Azenphony Press invites you to celebrate with us the softcover preorder release of Ken Wachsberger’s Thumbs Up: Memoir of a Joyful Organizer.
Just last month, Thumbs Up became available as an ebook on Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Thalia, Vivlio, and Barnes & Noble.
Thumbs Up pulls together the sequence of events that followed Ken’s first political arrest, in May 1970 following the Kent State murders, and carries him into the new millennium. Here’s the description:
“The author’s journey through the seventies and beyond with the underground press, the Yippies and Zippies, his thumb, his Judaism, vegetarian catering, community organizing, emerging technology, and Emily. A funny, insightful, always hopeful memoir of a joyful writer, editor, dishwasher, Zen phony, and legendary historian of the underground press.”
Sean Howe, author of Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s, writes: “In Thumbs Up, which bursts with love and hope, [Wachsberger] candidly tells his own inspiring story—and explodes the notion that activism recedes with age.”
Dennis Giangreco, author of Truman and the Bomb, says: “Wachsberger shares his hard-learned lessons that our intergenerational peers, the folks who are the age now that we were then, can apply as they pick up the struggle from us. And to give them confidence that when we organize we win.”
“Wachsberger’s galloping prose traces the journey of a ‘70s activist through at least nine lives on his way to the 21st Century,” notes wordsmith and rebel Sue Katz, author of Lillian in Love and A Raisin in My Cleavage. “His is a life and a book to be jubilantly celebrated and honored.”
Retail price for Thumbs Up is $25—but your softcover preorder is available now for $15.99 on, at least, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Thalia.Select and Connect. On launch day, July 14, 2025, it will be shipped to your address. Your card won’t be charged until launch day.
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For more information about Azenphony Press and Ken Wachsberger, contact Emily Schuster, President; [email protected].
