Thumbs Up: Memoir of a Joyful Organizer
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The author's journey through the seventies and beyond with the underground press, the Yippies and Zippies, his thumb, his Judaism, organic catering, community organizing, emerging technology, and Emily. A funny, insightful, always hopeful memoir of a joyful writer, editor, dishwasher, Zen phony, and legendary historian of the underground press.
Ken Wachsberger is the editor of the landmark four-volume Voices from the Underground Series, called "the most important book on American journalism published in my lifetime" by one reviewer. Thumbs Up is the story of how it came to be.
It includes, for the first time ever, the whole story behind how Voices from the Underground exploded into existence. how the first edition was stolen from storage, and then how it reemerged as a four-volume series by Michigan State University Press and inspired the largest digital collection of underground papers ever compiled.
376 pages.
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