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A new biography sheds light on her humble beginnings and prolific, genre-defining career.

This book is the story of Daniel Murray, the assistant librarian of the Library of Congress from 1881-1922, and of the milieu and fate of the Reconstruction-era African American government workers and officials in Washington, DC.

An outstanding contribution to the history of Black education that focuses on the career of Carter G. Woodson.

This is a poignant tale of remembering parents in trouble, careers dashed and of steady FBI harassment. The end is not happy, except that the boy survives and makes his own life as an admired cultural commentator on radio.

What Benedict Anderson’s classic account of nationalism’s origins misses about today’s world.

This book, now published in an updated second edition, and this review, from eight years ago, are stark reminders of a major factor behind both of Donald Trump's presidential victories.

This book discusses the effort by the alt-right and fascist movements to claim the genres science fiction and speculative literature as their own.

Reviewer Radanović calls this book essential reading for understanding why reconnecting central banks to the people is crucial to meet the major challenges of our time, from rising inequality to the climate crisis.

This new book offers an analysis of one of the right wing's main talking points.

Reviewer Briody calls this book "a tightly written and well-reported account of the rise of extremism in small-town America."