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2009/12/18: PL accessioned the Weiser (lumped in with Rader BIB ID: 6913592 His material relates to Dotson Rader but he wants it kept as a separate collection.

Letters, announcements, brochures, several typed manuscripts, publications, and clippings relating to the UPS. The letters from underground press publishers, the articles, and the clippings relate to the UPS and to the harassment of UPS member publishers by local communities. Several foreign papers are also represented. There is an incomplete file of LIBERATION NEWS SERVICE news releases, 1968-1970, with related materials. Also, reprints of articles by Wilcock, a file of his publications OTHER SCENES with related materials, COLLAGE, and biographical material.

Correspondence, manuscripts, dispatches, documents, clippings and other printed materials concerning his career as an editor and correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune in Moscow, Berlin and New York, as a staff member of the Institute of Pacific Relations from 1932 to 1934, as deputy director in the Office of War Information overseas branch, 1941-44, as an owner and editor of the New York Star, 1948-49, as an instructor in communications at Sarah Lawrence College, 1950-1951, as a book editor at Simon and Schuster, Publishers, 1951-1970, and as an author and translator.

The papare comprise correspondence, manuscripts, documents, articles, clippings, etc.

The materials in this collection span a sixty-year period in the life of Lewis Lapham whose half century as editor of Harper's Magazine and Lapham's Quarterly runs parallel to his career as America's foremost essayist on the subject of power, wealth, and class. Called by Kurt Vonnegut "our greatest satirist", Lapham entered the newspaper industry in 1960 as a journalist for the San Francisco Examiner and New York Herald Tribune, soon contributing feature articles to the Saturday Evening Post where, under the mentorship of editor Otto Friedrich, he developed a trenchant, even-tempered style of reportage, one eschewing the fashionable, overheated tropes of New Journalism. Lapham's observational prose lent his writing a documentary acuity, rendering his larger-than-life subjects (Thelonious Monk, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Nelson Rockefeller, The Beatles) with a sense of scale commensurate to the epoch which produced them.

Correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, articles, documents.