Opening chapters -- The good war -- Germfask -- Resisting the next war -- College -- KPFA -- Kepler's Books & Magazines -- Paperback revolutionary -- Joan -- The sixties begin -- Grindstone -- The Institute -- The Free U -- Resistance -- Oakland -- Roots and branches -- Counterattack -- Farewell to the sixties -- The new revolution -- Transitions -- Book wars
Summary
Soon after independent bookstore Kepler's Books and Magazines opened in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1955, it became a meeting place for counterculture figures and a hot bed of radicalism in the 1950s and '60s. This narrative biography chronicles a generation of radicalism, resistance, and idealism through the life of the store's founder, Roy Kepler
