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  • Lincoln For Beginners

    by Paul Buhle ...
    There is no greater symbol of the American presidency than Abraham Lincoln. Though Lincoln himself his personality the sources of his dedication and his idealism remains very much a mystery. The sudden rise to world stature of a hard-traveling lawyer from the frontier with no prominent family or social connections to back him was a wonder of the age.Well over a thousand books about Lincoln have ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On the Ground

    An Illustrated Anecdotal History of the Sixties Underground Press in the U.S.

    by Paul Buhle ...
    In four short years (1965–1969), the underground press grew from five small newspapers in as many cities in the U.S. to over 500 newspapers—with millions of readers—all over the world. Completely circumventing (and subverting) establishment media by utilizing their own news service and freely sharing content amongst each other, the underground press, at its height, became the unifying institution ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Partisans

    A Graphic History of Anti-Fascist Resistance

    Edited by Raymond Tyler, Paul Buhle ...
    With eleven brand new comics created by legendary and upcoming writers and comics artists, Partisans flips a new page in the popular understanding of anti-Nazi and anti-fascist resistance. Through vivid illustrations and compelling narratives, Partisans brings to life the struggles and triumphs of those who resisted fascism. Within these pages, readers will encounter stories of resistance from the ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • The Art of Harvey Kurtzman

    The Mad Genius of Comics

    The definitive anthology of the pioneering cartoonist and creator of Mad magazine, featuring 100s of classic and never-before-seeen illustrations.It's difficult to overstate Harvey Kurtzman's influence on pop culture. He discovered Robert Crumb and gave Gloria Steinem her first job in publishing. Terry Gilliam also started at his side, where he met John Cleese, and the genesis of Monty Python was ... Read more

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  • Mr. Block

    The Subversive Comics and Writing of Ernest Riebe

    Before the Golden Age of comic books, there was Mr. Block: a bumbling, boss-loving, anti-union blockhead, brought to life over a hundred years ago by subversive cartoonist Ernest Riebe. A dedicated labour activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World, Riebe dreamed up his iconic, union-hating anti-hero to satirize conservative workers' faith in the capitalist system that exploits them ... Read more

    $9.09 CAD

  • Robin Hood: People's Outlaw and Forest Hero

    A Graphic Guide

    by Paul Buhle ...
    Where and what was Robin Hood? Why is an outlaw from fourteenth century England still a hero today, with films, festivals and songs dedicated to his living memory?This book explores the mysteries, the historical evidence, and the trajectory that led to centuries of village festivals around Mayday and the green space of nature unconquered by the forces in power. Great revolutionaries including ... Read more

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  • C.L.R. James

    The Artist as Revolutionary

    A new edition of C.L.R. James’s authorized biographyC.L.R. James was a man of prodigious and varied accomplishments. He was a protean twentieth-century Marxist intellectual, widely recognized as a pioneering scholar of slave revolt; a leading voice of Pan-Africanism; a peripatetic revolutionary and scholar active in US and UK radical movements; a novelist, playwright, and critic; and one of the ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • From the Knights of Labor to the New World Order

    Essays on Labor and Culture

    by Paul Buhle ...
    Series series Labor in America
    This collection brings together the labor and cultural studies of the author over the past 20 years, during which time the fields of social history, women's history, ethnic studies, public history, and oral history have all been transformed. The essays, some rewritten or newly available and the rest original to this volume, offer important examples of historical analysis, comment on changing ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • William Appleman Williams

    Learning From History

    Series series American Radicals
    Williams' controversial volumes, The Tragedy of American**Diplomacy, Contours of American History, and other works have established him as the foremost interpreter of US foreign policy. Both Williams and others deeply influenced by him have recast not only diplomatic history but also the story of pioneer America's westward movement, and studies in the culture of imperialism.At the end of the Cold ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Yiddishkeit

    Jewish Vernacular & the New Land

    A "fascinating and enlightening" collection of comics and writings that explore the Yiddish language and the Jewish experience ( The Miami Herald).We hear words like nosh, schlep, and schmutz, but how did they come to pepper American English? In Yiddishkeit, Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle trace the far-reaching influences of Yiddish from medieval Europe to the tenements of New York's Lower East Side. ... Read more

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  • Hide in Plain Sight

    The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950–2002

    Hide in Plain Sight completes Buhle and Wagner's trilogy on the Hollywood blacklist. When the blacklistees were hounded out of Hollywood, some left for television where many worked on children's shows like "Rocky and Bullwinkle." A number wrote adult sitcoms such as The Donna Reed Show, and M*A*S*H while some of them ultimately returned to Hollywood and made great films such as Norma Rae, and ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • The Black Schooner

    Rebellion on the Amistad, A Graphic Novel

    A stunning graphic history of how enslaved Africans on board the Amistad rebelled and captured the slave ship in 1839, challenging a whitewashed version of history and putting the Africans back at the center of their own freedom storyFrom the trio of Rediker, Lester, and Buhle comes another graphic “history from below” about the Amistad rebellion of 1839 when 53 enslaved Africans on the slave ship ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD