Friends, you’ve been asking and now I can tell you: Thumbs Up: Memoir of a Joyful Organizer, as an ebook, is available for purchase as a preorder on Amazon.
In February, ebook preorders for Thumbs Up became available on Apple, Kobo, Thalia, Vivlio, and Barnes & Noble. Choose your bookstore. You can connect to all of them and more here.
Thumbs Up pulls together the sequence of events that followed my first political arrest, in May 1970 following the Kent State murders, and carried me into the present. 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.”
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz called it “a gift, a cultural outbreak of joy in the dark time of the 1970s for our own dark time.”
Harvey Wasserman said it “spins a Kerouac-worthy tale of an adventure-filled life well spent.”
According to Sean Howe. it “explodes the notion that activism recedes with age.”
Retail price for Thumbs Up is $4.99—but it is available now for preorder for 99 cents on, at least, Apple, Kobo, Thalia, Vivlio, Barnes & Noble, and now Amazon. Select your favorite and connect to them here. Select and Connect. On launch day, July 14, 2025, it will be waiting for you in your inbox. Your card won’t be charged until launch day.
I hope you enjoy it. Please let me know what you think with an honest review on whatever platform you use to make your purchase.
Coming soon: preorder offer for softcover version. Stay tuned.
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Ken Wachsberger is a long-time author, editor, and educator, as well as a recognized historian of the Lansing-area and nationwide underground press from the Vietnam era. As a book coach, he helps business professionals and others to write books to establish their credibility, to find healing, and to preserve their legacy; [email protected]; https://www.kenthebookcoach.com.
