HISTORY
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Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left
$26.95Howard Zinn was perhaps the best-known and most widely celebrated popular interpreter of American history in the twentieth century, renowned as a bestselling author, a political activist, a lecturer, and one of America’s most recognizable and admired progressive voices. Learn More -
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
$26.00Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power. Learn More -
Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York
$27.95When young Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner of New York City, he had the astounding gall to try to shut down the brothels, gambling joints, and after-hours saloons. This is the story of how TR took on Manhattan vice . . . and vice won. Learn More -
Just When You Thought It Couldn't Get Worse
$18.95Edward Sorel is widely recognized as America's premier illustrator. Learn More -
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Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy
$20.00Over the last couple of decades an ideological battle has raged over the political legacy and cultural symbolism of the "golden age" pirates who roamed the seas between the Caribbean Islands and the Indian Ocean from 1690 to 1725. They are depicted as romanticized villains on the one hand, and as genuine social rebels on the other. Learn More -
Lincoln Speeches (Penguin Civic Classics 4)
$12.00In time for the upcoming election season, Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Learn More -
Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond
$22.00Written from the maximum-security prison where he has lived for almost 30 years, this enlightening memoir chronicles the militant career of David Gilbert, a radical activist whose incarceration is due to his involvement in the 1981 Brinks robbery, an attempted expropriation that resulted in four deaths. Learn More -
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
$18.00The late Manning Marable's acclaimed biography of Malcolm X finally does justice to one of the most influential and controversial figures of twentieth-century American history. Learn More -
Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther
$15.95In 1970, the feds framed Eddie Conway for the murder of a Baltimore City Police officer. He was 24 years old. They threw him in prison, took him away from his family, his friends, and his organizing, and tried to relegate him to a life marked by nothing but legal appeals, riots and lockdowns, transfers from one penal colony to the next. But they failed. Learn More
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