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  • The Color of Law

    Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights

    Series series Great Lakes Books
    Biography of Ernie Goodman, a Detroit lawyer and political activist who played a key role in social justice cases.In a working life that spanned half a century, Ernie Goodman was one of the nation's preeminent defense attorneys for workers and the militant poor. His remarkable career put him at the center of the struggle for social justice in the twentieth century, from the sit-down strikes of the ... Read more

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  • Working Detroit

    Working Detroit documents the events in the city's ongoing struggle to build an industrial society that is both prosperous and humane.Babson recounts Detroit's odyssey from a bulwark of the "open shop" to the nation's foremost "union town." Through words and pictures, Working Detroit documents the events in the city's ongoing struggle to build an industrial society that is both prosperous and ... Read more

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  • Coming Up Short

    A Memoir of My America

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From political economist, cabinet member, beloved professor, media presence, and bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, a deeply felt, compelling memoir of growing up in a baby-boom America that made progress in certain areas, fell short in so many important ways, and still has lots of work to do"Important and galvanizing.” —Senator Bernie ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Before the Storm

    Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

    “A detailed and dramatic narrative of the rise of the modern right...It's an amazing story, and Perlstein, a man of the left, does it justice” (William Kristol, The New York Times Book Review)Before the Storm begins at the tail end of the 1950s, with America affluent, confident, and convinced that political ideology was a thing of the past.But when John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960, ... Read more

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  • Goliath

    The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

    by Matt Stoller ...
    Series series Must-Read American History
    “Every thinking American must read” (The Washington Book Review) this startling and “insightful” (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American politics, and business.Going back to our country’s founding, Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny, one crafted by Thomas Jefferson and updated for the industrial ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Hardball

    How Politics Is Played Told By One Who Knows The Game

    How politics is played by one who knows the game...Chris Matthews has spent a quarter century on the playing field of American politics—from right-hand man of Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill to host of NBC's highest rated cable talk show Hardball. In this revised and updated edition of his political classic, he offers fascinating new stories of raw ambition, brutal rivalry, and exquisite ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Detroit

    A Biography

    At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub—and then the bottom fell out. Detroit : A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. This authoritative yet accessible narrative seeks to explain how the city ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where We Go from Here

    Two Years in the Resistance

    The inspiring national bestseller from the U. S. Senator and leading Democratic candidate for president—about the fierce fight for democracy and social justice, and what we need to do next.In Where We Go from Here, New York Times bestselling author Bernie Sanders reveals the blueprint for his 2020 presidential run by chronicling the day-by-day struggles that he and his progressive colleagues have ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Making of the President, 1972

    Series series The Landmark Political Series
    The classic you-are-there account of the Nixon-McGovern election by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times–bestselling author: "A brilliant analysis." — CommentaryThe Making of the President 1972 chronicles both the Democratic and the Republican parties as they jockeyed for position toward the end of Richard M. Nixon's turbulent first term. Theodore White illuminates the cinematic moments that ... Read more

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  • The Origins of the Urban Crisis

    Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition

    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    The reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Sack of Detroit

    General Motors and the End of American Enterprise

    by Kenneth Whyte ...
    **"Vigorous, provocative... The Sack of Detroit is compelling, bold and stylishly written."—Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street JournalA provocative, revelatory history of the epic rise—and unnecessary fall—of the U.S. automotive industry, uncovering the vivid story of innovation, politics, and business that led to a sudden, seismic shift in American priorities that is still felt today, from the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Choice Not an Echo

    Updated and Expanded 50th Anniversary Edition

    Over 3 Million Copies Sold!Celebrate 50 years since the release of Phyllis Schlafly's monumental A Choice Not an Echo, the book that launched the conservative resurgence of the late 20th century. This special updated and expanded edition contains 50 percent new material placing the book in its historical context and applying the book's lessons to the issues of today. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD