Radical chapters
Subtitle: pacifist bookseller Roy Kepler and the paperback revolution
By: Michael Doyle
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780815610069
Subjects: Friends and associates; Publishing; Pacifists; Booksellers and bookselling; Kepler's Books; Bookstores; Paperbacks; Counterculture; Biography; History
Description: Soon after independent bookstore Kepler's Books and Magazines opened in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1955, it became a meeting place for counterculture figures and a hot bed of radicalism in the 1950s and '60s. This narrative biography chronicles a generation of radicalism, resistance, and idealism through the life of the store's founder, Roy Kepler.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Opening chapters; title: The good war; title: Germfask; title: Resisting the next war; title: College; title: KPFA; title: Kepler's Books & Magazines; title: Paperback revolutionary; title: Joan; title: The sixties begin; title: Grindstone; title: The Institute; title: The Free U; title: Resistance; title: Oakland; title: Roots and branches; title: Counterattack; title: Farewell to the sixties; title: The new revolution; title: Transitions; title: Book wars.