Peter Richardson is the author of A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America (The New Press). He is an editor at University of California Press, a lecturer at San Francisco State University, and a book reviewer at Truthdig. He lives in Richmond, California.
"It's a great delight to see this key chapter in the history of
American journalism at last get the readable, judicious history it
deserves." —Adam Hochschild, author of Half the Way Home and Bury
the Chains
"Richardson tells Ramparts’ story in jaunty prose . . . with
delightful anecdotes." —Chicago Sun-Times
"Richardson has peppered his account with lively comments, most of
them from reporters who cut their eyeteeth in newspapers long
before the 1960s." —San Francisco Chronicle
"An excellent history that shouldn’t be ignored." —Douglas
Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior
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