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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6     sort list by author | publication date The Secret History of the World Mark Booth They say that history is written by the victors. But what if history--or what we come to know as history--has been written by the wrong people? What if everything we've been told is only part of the story? What if it's the wrong part? Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation Tommi Avicolli Mecca From the first high heel thrown at Stonewall to the last performance of the drag burlesque group the Cockettes, enter the wild days of the late '60s and early '70s with the individuals who lived them! Struggle for the Land Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide, and Colonization Ward Churchill This seminal book established Churchill as an intellectual force to be reckoned with in indigenous land rights debates. Required reading for anyone interested in Native North America and ecological justice. Revised and expanded edition.Ward Churchill... Subversives The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power Seth Rosenfeld Subversives traces the FBI's secret involvement with three iconic figures at Berkeley during the 1960s: the ambitious neophyte politician Ronald Reagan, the fierce but fragile radical Mario Savio, and the liberal university president Clark Kerr... Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society Spawn of the Suicide Club! Kevin Evans, Carrie Galbraith, John Law This book will prove to be a template for pranksters, artists, adventurers and anyone interested in rampant creativity, for years to come. Ten Years That Shook the City San Francisco 1968-1978 Chris Carlsson The alliances, programs, and goals of a historic decade that continues to shape SF and the world. To Die for the People Huey Newton, Toni Morrison A fascinating, first-person account of a historic era in the struggle for black empowerment in America To Die in Mexico Dispatches from Inside the Drug War John Gibler On-the-ground reporting and behind-the-scene stories from Mexico's drug war by Mexico-based journalist, John Gibler. Voices of the Chicago Eight A Generation on Trial Tom Hayden, Frank Condon, Ron Sossi Dramatically edited transcripts from the explosive 1969 conspiracy trial are paired with historic contextual writings to provide the essential Chicago Conspiracy handbook Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? A Wicked Company The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment Philipp Blom The flourishing of radical philosophy in Baron Thierry Holbach's Paris salon from the 1750s to the 1770s stands as a seminal event in Western history. Holbach's house was an international epicenter of revolutionary ideas and intellectual daring... Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World The stories of the hard-rock miners' shooting wars, young Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the "Rebel Girl" of contemporary sheet music), the first sit-down strikes and Free Speech fights, Emma Goldman and the struggle for birth control access, the Pageant... The Worst Hard Time The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Timothy Egan The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour... You Can't Win Jack Black An amazing journey into the hobo underworld circa 1920. Jack Black takes his readers frieght-hopping around the still wide open West... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6