Yesterday in The New York Times Book Review, Slate‘s Internal Affairs Correspondent Jack Shafer favorably reviewed A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America, by Peter Richardson. “Ramparts stands with a handful of 20th-century American magazines–Playboy, the Harold Hayes-era Esquire, Rolling Stone, Spy and Wired–whose glory days continue to influence editors. Each of those magazines not only grabbed the zeitgeist but helped shape it. . . . Like those other great magazines, Ramparts [at left, the cover of the April 1966 issue] influenced competitors across the media universe.” Nice to hear. On a related note, Kurt Andersen was recently friended on Facebook by Paul Krassner, the editor of Ramparts, the great magazine of the 1960s, who used the photo in which he is wearing a Spy T-shirt. I would like to be able to show it to you, but I can’t bend the copy function to my will, so if you wish to see it, click here.
