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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>     sort list by title | author The Historic Unfulfilled Promise Howard Zinn Now Available! First-ever collection of Howard Zinn's articles from The Progressive (1980–2009) offer timeless analysis and advocacy for freedom, democracy, and social change in the United States. The Next American Revolution Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, Updated and Expanded Edition Grace Lee Boggs A world dominated by America and driven by cheap oil, easy credit, and conspicuous consumption is unraveling before our eyes. In this powerful, deeply humanistic book, Grace Lee Boggs, a legendary figure in the struggle for justice in America... Season of the Witch Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love David Talbot In a kaleidoscopic narrative, the New York Times bestselling author of Brothers recounts the gripping story of the civil strife and tragedies that beset San Francisco between 1967 and 1982—and led to the city's ultimate rebirth and triumph. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power Robert A. Caro Book Four of Robert A. Caro's monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as "one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age... The Psychopath Test A Journey Through the Madness Industry Jon Ronson You may be one. But if you're not, someone you know is! An intriguing read. —Recommended by Don, City Lights Books The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played... I Must Resist Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters Bayard Rustin, Julian Bond, Michael G Long Hot off the press: Bayard Rustin's life story told in his own words through his intimate correspondence, published on the centennial of his birth. The Crimean War A History Orlando Figes From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," (Financial Times) the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale—these are the enduring icons of the Crimean War. Red Heat Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean Alex Von Tunzelmann We never, ever learn. This history is so full of our stupidity, our duplicity, our blind obedience to flawed doctrine, that you will forever question those whose pronouncements determine our foreign policy, not excluding the Chief of State. Then we... Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck Why We Can't Look Away Eric G. Wilson Whether we admit it or not, we're fascinated by evil. Dark fantasies, morbid curiosities, Schadenfreude: As conventional wisdom has it, these are the symptoms of our wicked side, and we succumb to them at our own peril. Thinking the Twentieth Century Tony Judt The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt, Thinking the Twentieth Century maps the issues and concerns of a turbulent age on to a life of intellectual conflict and engagement. Harlem The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America Harlem is perhaps the most famous, iconic neighborhood in the United States. A bastion of freedom and the capital of Black America, Harlem's twentieth-century renaissance changed our arts, culture, and politics forever. Malcolm X A Life of Reinvention Manning Marable Years in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist. Of the great figures in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a... Fug You An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side Ed Sanders Fug You is Ed Sanders's unapologetic and often hilarious account of eight key years of "total assault on the culture," to quote his novelist friend William S. Burroughs. Fug You traces the flowering years of New York's downtown bohemia in the sixties... Pablo Tac, Indigenous Scholar Writing on Luiseño Language and Colonial History, c.1840 Lisbeth Haas, Pablo Tac Noted California historian Lisbeth Haas presents the writing of Pablo Tac, a Luiseño Indian born at Mission San Luis Rey in l820, with his biography and an analysis of the unique perspectives he offered on Luiseño language and history during Spanish... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>