Uneasy
Listening tells
the story of the epic battle over five listener supported
radio stations that rocked the American Left and
raised difficult questions
about public broadcasting in the United States that
have yet to be answered.
"Uneasy
Listening is presented as a history, but I
believe it is more in the mold of a detective story:
Hammett, Holmes, MacDonald, et al.
Lasar has developed a narrative style which, if you are interested in the American
broadcasting sub-culture called Pacifica, will knock your socks off."
Lorenzo Milam, author of Sex and Broadcasting: A Handbook
on Starting a Radio Station for the Community
Praise
For Matthew Lasar's First book on Pacifica Radio
“Pacifica
Radio outstrips anything that has ever been
produced not only about the Pacifica
experience, but about American cultural
radio,” Lorenzo
Milam, author of Sex
and Broadcasting.
“A tremendous
book, combining superb scholarship with an intoxicating
story of vision, creativity and heroism,” Robert
McChesney, author of Our Media, Not Theirs
“Enlightening
and entertaining … makes a real contribution to the history
of postwar America,” Eric Foner, author of The
Story of American Freedom
Lasar
has an eye for paradox, irony, and contradiction,
but he is first and foremost an able and astute
historian, not a satirical novelist, and he does
a lot more than air KPFA's dirty laundry. He
shows how much the philosophy of the station
was shaped in part by the political atmosphere
of the Cold War and McCarthyism…” Jonah
Raskin, Santa Rose Press Democrat
Matthew
Lasar holds a doctorate in United States history. He
currently teaches at the University of California, Santa
Cruz.
