These essays treat a range of issues from the ancient Jewish revolt against Roman rule and the much-mythologized martyrdom at Masada, the French Revolution, and Marxism's difficulties with the Jewish question, to Nazi genocide and the deep problems of representing it.
These essays treat a range of issues from the ancient Jewish revolt against Roman rule and the much-mythologized martyrdom at Masada, the French Revol...
An account of time served in the great battles of the 20th century - for workers' rights, against fascism, communism, and racism. William Herrick chronicles his adventures and misadventures from the front lines of the Spanish Civil War to organizing African-American sharecroppers in Georgia.
An account of time served in the great battles of the 20th century - for workers' rights, against fascism, communism, and racism. William Herrick chro...
The debate over "P.C." at America's universities is the most important discussion in American education today and has grown into a major national controversy raging on the covers of our top magazines and news shows. This provocative anthology gives voice to the top thinkers of our time, liberal and conservative, as they tackle the question. From the multicultural perspective of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who argues passionately for more diversity, to the erudition of Irving Howe, who stresses the profound value of the literary canon, this exciting collection is required reading for thinking...
The debate over "P.C." at America's universities is the most important discussion in American education today and has grown into a major national c...
A Tale of Two Utopias recounts "in clean, clear, often funny style" (Washington Post) four episodes in the history of a generation: the worldwide student radicalism of the years around 1968; the birth of gay liberation and modern identity politics; the anti-Communist trajectory of the '68ers in the Eastern bloc; and the ideals and self-criticism of thinkers in America and in France who lived through these events and debated their meaning. Praised for both "sheer intellectual high-spiritedness" Houston Chronicle) and "the same sensitivity to the moral needs of the...
A Tale of Two Utopias recounts "in clean, clear, often funny style" (Washington Post) four episodes in the history of a generation: ...
