The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: The United States has never lived up to its nameāand never will.
From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, an ambitious, timely and inspired understanding of "these supposedly united states," arguing that the internal divisions that threaten to tear America apart today have three hundred year old ...
More evocative of its time and place, however, is Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964), set on the South Brooklyn waterfront in ... and crossdressing made Last Exit a scandalous book when it was published by Barney Rosset's Grove Press, ...
Organized by regions all around the world, author Richard Kreitner explains the importance of each literary landmark including the connection to the author and novel, cultural significance, historical information, and little-known facts ...
As Frances Fox Piven writes in the introduction to Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident, "These Nation essays remind us that for nearly fifty years Zinn himself was deeply involved in the major twentieth-century struggles for social justice in ...
Who is Hillary Clinton? is a fascinating time-lapse depiction of the leading Democratic presidential candidate as seen from the left. But it is also much more than that.