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Article: Ramparts (1962-1975).('Ramparts' was the only New Left magazine)
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- Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management
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- April 1, 2004
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Byline: Pam Black
It was slick, printed on heavy, shiny stock with classy graphics that looked good on a Danish Modern coffee table. Ramparts was the only New Left magazine that could penetrate middle-class households. "It was a huge innovation," says Peter Collier, editor from 1969 to 1972. "It expressed radical left values in a way mainstream people could understand."
While other left-wing publications were being printed on toilet paper and passed from hand to hand, Ramparts was a glossy that blared from newsstands with scoop after scoop that became front-page news in The New York Times.
The magazine started modestly in 1962 as a Catholic ...