Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Summary & Analysis of We Were Eight Years in Power
A Guide to the Book by Ta-Nehisi Coastes
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book.
A collection of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Atlantic essays and musings originally published during President Obama’s administration. These essays concern black America and the shift of presidencies today.
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by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: French
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Tocqueville n’est pas le premier « intellectuel » français à faire le voyage américain, quelques-uns avant lui avaient déjà tenté l’aventure, à commencer par Chateaubriand qui s’y exila après la Révolution, mais n’y trouva jamais, parmi les Natchez, que le reflet d’une solitude...
Mother, Where's My Country?
Looking for Light in the Darkness of Manipur
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
In her powerful, poignant book—one of the best non-fiction works from India in recent years—Anubha Bhonsle examines the tangled and tragic history of Manipur, and of much of India’s North East. Through the story of Irom Sharmila—on a protest fast since 2000—and many others who have fallen...
The Right's Road to Serfdom: The Danger of Conservatism Unbound
From Hayek to Trump
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Some political commentators have started to say that the American Right acts on its id, not on its ego of “principled” conservatism. But what does this mean? In The Right’s Road to Serfdom, first-time author Christopher F. Arndt unpacks the riddle. The conservatism that drives the American Right...
by Maurice Joly
Language: French
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Il n’est pas inutile d’avertir le lecteur que ce n’est pas sans peine que cette brochure voit le jour. Ne voulant faire entendre que quelques paroles libres et convaincues, l’auteur n’estimait pas que ce mince opuscule valût la peine d’être signé. Deux éditeurs...
Kindly Inquisitors
The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
“A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it means that we must allow people to err, even where the error offends and upsets, as it often will.”...
by JP Tate
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
For those whose mind is closed on the subject of feminism because society has told them what to think and they obediently think it, there are many hundreds of books available that will reinforce their cultural orthodoxy. This book is not for them. It is a polemic which takes a radically anti-establishment...
Terrorism and Tyranny
Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
"The war on terrorism is the first political growth industry of the new Millennium." So begins Jim Bovard's newest and, in some ways, most provocative book as he casts yet another jaundiced eye on Washington and the motives behind protecting "the homeland" and prosecuting a wildly...
by James Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
"A rich and compelling narrative, as taut and suspenseful as good fiction. In places, Stories of Scottsboro is almost heartbreaking, not least because Goodman shows what people felt as well as what they thought." -- Washington Post Book World
To white Southerners, it was "a heinous...
The Black Presidency
Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
A provocative and lively deep dive into the meaning of America's first black presidency, from “one of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today” (Vanity Fair).
Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race have shaped Barack...
With Liberty and Justice for Some
How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
From "the most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years" (Bill Moyers), a scathing critique of the two-tiered system of justice that has emerged in America
From the nation's beginnings, the law was to be the great equalizer in American life, the guarantor of...
Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power
Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2006
In his address to the nation on September 20, 2001, President Bush declared war on terrorism and set in motion a detention policy unlike any we have ever seen. Since then, the United States has seized thousands of people from around the globe, setting off a firestorm of controversy. Guantanamo and...
Freedom of Speech
Mightier Than the Sword
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
A provocative, timely assessment of the state of free speech in America
With his best seller The Working Poor, Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times veteran David K. Shipler cemented his place among our most trenchant social commentators. Now he turns his incisive reporting to a critical...
Virtual Equality
The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Since the decade to lift the ban on gays in the military, the emergence of gay conservatives, and the onslaught of antigay initiatives across America, the gay and lesbian community has been asking itself tough questions: Where should the movement go? What do we want? In Virtual Equality, veteran...