Three Negro Classics
10 best books like Three Negro Classics (W.E.B. Du Bois): A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau), Brown V. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy, Daring Spectacle: Adventures in Deviant Journalism, Shamans Through Time, The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection, The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism, The Philosopher's Handbook: Essential Readings from Plato to Kant, Hughes: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets), The Unabridged Jack London, Sixes and Sevens - The Complete Works of O. Henry - Vol. VII
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
| Author | Henry David Thoreau |
| ISBN | 0691118787 |
At times this work seems a leisurely pastoral, at times a zoological exploration. Of most interest to me, however, are the times when Thoreau uses his travels as a framework on which to construct philosophical musings only tangentially related to the trip itself; for example, he has a fascinating long...
Brown V. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy
| Author | James T. Patterson |
| ISBN | 0195156323 |
2004 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision to end segregation in public schools. Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial...
The Daring Spectacle is award-winning San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate columnist and culture critic Mark Morford’s hilarious modern record of sex and media, politics and pop culture, love and lust, as told in ninety-two delectable parts—not including all the delicious photos and terrifying...
| Author | Jeremy Narby |
| ISBN | 1585423629 |
A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries.
This collection of essays traces Western civilization's struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of...
| Author | Clifton Fadiman |
| ISBN | 0395368057 |
At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of...
| Author | Kevin Kerrane |
| ISBN | 0684846306 |
This fascinating compilation of the journalist's art unites the reporter's magnificent eye for detail with the novelist's gift for storytelling. Featuring eyewitness accounts of war and social revolution, profiles of sports heroes and politicians, and eye-opening investigations into both...
| Author | Stanley Rosen |
| ISBN | 0375720111 |
An ideal introduction for the casual reader and a beneficial reference for the student, The Philosopher's Handbook features the writings of some of the world's most influential philosophers. Based on the premise that all human beings are curious about their existence, Rosen's collection brings...
| Author | Langston Hughes |
| ISBN | 0375405518 |
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, this volume is a...
| Author | Jack London |
| ISBN | 0894711245 |
THE UNABRIDGED JACK LONDON is a comprehensive collection of Jack London's sprawling, timeless fiction. Included here, in addition to his classic novels and short story collections, is a group of "uncollected" short stories, some of which have never appeared in book form. We have sought, wherever...
| Author | O. Henry |
| ISBN | 1443781800 |
ENGLISH: In this collection of 25 stories by O.Henry, I liked three of them specially:
"Ulysses and the dogman" about a dog-walker who meets an old friend and says once too many "make it two."
"The duplicity of Hargraves" about a very special actor and an old southern major.
"The...
| Author | Felix Gilbert |
| ISBN | 0393976424 |
I read this book years ago and have now reread the first part, the one related to WW1. The “Present” alluded to in the title is the 1970s.
Felix Gilbert (1905-1991) was a half German half British historian who became American in the 1930s. His mother was the granddaughter of...
| Author | Eugene F. Rice Jr. |
| ISBN | 0393963047 |
In this compact study of the Renaissance and Reformation, Eugene F. Rice, Jr. draws together the main lines of change that account for a period of rapid transition from medieval civilization to early modern. From a chapter on science, technology, and the voyages of exploration, Professor Rice goes...
| Author | Robert Paul Wolff |
| ISBN | 0451528301 |
In its vast scope, this book presents the continuum of Western philosophy. Ranging from ancient Greece to nineteenth-century America, it traces the history of our civilization through the seminal works of its most influential thinkers. Each philosopher in this volume made intellectual history;...
| Author | Bernard Mandeville |
| ISBN | 0872203743 |
This edition includes, in addition to the most pertinent sections of The Fable's two volumes, a selection from Mandeville's An Enquiry into the Origin of Honor and selections from two of Mandeville’s most important sources: Pierre Bayle and the Jansenist Pierre Nicole. Hundert's Introduction...
| Author | Agnes Smedley |
| ISBN | 0935312684 |
This gritty autobiographical novel recreates the amazing life story of an American working class woman. Revered writer and activist Agnes Smedley worked to advance the cause of human justice on three continents as a writer and political activist. Here, she relives in fictionalized form her first...
| Author | David Levering Lewis |
| ISBN | 0140263349 |
The decade and a half that followed World War I was a time of tremendous optimism in Harlem. It was a time when Langston Hughes, Eubie Blake, Marcus Garvey, Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Robeson, and countless others made their indelible mark on the landscape of American culture: African Americans made their...
The Women Jefferson Loved
| Author | Virginia Scharff |
| ISBN | 0061227072 |
“A focused, fresh spin on Jeffersonian biography.” —Kirkus Reviews
In the tradition of Annette Gordon-Reed’s The Hemingses of Monticello and David McCullough’s John Adams, historian Virginia Scharff offers a compelling, highly readable multi-generational biography revealing...
Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House That Jefferson Built
When Thomas Jefferson died on the Fourth of July 1826 -- the nation's fiftieth birthday -- he was more than $100,000 in debt. Forced to sell thousands of acres of his lands and nearly all of his furniture and artwork, in 1831 his heirs bid a final goodbye to Monticello itself. The house their illustrious...
Watchman Nee: Man of Suffering
| Author | Bob Laurent |
| ISBN | 1577482239 |
This biography of Chinese pastor and martyr Watchman Nee was surprising to me in a lot of ways. One major way was that it ruined a song I used to like. It appears that Watchman Nee’s wife died a few months before the good pastor died in prison. The song I liked was written as though it was a word of comfort to...
The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations
| Author | Ira Berlin |
| ISBN | 0670021377 |
A leading historian offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four centuries
Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of...
| Author | Geoffrey C. Ward |
| ISBN | 0375405615 |
A fantastic look into the life of Mark Twain. He was clever and witty but not always wise. The man was a gambler at heart. I saw the monster "type-writer" that he invested huge amounts of money in at the museum/home in Hartford Connecticut. He had lots of good ideas, but was ahead of his time. That type-writer...
The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
| Author | John W. Blassingame |
| ISBN | 0195025636 |
It was hard making it through this book. I gave it three stars instead of two for a couple of reasons. One is that I did learn from it, and found information that I had not previously known. The other is that the book contains a "Critical Essay on Sources" which is great, not just for the wide selection of sources...
The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861
| Author | Carter G. Woodson |
| ISBN | 1886433380 |
A real find. Carter G. Woodson is called the father of African American Studies and wrote this book in the early 20th century. He documents how African Americans received education before 1861. When slaves were brought over there was a need for them to do work such as book keeping and records by their masters....
| Author | Karl Harter |
| ISBN | 1558176462 |
I found this, strangely, because someone made a comment about one of the local 'massage parlors' on facebook: The Rising Sun. (Which, like the Geisha House, is still in business.) It was a 'yeah, you ever hear about that lady that worked there who murdered two clients?'
I've lived in Madison...
