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A Bomb in Every Issue recounts the rise and fall of Ramparts magazine, which, for nearly a decade in the 1960s, was the nation's premier leftist publication, combining radical content, sophisticated design, and public relations savvy to shape political journalism for a generation. Featuring interviews with David Horowitz, Peter Collier, Adam Hochschild, Christopher Hitchens, Todd Gitlin, Robert Scheer, Warren Hinckle, Angela Davis, Kathleen Cleaver, Seymour Hersh, William F. Buckley, Noam Chomsky, Brit Hume, Bobby Seale, Howard Zinn, and others, A Bomb in Every Issue situates the magazine amidst student movements in Berkeley, the rise and fall of the Black Panthers in Oakland, and the acid-inflected Summer of Love in San Francisco while assessing the magazine's impact on national media and politics.

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Peter Richardson is editorial director at PoliPointPress, chair of the California Studies Association, and a lecturer at San Francisco State University. His publications include American Prophet: The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams and numerous essays on literature, language, politics, and media. He lives in Marin County, California.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 159558546X
Publisher ‏ : ‎ The New Press; Illustrated edition (November 30, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781595585462
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1595585462
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.75 x 8 inches

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Peter Richardson has written critically acclaimed books about Hunter S. Thompson, the Grateful Dead, Ramparts magazine, and radical author/editor Carey McWilliams.

Richardson's essays have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, Los Angeles Times Book Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, California, Guernica, California History, and many other outlets. Excerpts of his work have been published by the New York Times, Mother Jones, and Bookforum. A busy book reviewer, Richardson received the National Entertainment Journalism Award for Online Criticism in 2013.

From 2006 to 2023, Richardson taught courses on California culture at San Francisco State University. He has been featured in documentary films, podcasts, and newspaper and magazine stories, and he is a frequent guest on public radio programs in North America and abroad. He also speaks at universities, museums, book festivals, and historical societies.

Richardson's professional experience includes editorial stints at the University of California Press, PoliPoint Press, the Public Policy Institute of California, and Harper & Row, Publishers.

In the 1990s, Richardson was an associate professor of English at the University of North Texas, a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Iceland, and an NEH Summer Seminar fellow at Harvard University. He also wrote a textbook on stylistic revision, now in its second edition. Before that, he earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Born and raised in the East Bay, he now lives in Sonoma County.

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Richard Gearon

More of a Dud than a Bomb

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2010

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I subscribed to Ramparts for several years, and considered it then, and now, to be the best magazine, of any kind, that I have ever read. This book, unfortunately, doesn't adhere to the same journalistic principles as the magazine did. The author didn't do enough research and background work on his subject. Angela Davis is mentioned only three times in the entire book, and there isn't anything about the shoot-out at San Quentin prison. In the photo section, there is a picture of Eldridge Cleaver, with Ms Davis sitting right beside him, and she isn't mentioned in the caption. That's the bad news. The good news is, it's a pretty good book that should be read by a lot of people. More good news: Now I know just how much of a commie-loving stooge Tom Hayden was. He and his future ex-wife, Jane Fonda, deserved each other. I was VERY dismayed to find out that the Ramparts editorial staff, living high on the hog far away from the tear-gas, made a decision to leave out the fact that the police were provoked by people throwing rocks at them. That, in no way, excuses the behavior of the police. It was very aptly described as a "police riot." However, the editorial staff caved in to the commie-loving freaks who WANTED people to get hurt by the cops. Had they no shame?

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Miss Ramparts magazine? This is must read !

Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2019

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If you grew up reading " Ramparts " magazine , this book is a welcome addition to your issues.

Behind the scenes, how the sausage is made delight .

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N. W. Gehron

Trip down a wild and wooly memory lane

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2010

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This fabulous book kept me completely hooked. While some of the information and networks and stories were totally new to me (who knew all that about the Black Panthers?!?!) the more familiar stories helped me to piece together parts of the sixties that I had never thoroughly processed. Pick it up and enjoy!

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Finally, a book on a beacon of truth when truth was at times missing in public affairs

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2019

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Lively, enjoyable chronicle of Ramparts.

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2010

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Not as entertaining as I expected. it's a history of a short-term rock maqgazine and the management differences behind the scenes.

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J. Friday

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Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2013

This relatively short book was a fresh air compared to these 400 and 500 page plus books that seem to be the norm these days. There was a lot of interesting info in this book. I liked the info regarding noted celebrities and politicians; U.S. counterculture in the 60s; the anecdotes about the Ramparts staff; and the stuff regarding the socio-economic changes that rocked the nation back then. I'm sure the writer left a lot of interesting stuff out. But I was born in the mid-80s, so I'm not familiar with that time in the same way other reviewers were, so it didn't bother me as much.

The main complaints I have of this book is the fact that we're given few photos regarding the art in the magazine. Apparently, the artistic layout of the magazine was so stunning other magazines were envious (Esquire was envious enough to try to hire the art director). I would have liked to see a lot of this artwork but the book features too little. Another complaint: there aren't any quotes from the magazine. From what I have read about Ramparts, the writing style was something people truly liked about the magazine. In that case, why aren't there any excerpts of the writing style? That would have truly helped this book.

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Martin Flynn

A Mine of Ramparts History

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2010

The magazines we get today like Time or Newsweek although have a history they are largely mainstream. They give us the usual lo-down on what is going on in the world but not much more. Peter Richardson sheds some light on how it used be done with his book about Ramparts magazine A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America.

Ramparts was founded by Edward M. Keating in 1962 with a focus on catholic matters. I use the phrase "catholic matters" but maybe a description from books introduction might give you a better idea of what Ramparts was about. It described itself as a "forum for the mature American Catholic" focusing on "those positive principles of Hellenic-Christian tradition which have shaped and sustained our civilization for the past two thousand years" It Sounds pretty staunch doesn't it? But it wasn't long before the magazine took a sharp turn to the left; it became a radical muckraker that by all accounts turned the art of journalism on its head and gave it a good shake.

I first heard of Ramparts through Scanlans magazine and their common denominator Warren Hinckle; and because of my huge interest in Scanlans I was delighted to get a peek at A Bomb in Every Issue so soon.

So what about it? Well after reading the book I've realized that magazines like Ramparts and Scanlans for that matter deserve some consideration for their contribution to a new, no nonsense style of journalism and gutsy political reporting. Publications with guile are thin on the ground these days.

Richardson gives a detailed account of the 13 year life of Ramparts and its most contentious stories. I had heard of Ramparts but never knew much about it's history, but after reading A Bomb in Every issue I found just how important Ramparts was in the progression of journalism; and reporting issues that some folks would have preferred were buried. For example, it was the first to publish a conspiracy theory surrounding the assassination of JFK. Another point of interest was it's publication of Che Guevara's diaries. It also boasted a long list of contributors including Cesar Chavez, Norman Mailer, Noam Chomsky and many more.

The Hunter S. Thompson connection with Ramparts and of course Warren Hinckle is as you'd expect an entertaining one, as Richardson told me "The HST material in the book is brief but memorable: a fantastical visit to the Ramparts office, where Hinckle's pet monkey got into his pills; the Chicago lunacy in 1968; and the Ramparts Wall Posters, an idea HST lifted for his campaign in Colorado." The HST material in the book is small and not a huge selling point (nor was it intended to be) but it doesn't need it, there's plenty of other material to make this book stand on its own.

The bottom line is this. For anyone who's interested in journalism and it's transformation over the years; this book is a must read. It shows us the mettlesome attitude Ramparts had in its approach to spreading news, popular or not. As a fan of journalism I hope this book does well and reaches future writers of any ilk. It will bring to the fore a type of journalism that sadly is not as prominent as it should be in this day and age.

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Basic history

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No introspection, or depth. It was just what happend. It cdve had way more punch

Laurie Rothweld

A great read with lessons for today

Reviewed in Australia on November 29, 2020

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I really enjoyed this book. It not only reveals the Ramparts story but also tells us something of today's politics, if we consider the implications from it. For example, how some of the hippies of then became rightists and conspiracy theorists today.

Ashley Pollak

Library copy - mint condition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 25, 2014

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Really happy with the amazing almost mint condition of this old library book (clearly it wasn't loaned out very much!)

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