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Author Doyle, Michael, 1956-

Title Radical chapters : pacifist bookseller Roy Kepler and the paperback revolution / Michael Doyle
Edition First edition
Published Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 427 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Kepler, Roy C.
Kepler, Roy C. -- Friends and associates
SUBJECT Kepler, Roy C. fast
Subject Kepler's Books -- History
SUBJECT Kepler's Books fast
Subject Booksellers and bookselling -- United States -- Biography
Pacifists -- United States -- Biography
Paperbacks -- Publishing -- History -- 20th century
Bookstores -- California -- Menlo Park -- History
Counterculture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage.
Booksellers and bookselling
Bookstores
Counterculture
Friendship
Pacifists
Paperbacks -- Publishing
California -- Menlo Park
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780815650836
0815650833