger, editor of VOICES FROM THE UNDERGROUND, discusses the history of the American underground press and the publication of his first of four volumes on the topic. He spoke at Everybody Reads bookstore in Lansing, Michigan on March 3, 2011. The book offers a collection of histories of underground papers from the Vietnam Era as written and told by key staff members of the time. The stories 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. 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. The book is a fundamental resource for a deeper understanding of a dramatic era in US history. For more information visit http://voicesfromtheunderground.com/.