Authors

• Tariq Ali
• Theodore W. Allen
• Frank Bardacke
• Marshall Berman

• Robin Blackburn
• Paul Buhle
• Patrick Cockburn
• Michael Denning

• James Dunkerley
• Sam Gindin
• Juan González
• Carla Harryman

• Christopher Hitchens
• Thomas Jefferson
• Abraham Lincoln
• Karl Marx

• Carlos Munoz
• John Nichols
• Leo Panitch
• William F. Pepper

• David R. Roediger
• Avital Ronell
• Colin Samson
• Amy Scholder

• Nicole Schulman
• Joseph Torres
• William Appleman Williams

Books

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  An Injury to All

  by Kim Moody
  Exposing the roots of modern “business unionism” and the causes of its decline.

  6 posts

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  The Social Origins of Private Life

  by Stephanie Coontz

  A highly original account of the evolution of the family unit.

  6 posts

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  Our Own Time

  by Philip S. Foner and David R. Roediger
  “Crucial reading ... for all those who have ever punched a clock.”—International Labor and Working Class History

  6 posts

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  Where the Boys Are

  by Van Gosse

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  Towards the Abolition of Whiteness

  by David R. Roediger
  Counting the costs of whiteness in the American past and present.

  11 posts

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  The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life

  by Andrew Ross

  The return of Malthusian ideas about scarcity, in the name of environmentalism.

  4 posts

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  Circus Americanus

  by Ralph Rugoff
  “A carnival of New World wonders.”—Jon Savage
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  Twice the Work of Free Labor

  by Alex Lichtenstein

  “Powerful, painstakingly researched, gracefully written.”—Robin D.G. Kelley

  5 posts

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  Anything But Mexican

  by Rodolfo F. Acuña

  “Will stand amongst the classics in Chicano Studies.”—Teresa Cordova, University of New Mexico

  8 posts

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  The Assassination of New York

  by Robert Fitch

  “Nothing that has been written about New York ... comes close.”—New York Newsday

  6 posts

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  Seven Minutes

  by Norman M. Klein
  “An important contribution to the history of American popular culture.”—American Historical Review
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  Labor and the Course of American Democracy

  by Charles Bergquist
  “Groundbreaking political and ideological analysis.”—Carol A. Smith, UC Davis

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  The Thirty Years’ Wars

  by Andrew Kopkind

  In Boston in the 1970s he wrote articles and movie reviews for a range of publications and did regular political commentary for WBCN radio. With...

  2 posts

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  NASA/TREK

  by Constance Penley
  How Star Trek came to represent both scientific perfection and sexual experimentation in modern-day America.

  3 posts

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  Mechanic Accents

  by Michael Denning

  “One of the most illuminating, theoretically informed accounts of popular fiction.”—Terry Eagleton

  2 posts

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  Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia

  by Winston James

  1 post

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  Whiteout

  by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair

  The explosive truth behind the CIA and its dirtiest secrets

  1 post

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  Al Gore

  by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
  What sort of a man is Al Gore?

  2 posts

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  Five Days That Shook the World

  by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
  "In the annals of popular protest in America, these have been shining hours, achieved entirely outside the conventional arena of orderly protest,...

  2 posts

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  A Fierce Hatred of Injustice

  by Winston James and Claude McKay

  The first detailed consideration of McKay's formative years, the themes and politics of his early poetry, and his pioneering use of Jamaican creole.

  1 post