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  • Hot Stuff

    Disco and the Remaking of American Culture

    by Alice Echols ...
    Disco thumps back to life in this pulsating look at the culture and politics that gave rise to the music.In the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed America, the question, “Do you wanna dance?” became divisive, even explosive. What was it about this music that made it such hot stuff? In this incisive history, Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco, assumed to be shallow and disposable, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Black Power, White Heat

    From Solidarity Politics to Radical Chic

    by Alice Echols ...
    A rich history of cross-racial coalitions and alliances of the Sixties' freedom movement, acclaimed historian Alice Echols's Black Power, White Heat reshapes our understanding of the entire era. One of the most divisive issues in recent progressive politics has been what role, if any, allies might legitimately play in other people's movements. Despite the significance of this debate, it has taken ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Scars of Sweet Paradise

    The Life and Times of Janis Joplin

    by Alice Echols ...
    Janis Joplin was the skyrocket chick of the sixties, the woman who broke into the boys' club of rock and out of the stifling good-girl femininity of postwar America. With her incredible wall-of-sound vocals, Joplin was the voice of a generation, and when she OD'd on heroin in October 1970, a generation's dreams crashed and burned with her. Alice Echols pushes past the legary Joplin-the red-hot ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Shortfall

    Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking

    by Alice Echols ...
    The rollicking true story of a 1930s version of Bernie Madoff—and the building and loan crash he helped precipitate—in a wonderful work of narrative nonfiction by the Gustavus Myers book award winnerShortfall opens with a surprise discovery in an attic—boxes filled with letters and documents hidden for more than seventy years—and launches into a fast-paced story that uncovers the dark secrets in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Daring to Be Bad

    Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

    by Alice Echols ...
    Winner of Outstanding Book Award of Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human RightsAn award-winning and canonical history of radical feminism, whose activist heat and intellectual audacity powered second-wave feminism—30th anniversary editionA fascinating chronicle of radical feminism’s rise and fall from the mid-Sixties to the mid-Seventies, Daring to Be Bad is a must-read for both students ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Shortfall

    Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking

    by Alice Echols ...
    The rollicking true story of a 1930s version of Bernie Madoff—and the building and loan crash he helped precipitate—in a wonderful work of narrative nonfiction by the Gustavus Myers book award winnerShortfall opens with a surprise discovery in an attic—boxes filled with letters and documents hidden for more than seventy years—and launches into a fast-paced story that uncovers the dark secrets in ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Daring to Be Bad, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

    Radical Feminism in America, 1967–1975

    by Alice Echols ...
    Narrated by Bernadette Dunne ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 9 min

    An award-winning and canonical history of radical feminism, whose activist heat and intellectual audacity powered second-wave feminism—thirtieth anniversary editionA fascinating chronicle of radical feminism’s rise and fall from the mid-60s to the mid-70s, Daring to Be Bad is a must-listen for both students of gender history and activists of intersectionality. This thirtieth anniversary edition ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Black Power, White Heat

    From Solidarity Politics to Radical Chic

    by Alice Echols ...
    Narrated by Misty Monroe ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 49 min

    A rich history of cross-racial coalitions and alliances of the Sixties' freedom movement, acclaimed historian Alice Echols's Black Power, White Heat reshapes our understanding of the entire era.In Black Power, White Heat, the Sixties historian Alice Echols explores what happened some sixty years ago when whites and Blacks came together in the fight against racism. She tells this story by focusing ... Read more

    $24.99 USD