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Access to Justiceby Deborah L. RhodeISBN 0195143477 (0-19-514347-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Affirmative Action Debateby Cornel West, George E. CurryISBN 020147963X (0-201-47963-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Affirmative Action Debate'Book summary:The Affirmative Action Debate collects the leading voices on all sides of this crucial dialogue. A provocative range of politicians, researchers, legal experts, and businesspeople dispute the best way to fight discrimination. Their essays explore such questions as, How did affirmative-action policies come to be? Who benefits most from them, and who suffers? How do these programs work in hiring, contracting, college admissions, and other fields? What will recent Supreme Court rulings and legislative initiatives mean? And, most fundamentally, does any race-conscious remedy simply perpetuate discrimination? Recognizing affirmative action as more than a black-and-white issue, this book includes the voices of women, Latinos, and Asian-Americans who are also affected but often ignored. A sourcebook of solid facts and surprising arguments, The Affirmative Action Debate is the one book you need to understand and discuss the nations sharpest political divide.[via]More editions of The Affirmative Action Debate:
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All the Peopleby Joy HakimISBN 0195077644 (0-19-507764-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the People'Book summary:In the years after World War II, America became the world's greatest power. All the People discusses the U.S.A.'s uneasiness with its postwar role as global policeman even as we fought to keep countries across the world from becoming part of the Soviet Union's communist empire. There were battles at home, too, with the Civil Rights movement and opposition to the Vietnam War. Truman, Stalin, Khrushchev, Ho Chi Minh, Thrugood Marshall, JFK, LBJ, Malcolm X, Cesar Chavez, Bill Clinton--even the Beatles--star in this exciting final chapter of A History of US. [via]
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All the People 1945-1999by Joy HakimISBN 0195127706 (0-19-512770-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the People 1945-1999'Book summary:Meet Harry S. Truman, Joe McCarthy, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Elvis Presley, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malolm X, Cesar Chavez, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. Full coverage of everything, including President Clinton's impeachment trial. [via]
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Becoming Anna: The Autobiography of a Sixteen-Year-Oldby Anna J. MichenerISBN 0226524035 (0-226-52403-5)
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Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality 1890-2000by Adam FaircloughISBN 0142001295 (0-14-200129-5)
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Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africaby George M. FredricksonISBN 0195109783 (0-19-510978-3)
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In Black Liberation, George Fredrickson offers a fascinating account of how blacks in the United States and South Africa came to grips with the challenge of white supremacy. He reveals a rich history--not merely of parallel developments, but of an intricate, transatlantic web of influences and cross-fertilization. He begins with early moments of hope in both countries--Reconstruction in the United States, and the liberal colonialism of British Cape Colony--when the promise of suffrage led educated black elites to fight for color-blind equality. A rising tide of racism and discrimination at the turn of the century, however, blunted their hopes and encouraged nationalist movements in both countries. Fredrickson teases out the connections between movements and nations, examining the transatlantic appeal of black religious nationalism (known as Ethiopianism), and the pan-Africanism of Du Bois and Garvey. He brings to vivid life the decades of struggle, organizing, and debate, as blacks in the United States looked to Africa for identity and South Africans looked to America for new ideas and hope. The book traces the rise of Communist influence in black movements in the two nations in the 1920s and '30s, and the adoption of Gandhian nonviolent protest after World War II. The story of India's struggle, however, was not to be repeated in either America or South Africa: in one nation, nonviolence revealed its limitations, encouraging splits in the civil rights movement; in the other, it failed, fostering an armed struggle against white supremacy. Fredrickson brings the story up through the present, exploring the divergence between African-American identity politics and the nonracialism that has triumphed in South Africa.
In a career spanning thirty years, George Fredrickson has won recognition as the leading scholar of the struggle over racial domination in the United States and South Africa. In Black Liberation, he provides the essential companion volume to his award-winning White Supremacy, telling the story of how blacks fought back on both sides of the Atlantic. [via]More editions of Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa:
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Brown V. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacyby James T. PattersonISBN 0195156323 (0-19-515632-3)
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Patterson outlines the stories of several influential pre-Brown cases and details the thinking and exploits of the legal minds involved with Brown, including Marshall and Chief Justice Earl Warren. He also follows the various responses to the decision by those most affected by it, including bigoted Arkansas governor Orval Faubus as well as President Dwight Eisenhower. More than a simple chronology, Brown v. Board of Education raises many questions about America's unfinished business of truly democratizing its educational system once and for all. Both instructive and disturbing, this book calls for us to question whether we will turn back the clock or demand movement forward. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalismby Allida M. BlackISBN 0231104049 (0-231-10404-9)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Color Purpleby Alice WalkerISBN 0156028352 (0-15-602835-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Color Purple'Book summary:Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self. [via]
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Confessions of Nat Turnerby William StyronISBN 0224613154 (0-224-61315-4)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Constitution of the United States: A Primer for the Peopleby David P. CurrieISBN 0226131041 (0-226-13104-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Constitutional Lawby G. StoneISBN 0159000645 (0-15-900064-5)
Hardcover, West Group
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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wellsby Ida B. WellsISBN 0226893448 (0-226-89344-8)
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United Statesby Thomas JeffersonISBN 0146000927 (0-14-600092-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Libertiesby Mark E. NeelyISBN 0195080327 (0-19-508032-7)
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Foundations of Administrative Lawby Peter H. SchuckISBN 0195078136 (0-19-507813-6)
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Free Culture: The Nature And Future Of Creativityby Lawrence LessigISBN 0143034650 (0-14-303465-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Free Culture: The Nature And Future Of Creativity'Book summary:[via]Lawrence Lessig, the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era (The New Yorker), masterfully argues that never before in human history has the power to control creative progress been so concentrated in the hands of the powerful few, the so-called Big Media. Never before have the cultural powers- that-be been able to exert such control over what we can and cant do with the culture around us. Our society defends free markets and free speech; why then does it permit such top-down control? To lose our long tradition of free culture, Lawrence Lessig shows us, is to lose our freedom to create, our freedom to build, and, ultimately, our freedom to imagine.
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacyby Kenneth T. AndrewsISBN 0226020436 (0-226-02043-6)
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From Brown to Bakke: The Supreme Court And School Integration 1945-1978by J. Harvie WilkinsonISBN 0195025679 (0-19-502567-9)
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Germinal: Library Editionby Emile Zola, Peter Collier, Robert LethbridgeISBN 0192837028 (0-19-283702-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Germinal: Library Edition'Book summary:Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolize the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted "Germinal! Germinal!"
While it is a dramatic novel of working life and everyday relationships, Germinal is also a complex novel of ideas, given fresh vigor and power in this new translation. It is also the thirteenth book in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, which celebrates its centenary in October 1993 with a new film version of Germinal starring Gerard Depardieu. [via]More editions of Germinal: Library Edition:
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The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolitionby Gerda LernerISBN 0195106032 (0-19-510603-2)
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Hang a Thousand Trees With Ribbonsby Ann RinaldiISBN 015205393X (0-15-205393-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hang a Thousand Trees With Ribbons'Book summary:Kidnapped from her home in Senegal and sold as a slave in 1761, a young girl is purchased by the wealthy Wheatley family in Boston. Phillis Wheatley--as she comes to be known--has an eager mind and it leads her on an unusual path for a slave--she becomes Americas first published black poet. Strong characterization and perceptive realism mark this thoughtful portrayal. --Booklist[via]More editions of Hang a Thousand Trees With Ribbons:
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A History of Us, Book 10: All the Peopleby Joy HakimISBN 0195153383 (0-19-515338-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar Americaby Harvard Sitkoff, William Henry ChafeISBN 0195042042 (0-19-504204-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America'Book summary:This popular and comprehensive anthology presents cogent, provocative articles from differing political perspectives on major issues in postwar America. In addition to articles by leading historians, the editors have assembled first-person accounts of various issues by those who have contributed to the shaping of America's rich history, including Joseph McCarthy and Bill Clinton, as well as Robin Morgan, Anne Moody, and Phyllis Schlafly. For this edition, Chafe and Sitkoff have collaborated with a new coeditor, Beth Bailey, to give this classic text a fresh outlook. The sixth edition has been extensively revised to incorporate new documents and the most up-to-date articles, covering such recent events as the September 11 attacks. With lively and enlightening introductions to each section and headnotes providing a context for the articles, A History of Our Time helps students make sense of the past fifty years of America's sometimes tumultuous but always fascinating history. [via]
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A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar Americaby William H. Chafe, Harvard Sitkoff, William Henry ChafeISBN 019508277X (0-19-508277-X)
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A History of U.S.: All the Peopleby Joy HakimISBN 0195110803 (0-19-511080-3)
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How Long? How Long: African American Women and the Struggle for Freedom and Justiceby Belinda RobnettISBN 0195114914 (0-19-511491-4)
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How Long? How Long?: African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rightsby Belinda RobnettISBN 0195114906 (0-19-511490-6)
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Hugo L. Black: Cold Steel Warriorby Howard BallISBN 0195078144 (0-19-507814-4)
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James Madison And the Struggle for the Bill of Rightsby Richard LabunskiISBN 0195181050 (0-19-518105-0)
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Just Marriageby Joshua Cohen, Deborah Chasman, Mary Lyndon ShanleyISBN 019517626X (0-19-517626-X)
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Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.by Gerald L. PosnerISBN 0156006510 (0-15-600651-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.'Book summary:It's been 30 years since Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death in Memphis, an event that reverberated throughout a startled country still coming to terms with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Like Kennedy's, King's assassination sparked conspiracy theories about who or what faction was ultimately responsible for his death. Did James Earl Ray act alone? Or was he a patsy?
In Killing the Dream, Gerald Posner, author of Case Closed, brings to light interesting new evidence, from confidential files to previously undisclosed facts, in an attempt to discriminate rumor from truth. Posner looks for answers to questions about where the fatal shot was fired from, the role of elite military personnel who were present in the area, and what social connections drove Ray in the year leading up to the murder.
Besides focusing on the day of the assassination and the courtroom battles that followed, Posner's book also offers a detailed examination of Ray's life, from his years in the army to his career as a petty hood. This well-researched study of the characters and the events preceding and following the murder makes for an honest, non-sensationalist journalistic account of events that have been distorted and convoluted over time. [via]
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Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fightersby Andrea Davis Pickney, Stephen AlcornISBN 015201005X (0-15-201005-X)
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Liberty and Freedomby David Hackett FischerISBN 0195162536 (0-19-516253-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Liberty and Freedom'Book summary:Liberty and freedom: Americans agree that these values are fundamental to our nation, but what do they mean? How have their meanings changed through time? In this new volume of cultural history, David Hackett Fischer shows how these varying ideas form an intertwined strand that runs through the core of American life.
Fischer examines liberty and freedom not as philosophical or political abstractions, but as folkways and popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture. Tocqueville called them "habits of the heart." From the earliest colonies, Americans have shared ideals of liberty and freedom, but with very different meanings. Like DNA these ideas have transformed and recombined in each generation.
The book arose from Fischer's discovery that the words themselves had differing origins: the Latinate "liberty" implied separation and independence. The root meaning of "freedom" (akin to "friend") connoted attachment: the rights of belonging in a community of freepeople. The tension between the two senses has been a source of conflict and creativity throughout American history.
Liberty & Freedom studies the folk history of those ideas through more than 400 visions, images, and symbols. It begins with the American Revolution, and explores the meaning of New England's Liberty Tree, Pennsylvania's Liberty Bells, Carolina's Liberty Crescent, and "Don't Tread on Me" rattlesnakes. In the new republic, the search for a common American symbol gave new meaning to Yankee Doodle, Uncle Sam, Miss Liberty, and many other icons. In the Civil War, Americans divided over liberty and freedom. Afterward, new universal visions were invented by people who had formerly been excluded from a free society--African Americans, American Indians, and immigrants. The twentieth century saw liberty and freedom tested by enemies and contested at home, yet it brought the greatest outpouring of new visions, from Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms to Martin Luther King's "dream" to Janis Joplin's "nothin' left to lose."
Illustrated in full color with a rich variety of images, Liberty and Freedom is, literally, an eye-opening work of history--stimulating, large-spirited, and ultimately, inspiring. [via]More editions of Liberty and Freedom:
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Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracyby Jeff Manza, Christopher UggenISBN 0195149327 (0-19-514932-7)
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Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm Xby Michael Eric DysonISBN 0195102851 (0-19-510285-1)
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Martin Luther King, Jrby Marshall FradyISBN 0143036483 (0-14-303648-3)
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Mississippi Trial, 1955by Chris CroweISBN 0142501921 (0-14-250192-1)
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth : A Bondswoman of Olden Time, with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life"by Sojourner Truth, Jeffrey StewartISBN 0195090519 (0-19-509051-9)
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Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George Orwell, Peter DavisonISBN 0151660344 (0-15-166034-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'Book summary:"Outside, even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere."
The year is 1984; the scene is London, largest population center of Airstrip One.
Airstrip One is part of the vast political entity Oceania, which is eternally at war with one of two other vast entities, Eurasia and Eastasia. At any moment, depending upon current alignments, all existing records show either that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia, or that it has always been at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. Winston Smith knows this, because his work at the Ministry of Truth involves the constant "correction" of such records. "'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'"
In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.
Newspeak, doublethink, thoughtcrime--in 1984, George Orwell created a whole vocabulary of words concerning totalitarian control that have since passed into our common vocabulary. More importantly, he has portrayed a chillingly credible dystopia. In our deeply anxious world, the seeds of unthinking conformity are everywhere in evidence; and Big Brother is always looking for his chance. --Daniel Hintzsche [via]
Of Power and Right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America's Constitutional Revolutionby Howard Ball, Phillip J. CooperISBN 0195046129 (0-19-504612-9)
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On Liberty and Other Essaysby John Gray, John Stuart MillISBN 0192833847 (0-19-283384-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Liberty and Other Essays'Book summary:Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show John Stuart Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today--the nature of ethics, the scope and limits of individual liberty, the merits of and costs of democratic government, and the place of women in society. In his Introduction John Gray describes these essays as applications of Mill's doctrine of the Art of Life, as set out in A System of Logic. Using the resources of recent scholarship, he shows Mill's work to be far richer and subtler than traditional interpretations allow. [via]
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On Liberty and Other Essaysby John Stuart Mill, John GrayISBN 019282208X (0-19-282208-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Liberty and Other Essays'Book summary:This edition contains four essays--"On Liberty," "Utilitarianism," "Considerations on Representative Government," and "The Subjection of Women"--never before presented in one volume. Contrary to the muddled eclectic of traditional interpretations, Mill emerges as a consistent and strikingly modern thinker, no less ambitious than Marx. [via]
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Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, Criticismby Irving HoweISBN 0155658115 (0-15-565811-5)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, Criticism'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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Our Rightsby David J. BodenhamerISBN 0195325672 (0-19-532567-2)
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A Place at the Table: Struggles for Equality in Americaby Southern Poverty Law Center, Maria FlemingISBN 0195150368 (0-19-515036-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Place at the Table: Struggles for Equality in America'Book summary:Inspiring and true, A Place at the Table chronicles the lives of American freedom fighters whose stories are little-known, but whose efforts have paved the way for equality and justice in the face of extreme prejudice. Unsung heroes and their brave deeds, such as house slave Elizabeth Freeman's momentous court battle winning her freedom, suffragette Sara Bard Field's cross-country journey for women's rights, and Nisqually Indian Billy Frank Jr.'s fight for Native American land rights, toppled barriers in education, voting, employment, housing, and other areas of discrimination. A rousing history of American champions of justice, A Place at the Table is filled with men and women who, when told by society to "stay in their place," insisted that "their place" was at the American table as full-fledged participants in democracy. [via]
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Politics of Southern Equality: Law and Social Change in a Mississippi Countyby Frederick M. WirtISBN 0202240177 (0-202-24017-7)
Hardcover, Aldine Pub Co
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The Portable Sixties Readerby Ann ChartersISBN 0142001945 (0-14-200194-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Sixties Reader'Book summary:[via]From civil rights to free love, JFK to LSD, Woodstock to the Moonwalk, the Sixties was a time of change, political unrest, and radical experiments in the arts, sexuality, and personal identity. In this anthology of more than one hundred selections of essays, poetry, and fiction by some of Americas most gifted writers, Ann Charters sketches the unfolding of this most turbulent decade.
The Portable Sixties Reader is organized into thematic chapters, from the Civil Rights movement to the Anti-Vietnam movement, the Free Speech movement, the Counterculture movement, drugs and the movement into Inner Space, the Beats and other fringe literary movements, the Black Arts movement, the Womens movement, and the Environmental movement. The concluding chapter, Elegies for the Sixties, offers tributes to ten figures whose livesand deathscaptured the spirit of the decade.
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Edward Abbey, Sherman Alexie, James Baldwin, Richard Brautigan, Lenny Bruce, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Jim Carroll, Rachel Carson, Carlos Castenada, Bob Dylan, Betty Friedan, Nikki Giovanni, Michael Herr, Abbie Hoffman, Robert Hunter, Ken Kesey, Martin Luther King, Jr., Timothy Leary, Denise Levertov, Norman Mailer, Malcolm X, Country Joe McDonald, Kate Millet, Tim OBrien, Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, Gloria Steinem, Hunter S. Thompson, Calvin Trillin, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty and more.
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Revolutionary Suicideby Huey P. NewtonISBN 0151770921 (0-15-177092-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Revolutionary Suicide'Book summary:The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package
Eloquently tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black Panther Party. From Newton's impoverished childhood on the streets of Oakland to his adolescence and struggles with the system, from his role in the Black Panthers to his solitary confinement in the Alameda County Jail, Revolutionary Suicide is smart, unrepentant, and thought-provoking in its portrayal of inspired radicalism. [via]More editions of Revolutionary Suicide:
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cryby Mildred D. Taylor, Jerry PinkneyISBN 0142401129 (0-14-240112-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry'Book summary:In all Mildred D. Taylor's unforgettable novels she recounts "not only the joy of growing up in a large and supportive family, but my own feelings of being faced with segregation and bigotry." Her Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry tells the story of one African American family, fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s. Nine-year-old Cassie Logan, growing up protected by her loving family, has never had reason to suspect that any white person could consider her inferior or wish her harm. But during the course of one devastating year when her community begins to be ripped apart by angry night riders threatening African Americans, she and her three brothers come to understand why the land they own means so much to their Papa. "Look out there, Cassie girl. All that belongs to you. You ain't never had to live on nobody's place but your own and long as I live and the family survives, you'll never have to. That's important. You may not understand that now but one day you will. Then you'll see."
Twenty-five years after it was first published, this special anniversary edition of the classic strikes as deep and powerful a note as ever. Taylor's vivid portrayal of ugly racism and the poignancy of Cassie's bewilderment and gradual toughening against social injustice and the men and women who perpetuate it, will remain with readers forever. Two award-winning sequels, Let the Circle Be Unbroken and The Road to Memphis, and a long-awaited prequel, The Land, continue the profoundly moving tale of the Logan family. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Rosa Parksby Douglas BrinkleyISBN 0143036009 (0-14-303600-9)
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Sex & Social Justiceby Martha C. NussbaumISBN 0195112105 (0-19-511210-5)
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Sexual Politics, Sexual Communitiesby John D'EmilioISBN 0226142663 (0-226-14266-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970by John D'Emilio, D'EmilioISBN 0226142671 (0-226-14267-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970'Book summary:With thorough documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the contemporary gay culture to emerge, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities supplies the definitive analysis of the homophile movement in the U.S. from 1940 to 1970. John D'Emilio's new preface and afterword examine the conditions that shaped the book and the growth of gay and lesbian historical literature.[via]
"How many students of American political culture know that during the McCarthy era more people lost their jobs for being alleged homosexuals than for being Communists? . . . These facts are part of the heretofore obscure history of homosexuality in Americaa history that John D'Emilio thoroughly documents in this important book."George DeStefano, Nation
"John D'Emilio provides homosexual political struggles with something that every movement requiresa sympathetic history rendered in a dispassionate voice."New York Times Book Review
"A milestone in the history of the American gay movement."Rudy Kikel, Boston GlobeMore editions of Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970:
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The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in Americaby Hugh PearsonISBN 0201483416 (0-201-48341-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Silver Rightsby Constance Curry, Marian Wright EdelmanISBN 0156004798 (0-15-600479-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silver Rights'Book summary:This sure-to-be-classic account of 1960s desegregation (Los Angeles Times) tells the inspiring story of the Carters, black Mississippi sharecroppers who sent their children to integrate an all-white school system. Silver Rights is pure gold! (Julian Bond). Introduction by Marian Wright Edelman.[via]More editions of Silver Rights:
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Sport of Natureby Nadine GordimerISBN 0224024477 (0-224-02447-7)
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Takin' It to the Streets: A Sixties Readerby Alexander Bloom, Wini BreinesISBN 019514290X (0-19-514290-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Takin' It to the Streets: A Sixties Reader'Book summary:The second edition of "Takin' it to the streets" revises the comprehensive collection of primary documents of the 1960s that has become the leading reader on the era. Adopted nationwide, this anthology brings together representative writings, many of which have been unavailable for years or have never been reprinted. Drawn from mainstream sources, little-known sixties periodicals, pamphlets, public speeches, and personal voices, the selections range from the Port Huron Statement and the NOW Bill of Rights to speeches by Malcolm X, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan, to private letters from civil rights workers and Vietnam soldiers.
Introductions and headnotes by the editors highlight the importance of particular documents, relating them to each other and placing them within the broader context of the decade. Particular attention is paid to civil rights, Black Power, the counterculture, the women's movement, anti-war activity, and gay and lesbian struggles, as well as the conservative current that ran counter to more typical sixties movements. For this revised edition, the editors have added nearly thirty selections, including new readings on religion, the drug culture, the sexual revolution, gay rights, conservatism, and the Vietnam War experience. Covering an extremely popular period of history, "Takin' it to the streets" remains the most accessible and authoritative reader on an extraordinary decade, one unlike America had seen before or has experienced since. [via]More editions of Takin' It to the Streets: A Sixties Reader:
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Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship After Brown V. Board of Educationby Danielle S. AllenISBN 0226014665 (0-226-01466-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship After Brown V. Board of Education'Book summary:"Don't talk to strangers" is the advice long given to children by parents of all classes and races. Today it has blossomed into a fundamental precept of civic education, reflecting interracial distrust, personal and political alienation, and a profound suspicion of others. In this powerful and eloquent essay, Danielle Allen, a 2002 MacArthur Fellow, takes this maxim back to Little Rock, rooting out the seeds of distrust to replace them with "a citizenship of political friendship."[via]
Returning to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 and to the famous photograph of Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, being cursed by fellow "citizen" Hazel Bryan, Allen argues that we have yet to complete the transition to political friendship that this moment offered. By combining brief readings of philosophers and political theorists with personal reflections on race politics in Chicago, Allen proposes strikingly practical techniques of citizenship. These tools of political friendship, Allen contends, can help us become more trustworthy to others and overcome the fossilized distrust among us.
Sacrifice is the key concept that bridges citizenship and trust, according to Allen. She uncovers the ordinary, daily sacrifices citizens make to keep democracy workingand offers methods for recognizing and reciprocating those sacrifices. Trenchant, incisive, and ultimately hopeful, Talking to Strangers is nothing less than a manifesto for a revitalized democratic citizenry.Allen understands that democracy originates in the subjective dimension of everyday life, and she focuses on what she calls our habit of citizenshipthe ways we often unconsciously regard and interact with fellow citizens. . . . [Her] focus on race is entirely appropriate. Nick Bromell, Boston ReviewMore editions of Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship After Brown V. Board of Education:
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Teammatesby Peter Golenbock, Paul BaconISBN 0152842861 (0-15-284286-1)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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The Temple Bombingby Melissa Fay GreeneISBN 0201622068 (0-201-62206-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Temple Bombing'Book summary:When the United States South went into an uproar over the 1954 Supreme Court decision in favor of integration, Jacob Rothschild--rabbi of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue--responded with an outspoken defense of civil rights. "He was aware that he lived in strange times, when the pronouncement of elemental moral observations stirred political havoc." The bombing of the Temple by neo-Nazi extremists in 1958 was but one climactic moment in a progression of conflicting messages and class struggles experienced by Jews in the post-war South. Melissa Fay Greene is a fine storyteller with a rich, literary style: she portrays the social setting, as well as the crime itself and its aftermath, with a plethora of compelling details. By the end of the book, when Rabbi Rothschild is hosting a dinner for Martin Luther King in honor of his Nobel Peace Prize, the reader has gained a solid sense of a pivotal time and place in Southern history. [via]
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There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in Americaby Vincent HardingISBN 0156890895 (0-15-689089-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Three Essays on Liberty: Representative Government the Subjection of Womenby John Stuart Mill, Jack StillingerISBN 0192830139 (0-19-283013-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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To Make Our World Anew: A History Of African Americans To 1880by Robin D.G. Kelley, Earl LewisISBN 0195181344 (0-19-518134-4)
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Torture: A Collectionby Sanford LevinsonISBN 0195306465 (0-19-530646-5)
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A Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movementby Jim Carrier, John LewisISBN 015602697X (0-15-602697-X)
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When Harlem Was in Vogueby David L. LewisISBN 0195059697 (0-19-505969-7)
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Without a Net: Middle Class And Homeless (With Kids) in Americaby Michelle KennedyISBN 0143036785 (0-14-303678-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Downby Alice WalkerISBN 015602862X (0-15-602862-X)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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