Stop the Presses! I Want to Get Off!

Stop the Presses! I Want to Get Off!
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Publisher : MSU Press
Total Pages : 343
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ISBN-10 : 9781609173463
ISBN-13 : 1609173465
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Book Synopsis Stop the Presses! I Want to Get Off! by : Joseph W. Grant

Download or read book Stop the Presses! I Want to Get Off! written by Joseph W. Grant and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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 PDI in an effort to bring hope to prisoners and their families nationwide.


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