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  • God's Scrivener

    The Madness & Meaning of Jones Very

    by Clark Davis ...
    A biography of a long-forgotten but vital American Transcendentalist poet.In September of 1838, a few months after Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his controversial Divinity School address, a twenty-five-year-old tutor and divinity student at Harvard named Jones Very stood before his beginning Greek class and proclaimed himself "the second coming." Over the next twenty months, despite a brief ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete and Collected Stories of William Goyen

    by William Goyen ...
    This collection of William Goyen's short stories collects all of the stories found in his four earlier collections (including his Collected Stories) as well as nine additional stories, bringing all of his previously published stories into one collection for the first time. With an introduction from Goyen's biographer, Clark Davis, this collections lays out Goyen's work in short fiction in a ... Read more

    $7.89 USD

  • Police Against the Movement

    The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back

    by Joshua Clark Davis ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence—and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century laterPolice Against the Movement shatters one of the most pernicious myths about the 1960s: that the civil rights movement endured police violence without fighting it. Instead, as Joshua Clark Davis ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Human Tradition in California

    Edited by Clark Davis, David Igler ...
    Series series The Human Tradition in America
    With a land mass one and half times larger than the United Kingdom, a population of more than thirty million, and an economy that would rank sixth among world nations, the history of the state of California demands a closer look.The Human Tradition in California captures the region's rich history and diversity, taking readers into the daily lives of ordinary Californians at key moments in time. ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Baltimore Revisited

    Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City

    by Lawrence Brown, Daniel L. Buccino, Michael Casiano, Sam Collins, Shannon Darrow, Matthew Durington, Nicole Fabricant, Aiden Faust, Jennifer A. Ferretti, Leif Fredrickson, Robert Gamble, Marisela Gomez, April K. Householder, Jodi Kelber- Kaye, Louise Parker Kelley, Emily Lieb, Jacob R. Levin, Teresa Méndez, Ashley Minner, Elizabeth M. Nix, Richard E. Otten, Eli Pousson, Mary Rizzo, Fred Scharmen, Aletheia Hyun-Jin Shin, Linda Shopes, Michelle L. Stefano, Joe Tropea, Amy Zanoni, Denise Meringolo, Robert Headley, Shawntay Stocks ...
    Nicknamed both “Mobtown” and “Charm City” and located on the border of the North and South, Baltimore is a city of contradictions. From media depictions in The Wire to the real-life trial of police officers for the murder of Freddie Gray, Baltimore has become a quintessential example of a struggling American city. Yet the truth about Baltimore is far more complicated—and more fascinating.To help ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Crazy About Sports: Volume I

    Great Memories of Special Players, Teams and Events

    by James Earl Hester Jr., William Clark Davis ...
    Crazy About Sports is a collection of sports stories about many colorful players, famous teams and special events during the early and mid stages of sports development in this country ranging from the late 1800s to late 1900s.If you like sports, you are sure to enjoy reading this unique collection of stories authored by James Earl Hester, Jr., and compiled and edited by William Clark Davis. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Crazy About Sports: Volume Iii

    Great Memories of Special Players, Teams and Events

    by James Earl Hester, Jr., William Clark Davis ...
    Crazy About Sports is a collection of sports stories about many colorful players, famous teams ad special events during the early and mid stages of sports development in this country ranging from the late 1800s tolate 1900s. If you like sports, you are sure to enjoy reading this unique collectiono of stories by James Earl Hester, Jr. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • It Starts with Trouble

    William Goyen and the Life of Writing

    by Clark Davis ...
    William Goyen was a writer of startling originality and deep artistic commitment whose work attracted an international audience and the praise of such luminaries as Northrop Frye, Truman Capote, Gaston Bachelard, and Joyce Carol Oates. His subject was the land and language of his native East Texas; his desire, to preserve the narrative music through which he came to know his world. Goyen sought to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • For the Records: How African American Consumers and Music Retailers Created Commercial Public Space in the 1960s and 1970s South

    An article from Southern Cultures 17:4, The Music Issue

    by Joshua Clark Davis ...
    “Record selling certainly had its glamorous moments; retailers could regale younger customers with stories of nightlife and even rubbing elbows with famous musicians and celebrities.”African-American owned and operated record stores once provided vibrant venues for their communities, and close to 1000 of these shops operated in the South during their heyday.This article appears in the 2011 Music ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    Police Against the Movement

    The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back (Politics and Society in Modern America)

    by Joshua Clark Davis ...
    Narrated by Victor Warren ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 13 min

    Police Against the Movement shatters one of the most pernicious myths about the 1960s: that the civil rights movement endured police violence without fighting it. Instead, as Joshua Clark Davis shows, activists from the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee confronted police abuses head-on, staging sit-ins at precinct stations, picketing outside department ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

    America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr ...
    In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin and George Washington, refused to acknowledge ... Read more

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  • G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

    by Beverly Gage ...
    **Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in BiographyWinner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and the 43rd LA Times Book Prize in Biography | Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyNamed a Best Book of 2022 by The Atlantic, The Washington Post and Smithsonian Magazine and a New York Times ... Read more

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