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  • FDR and the New Deal For Beginners

    Series series For Beginners
    A profusely illustrated popularly-written volume with original comic art FDR and the New Deal For Beginners will shed new light upon a story now regaining visibility thanks to the recent economic crisis and prominent reformer President Obama in the White House.The history of the precedent-making FDR administration through the bitter economic depression with expansive programs empowering artists ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Partisans

    A Graphic History of Anti-Fascist Resistance

    Edited by Raymond Tyler, Paul Buhle ...
    With eleven brand new comics created by legendary and upcoming writers and comics artists, Partisans flips a new page in the popular understanding of anti-Nazi and anti-fascist resistance. Through vivid illustrations and compelling narratives, Partisans brings to life the struggles and triumphs of those who resisted fascism. Within these pages, readers will encounter stories of resistance from the ... Read more

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  • The Art of Harvey Kurtzman

    The Mad Genius of Comics

    The definitive anthology of the pioneering cartoonist and creator of Mad magazine, featuring 100s of classic and never-before-seeen illustrations.It's difficult to overstate Harvey Kurtzman's influence on pop culture. He discovered Robert Crumb and gave Gloria Steinem her first job in publishing. Terry Gilliam also started at his side, where he met John Cleese, and the genesis of Monty Python was ... Read more

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  • Yiddishkeit

    Jewish Vernacular & the New Land

    A "fascinating and enlightening" collection of comics and writings that explore the Yiddish language and the Jewish experience ( The Miami Herald).We hear words like nosh, schlep, and schmutz, but how did they come to pepper American English? In Yiddishkeit, Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle trace the far-reaching influences of Yiddish from medieval Europe to the tenements of New York's Lower East Side. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Black Schooner

    Rebellion on the Amistad, A Graphic Novel

    A stunning graphic history of how enslaved Africans on board the Amistad rebelled and captured the slave ship in 1839, challenging a whitewashed version of history and putting the Africans back at the center of their own freedom storyFrom the trio of Rediker, Lester, and Buhle comes another graphic “history from below” about the Amistad rebellion of 1839 when 53 enslaved Africans on the slave ship ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Len, A Lawyer in History

    A Graphic Biography of Radical Attorney Leonard Weinglass

    For half a century, criminal defense lawyer Leonard Weinglass defended a who’s who of the twentieth-century left in some of America’s most spectacular trials. The typical call I get is one that starts by saying, You’re the fifth attorney we’ve called,’” he once said. Then I get interested.” Those calls came from the likes of the SDS, the Chicago Seven, Daniel Ellsberg, Abbie Hoffman, and Mumia Abu ... Read more

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  • Lincoln For Beginners

    by Paul Buhle ...
    There is no greater symbol of the American presidency than Abraham Lincoln. Though Lincoln himself his personality the sources of his dedication and his idealism remains very much a mystery. The sudden rise to world stature of a hard-traveling lawyer from the frontier with no prominent family or social connections to back him was a wonder of the age.Well over a thousand books about Lincoln have ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On the Ground

    An Illustrated Anecdotal History of the Sixties Underground Press in the U.S.

    by Paul Buhle ...
    In four short years (1965–1969), the underground press grew from five small newspapers in as many cities in the U.S. to over 500 newspapers—with millions of readers—all over the world. Completely circumventing (and subverting) establishment media by utilizing their own news service and freely sharing content amongst each other, the underground press, at its height, became the unifying institution ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A People's History of American Empire

    A Graphic Adaptation

    Series series American Empire Project
    Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics form.Since its landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has had six new editions, sold more than 1.7 million copies, become required classroom reading throughout the country, and been turned into an acclaimed play. More than a successful book, A ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • From the Knights of Labor to the New World Order

    Essays on Labor and Culture

    by Paul Buhle ...
    Series series Labor in America
    This collection brings together the labor and cultural studies of the author over the past 20 years, during which time the fields of social history, women's history, ethnic studies, public history, and oral history have all been transformed. The essays, some rewritten or newly available and the rest original to this volume, offer important examples of historical analysis, comment on changing ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • "We Called Each Other Comrade"

    Charles H. Kerr & Company, Radical Publishers

    by Allen Ruff ...
    This is the history of the most significant translator, publisher, and distributor of left-wing literature in the United States. Based in Chicago and still publishing, Charles H. Kerr & Company began in 1886 as a publisher of Unitarian tracts. The company's focus changed after its founder, the son of abolitionist activists, became a socialist at the turn of the century.Tracing Kerr's political ... Read more

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  • C.L.R. James

    The Artist as Revolutionary

    A new edition of C.L.R. James’s authorized biographyC.L.R. James was a man of prodigious and varied accomplishments. He was a protean twentieth-century Marxist intellectual, widely recognized as a pioneering scholar of slave revolt; a leading voice of Pan-Africanism; a peripatetic revolutionary and scholar active in US and UK radical movements; a novelist, playwright, and critic; and one of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD