Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
10 best books like Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom (Keisha N. Blain): Superman Smashes The Klan, The Souls of Black Folk, Moon Knight, Vol. 1: From the Dead, New Jewish Wedding, Revised, Pressure is a Privilege: Lessons I've Learned from Life and the Battle of the Sexes, John Lennon: The Life, Unfettered Hope: A Call to Faithful Living in an Affluent Society, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir, Wonderful Tonight, I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg
Superman Smashes The Klan
| Author | Gene Luen Yang |
| ISBN | 1401298419 |
The year is 1946, and the Lee family has moved from Chinatown to Downtown Metropolis. While Dr. Lee is eager to begin his new position at the Metropolis Health Department, his two kids, Roberta and Tommy, are more excited about being closer to the famous superhero Superman!
Tommy adjusts quickly...
This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently...
Moon Knight, Vol. 1: From the Dead
| Author | Warren Ellis |
| ISBN | 0785154086 |
Marc Spector is Moon Knight! Or is he? It’s hard to tell these days, especially when New York’s wildest vigilante protects the street with two-fisted justice and three — that’s right, count ’em — three different personalities! But even with the mystical force of Egyptian moon-god Khonshu...
New Jewish Wedding, Revised
| Author | Anita Diamant |
| ISBN | 0743202554 |
The Definitive, Completely Up-to-Date Guide to Planning a Jewish Wedding
Since its original publication in 1986, The New Jewish Wedding has become required reading, assigned to engaged couples by Conservative, Reform, and Reconstruc-tionist rabbis alike. In this new revision, Anita Diamant,...
Pressure is a Privilege: Lessons I've Learned from Life and the Battle of the Sexes
| Author | Billie Jean King |
| ISBN | 0981636802 |
Billie Jean King's victory over Bobby Riggs in the "Battle of the Sexes" was a pivotal moment in gender relations for generations of American women and men. But her journey to the "Battle of the Sexes" was no accident. Now, for the first time ever, Billie Jean shares the life lessons that led to her success...
For more than a quarter century, biographer Philip Norman's internationally bestselling Shout! has been unchallenged as the definitive biography of the Beatles. Now, at last, Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom being a Beatle was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped...
Unfettered Hope: A Call to Faithful Living in an Affluent Society
| Author | Marva J. Dawn |
| ISBN | 0664225950 |
In this prophetic call to faithful Christian living, Marva Dawn identifies the epidemic socio-cultural attitudes that destroy hope in our modern lives. Because affluent persons don't know what to value--how to choose what's important and weed out the rest--we remain dissatisfied with what we have...
| Author | Joyce Johnson |
| ISBN | 0140283579 |
Jack Kerouac. Allen Ginsberg. William S. Burroughs. LeRoi Jones. Theirs are the names primarily associated with the Beat Generation. But what about Joyce Johnson (nee Glassman), Edie Parker, Elise Cowen, Diane Di Prima, and dozens of others? These female friends and lovers of the famous iconoclasts...
| Author | Pattie Boyd |
| ISBN | 0307393844 |
3.5 Stars
I typically only read and review romance and SMUT. Duh.
But if I'm reading any other genre, it's usually Biography, namely those related to sports and musicians.
Pattie Boyd, an English model, was the wife of two of the best musicians of all time: George Harrison...
| Author | Bill Morgan |
| ISBN | 0670037966 |
Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Howl, the first full biography of Allen Ginsberg—from birth to death
Allen Ginsberg was America’s most influential poet since World War II, a figure who was in the vanguard of every popular movement of that time, from the emergence...
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
| Author | James Q. Whitman |
| ISBN | 0691172420 |
How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany
Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman...
The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented election, the country's youth are in crisis. Senator Ben Sasse warns the nation about the existential threat to America's future.
Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents and coddled...
| Author | Meyer Levin |
| ISBN | 1941493025 |
Judd Steiner and Artie Straus have it all: wealth, intelligence, and the world at their feet as part of the elite, upper-crust Jewish community of 1920s Chicago. Artie is handsome, athletic, and popular, but he possesses a hidden, powerful sadistic streak and a desire to dominate. Judd is a weedy introvert,...
Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History
| Author | Karl Jacoby |
| ISBN | 1594201935 |
Shadows at Dawn is the fascinating story-actually four stories, a southwestern Rashomon-of the massacre of Apaches near Tueson on April 30, 1871, by Anglos, Mexicans, and other Indians. Extending over four hundred years, centering on that awful event, this book is impressively researched and a...
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
| Author | John Mortimer |
| ISBN | 0143036114 |
The Rumpole renaissance continues to build, and now the beloved barrister’s many followers have a special reason to rejoice: a sensational full-length Rumpole novel that at last relates the oft-mentioned but never revealed story of Rumpole’s first case, the Penge Bungalow affair. Looking...
A New Moral Vision: Gender, Religion, and the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education, 1837-1917
| Author | Andrea Lindsay Turpin |
| ISBN | 1501704788 |
In A New Moral Vision, Andrea L. Turpin explores how the entrance of women into U.S. colleges and universities shaped changing ideas about the moral and religious purposes of higher education in unexpected ways, and in turn profoundly shaped American culture. In the decades before the Civil War, evangelical...
Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas
| Author | Daina Berry |
| ISBN | 0820354023 |
In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in...
Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail
| Author | Jonathan Chait |
| ISBN | 0062426990 |
An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America’s best and most accomplished presidents.
Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama amassed an array of historic achievements. His administration saved the American economy from collapse,...
Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic
| Author | Emily Conroy-Krutz |
| ISBN | 0801453534 |
In 1812, eight American missionaries, under the direction of the recently formed American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, sailed from the United States to South Asia. The plans that motivated their voyage were ano less grand than taking part in the Protestant conversion of the entire...
Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation
| Author | Amanda Porterfield |
| ISBN | 0226675122 |
Americans have long acknowledged a deep connection between evangelical religion and democracy in the early days of the republic. This is a widely accepted narrative that is maintained as a matter of fact and tradition—and in spite of evangelicalism’s more authoritarian and reactionary aspects.
...
Unfriending My Ex: And Other Things I'll Never Do
| Author | Kim Stolz |
| ISBN | 1476761787 |
An incisive, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir about life online and about how our obsessive connectivity is making us more disconnected;from former reality show contestant, MTV VJ, restauranteur, and go-to voice for millenials.
Social media and technology have fundamentally altered...
Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy
| Author | Kyle G. Volk |
| ISBN | 0199371911 |
Should the majority always rule? If not, how should the rights of minorities be protected? In Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy, Kyle G. Volk unearths the origins of modern ideas and practices of minority-rights politics. Focusing on controversies spurred by the explosion of...
| Author | Susan Reynolds |
| ISBN | 1605506281 |
This collection contains fifty stories written by people who attended the original Woodstock Festival in 1969. Since all the books that preceded it have focused on the musicians, promoters, and staff, this book will be the first one that chronicles the audience’s experience in an up close and personal...
The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time
| Author | Arianna Huffington |
| ISBN | 1101904003 |
We are in the midst of a sleep deprivation crisis, writes Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post. And this has profound consequences – on our health, our job performance, our relationships and our happiness.
What is needed, she boldly asserts, is nothing...
Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America
Winner, 2017 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies presented by the Jewish Book Council
Finalist, 2017 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, presented by the Jewish Book Council
An engaging history of how Jews forged their own religious culture on the...
The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah"
| Author | Alan Light |
| ISBN | 1451657862 |
“A venerated creator. An adored, tragic interpreter. An uncomplicated, memorable melody. Ambiguous, evocative words. Faith and uncertainty. Pain and pleasure.” Today, “Hallelujah” is one of the most-performed rock songs in history. It has become a staple of movies and television shows...
Take Me Home: An Autobiography
| Author | John Denver |
| ISBN | 0517595370 |
In a career that has spanned twenty-five years, John Denver has earned international acclaim as a singer, songwriter, actor, and environmental activist. Songs like "Take Me Home, Country Roads," "Rocky Mountain High," and "Annie's Song" have entered the canon of universal anthems, but less than...
FDR and the Holocaust A Breach of Faith
President Franklin Roosevelt was admired as a humanitarian--yet he shut America's doors to Jews fleeing the Holocaust. He called himself the champion of "the forgotten man," but when it came to the Jews under Hitler's jackboot, FDR turned away.
Dr. Rafael Medoff's new book reveals starting...
I Got a Song: A History of the Newport Folk Festival (Music/Interview)
Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the recent past. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive and systematic overview of oral history theory in an accessible format.
The book is structured around key themes, including the peculiarities...
