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Publisher for the masses, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius
\"A new biography of Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, one of the twentieth century's greatest book publishers and socialist writers\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Eighth Moon
\"Beautifully written, The Eighth Moon uses a very light touch to probe the most essential, unresolvable questions of belief, kinship, fidelity, history, and identity.\"--Chris Kraus A rebellion, guns, and murder.
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Democracy's Prisoner
In 1920, socialist leader Eugene V. Debs ran for president while serving a ten-year jail term for speaking against America's role in World War I. In this book, Freeberg shows that the campaign to send Debs from an Atlanta jailhouse to the White House was part of a wider national debate over the right to free speech in wartime. In this story of democracy on trial, Freeberg excavates an extraordinary episode in the history of one of America's most prized ideals.
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James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928
Bryan D. Palmer's award-winning study of James P. Cannon's early years (1890-1928) details how the life of a Wobbly hobo agitator gave way to leadership in the emerging communist underground of the 1919 era. This historical drama unfolds alongside the life experiences of a native son of United States radicalism, the narrative moving from Rosedale, Kansas to Chicago, New York, and Moscow. Written with panache, Palmer's richly detailed book situates American communism's formative decade of the 1920s in the dynamics of a specific political and economic context. Our understanding of the indigenous currents of the American revolutionary left is widened, just as appreciation of the complex nature of its interaction with international forces is deepened.
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Blacks, Reds, and Russians
One of the most compelling, yet little known stories of race relations in the twentieth century is the account of blacks who chose to leave the United States to be involved in the Soviet Experiment in the 1920s and 1930s. Frustrated by the limitations imposed by racism in their home country, African Americans were lured by the promise of opportunity abroad. A number of them settled there, raised families, and became integrated into society. The Soviet economy likewise reaped enormous benefits from the talent and expertise that these individuals brought, and the all around success story became a platform for political leaders to boast their party goals of creating a society where all members were equal.In Blacks, Reds, and Russians, Joy Gleason Carew offers insight into the political strategies that often underlie relationships between different peoples and countries. She draws on the autobiographies of key sojourners, including Harry Haywood and Robert Robinson, in addition to the writings of Claude McKay, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Langston Hughes. Interviews with the descendents of figures such as Paul Robeson and Oliver Golden offer rare personal insights into the story of a group of emigrants who, confronted by the daunting challenges of making a life for themselves in a racist United States, found unprecedented opportunities in communist Russia.
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Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York
Set against a backdrop of mounting anti-communism, Red Apple documents the personal, physical, and mental effects of McCarthyism on six political activists with ties to New York City. From the late 1940s through the 1950s, McCarthyism disfigured the American political landscape. Under the altar of anticommunism, domestic Cold War crusaders undermined civil liberties, curtailed equality before the law, and tarnished the ideals of American democracy. In order to preserve freedom, they jettisoned some of its tenets. Congressional committees worked in tandem, although not necessarily in collusion, with the FBI, law firms, university administrations, publishing houses, television networks, movie studios, and a legion of government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels to target \"subversive\" individuals. Exploring the human consequences of the widespread paranoia that gripped a nation, Red Apple presents the international and domestic context for the experiences of these individuals: the House Un-American Activities Committee, hearings of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, resulting in the incarceration of its chairman, Dr. Edward Barsky, and its executive board; the academic freedom cases of two New York University professors, Lyman Bradley and Edwin Burgum, culminating in their dismissal from the university; the blacklisting of the communist writer Howard Fast and his defection from American communism; the visit of an anguished Dimitri Shostakovich to New York in the spring of 1949; and the attempts by O. John Rogge, the Committee's lawyer, to find a \"third way\" in the quest for peace, which led detractors to question which side he was on. Examining real-life experiences at the \"ground level,\" Deery explores how these six individuals experienced, responded to, and suffered from one of the most savage assaults on civil liberties in American history. Their collective stories illuminate the personal costs of holding dissident political beliefs in the face of intolerance and moral panic that is as relevant today as it was seventy years ago.
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Watchman at the Gates
General George Joulwan played a role in many pivotal world
events during his long and exceptional career. Present at both the
rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, he served multiple tours in
Germany during the Cold War and two tours in Vietnam. By chance, he
was recruited as Nixon's White House deputy chief of staff and
witnessed the last acts of the Watergate drama first-hand. He went
on to lead US Southern Command-fighting insurgencies and the drug
war in Latin America-and was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO
forces in Europe (SACEUR) during the Rwandan genocide and the
Bosnian peacekeeping missions of the 1990s.
Joulwan chronicles his career in the upper echelons of the armed
forces. He shares his experiences working with major military and
political figures, including generals William E. DePuy, Alexander
Haig, John Vessey, and Colin Powell, US ambassador Richard
Holbrooke, and presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Bill
Clinton. Beyond the battlefield, Joulwan became an advocate for
military and civilian relations during the Vietnam War,
deescalating several high-intensity situations while studying at
Loyola University as part of the US Army's Option C program.
Watchman at the Gates merges memory and lessons in
leadership as Joulwan pays tribute to his teachers and colleagues
and explains the significance of their influence on his personal
approach to command. As a leader of combat troops in Vietnam, he
appealed to his subordinates on an individual basis, taking time to
build relationships that proved vital to the effectiveness of his
commands. He also reveals how similar relationships of mutual
understanding were crucial in his peaceful and productive dealings
with both allies and enemies.
At its heart, this inspiring memoir is a soldier's story-written
by a warrior who saw defending his country and the democratic
values it stands for as his highest calling. Featuring a foreword
by Tom Brokaw, Watchman at the Gates offers incredible
insights into world events as well as valuable lessons for a new
generation of leaders.
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Two Lives in Uncertain Times
Published in Association with the German Historical Institute [http://www.ghi-dc.org/], Washington, D.C.
Wilma and Georg Iggers came from different backgrounds, Wilma from a Jewish farming family from the German-speaking border area of Czechoslovakia, Georg from a Jewish business family from Hamburg. They both escaped with their parents from Nazi persecution to North America where they met as students. As a newly married couple they went to the American South where they taught in two historic Black colleges and were involved in the civil rights movement. In 1961 they began going to West Germany regularly not only to do research but also to further reconciliation between Jews and Germans, while at the same time in their scholarly work contributing to a critical confrontation with the German past. After overcoming first apprehensions, they soon felt Göttingen to be their second home, while maintaining their close involvements in America. After 1966 they frequently visited East Germany and Czechslovakia in an attempt to build bridges in the midst of the Cold War.
The book relates their very different experiences of childhood and adolescence and then their lives together over almost six decades during which they endeavored to combine their roles as parents and scholars with their social and political engagements. In many ways this is not merely a dual biography but a history of changing conditions in America and Central Europe during turbulent times.
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The Education of a Radical
In the tradition of My Car in Managua, this is a wise and captivating memoir of a young leftist radical’s transformation while spending ten months as a Sandinista revolutionary in the early 1980s, and his struggle to reconcile uncomfortable truths with his ideals of justice.
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