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Cover of Radical chapters

Radical chapters

by Michael Doyle

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Soon after independent bookstore Kepler's Books and Magazines opened in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1955, it became a meeting place for counterculture figures and a hot bed of radicalism in the 1950s and '60s. This narrative biography chronicles a generation of radicalism, resistance, and idealism through the life of the store's founder, Roy Kepler.

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Book data: Open Library