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With public support rising for a living-waged Green New Deal as a job creating and environmental lifeline, its a good time to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of FDR's program. The review of his recent biography does that.

Glyn Ford's book is a timely antidote to dangerous Western misconceptions about the country, says reviewer Martinez

A red and green upsurge is challenging capital internationally. The two books under review outline its thinking, chart its course and weigh its prospects.

This book showcases conservative and liberal movements aimed at social advocacy and change, in an effort to draw a portrait of what makes social movements effective in contemporary society.

A well-regarded historian muses on key works that illuminate history and popular struggles.

This book, writes reviewer Tebble, "not only gives an account of the different meanings that have been ascribed to liberalism and evoked in its uses." It also "recovers some of those meanings that have been eclipsed, distorted and eroded."

An inquiry into how and why one’s class background in Great Britain privileges or thwarts access to elite occupations through an investigation of barriers to upward mobility.

This study "is a thoroughly engaging and much-needed contribution to a gendered understanding of the Cuban Revolution in particular and of armed conflict in general," says reviewer Triplett.

Tracing the history of an idea, the author charts liberalism’s two century Jekyll and Hyde existence as a credo on freedom and an ill-fitting defender of mass democracy.

This first book by a young African American writer offers a glimpse into the post-Ferguson generation's thinking and concerns. In this essay, reviewer Mtshali engages in a productive dialogue with these ideas and concerns.