Famous Long Ago: My Life and Hard Times With Liberation News Service - Couverture souple

Mungo, Raymond

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1558499474 ISBN 13 : 9781558499478

Editeur : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012

Synopsis

Originally published in 1970, Raymond Mungo's picaresque account of his adventures with Liberation News Service in the wild years of 1967 and 1968 has been variously described as youthful, passionate, lyrical, demented, and an iconic symbol of the sixties counterculture. A review in The Nation described it as "hip Huck Finn."�

A college editor at the height of the Vietnam War, Mungo found himself smack in the middle of a mad swirl of activism and dissent, vigorously protesting every-thing from the draft to abortion laws to the university itself. Then he connected with Marshall Bloom to cofound LNS in Washington, D.C., as a news service catering to the burgeoning underground press. One thing led to another, until LNS, like so many other radical organizations, eventually disintegrated into violently warring factions. Mungo's memoir tracks its development and destruction with wicked humor and literary panache.

In an introduction to this new edition, John McMillian discusses the enduring appeal of Famous Long Ago and situates it within its broader historical context, while the author provides his own retrospective take in a new afterword.

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À propos de l'auteur

Raymond Mungo is the author of fifteen books, including Total Loss Farm: A Year in the Life; Cosmic Profit: How to Make Money without Doing Time; and Confessions from Left Field. John McMillian is assistant professor of history at Georgia State University and author of Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Massachusetts Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1558499474
• ISBN 13: 9781558499478
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
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• Personne responsable: non disponible