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newsletter1962–1975

Ramparts

Disciplines:
investigative journalism
counterculture
journalism/political journalism

Summary

American left-wing magazine published from 1962 to 1975 that was the most widely read radical political publication in the US, first publishing Che Guevara's diaries and helping bring the Black Panther Party to national prominence.

Core Contribution

The most significant political magazine of the American New Left — breaking stories on CIA infiltration of student organizations, the Vietnam War, and the Black Panthers — making investigative political journalism central to radical organizing.

Historical Influences

David Horowitz Robert Scheer

Intellectual Lineage

American Investigative Journalism TraditionNew Left Political Media

Contemporaries & Peers

The Nation The Village Voice Rolling Stone Liberation News Service

Minds Influenced

Mother Jones magazineIn These Times

Intellectual Posterity

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