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Where Have All the Ramparts Gone?

Oct 23, 2009
Peter Richardson's new book about the groundbreaking Ramparts magazine says the rag changed America. Truthdig arts and culture editor Kasia Anderson asks the author and former Ramparts Editor Robert Scheer, Truthdig's editor-in-chief, why the magazine's impact isn't better remembered and what will take its place.Why was the unruly life of Ramparts magazine so short and what, if anything, will take its place?

‘A Bomb in Every Issue’

Oct 10, 2009
A new book on Ramparts Magazine, "A Bomb in Every Issue," marks the significant contribution of the alternative San Francisco-based publication that gave a viable and legitimate voice to 1960s radicalism. Check out the NYT's review of it here.

A Bomb in Every Issue

Aug 21, 2009
Peter Richardson's fascinating new book explores the short, unruly life of Ramparts Magazine and its extraordinary effect on American politics and media.The short, unruly life of Ramparts Magazine had an extraordinary effect on American politics and media.