For nearly a decade Ralph Bunche, United Nations Under-Secretary, was the most celebrated contemporary African American, both domestically and internationally, but today he is virtually forgotten. This biography sets out to recapture the essence of his service to America and the world.
Ralph Miliband (1924-94) played a key role within the political and intellectual community of the Left, both in Britain and North America. This work provides debates and dilemmas of socialists from World War II until the collapse of communism.
The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln & Charles Darwin
12 February 2009, will mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of two of the extraordinary and influential men in history - Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. This title examines the lives and careers of Lincoln (the political rebel) and Darwin (the scientific rebel), and notes.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century. While his life and work are crucial to any understanding of modern history and the socialist movement, generations of writers on the left and the right have seen fit to embalm him endlessly with superficial analysis or dreary dogma. Now, after the ......
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century. While his life and work are crucial to any understanding of modern history and the socialist movement, generations of writers on the left and the right have seen fit to embalm him endlessly with superficial analysis or dreary dogma. Now, after the ......
Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamai
Reveals the experiences of black sailors and their contribution to the struggle for labour and civil rights, the history of the Communist Party and its black members, and the significant dimensions of Jamaican labour and political radicalism.
Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamai
Gerald Horne draws on the life of Ferdinand Smith, the Jamaican-born co-founder and second-in-command of the National Maritime Union (NMU), to make connections between labor radicalism and the Civil Rights Movement - demonstrating that the gains of the latter were propelled by the former and undermined by anticommunism.
The first African American to head a branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL), Regina Andrews led an extraordinary life. Allied with W. E. B. Du Bois, she fought for promotion and equal pay against entrenched sexism and racism. Andrews also played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance, supporting writers and intellectuals with dedicated ......
A Boy's Memoir of Life with the Powhatans and the Patawomecks
A memoir of one of America's first adventurers, a young boy who acted as a link between the Jamestown colonists and the Patawomecks and Powhatans. "Being in displeasure of my friends, and desirous to see other countries, after three months sail we come with prosperous winds in sight of Virginia." So begins the fascinating tale of Henry Spelman, ......
