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Thumbs Up: Memoir of a Joyful Organizer

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by Ken Wachsberger
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ken WachsbergerPublish date:7/14/2025Pages:376
Language:EnglishPublisher:Azenphony PressISBN-13:9780945531241ISBN-10:945531249UPC:9780945531241Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Social Activists, JewishSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.84 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SC62PS0FHP

The author's journey through the seventies and beyond with the underground press, the Yippies and Zippies, his thumb, his Judaism, organic catering, community organizing, emerging technology, and Emily. A funny, insightful, always hopeful memoir of a joyful writer, editor, dishwasher, Zen phony, and legendary historian of the underground press.

Ken Wachsberger is the editor of the landmark four-volume Voices from the Underground Series, called "the most important book on American journalism published in my lifetime" by one reviewer. Thumbs Up is the story of how it came to be.

It includes, for the first time ever, the whole story behind how Voices from the Underground exploded into existence. how the first edition was stolen from storage, and then how it reemerged as a four-volume series by Michigan State University Press and inspired the largest digital collection of underground papers ever compiled.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz called it "a gift, a cultural outbreak of joy in the dark time of the 1970s for our own dark time."

Harvey Wasserman said it "spins a Kerouac-worthy tale of an adventure-filled life well spent."

According to Sean Howe. it "explodes the notion that activism recedes with age."

376 pages.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Azenphony PressISBN-13:9780945531241ISBN-10:945531249UPC:9780945531241Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Social Activists, JewishSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.84 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SC62PS0FHP
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Ken Wachsberger, founder of Azenphony Press, is a long-time author, editor, educator, political organizer, and book contract advisor with the National Writers Union. He has written, edited, and lectured widely on the Jewish resistance during World War II, the First Amendment, the Vietnam era, writing in the electronic age, copyright, teachers' rights, writers' rights, the I-Search paper, and writing for healing and self-discovery.

His Voices from the Underground Series, about the Vietnam-era underground press, was called "the most important book on American journalism published in my lifetime" by one reviewer.

As a book coach, editor, and member of the National Speakers Association, Ken speaks to and works with individuals and groups who are writing to find healing, to preserve their legacies, and to gain credibility in their professions.

His You've Got the Time: How to Write and Publish That Book in You is an international bestseller.

Ken's print and ebooks may be found at azenphonypress.com, kenthebookcoach.com/book, and voicesfromtheunderground.com/voices.htm .

For coaching, editing, and speaking, he may be reached at ken@kenthebookcoach.com.

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