Stop the Presses! I Want to Get Off!

Stop the Presses! I Want to Get Off! A Brief History of the Prisoners' Digest International - Voices from the Underground

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Publisher's Synopsis

The final book in the groundbreaking Voices from the Underground series, Stop the Presses! I Want to Get Off!, is the inspiring, frenetic, funny, sad, always-cash-starved story of Joe Grant, founder and publisher of Prisoners' Digest International, the most important prisoners' rights underground newspaper of the Vietnam era. From Grant's military days in pre-Revolutionary Cuba during the Korean War, to his time as publisher of a prounion newspaper in Cedar Rapids and his eventual imprisonment in Leavenworth, Kansas, Grant's personal history is a testament to the power of courage under duress. One of the more notorious federal penitentiaries in the nation, Leavenworth inspired Grant to found PDI in an effort to bring hope to prisoners and their families nationwide.

Book information

ISBN: 9781611860610
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Imprint: Michigan State University Press
Pub date:
Edition: 1
DEWEY: 365.6092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 233
Weight: 567g
Height: 251mm
Width: 178mm
Spine width: 18mm