Foreword by Charles Laquidara ix
Foreword by Ty Burr xi
Foreword by Louis Menand xiii
Preface xv
1 Boston 1967: Before the Revolution 1
2 The Boston Tea Party 13
3 Ugly Radio Is Dead 35
4 A New Kind of Radio 53
5 1968: The Year That Everything Changed and that Changed Everything 61
6 WBCN and the American Revolution 77
7 Campus Unrest 91
8 Peace Is in the Air 111
9 WBCN: The Hub of the Community and the Soundtrack of the City 127
10 WBCN News and Public Affairs 149
11 The News Dissector 161
12 The Second Wave 179
13 The Lavender Hour: Gender Freedom in the Air 197
14 Lock-up 207
15 We've Got to Get Rid of Nixon 213
16 Rock and Roll Future 233
17 Fifty Stories above Boston 257
18 Nixon's Resignation and the End of the Revolution 265
19 Lessons Learned 277
Acknowledgments 282
Index 285
