Ramparts: Those Were the Days…
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Founded in 1962 as a Catholic literary quarterly, Ramparts soon became the muckraking voice of the New Left when Warren Hinckle took over as executive editor and Robert Scheer joined as managing editor. Noam Chomsky, Seymour Hersh, Hunter Thompson, Eldridge Cleaver, Christopher Hitchens, Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Susan Sontag, Erica Jong, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jann Wenner, and Adam Hochschild were just a few of the noteworthy writers who contributed to the editorial content.
The credentials on the design side were just as impressive, largely due to a young art director named #Dugald_Stermer. A Los Angeles-born beach boy, Stermer studied art at the University of California, Los Angeles, before joining a design firm in Houston, Texas. Even though Stermer learned during the job interview with Ramparts that the magazine only had enough funding for two more issues, he took the job and headed back to California.