"Forgotten Peace examines Colombian society's attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere's worst mid-century conflict and how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past. In this book, Robert A. Karl reconstructs encounters between government offici…
Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, Jame…
James Smethurst examines the formation of the Black Arts Movement and demonstrates how it influenced the production and reception of literature and art in the US. The Movement, he argues, changed American attitudes to the relationship between popular culture and "high" art and t…
"Architects of Austerity argues that the seeds of neoliberal politics were sown in the 1950s and 1960s. Suggesting that the postwar era was less socially democratic than we think, Aaron Major presents a comparative-historical analysis of economic policy in the United States, the…
How did Ronald Reagan go from being a Hollywood actor to one of the most formidable campaigners in American history? Before 1966, the idea of Reagan in politics provoked widespread scorn. To most people, he seemed a has-been actor, a right-wing extremist and a 'dunce'. Journalis…
How did Ronald Reagan go from being a Hollywood actor to one of the most formidable campaigners in American history? Before 1966, the idea of Reagan in politics provoked widespread scorn. To most people, he seemed a has-been actor, a right-wing extremist and a 'dunce'. Journalis…
Details the brutal 1965 torture slaying of Sylvia Likens and the abuse to which the victim had been subjected by Gertrude Baniszewski, the woman with whom she had been staying, as well as some of Gertrude's children and neighbors.
Let it bleed
by Richards, Keith, Jagger, Mick, Rolling Stones
fromAlfred's classic album editions
