Measures 8-11/32" X 10-7/8", 60 pp plus covers -- full color and b&w photos plus full color and b&w illustrations -- Volume 5, Number 4 (October 1966) -- published by Ramparts Magazine Inc. (CA).

Group 16-8053

There is a 1-3/4" vertical tear along the lower spine edge, plus a 1-1/4" vertical tear (connected to a 1/2" tear) along the upper spine edge -- plus a 1/2" tear at the front upper right edge, plus a 1/4" tear at the front lower right edge -- otherwise average condition for a progressive  & radical news magazine of nearly 60 years, with wear & chipping to edges & corners, plus creases, scratches, folds, indentations, rub-wear, soiling, browning edges, lesser tears, etc -- overall condition Good Minus


An excellent example of RAMPARTS MAGAZINE in its post-liberal Catholic, hell-raising progressive and radical heyday.


Contents:

Apologia -- by WARREN HINCKLE III

Sorel's Bestiary -- The Wahoo (Satire about RONALD REAGAN) and The Lumpfish (satire about California Governor PAT BROWN)

Marginalia --

     Editorial:  Hitler's Bishops (The Roman Catholic Church And VIETNAM WAR) 

     Opinion:  The Birth Of BLACK POWER -- by ANDREW KOPKIND

     Opinion:  A Devout Meditation In Memory Of ADOLF EICHMANN (Sanity & Nazism) -- by THOMAS MERTON

"Golly Gee, California Is A Strange State!" (California politics, business & culture) -- by the editors

Obituaries To LENNY BRUCE -- by RALPH J. GLEASON & PAUL KRASSNER

"REAGAN For Governor?  No; JIMMY STEWART For Governor, Ronnie For Best Friend" (Vintage movie photos featuring RONALD REAGAN, with new & humorous captions) -- by BOB ABEL & DICK GUINDON

How To Talk To Mr. HO (Negotiating With NORTH VIETNAM President HO CHI MINH To End VIETNAM WAR) -- by JEAN LACOUTURE -- illustrated by DUGALD STERMER

The California Natural History Guidebook (Satirical Political Illustrations) -- by GENE HOLTAN

Ephemera --

     Books:  THE BIG KNOCKOVER:  SELECTED STORIES AND SHORT NOVELS, by DASHIELL HAMMETT -- reviewed by DON CARPENTER

     Books:  TOO FAR TOO WALK, by JOHN HERSEY -- reviewed by SAUL LANDAU

     Media:  The Cool Totalitarian, or "The McLuhan Megillah" (MARSHALL McLUHAN) -- by CHRISTOPHER KOCH

     Art:  A Human Condition (Mural By Artist ADJA YUNKERS) -- reviewed by BRIAN St. PIERRE


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