So Gallantly Streaming

"Ramparts was very much a creature of the Bay Area's rebellious climate. It identified with the uprisings at Berkeley, endorsed the authority-questioning ethos of the Beats (although Hinckle spurned the hippies) and drew on the region's radical tradition. Scheer even ran for Congress in 1966, challenging an incumbent liberal Democrat in a district that included Oakland and Berkeley. (He lost.)"

 

In The New York Times, Jack Shafer reviews Peter Richardson's A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America.