There’s A Riot Going On

Peter Doggett     2009     608p     6 x 9 Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. While the Vietnam War raged, calls for black power grew louder and liberation movements erupted everywhere from Berkeley, Detroit, and Newark, to Paris, Berlin, Ghana, and Peking. Rock … Continue reading There’s A Riot Going On

There’s A Riot Going On

Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the ‘60s Peter Doggett     2007     608p     6 x 9 Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. While the Vietnam War raged, calls for black power grew louder and liberation movements erupted everywhere from … Continue reading There’s A Riot Going On

The Slave Ship

A Human History Marcus Rediker     2007     448p     5.5 x 8 For more than three centuries slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa across the Atlantic to the New World. Much is known of the slave trade and the American plantation complex, but little of the … Continue reading The Slave Ship

A Cavalier History of Surrealism

Jules-François Dupuis     1977     131p     5 x 8 This pseudonymous account of surrealism by Raoul Vaneigem offers an answer to the question, “What was living and what was dead in Surrealism?” Though blistering  in its criticism of surrealism’s artistic and political aporias, the book identifies the “radioactive fragment of radicalism” … Continue reading A Cavalier History of Surrealism