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  • Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues

    Selected Writings on Popular Culture

    by Franklin Rosemont ...
    Rediscover the most insightful and incendiary cultural commentaries from a leading figure in the revival of Surrealism.Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues is a collection of Franklin Rosemont’s writings on popular culture over a period of more than forty years. Rosemont, a self-taught scholar, poet, and artist, playfully uncovers the sometimes hidden-in-plain-sight writers and artists who ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues

    Selected Writings on Popular Culture

    by Franklin Rosemont ...
    Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues is a collection of Franklin Rosemont's writings on popular culture over a period of more than forty years. Rosemont, a self-taught scholar, poet, and artist, playfully uncovers the sometimes hidden-in-plain-sight writers and artists who managed to be both popular, vernacular, and in their own ways profoundly revolutionary. Rosemont skillfully weaves together ... Read more

    $9.09 CAD

  • Big Red Songbook

    250+ IWW Songs!

    by Utah Phillips ...
    Series series Charles H. Kerr Library
    In 1905, representatives from dozens of radical labor groups came together in Chicago to form One Big Union—the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), known as the Wobblies. The union was a big presence in the labor movement, leading strikes, walkouts, and rallies across the nation. And everywhere its members went, they sang.Their songs were sung in mining camps and textile mills, hobo jungles and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Joe Hill

    The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture

    by Franklin Rosemont ...
    Series series The Charles H. Kerr Library
    A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill. It is a journey into the Wobbly culture that made Hill and the capitalist culture that killed him. Many aspects of the life and lore of Joe Hill receive their first and only discussion in IWW historian Franklin Rosemont’s opus ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rebel Voices

    An IWW Anthology

    by Daniel Gross, Franklin Rosemont ...
    Series series The Charles H. Kerr Library
    Welcoming women, Blacks, and immigrants long before most other unions, the Wobblies from the start were labor’s outstanding pioneers and innovators, unionizing hundreds of thousands of workers previously regarded as “unorganizable.” Wobblies organized the first sit-down strike (at General Electric, Schenectady, 1906), the first major auto strike (6,000 Studebaker workers, Detroit, 1911), the first ... Read more

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  • Max Ernst and Alchemy

    A Magician in Search of Myth

    by M. E. Warlick ...
    Series series Surrealist Revolution Series
    Surrealist artist Max Ernst defined collage as the "alchemy of the visual image." Students of his work have often dismissed this comment as simply a metaphor for the transformative power of using found images in a new context. Taking a wholly different perspective on Ernst and alchemy, however, M. E. Warlick persuasively demonstrates that the artist had a profound and abiding interest in ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

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    Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War

    by Eric Bennett ...
    Series series New American Canon
    During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and poems, they believed, could inoculate weak minds against simplistic totalitarian ideologies, heal the spiritual wounds of global catastrophe, and just maybe prevent the like from happening again. As the Cold War ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • The Brazen Age

    New York City and the American Empire: Politics, Art, and Bohemia

    by David Reid ...
    A brilliant, sweeping, and unparalleled look at the extraordinarily rich culture and turbulent politics of New York City between the years 1945 and 1950, The Brazen Age opens with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s campaign tour through the city’s boroughs in 1944. He would see little of what made New York the capital of modernity—though the aristocratic FDR was its paradoxical avatar—a city boasting an ... Read more

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  • The New Era

    American Thought and Culture in the 1920s

    by Paul V. Murphy ...
    Series series American Thought and Culture
    In the 1920s, Americans talked of their times as “modern,” which is to say, fundamentally different, in pace and texture, from what went before—a new era. With the end of World War I, an array of dizzying inventions and trends pushed American society from the Victorian era into modernity.The New Era provides a history of American thought and culture in the 1920s through the eyes of American ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:

    Selected Essays, 1977-1992

    by E.L. Doctorow ...
    The bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate has compiled his first collection of essays, a richly textured and detailed combination of literary criticism, political invective, and historical meditation. ... Read more

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  • Arthur Miller

    1962-2005

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    The second volume of the definitive biography of one of the greatest modern playwrights, Arthur Miller (1915-2005).The first volume of Christopher Bigsby's award-winning biography of Arthur Miller was hailed as a masterpiece and the definitive account of Miller's early years. This is the second half of Miller's captivating story, covering his life from 1962 to his death in 2005.In 1962, Miller's ... Read more

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  • A Renegade History of the United States

    by Thaddeus Russell ...
    In this groundbreaking book, noted historian Thaddeus Russell tells a new and surprising story about the origins of American freedom. Rather than crediting the standard textbook icons, Russell demonstrates that it was those on the fringes of society whose subversive lifestyles helped legitimize the taboo and made America the land of the free.In vivid portraits of renegades and their “respectable” ... Read more

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