First published in 1903, this eloquent collection of essays exposed the magnitude of racism in our society. The book endures today as a classic document of American social and political history: a manifesto that has influenced generations with its transcendent vision for change..
Tag: Biography & Autobiography
Exile’s Return : A Literary Odyssey of The 1920s
Eminent Victorians
My Childhood
Before Night Falls : A Memoir
This shocking personal and political memoir from one of the most visionary writers to emerge from Castro’s Cuba recounts Arenas’ stunning odyssey–from his poverty-stricken childhood through his suppression as a writer and imprisonment as a homosexual to his flight to America and subsequent life and death in New York. A New York Times Best Book of 1993..
Life of Her Own : The Transformation of a Countrywoman in 20th-Century France
Stalin Breaker of Nations
A leading scholar-historian of the U.S.S.R. offers a penetrating look at one of the most enigmatic and terrifying figures of modern times. Distilling a lifetime’s study, Conquest provides a powerful, living portrait of Josef Stalin as child and student, revolutionary and Communist theoretician, political animal and paranoid leader. ‘A brisk, informative synthesis’.–The Wall Street Journal..
Ludwig Wittgenstein : The Duty of Genius
The Portable Thomas Jefferson
The Portable Karl Marx
Here is the ideal introduction to the work of Karl Marx, representing his most important writings, including the ‘Theses on Feuerbach’; the complete Communist Manifesto; and substantial selections from ‘On the Jewish Question, ‘ the ‘Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, ‘ The German Ideology, Grundrisse, Capital, and The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, among others. In addition, documents, letters, and reminiscences offer a portrait of Marx the man-as student, husband, father, enemy, and friend..