The sixties---perpetually referenced, rarely understood---are mostly myth and symbol now. . . . Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press helps to rescue that iconic moment from its entanglements and its discontents, and from the lazy haze of nostalgia.<BR><BR>With this extraordinary book Ken Wachsberger has accomplished a deep and finely calibrated examination of an alternative media exploding onto the scene in the midst of an exuberant and turbulent uproar, voices that came alive in the service of peace and justice. . . . Different times demand different responses, but what Wachsberger captures perfectly is the spirit and the dispositions of mind that drove a talented and creative group of happy warriors to open every door they could find, to mount every barricade with love in their hearts and pens in their hands, to change forever the mediated landscape. Those lessons are eternal.---Bill Ayers, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Illinois, Chicago<BR><BR>These volumes . . . force us to consider alternative media as a continuum, as a process of continual reflexivity. . . . This collection offers us a rich history of a crucial period of American life. It presents a compelling set of narratives that bring to life the development of the alternative press. Above all, the collection emphasises the vital connectedness of alternative journalism with everyday life.<BR><BR>This is an important collection. I do not say that lightly.---Chris Atton, Professor of Media and Culture, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland<BR><BR>Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press is crucial to an understanding of the literary and political history of the 1960s counterculture movement. This valuable resource must stay in print, if only for academics who wish to study the amazing phenomenon of the alternative newspapers, put together by amateurs, that sprang up across the country in those fervent years. Wachsberger's material, largely in the form of "how we did it" memoirs, is rich in personal histories and anecdotal details that are collected nowhere else.---Susan Brownmiller, feminist historian, author of Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape and In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution<BR><BR>These are excellent primary sources for researchers and storytellers engaged in the battle over memory of the sixties and the era's legacy today. Those who wish to forget the sixties already are rejecting its lessons, from the quagmire in Afghanistan to the drug wars on our border. The new generation who helped elect Barack Obama will need these lessons for what lies ahead.---Tom Hayden, Director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center, author of The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama