John Mcmillian: 3 books
by John McMillian
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
In the 1960s an epic battle was waged between the two biggest bands in the world—the clean-cut, mop-topped Beatles and the badboy Rolling Stones. Both groups liked to maintain that they weren’t really “rivals”—that was just a media myth, they politely said—and yet they plainly competed...
Smoking Typewriters
The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
How did the New Left uprising of the 1960s happen? What caused millions of young people-many of them affluent and college educated-to suddenly decide that American society needed to be completely overhauled? In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian shows that one answer to these questions...
Protest Nation
Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Historic writings by socialists, LGBT activists, environmentalists, and more: “An extraordinary collection of the voices of American dissidents.” —Howard Zinn
Protest Nation is a guide to the speeches, letters, broadsides, essays, and manifestos that form the backbone of the American...