The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah
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The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah

About this book

In 1963 the paperback revolution was making good literature widely available for the first time, yet only a handful of stores took the trend seriously enough to devote themselves to the cause. Rambam, a closet-sized shop on a corner of Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue was one.

The owners had a falling out, as partners often do, but the results were glorious instead of tragic, with ripples that birthed much of the culture we take for granted now. Underground comics, New Age publishing, used record stores, and poster art all came from Rambam's big bang, as each new business with visionary (but ornery) partners formed and then split again.

The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah is the social history of one of America's most legendary streets, and a family tree of the movements it fostered: the paperback revolution, the graphic novel, Slow Food, New Age, the Free Speech Movement—and even the Symbionese Liberation Army.

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Information

Publisher
PM Press
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9798887440637
eBook ISBN
9798887440729

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. 1 Rambam
  5. 2 The Food-Wearing Jew
  6. 3 The Hungry Oy
  7. 4 The Kingdom of Shambala
  8. 5 The Print Mint Split
  9. 6 A Curious Dream
  10. 7 I Am the SLA
  11. 8 Rag Theater
  12. 9 The Heart of a Revolutionary
  13. 10 It Came from Walnut Square
  14. 11 Not Our Riot
  15. 12 Amoeba
  16. 13 The Vicarious Experience
  17. 14 The Hitchhiker Takes the Wheel
  18. 15 The Last Word
  19. About the Author
  20. About PM Press
  21. Friends of PM Press