Books
New book about Frank Little, a fine labor history
July 20, 2017A giant hole in American labor history has been filled by this book.
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Funding loyalty: The economics of the Soviet Communist Party
June 19, 2017New book details the large-scale financial-political enterprise that was the ruling Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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A “people’s history” that is less than inspiring!
May 8, 2017Zinn’s People’s History is that it served to amplify the voice of the common person, not great leaders. Faulkner’s book goes in the other direction.
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Patricia McKissack, author of African-American children’s books, dies
April 12, 2017“To me, reading is like breathing; both are essential to life.”—Patricia C. McKissack
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Marx, psychiatry, and national liberation come together in Fanon bio
April 5, 2017To ‘New Leftists’, few authors and revolutionaries loom as large as Frantz Fanon. His most well-known book, The Wretched of the Earth, is a mainstay of left literature.
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