Helen R. Deese ; editor

The vivid diary of a transcendentalist, early feminist, and writer—a female Samuel Pepys.

In nineteenth-century Boston, amidst the popular lecturing of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the discussion groups led by Margaret Fuller, sat a remarkable young woman, Caroline Healey Dall (1822-1912): transcendentalist, early feminist, writer, reformer, and perhaps most importantly, active diarist. During the seventy-five years that Dall kept a diary, she captured all the fascinating details of her sometimes agonizing personal life, and she also wrote about all the major figures who surrounded her.

"Caroline Healey Dall's writings will become a keystone to our understanding of nineteenth-century New England...a true historical find."
—Publishers Weekly

Helen R. Deese is the Caroline Healey Dall editor for the Massachusetts Historical Society. She lives in Flint and Ann Arbor, Michigan.



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Chris Finan

The first comprehensive history of the evolution of free speech in America for a general readership, from a respected historian and free speech activist. In this lively history of our most fundamental and perhaps most vulnerable right, Chris Finan traces the lifeline of free speech from the War on Terror back to the turn of the last century.

Chris Finan is the president of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression and the chair of the National Coalition Against Censorship.

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Douglas Henry Daniels

The only book on the legendary band that included Lester Young, Count Basie, and Ralph Ellison.

"To explore the Devils' enormous impact and their unique spirit of brotherhood, Daniels minutely records the lives of several key members, including Basie, Page, Smith, and the famous blues singer Jimmy Rushing. He also illuminates the vibrant community of black Oklahomans, completing this important chronicle in American music history."
—Publishers Weekly

"Daniels fills a distinct gap in jazz scholarship with this chronicle of the group's ten-year existence (1923-33)."

—Library Journal

Douglas Henry Daniels is a professor of black studies and history at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

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Stephen Puleo

The first history of the Boston Italians and how they transformed themselves and their city. In this lively and engaging history, Stephen Puleo tells the story of the Boston Italians from their earliest years, when a largely illiterate and impoverished people in a strange land recreated the bonds of village and region in the cramped quarters of the North End.

Stephen Puleo is author of the critically acclaimed Boston-area bestseller Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919.

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Clement Greenberg

"Clement Greenberg is, internationally, the best-known American art critic popularly considered to be the man who put American vanguard painting and sculpture on the world map...An important book for everyone interested in modern painting and sculpture."

—The New York Times



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Mohandas K. Gandhi

Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and countless other nonviolent struggles of the twentieth century. All royalties earned on this book are paid to the Navajivan Trust, founded by Gandhi, for use in carrying on his work.

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Ben H. Bagdikian

This dramatic memoir by one of America’s most respected journalists and media critics takes us from the author’s narrow escape from a Turkish massacre of Armenians as a young child, to his secret acquisition of the Pentagon Papers, to the transformation of American journalism over the last half century.

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Geoffrey Canada

Through shattering storytelling, Canada recreates his childhood world, one in which the "sidewalk" boys learned the codes of the block from their elders and were ranked through the rituals of fist, stick, and knife. One of our most hard-won and brilliantly evocative books on child violence in America.

 

Geoffrey Canada is president of the Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families in New York City. He is the recipient of a 1995 Heinz Foundation Award and a Parents Magazine Award for his work in child advocacy.

 

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Paul Robeson

Renowned actor and singer Paul Robeson spent his life battling for the civil rights of all Americans. Robeson was blacklisted during the McCarthy era and wrote his famous memoir, Here I Stand, as a bold answer to his accusers.

"This amazing man, this great intellect, this magnificent genius with his overwhelming love of humanity is a devastating challenge to a society built on hypocrisy, greed and profit-seeking at the expense of common humanity."

—The New York Times

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William M, Jr. Ivins

“The most famous introduction to prints. Through a series of enlarged details of prints in various media, Ivins makes clear the stylistic qualities peculiar to each technique.” –Choice

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