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Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster

Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster

by Dominique Lapierre

Dominique Lapierre, author of the international bestseller City of Joy, chronicles the unforgettable story of the tragic industrial accident in Bhopal, India, that killed nearly 30,000 people. It was December 3, 1984. In the ancient city of Bhopal, a cloud of toxic gas escaped from an American pesticide plant, killing and injuring thousands of people. When the noxious clouds cleared, the worst industrial disaster... (more)

This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie (Golden Kite Awards (Awards))

This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie (Golden Kite Awards (Awards))

by Elizabeth Partridge

Before Springsteen and before Dylan, there was Woody Guthrie. With "This Machine Kills Fascists," scrawled across his guitar in big black letters, Woody Guthrie brilliantly captured in song the experience of twentieth-century America. Whether he sang about union organizers, migrant workers, or war, Woody took his inspiration from the plights of the people around him as well as from his own tragic childhood. ... (more)

Lennon Revealed

by Larry Kane

A quarter of a century after his death, the questions remain: what was John Lennon really like, what drove him to the heights of creativity and the depths of despair, and why do his music and message still resonate for millions around the world? Now acclaimed broadcast journalist and author Larry Kane uncovers the mysteries of Lennon’s life and implodes the myths surrounding it. Kane definitely has the right... (more)

The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Vintage)

The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Vintage)

by David K. Shipler

“Nobody who works hard should be poor in America,” writes Pulitzer Prize winner David Shipler. Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat-shop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student loans and paltry wages. They are known as the working poor. They perform... (more)

Dylan: Visions, Portraits, & Back Pages

by Mark Blake

See one of the greatest songwriter's like you've never seen him before! This incredible celebration takes an in-depth look at the illustrious career of Dylan from 1965 to the present.

1968: The Year That Rocked the World

by Mark Kurlansky

To some, 1968 was the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; the generation gap; avant-garde theater; the upsurge of the women’s movement; and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. In... (more)

Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies

Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies

by David L. Robb

This is the most important book ever written about Hollywood. It uncovers a secret collaboration between Hollywood and the military that has been going on for more than fifty years. Based on thousands of pages of Pentagon documents and interviews with filmmakers and military officials, OPERATION HOLLYWOOD reveals that many of your favorite movies and television shows have been shaped, sanitized, and censored by... (more)

Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

by Charles R. Cross

Now in paperback, the national bestselling biography of American musical icon Jimi Hendrix It has been more than thirty-five years since Jimi Hendrix died, but his music and spirit are still very much alive for his fans everywhere. Charles R. Cross vividly recounts the life of Hendrix, from his difficult childhood and adolescence in Seattle through his incredible rise to celebrity in London’s swinging... (more)

Their Kingdom Come: Inside the Secret World of Opus Dei

Their Kingdom Come: Inside the Secret World of Opus Dei

by Robert A. Hutchison

An illuminating exposé of Opus Dei, the secretive sect operating at the heart of the Roman Catholic Church To the outside world, Opus Dei claims that its only goal is “to remind all people that they are called to holiness, especially through work and ordinary life.” But with an elite membership of 90,000 and influences reaching around the globe, Opus Dei has far greater potential power than its leaders are... (more)

13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings

13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings

by Philip Caputo

Thirteen seconds passed. Sixty-seven shots were fired. One nation watched . . . On May 4, 1970, Ohio's Kent State University was in chaos following President Richard Nixon's announcement that the U.S. bombing of Cambodia would continue, with student protesters on one side and the National Guard on the other. That day, young Chicago Tribune reporter Philip Caputo had been sent to the campus to cover what... (more)

Timelines: Day by Day and Trend by Trend from the Dawn of the Atomic Age to the Gulf WarPaul Dickson

Timelines: Day by Day and Trend by Trend from the Dawn of the Atomic Age to the Gulf War

by Paul Dickson

Who Killed John Lennon?Fenton Bresler

Who Killed John Lennon?

by Fenton S. Bresler

Bresler, a British lawyer, believes tht Mark Chapman, assassin of John Lennon, was no "lone nut" but was programmed by the CIA, through drugs and hypnosis, to carry out the murder. The N.Y.C. police lieutenant who interrogated Chapman the night of the slaying in 1980 is quoted here as saying: "He looked as if he could have been programmed." Bresler builds an entirely circumstantial case without a shred of hard... (more)

John Lennon and the FBI Files

by Phil Strongman

Once the Beatles split up, John Lennon found time to explore his strong political activist side. Moving to New York City, he and wife Yoko Ono befriended a host of activists and writers with a variety of agendas, encouraging and supporting them to such an extent that the FBI took notice. What followed was an escalating, and often bizarre, series of harassments – apartment bugging, deportation orders, attempted... (more)

All Governments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone

All Governments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone

by Myra MacPherson

Boasting equal parts scholarship and style, "All Governments Lie" is a highly readable, groundbreaking, and timely look at I. F. Stone -- one of America's most independent and revered journalists, whose work carries the same immediacy it did almost a half century ago, highlighting the ever-present need for dissenting voices. In the world of Washington political journalism, notorious for trading independence for... (more)

THE ARMS BAZAAR From Lebanon to Lockheed.Anthony Sampson

THE ARMS BAZAAR From Lebanon to Lockheed.

by Anthony Sampson

Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

by Martin A. Lee, Bruce Shlain

Acid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain's exhaustively researched and astonishing account-part of it gleaned from secret government files-tells how the CIA became obsessed with LSD as an espionage weapon during the early l950s and launched a massive covert research program, in which countless unwitting citizens were... (more)

Shakey: Neil Young's Biography

by Jimmy McDonough

Neil Young is one of rock and roll’s most important and enigmatic figures, a legend from the sixties who is still hugely influential today. He has never granted a writer access to his inner life – until now. Based on six years of interviews with more than three hundred of Young’s associates, and on more than fifty hours of interviews with Young himself, Shakey is a fascinating, prodigious account of the singer’s... (more)

Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer

Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer

by Edward Jay Epstein

The meticulously documented expos of a celebrated American philanthropist - and traitor - that reads like a classic thriller. New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Financial Times Book Award The dossier on Hammer tells another story. With unprecedented access to the files of both American and Soviet intelligence agencies as well as Hammer's own secretly taped conversations,... (more)

American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate and Beyond

American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate and Beyond

by Greg Aunapu

Startling revelations from the OSS, the CIA, and the Nixon White house Think you know everything there is to know about the OSS, the Cold War, the CIA, and Watergate? Think again. In American Spy , one of the key figures in postwar international and political espionage tells all. Former OSS and CIA operative and White House staffer E. Howard Hunt takes you into the covert designs of Presidents... (more)

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

by Paulo Freire

This text argues that the ignorance and lethargy of the poor are the direct result of the whole economic, social and political domination. The book suggests that in some countries the oppressors use the system to maintain a 'culture of silence'. Through the right kind of education, the book suggests, avoiding authoritarian teacher-pupil models and based on the actual experiences of students and on continual shared... (more)

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