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My Times in Black and White
Race and Power at the New York Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
A rags-to-riches story of the climb from urban poverty to the New York Times, this insider’s view of struggle and change at the nation’s premier newspaper reconstructs the most controversial period in the paper’s history and records how journalists reported and edited the biggest events of the...
by John Cheever
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
The stories in this collection are ones that Cheever wrote in the 1930s and 1940s. There are 13 total, 11 of which are not available anywhere else, including the new Library of America edition. Interest in Cheever's work has been renewed with the publication of a new biography, John Cheever: A Life...
The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
European history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and scholars who supported or excused the worst tyrannies of the age. How was this possible? How could intellectuals whose work depends on freedom defend those who would deny it?
In profiles of six leading...
Hemingway at Eighteen
The Pivotal Year That Launched an American Legend
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In the summer of 1917, Ernest Hemingway was an eighteen-year-old high school graduate unsure of his future. The American entry into the Great War stirred thoughts of joining the army. While many of his friends in Oak Park, Illinois, were heading to college, Hemingway couldn't make up his mind and...
First Kill Your Family
Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
“Richard Opio has neither the look of a cold-blooded killer nor the heart of one. Yet as his mother and father lay on the ground with their hands tied, Richard used the blunt end of an ax to crush their skulls. He was ordered to do this by a unit commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel...
We Are the Poors
Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
When Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994, freedom-loving people around the world hailed a victory over racial domination, injustice and inequality. The end of apartheid did not change the basic conditions of life for the majority of oppressed South Africans, however. Material...
Maya Roads
One Woman's Journey Among the People of the Rainforest
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Drawing upon three decades of working, traveling, and living in Central America’s remote and dangerous landscapes, this memoir chronicles a journalist’s fascinating experiences with the people, politics, archaeology, and species of the rainforest, the cradle of Mayan civilization. The intense...
by George Sand
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1979
A drama of loyalty and passion set against a Gothic background. This novel is said to have inspired Wuthering Heights.
Growing Up in Slavery
Stories of Young Slaves as Told By Themselves
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Ten slaves-all under the age of 19-tell stories of enslavement, brutality, and dreams of freedom in this collection culled from full-length autobiographies. These accounts, selected to help teenagers relate to the horrific experiences of slaves their own age living in the not-so-distant past, include stories...
Women of Colonial America
13 Stories of Courage and Survival in the New World
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
An authentic, rich tapestry of women’s lives in colonial America
Using a host of primary sources, author Brandon Marie Miller recounts the roles, hardships, and daily lives of Native American, European, and African women in 17th- and 18th-century colonial America. Hard work proved a constant...
by Yasmine El Rashidi, Timothy Garton Ash
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
In a series of riveting dispatches, Cairo native Yasmine El Rashidi provides an eyewitness account of the entire 2011 Egyptian Revolution as it unfolded, from its origins in the days leading up to the first January 25 protest in Tahrir Square through the violent confrontations with the regime and...
In the Lion's Den
An Eyewitness Account of Washington's Battle with Syria
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A key player in the Middle East and the site of violent protests in 2011, Syria has long been a thorn in Washington's side when it comes to forging peace or rolling back the influence of the Islamic republic of Iran. But only after the events of 9/11 and Damascus's staunch opposition to the war in...
Cuba and the U.S. Empire
A Chronological History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The 1959 Cuban Revolution remains one of the signal events of modern political history. A tiny island, once a de facto colony of the United States, declared its independence, not just from the imperial behemoth ninety miles to the north, but also from global capitalism itself. Cuba’s many achievements...