The Dissident Press

Kessler challenges the idea that the worlds of media and journalism have ever conformed to a free marketplace image. This present volume investigates a handful of the many fringe groups who denied access to the mainstream started marketplaces of their own. Journalistic efforts in six groups are explored: Black Americans; utopians and communitarians; feminists; non-English speaking immigrants; populists anarchists socialists communists; and pacifists non-interventionists and resisters from World Wars I and II. The result is an impressive study which shows that such groups have a diversity of origins and a tradition which spans one and a half centuries.