Author Peter Richardson

TCR Interview: Over the Ramparts, and far away

Author Peter Richardson discusses his new book about the (in)famous New Left magazine

The covers of Ramparts magazine easily spoke for themselves—think the cover art of New York magazine fused with whatever went on inside of a young Iggy Pop’s head. Whether the design had JFK rendered into jigsaw puzzle pieces or the First Lady of South Vietnam in a Michigan State University cheerleader outfit, the cartoons themselves were enough to make any ’60s American radical all giddy. Full story