Randall: 1157 books
Nigger
The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
It’s “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment. The word, of course, is nigger, and in this candid, lucidly...
Labyrinth
The True Story of City of Lies, the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. and the Implication of the Los Angeles Police Department
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan follows Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective who in 1997 was called to investigate a controversial cop-on-cop shooting, eventually to discover that the officer killed was tied to Marion Suge” Knight’s notorious gangsta rap label, Death Row Records....
LBJ
Architect of American Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
For almost forty years, the verdict on Lyndon Johnson's presidency has been reduced to a handful of harsh words: tragedy, betrayal, lost opportunity. Initially, historians focused on the Vietnam War and how that conflict derailed liberalism, tarnished the nation's reputation, wasted lives, and eventually...
Defending the Spirit
A Black Life in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Randall Robinson's Defending The Spirit is a personal account of his rise from poverty in the segregated south to a position as one of the most distinguished and outspoken political activists of our time. In 1977, Robinson founded TransAfrica, the first organization to lobby for the interests of African...
The Book That Changed America
How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
**A compelling portrait of a unique moment in American history when the ideas of Charles Darwin reshaped American notions about nature, religion, science and race
“A lively and informative history.” – The New York Times Book Review**
Throughout its history America has been torn...
by Patrick Randall
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The renowned FreewayBlogger, aka Patrick Randall, tells the story of one of his earliest decision to take direct action—he hears a report of poverty in Mexico, loads up his trusty old VW bus and hits the road with half a ton of clothes, no map, some good tunes and a sense of adventure.The trip...
by Randall Hazelbaker
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Branch County, home to the historic communities of Bronson, Union City, Quincy, Coldwater, and Sherwood, was named for John Branch, President Jackson�s Secretary of the Navy. The original county seat was Masonville, in 1830, followed by the Village of Branch in 1831, and finally, Coldwater, in 1842....
Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary
She Led by Transgression
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Taking part in the Cuban Revolution's first armed action in 1953, enduring the torture and killings of her brother and fiancé, assuming a leadership role in the underground movement, and smuggling weapons into Cuba, Haydée Santamaría was the only woman to participate in every phase of the Revolution....
Music from the House of Hammer
Music in the Hammer Horror Films, 1950-1980
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 1996
In the 1950s, Hammer Film Productions, a small British filmmaking company, introduced the world to a new genre of motion picture. Referred to by some as "horror," by others as "fantasy," Hammer films had a unique look and feel that many other studios would later attempt—and fail—to...
The Gargantuan Polity
On The Individual and the Community in the French Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Critics and scholars have long argued that the Renaissance was the period that gave rise to the modern individual. The Gargantuan Polity examines political, legal, theological, and literary texts in the late Middle Ages, to show how individuals were defined by contracts of mutual obligation, which...
by Mia Randall
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Struggling to meditate daily? Meditating regularly can be very difficult to do, especially when we are busy. However, to really experience the benefits of meditation, a regular practice is essential.
In this book, Mia guides the reader on a journey towards a more firmly grounded practice that...
God in the White House: A History
How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
How did we go from John F. Kennedy declaring that religion should play no role in the elections to Bush saying, "I believe that God wants me to be president"?
Historian Randall Balmer takes us on a tour of presidential religiosity in the last half of the twentieth century—from Kennedy's...
Redeemer
The Life of Jimmy Carter
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A religious biography of Jimmy Carter, the controversial president whose political rise and fall coincided with the eclipse of Christian progressivism and the emergence of the Religious Right.
Evangelical Christianity and conservative politics are today seen as inseparable. But when Jimmy Carter,...
Thy Kingdom Come
How the Religious Right Distorts Faith and Threatens America
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2007
For much of American history, evangelicalism was aligned with progressive political causes-the abolition of slavery, universal suffrage, and public education. But contemporary conservative activists have defaulted on this majestic legacy, embracing instead an agenda virtually indistinguishable from...