Stop the Presses! I Want to Get Off! : A Brief History of the Prisoners' Digest International PDF
by Joseph W. Grant
Edited by Ken Wachsberger
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<DIV><P>The final book in the groundbreaking Voices from the Underground series, <I>Stop the Presses!
I Want to Get Off!</I>, is the inspiring, frenetic, funny, sad, always-cash-starved story of Joe Grant, founder and publisher of <I>Prisoners’ Digest International</I>, 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 pro-union 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 <I>PDI </I>in an effort to bring hope to prisoners and their families nationwide.</P></DIV>
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- Publisher:Michigan State University Press
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- ISBN:9781609173463