Dangerous Words: A Maverick Memoir

MUCKRAKING MEDIA CONSPIRACY CIA TERRORISM RIGHTS FBI UN-AMERICAN REPRESSION DOOMSDAY NARCISSISM COLD WAR SURVEILLANCE LITERACY ANTI-NUCLEAR ANARCHISM FATALISM FREEDOM LIBERATION REACTIONARY MERGER DISINFORMATION PEACE MISSILES ALTERNATIVE CONTRAS DOUBLESPEAK FASCISM DRUGS SECRET IMPERIAL SUPERPOWER MULTIPOLAR RELIGION ECOLOGY CRIME NON-ALIGNED DISSENT DEMOCRACY...Chapter List

Dangerous Words: A Maverick Memoir

By Greg Guma

Contents

Part One: Education of an Outsider

Getting to Know “My Own Kind”

Going Negative in Parochial Prison

Muckraking and the American Dream

Conformity Comes to Main Street

College before the Revolution

New Journalism & the Underground Press

Dawn of the Counterculture

1968: When the World Was Watching

Part Two: Fragile Paradise

Covering the Community
Bennington Holds a Culture War

Moving Toward Advocacy

Chicago, COINTELPRO, and the War at Home

Breakdown at Bennington

Reality Check in the Nixon Era

Nixon: Lessons of an Electronic Messiah

Bad Vibes in Vermont’s Peaceful Valley

Those Lead-Laced Blues

Part Three: Prelude to a Revolution

Heart of the Problem

The Dionysian Alternative

Burlington: Evolution of a Business Town

Alternative Voices in COINTEL Times

Building a Queen City Agenda

Educating Minds & Influencing Hearts

Queen City: Finding the Weak Spot

From City Hall to the Streets

Reclaiming Vermont’s Untold History

Hard Times in Duvalier’s Haiti
Baby Doc’s Haiti: Low Expectations

In Duvalier’s Haiti: Poverty and Privilege

Media, Art & the Lloyd Legacy

Alternative Media: The Phoenix & The Vanguard

Spooking the Anti-Nuclear Movement

Counterterror: The Berster Case
Kunstler Takes the Case
Kristina Berster Speaks
Crackdown in Germany
Scare Tactics & Media Games
Manufacturing Terror: Verdict & Lessons

To be continued…