African American History, Politics, and Society
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Homelands and Waterways
The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926
Written by Adele Logan Alexander
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 18, 2000
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75871-6 (0-679-75871-2)
Homelands and Waterways traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author's own) from privation to the middle class. In so doing, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our thinking about African Americans--both as slaves and in freedom. Adele Logan Alexander's account is the result of... Read more >
The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926
Written by Adele Logan Alexander
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 18, 2000
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75871-6 (0-679-75871-2)
Homelands and Waterways traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author's own) from privation to the middle class. In so doing, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our thinking about African Americans--both as slaves and in freedom. Adele Logan Alexander's account is the result of... Read more >
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Uncovering Race
A Black Journalist's Story of Reporting and Reinvention
Written by Amy Alexander
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-6100-8 (0-8070-6100-X)
From an award-winning black journalist, a tough-minded look at the treatment of ethnic minorities both in newsrooms and in the reporting that comes out of them, within the changing media landscape.
Amy Alexander fell in love with journalism as a child in San Francisco during the tumultuous late 1960s. After landing her... Read more >
A Black Journalist's Story of Reporting and Reinvention
Written by Amy Alexander
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-6100-8 (0-8070-6100-X)
From an award-winning black journalist, a tough-minded look at the treatment of ethnic minorities both in newsrooms and in the reporting that comes out of them, within the changing media landscape.
Amy Alexander fell in love with journalism as a child in San Francisco during the tumultuous late 1960s. After landing her... Read more >
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Black Holocaust For Beginners
Written by S.E. Anderson
Illustrated by Vanessa Holley
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: For Beginners
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $16.99
ISBN: 978-1-934389-03-4 (1-934389-03-X)
The Black Holocaust—from the start of the European slave trade to the Civil War—was a travesty that killed millions of people of African descent. It is also one of the most underreported major events in world history. Black Holocaust For Beginners—part documented chronicle, part engaging narrative—answers many questions about this tragic... Read more >
Written by S.E. Anderson
Illustrated by Vanessa Holley
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: For Beginners
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $16.99
ISBN: 978-1-934389-03-4 (1-934389-03-X)
The Black Holocaust—from the start of the European slave trade to the Civil War—was a travesty that killed millions of people of African descent. It is also one of the most underreported major events in world history. Black Holocaust For Beginners—part documented chronicle, part engaging narrative—answers many questions about this tragic... Read more >
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 4, 1991
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73404-8 (0-679-73404-X)
In 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community of “Revolutionist Returnees” inspired by the promise of pan-Africanism. All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes is her lyrical and acutely perceptive exploration of what it means to be an... Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 4, 1991
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73404-8 (0-679-73404-X)
In 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community of “Revolutionist Returnees” inspired by the promise of pan-Africanism. All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes is her lyrical and acutely perceptive exploration of what it means to be an... Read more >
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Hallelujah! The Welcome Table
A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7485-0 (0-8129-7485-9)
Throughout Maya Angelou’s life, from her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, to her world travels as a bestselling writer, good food has played a central role. Preparing and enjoying homemade meals provides a sense of purpose and calm, accomplishment and connection. Now in Hallelujah! The Welcome Table, Angelou shares memories pithy and... Read more >
A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7485-0 (0-8129-7485-9)
Throughout Maya Angelou’s life, from her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, to her world travels as a bestselling writer, good food has played a central role. Preparing and enjoying homemade meals provides a sense of purpose and calm, accomplishment and connection. Now in Hallelujah! The Welcome Table, Angelou shares memories pithy and... Read more >
Mom & Me & Mom
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6611-7 (1-4000-6611-5)
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother.
For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter... Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6611-7 (1-4000-6611-5)
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother.
For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter... Read more >
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Best Intentions
The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry
Written by Robert Sam Anson
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 12, 1988
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-75707-0 (0-394-75707-6)
Anson explores how Edmund Perry, a 17-year-old black honors student from Harlem, was killed soon after graduation from Phillips Exeter Academy by a young white plainclothes policeman in an alleged mugging attempt.
“Disquieting . . . often poignant” (Time), an “engrossing” (Newsweek) exploration of racial attitudes in America, as illumined by the... Read more >
The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry
Written by Robert Sam Anson
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 12, 1988
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-75707-0 (0-394-75707-6)
Anson explores how Edmund Perry, a 17-year-old black honors student from Harlem, was killed soon after graduation from Phillips Exeter Academy by a young white plainclothes policeman in an alleged mugging attempt.
“Disquieting . . . often poignant” (Time), an “engrossing” (Newsweek) exploration of racial attitudes in America, as illumined by the... Read more >
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Grace
Quotes & Passages for Heart, Mind, and Soul
Written by B.C. Aronson
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House Reference
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-42607-0 (0-375-42607-8)
This treasury of quotes and passages on leading a centered, purposeful, and spiritual life offers the advice and observations of leaders from all walks of life. Included are Ghandi, Lao-Tzu, Maya Angelou, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, and hundreds of other unique and inspiring voices on subjects like compassion, kindness... Read more >
Quotes & Passages for Heart, Mind, and Soul
Written by B.C. Aronson
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House Reference
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-42607-0 (0-375-42607-8)
This treasury of quotes and passages on leading a centered, purposeful, and spiritual life offers the advice and observations of leaders from all walks of life. Included are Ghandi, Lao-Tzu, Maya Angelou, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, and hundreds of other unique and inspiring voices on subjects like compassion, kindness... Read more >
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Days of Grace
Written by Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad
Format: Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: May 1, 1994
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-345-38681-6 (0-345-38681-7)
Days of Grace is an inspiring memoir of a remarkable man who was the true embodiment of courage, elegance, and the spirit to fight: Arthur Ashe--tennis champion, social activist, and person with AIDS. Read more >
Written by Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad
Format: Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: May 1, 1994
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-345-38681-6 (0-345-38681-7)
Days of Grace is an inspiring memoir of a remarkable man who was the true embodiment of courage, elegance, and the spirit to fight: Arthur Ashe--tennis champion, social activist, and person with AIDS. Read more >
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Farther and Wilder
The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
Written by Blake Bailey
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27358-1 (0-307-27358-X)
From the prizewinning biographer of Richard Yates and John Cheever, here is the fascinating biography of Charles Jackson, the author of The Lost Weekend—a writer whose life and work encapsulated what it meant to be an addict and a closeted gay man in mid-century America, and what one had to do... Read more >
The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
Written by Blake Bailey
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27358-1 (0-307-27358-X)
From the prizewinning biographer of Richard Yates and John Cheever, here is the fascinating biography of Charles Jackson, the author of The Lost Weekend—a writer whose life and work encapsulated what it meant to be an addict and a closeted gay man in mid-century America, and what one had to do... Read more >
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God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man
A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia
Written by Cornelia Walker Baily and Christena Bledsoe
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 17, 2001
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49377-2 (0-385-49377-0)
Cornelia Walker Bailey models herself after the African griot, the tribal storytellers who keep the history of their people. Bailey’s people are the Geechee, whose cultural identity has been largely preserved due to the relative isolation of Sapelo, a barrier island off the coast of Georgia. In this rich account, Bailey... Read more >
A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia
Written by Cornelia Walker Baily and Christena Bledsoe
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 17, 2001
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49377-2 (0-385-49377-0)
Cornelia Walker Bailey models herself after the African griot, the tribal storytellers who keep the history of their people. Bailey’s people are the Geechee, whose cultural identity has been largely preserved due to the relative isolation of Sapelo, a barrier island off the coast of Georgia. In this rich account, Bailey... Read more >
No Name in the Street
Written by James Baldwin
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27592-9 (0-307-27592-2)
This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies displays James Baldwin’s fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works. In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early conciousness, the later events that scored his heart with pain—the murders... Read more >
Written by James Baldwin
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27592-9 (0-307-27592-2)
This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies displays James Baldwin’s fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works. In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early conciousness, the later events that scored his heart with pain—the murders... Read more >
Notes of a Native Son
Written by James Baldwin
Illustrated by Edward P. Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: July 9, 1984
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-6431-3 (0-8070-6431-9)
Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin’s first nonfiction book has become a much-studied classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written.
“He named for me the things you feel but couldn’t utter. . . ... Read more >
Written by James Baldwin
Illustrated by Edward P. Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: July 9, 1984
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-6431-3 (0-8070-6431-9)
Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin’s first nonfiction book has become a much-studied classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written.
“He named for me the things you feel but couldn’t utter. . . ... Read more >
Notes of a Native Son
Written by James Baldwin
Foreword by Edward P. Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0623-8 (0-8070-0623-8)
Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. This new edition, published for the 25th... Read more >
Written by James Baldwin
Foreword by Edward P. Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0623-8 (0-8070-0623-8)
Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. This new edition, published for the 25th... Read more >
Vintage Baldwin
Written by James Baldwin
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3394-2 (1-4000-3394-2)
“One of the few genuinely indispensable writers.” —The Saturday Review
James Baldwin’s ability to create lasting literature that continues to challenge us is made abundantly clear in the short story “Sonny’s Blues”; the essays “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation” from The Fire... Read more >
Written by James Baldwin
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3394-2 (1-4000-3394-2)
“One of the few genuinely indispensable writers.” —The Saturday Review
James Baldwin’s ability to create lasting literature that continues to challenge us is made abundantly clear in the short story “Sonny’s Blues”; the essays “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation” from The Fire... Read more >
Beloved Harlem
A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood, From the Classics to The Contemporary
Written by William H. Banks, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: August 2, 2005
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1478-9 (0-7679-1478-3)
A passionate ode to an American mecca, Beloved Harlem is a literary look into the vibrant African-American haven, edited by one of its celebrated native sons. William H. Banks, Jr., award-winning writer and Executive Director of the esteemed Harlem Writers Guild, combines the classics with the contemporary as he showcases some... Read more >
A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood, From the Classics to The Contemporary
Written by William H. Banks, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: August 2, 2005
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1478-9 (0-7679-1478-3)
A passionate ode to an American mecca, Beloved Harlem is a literary look into the vibrant African-American haven, edited by one of its celebrated native sons. William H. Banks, Jr., award-winning writer and Executive Director of the esteemed Harlem Writers Guild, combines the classics with the contemporary as he showcases some... Read more >
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Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl?
The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women
Written by Jonetta Rose Barras
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: January 29, 2002
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-43483-8 (0-345-43483-8)
Now In Paperback.
What happens to a little girl who grows up without a father? Can she ever feel truly loved and fully alive? Does she ever heal—or is she doomed to live a wounded, fragmented life and to pass her wounds down to her own children? Fatherlessness afflicts nearly half the... Read more >
The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women
Written by Jonetta Rose Barras
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: January 29, 2002
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-43483-8 (0-345-43483-8)
Now In Paperback.
What happens to a little girl who grows up without a father? Can she ever feel truly loved and fully alive? Does she ever heal—or is she doomed to live a wounded, fragmented life and to pass her wounds down to her own children? Fatherlessness afflicts nearly half the... Read more >
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Legacy
Treasures of Black History
Edited by Thomas C. Battle and Donna Wells
Contribution by Moorland Spingarn Research Center
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: October 31, 2006
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0006-9 (1-4262-0006-4)
From its Introduction by the revered and distinguished John Hope Franklin to the bibliography and extensive index that complete it, Legacy represents a major new contribution to African-American history. The Black experience and its impact on our nation's culture and character come alive in twelve chapters that sweep from ancient Africa... Read more >
Treasures of Black History
Edited by Thomas C. Battle and Donna Wells
Contribution by Moorland Spingarn Research Center
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: October 31, 2006
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0006-9 (1-4262-0006-4)
From its Introduction by the revered and distinguished John Hope Franklin to the bibliography and extensive index that complete it, Legacy represents a major new contribution to African-American history. The Black experience and its impact on our nation's culture and character come alive in twelve chapters that sweep from ancient Africa... Read more >
Remember Me to Harlem
The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten
Written by Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten
Edited by Emily Bernard
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 5, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72707-8 (0-375-72707-8)
The Harlem Renaissance comes to vivid life in the spirited, 40-year-long correspondence between the black novelist and poet Langston Hughes and the music and dance critic Carl Van Vechten, a flamboyant white critic, writer and photographer.
Hughes was twenty-two and Van Vechten forty-four when they began a friendship that would last... Read more >
The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten
Written by Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten
Edited by Emily Bernard
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 5, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72707-8 (0-375-72707-8)
The Harlem Renaissance comes to vivid life in the spirited, 40-year-long correspondence between the black novelist and poet Langston Hughes and the music and dance critic Carl Van Vechten, a flamboyant white critic, writer and photographer.
Hughes was twenty-two and Van Vechten forty-four when they began a friendship that would last... Read more >
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The Ties That Bind
A Memoir of Race, Memory, and Redemption
Written by Bertice Berry
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2414-6 (0-7679-2414-2)
When novelist Bertice Berry set out to write a history of her family, she initially believed she’d uncover a story of slavery and black pain, but the deeper she dug, the more surprises she found. There was heartache, yes, but also something unexpected: hope. Peeling away the layers, Berry came to... Read more >
A Memoir of Race, Memory, and Redemption
Written by Bertice Berry
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2414-6 (0-7679-2414-2)
When novelist Bertice Berry set out to write a history of her family, she initially believed she’d uncover a story of slavery and black pain, but the deeper she dug, the more surprises she found. There was heartache, yes, but also something unexpected: hope. Peeling away the layers, Berry came to... Read more >
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My Face Is Black Is True
Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
Written by Mary Frances Berry
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27705-3 (0-307-27705-4)
“My face is black is true but its not my fault but I love my name and my honest in dealing with my fellow man.”
~Callie House (1899)
In her groundbreaking new book, My Face Is Black Is True, historian Mary Frances Berry resurrects the forgotten life of Callie House (1861–1928), ex-slave, widowed... Read more >
Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
Written by Mary Frances Berry
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27705-3 (0-307-27705-4)
“My face is black is true but its not my fault but I love my name and my honest in dealing with my fellow man.”
~Callie House (1899)
In her groundbreaking new book, My Face Is Black Is True, historian Mary Frances Berry resurrects the forgotten life of Callie House (1861–1928), ex-slave, widowed... Read more >
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Power in Words
The Stories behind Barack Obama's Speeches, from the State House to the White House
Written by Mary Frances Berry and Josh Gottheimer
Foreword by Theodore C. Sorensen
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0169-1 (0-8070-0169-4)
Selected as a 2011 University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries
•Rated O - Outstanding
The seminal speeches that helped catapult Barack Obama to the White House.
In Power in Words, distinguished historian and civil rights activist Mary Frances Berry and former presidential speechwriter Josh Gottheimer introduce Barack Obama’s most memorable speeches... Read more >
The Stories behind Barack Obama's Speeches, from the State House to the White House
Written by Mary Frances Berry and Josh Gottheimer
Foreword by Theodore C. Sorensen
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0169-1 (0-8070-0169-4)
Selected as a 2011 University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries
•Rated O - Outstanding
The seminal speeches that helped catapult Barack Obama to the White House.
In Power in Words, distinguished historian and civil rights activist Mary Frances Berry and former presidential speechwriter Josh Gottheimer introduce Barack Obama’s most memorable speeches... Read more >
Power in Words
The Stories behind Barack Obama's Speeches, from the State House to the White House
Written by Mary Frances Berry and Josh Gottheimer
Foreword by Theodore C. Sorensen
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0104-2 (0-8070-0104-X)
Selected as a 2011 University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries
•Rated O - Outstanding
Whatever his ratings, Obama remains personally popular, widely acknowledged for his soaring oratory. His words were one of the lasting legacies of his presidential campaign and are proving to be among his most effective governing weapons.
... Read more >
The Stories behind Barack Obama's Speeches, from the State House to the White House
Written by Mary Frances Berry and Josh Gottheimer
Foreword by Theodore C. Sorensen
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0104-2 (0-8070-0104-X)
Selected as a 2011 University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries
•Rated O - Outstanding
Whatever his ratings, Obama remains personally popular, widely acknowledged for his soaring oratory. His words were one of the lasting legacies of his presidential campaign and are proving to be among his most effective governing weapons.
... Read more >
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With Billie
A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day
Written by Julia Blackburn
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70580-9 (0-375-70580-5)
From Julia Blackburn, an author whose ability to conjure lives from other times and places is so vivid that one suspects she sees ghosts, here is a portrait of a woman whose voice continues to haunt anyone who hears it.
Billie Holiday’s life is inseparable from an account of her troubles, her... Read more >
A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day
Written by Julia Blackburn
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70580-9 (0-375-70580-5)
From Julia Blackburn, an author whose ability to conjure lives from other times and places is so vivid that one suspects she sees ghosts, here is a portrait of a woman whose voice continues to haunt anyone who hears it.
Billie Holiday’s life is inseparable from an account of her troubles, her... Read more >
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Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams
The Story of Black Hollywood
Written by Donald Bogle
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: January 31, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-45419-5 (0-345-45419-7)
In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle tells–for the first time–the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning sixty years, this history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them.
Through interviews... Read more >
The Story of Black Hollywood
Written by Donald Bogle
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: January 31, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-45419-5 (0-345-45419-7)
In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle tells–for the first time–the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning sixty years, this history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them.
Through interviews... Read more >
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eBook.
