The arrests and office ransackings of journalists in Egypt resonates a little bit more deeply with American history professor John McMillian: the same kind of intimidation and outright sabotage of revolutionary dissent occurred just two generations ago in a more familiar country — the United States.
The U.S. government’s coordinated campaign to bring down the country’s radical press is a little known story, but McMillian tells it expertly in his new book Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America, released February 17th in hardcover by the Oxford University Press.
Rumor: smoking a typewriter will get you high Credits: Lenny W. Doolan V Georgia State History Professor McDreamy
