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Set the Night on Fire

by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener

A magisterial, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the Sixties

15 posts
Bigger Than Bernie

by Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht

Win or lose, Bernie has reshaped the landscape of American politics. Where does the political revolution go next?

10 posts
Elegy for Mary Turner

by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams

A lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full-color artwork

1 post
Morbid Symptoms

by Donald Sassoon

A health check on our corrupt and broken political system by one of our finest historians

1 post

Thinking in a Pandemic

Edited by Boston Review

Leading scientists, epidemiologists, and philosophers explore the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic and argue for the necessity of scientific reasoning and collective responsibility
A Kick in the Belly

by Stella Dadzie

The story of how enslaved women struggled for freedom in the West Indies

9 posts
The Politics of Care

Edited by Boston Review

A vital collection bringing together Black Lives Matter and COVID-19 from the acclaimed political and literary magazine Boston Review

1 post
The Common Wind

by Julius S. Scott

A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era

9 posts

Radical Hamilton

by Christian Parenti

A dramatic re-evaluation of the founding of the United States and the history of capitalism

1 post
A Massacre in Mexico

by Anabel Hernández

The definitive account of the disappearance of forty-three Mexican students

3 posts
Levers of Power

by Tarun Banerjee, Michael Schwartz, et al.

Understanding the power of the corporations and how to take the struggle directly to them

2 posts
The Verso Book of Dissent

Edited by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim

From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad

48 posts

The Romance of American Communism

by Vivian Gornick

Writer and critic Vivian Gornick’s long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American life

11 posts
The Dispossessed

by John Washington

The first comprehensive, in-depth book on the Trump administration’s assault on asylum protections

6 posts
Toward Freedom

by Touré F. Reed

In the age of runaway inequality and Black Lives matter, there is an emerging consensus that our society has failed to redress racial disparities. But who is the culprit?

5 posts
Holding aloft the Banner of Ethiopia

by Winston James

Recipient of the Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship

6 posts

Yesterday’s Man

by Branko Marcetic

A deep dive into Joe Biden’s history and the origins of his political values

6 posts
The Declaration of Independence

by Thomas Jefferson

The explosive manifesto for the American Revolution, introduced by the co-author of Empire

3 posts
Latinx

by Ed Morales

The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics

13 posts
How Race Survived US History

by David R. Roediger

An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labor

38 posts

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