Scanlan's Monthly

{{Short description | Monthly publication featuring controversial muckraking journalism}}

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| editor = Warren Hinckle and Sidney Zion

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| publisher = Scanlan's Literary House

| firstdate = March 1970

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Scanlan's Monthly was a New York, New York and St. Jean, Quebec{{cite web |title=Scanlan's Monthly Complete Run, Issues 1-8 |url=https://www.burnsiderarebooks.com/pages/books/140944044/ralph-steadman-warren-hinkle-sidney-e-zion-hunter-s-thompson-robert-crumb-alfred-mccoy-robert/scanlans-monthly-complete-run-issues-1-8 |website=Burnside Rare Books |access-date=19 April 2023}} monthly publication that ran from March 1970 to January 1971.{{cite news|title=Hunter S. Thompson in Scanlans Magazine.|url=http://hstbooks.org/2008/11/24/hunter-s-thompson-in-scanlans-magazine/|accessdate=29 November 2015|work=HST Books|date=24 November 2008}} The publisher was Scanlan's Literary House.{{cite web|title=Product Details|url=https://www.amazon.com/Scanlans-Monthly-1-Thru-8/dp/B0018MZ5XG|publisher=Amazon|accessdate=29 November 2015}} Edited by Warren Hinckle and Sidney Zion, it featured politically controversial muckraking and was ultimately subject to an investigation by the FBI during the Nixon administration.

It was boycotted by printers in early 1971 as "un-American". According to the publishers, more than 50 printers refused to handle the January 1971 special issue Guerilla War in the USA

• {{cite journal |title=Guerrilla War in the USA |journal=Scanlan's Monthly |date=January 1971 |volume=1 |issue=8 |url=https://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Pubs/Scanlans.web.pdf |access-date=19 April 2023 |publisher=Scanlan’s Literary House |location=St. Jean, Quebec |via=freedomarchives.org}}
• {{cite journal |title=Guerrilla War in the USA |journal=Scanlan's Monthly |date=January 1971 |volume=1 |issue=8 |url=http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/W%20Disk/War%20Guerrilla/Item%2001A.pdf |access-date=19 April 2023 |publisher=Scanlan’s Literary House |location=St. Jean, Quebec |via=The Harold Weisberg Archive on the JFK Assassination at Beneficial-Hodson Library, Hood College}}

because it appeared to be promoting domestic terrorism. The issue was finally printed in Quebec and in a German translation in Stuttgart (Guerilla-Krieg in USA, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt 1971). The magazine produced a total of eight issues; Guerilla War in the USA, was the last.{{cite news|title=Scanlan's Monthly|url=http://svapicsandmags.com/2015/02/09/scanlans-monthly/|accessdate=29 November 2015|work=SVA Library Picture and Periodicals Collection|date=9 February 2015}}

Scanlan's is best-remembered for featuring several articles by Hunter S. Thompson, and especially for what is considered the first instance of gonzo journalism, Thompson's "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved". Thompson's articles from this period are collected with others in The Great Shark Hunt.

In the magazine, its name was described as being that of a "universally despised Irish pig farmer".

The September 1970 issue included an editorial entitled, "Nixon And The Bums", with an accompanying picture of President Richard M. Nixon having lunch with a group of construction union leaders who attended the so-called White House Hard Hat Luncheon.{{cite news |title=Nixon Meets Heads Of 2 City Unions; Hails War Support |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/27/archives/nixon-meets-heads-of-2-city-unions-hails-war-support-nixon-meets.html |accessdate=5 May 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=27 May 1970}}{{cite book |title=Corruption and racketeering in the New York City construction industry : final report to Governor Mario M. Cuomo |date=1990 |publisher=New York University Press |page=55 |url=https://www.ceic.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/Fichiers_client/centre_documentaire/CEIC-R-3591_01.pdf |accessdate=5 May 2019}} The editorial identified each of the individuals and enumerated each one's alleged criminal record. To advertise the issue, Scanlan's ran two full-page ads in the New York Times, which were noticed by the White House. This was the primary reason for the enmity that ensued in Washington.{{cite news |last1=Kidd |first1=Paul |title=Magazine revives lost art of muck raking |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505223053/https://newspaperarchive.com/medicine-hat-news-sep-14-1970-p-4/ |archive-date=5 May 2019 |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/medicine-hat-news-sep-14-1970-p-4/ |accessdate=5 May 2019 |issue=50 |publisher=Medicine Hat News |date=14 Sep 1970|volume=55 }}{{cite book |last1=Dean |first1=John |title=Blind Ambition |date=1976 |isbn=9781504041003 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oME9DQAAQBAJ&q=scanlan%27s&pg=PT33}}{{cite web |title=NIXON AND THE BUMS. AN EDITORIAL |url=https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Q00AAOSwpVpajzT-/s-l1600.jpg |accessdate=5 May 2019}}

Scanlan's is also remembered for its catchy subscription-ad slogan, "You Trust Your Mother But You Cut the Cards", adapted from "Thrust ivrybody—but cut th' ca-ards." expressed in dialect by Finley Peter Dunne's character "Mr. Dooley" in Mr. Dooley's Philosophy (1900), p. 260.E.g., p. 3, Scanlan's, August 1970

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