Tag search:biography

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

by Malcolm X
Hardcover, 1965
Tags
autobiography, Nation of Islam, civil rights, black power, Islam, 20th century, biography, nonfiction, Larry, favorite nonfiction, black Muslims — 30 more, history, United States, African Americans, racism, Malcolm X, black liberation, google snippet, hardcover, dustjacket, book, OWS/Library overlap, Audubon Ballroom, Betty Shabazz, Cassius Clay, Chicago, conk, Detroit, Elijah Muhammad, Fruit of Islam, Hajj, Harlem, Lansing Michigan, Mecca, police, prison, Reginald Little, Roxbury, google terms added, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Status
Available
Call number
E185.97.L5A3 1965

Alexander Hamilton

by Ron Chernow
Paperback, 2004
Tags
Highland Park Yard Sale 2011, nonfiction, history, biography, Alexander Hamilton, United States, colonial period, American Revolution, constitutional convention, early republic, Federalists — 12 more, politics, politicians, government, 18th century, 19th century, google partial, Anti-Federalists, book, AQR 2011, cover-brown, ≥40 global ratings, Publisher-Penguin
Status
Available
Call number
E302.6.H2C48 2004

Homage to Catalonia

by George Orwell
Paperback, 1980
Tags
biography, nonfiction, Larry, short, authors, Catalonia, soldiers, Spain, Europe, Spanish Civil War, civil wars — 17 more, war, 20th century, 1930s, politics, government, history, communes, google partial, anarchists, anti-fascism, book, Barcelona, OWS/Library overlap, cover-yellow, ≥40 global ratings, move √, Spanish Revolution
Status
Available
Call number
DP269.9.O7 1952

The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, 1517-1521

by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Paperback, 2001
Tags
Moctezuma, biography, translation, Spanish, nonfiction, class-ugrad-RU-nonmh, Indians, Native Americans, indigenous, Mexico, Mesoamerica — 15 more, conquest, Spain, Hernán Cortés, Nahuas, 16th century, history, violence, early modern, Aztecs, google full, book, AQR 2004, Atlantic World, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Status
Available
Call number
F1230.D56513 1996

"The Good War": An Oral History of World War Two

by Studs Terkel
Paperback, 1985
Tags
history, Europe, reference, documents, biography, nonfiction, Larry, United States, oral history, Japan, soldiers — 13 more, World War Two, WWII, war, 20th century, 1940s, priority, Publisher-Ballantine, google partial, book, OWS/Library overlap, world history, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Status
Available
Call number
D811.A2G58 1984

I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala

by Rigoberta Menchú
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Highland Park Yard Sale 2012, biography, translation, Spanish, nonfiction, Central America, Indians, Native Americans, indigenous, Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemala — 14 more, violence, history, 1980s, 20th century, radicals, women, Publisher-Verso, OWS/Library overlap, book, google partial, cover-red, ≥40 global ratings, move √, violence against women
Status
Available
Call number
F1465.2.Q5M3813 1984

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression

by Studs Terkel
Paperback, 1971
Tags
reference, documents, biography, nonfiction, Larry, economic depression, Great Depression, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s, economic history — 13 more, oral history, history, United States, priority, economy, google partial, Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Alabama, CPUSA, book, OWS/Library overlap, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Status
Available
Call number
E806.T45 1970

Triangle: The Fire that Changed America

by Dave Von Drehle
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
mcr011, signed, biography, nonfiction, factories, clothing, cloth, 20th century, 1910s, fire, occupational safety — 28 more, work, workers, women, Triangle Shirtwaist Company, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, ind-read-list, labor, labor law, law, New York City, New York, United States, cities, history, disasters, google partial, 1909 shirtwaist strike, Al Smith, Alva Belmont, hardcover, dustjacket, book, OWS/Library overlap, urban history, ≥40 global ratings, urban, women workers, move √
Status
Available
Call number
F128.5.V688 2003

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

by Manning Marable
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, biography, Malcolm X, United States, history, African Americans, Nation of Islam, black power, 20th century, 1940s, 1950s — 10 more, 1960s, assassination, OP2011-2015, ≥40 global ratings, needs tags, dustjacket, book, hardcover, move √, Read in 2018
Status
Available
Call number
BP223.Z8L57636 2011

Marx for Beginners

by Rius
Paperback, 1979
Tags
biography, translation, Spanish, nonfiction, Larry, communists, radicals, Karl Marx, Marxism, economics, Publisher-Pantheon Books — 7 more, google snippet, book, OWS/Library overlap, S-For Beginners, ≥40 global ratings, needs tags, move √
Series
For Beginners, Writers & Readers ... for Beginners
Status
Available
Call number
HX39.5.R54313 1977

Voices of a People's History of the United States

by Howard Zinn Editor
Paperback, 2004
Tags
mcr002, biography, nonfiction, ind-read-list, United States, history, civil disobedience, needs tags, gay rights, abolitionists, google partial — 16 more, 9-11, A. E. Staley Co., abortion, ACLU, AIDS, ACT UP, Alexander Berkman, anthology, CPUSA, American Railway Union, book, AQR 2004, OWS/Library overlap, ≥40 global ratings, move √, Abbie Hoffman
Status
Available
Call number
E173.Z564 2004

Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line

by Ben Hamper
Paperback, 1992
Tags
nonfiction, Zurofsky 4/17/09, biography, cars, automobile industry, work, labor, class, workers, General Motors, automobiles — 14 more, corporations, history, industry, autobiography, AQR 2009, priority, google partial, absenteeism, book, Detroit, OWS/Library overlap, amazon source recheck, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Status
Available
Call number
HD8073.H26 1986

Paul Robeson

by Martin Bauml Duberman
Hardcover, 1988
Tags
biography, nonfiction, favorite nonfiction, ind-read-list, African Americans, Paul Robeson, radicals, musicians, singers, history, United States — 46 more, activists, 20th century, Publisher-Knopf, cultural history, google snippet, A'Lelia Walker, hardcover, dustjacket, book, AQR 2005, OWS/Library overlap, actors, Ben Davis, Revels Cayton, Clara Rockmore, Communist Party, CPUSA, The Emperor Jones, Essie Robeson, Freda Diamond, Harlem, Helen Rosen, Otto Kahn, Larry Brown, London, Moscow, NAACP, Eugene O'Neill, Othello, Peekskill NY, Pittsburgh Courier, Rockmore, Rutgers University, Show Boat, Smith Act, Soviet Union, theater, Uta Hagen, Carl Van Vechten, W. E. B. Du Bois, Walter White, Yale University, Max Yergan, Yolande Jackson, google terms added, move √
Status
Available
Call number
E185.97.R63D83 1988

The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky : 1929-1940

by Isaac Deutscher
Hardcover, 1963
Tags
biography, nonfiction, Leon Trotsky, radicals, revolutionaries, communists, history, 20th century, 1930s, exile, politics — 6 more, Publisher-Verso, workers' councils, needs tags, hardcover, dustjacket, book
Series
Trotsky Trilogy (3)
Status
Available
Call number
DK254.T6D415 1963

W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963

by David Levering Lewis
Paperback, 2001
Tags
biography, nonfiction, ind-read-list, African Americans, civil rights, rights, politics, government, civil rights movement, social movements, W. E. B. Du Bois — 29 more, history, United States, 19th century, 20th century, NAACP, intellectuals, writers, journalists, radicals, racism, Publisher-Holt, google partial, missing where from, 1919 race riots, 19th Amendment, A'Lelia Walker, A. Mitchell Palmer, A. Philip Randolph, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., AFL, African Blood Brotherhood, Alabama, Alain Locke, CPUSA, anti-lynching, book, cover-black, ≥10 global ratings, move √
Series
W.E.B. Du Bois (2)
Status
Available
Call number
E185.97.D73L48 v.2 2000

Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates

by Robert C. Ritchie
Paperback, 1986
Tags
biography, nonfiction, ∫LT-alibrarian, William Kidd, sailing, trade, history, 17th century, Atlantic history, New York, privateering — 23 more, India, Indian Ocean, British East India Company, empire, commerce, Francis Drake, Caribbean, Barbary Coast, piracy, pirates, sailors, Great Britain, Publisher-Harvard University Press, Barbary states, ∫Review-Reviews in American History, Leisler's Rebellion, Robert Livingston, London, Whigs, book, AQR 2011, google snippet, move √
Status
Available
Call number
G537.K5R57 1986

Mao: The Real Story

by Alexander Pantsov
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
book, hardcover, dustjacket, nonfiction, history, China, communist, Chinese Communist Party, 20th century, ∫Book-Mao Zedong Thought, needs tags — 6 more, Mao Zedong, biography, translation, Russian, needs label, needs physical data
Status
Available
Call number
DS778.M3P287613 2012

This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party

by David Hilliard
Hardcover, 1993
Tags
book, nonfiction, history, United States, 20th century, ∫Black Against Empire, needs tags, BPP Leadoff, Black Panther Party, 1960s, 1970s — 6 more, autobiography, biography, David Hilliard, hardcover, needs label, Read in 2021
Status
Available
Call number
E185.97.H55A3 1993

Malcolm X : The FBI File

by Clayborne Carson
Paperback, 1991
Tags
NB Library Book Sale 4/18/08, reference, documents, biography, nonfiction, ∫LT-Bakari, surveillance, Search-CIA FBI NSA, black Muslims, history, African Americans — 13 more, racism, United States, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, espionage, intelligence, government, Malcolm X, google no preview, book, AQR 2008, cover-black, move √
Status
Available
Call number
BP223.Z8L5794 1991

Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel

by C. Vann Woodward
Paperback, 1965
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biography, nonfiction, look for old edition, Publisher-Macmillan, Thomas E. Watson, Tom Watson, history, United States, A. M. Arnett, agrarianism, Alexander Stephens — 63 more, Farmers Alliance, Atlanta Journal, Augusta Chronicle, campaigns, candidates, Congress, Constitution, cotton, democracy, Democratic Party, elections, farmers, free silver, fusion, Georgia, Hickory Hill, Hoke Smith, Jerry Simpson, labor, Louis Globe-Democrat, Macon Telegraph, Marion Butler, McDuffie County, mid-roaders, social movements, African Americans, racism, old party, organizing, People's Party, politics, politicians, populism, Populists, Populist Party, railroads, reform, Republican Party, Robert Toombs, the South, third parties, New York World, Joseph E. Brown, 19th century, 20th century, William Jennings Bryan, Grover Cleveland, Alfred H. Colquitt, St. Louis Convention, anti-Catholic crusade, Leo Frank, Leo Frank case, John Brown Gordon, Henry Grady, Leonidas F. Livingston, Arthur Sewall, Charles Frederick Crisp, New South, google terms added, book, needs label, needs physical data, needs cover
Status
Available
Call number
E664.W337W6 1955

Bill Haywood's Book: The Autobiography of William D. Haywood

by William D. Haywood
Hardcover, 1958
Tags
Western Federation of Miners, Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, biography, nonfiction, class-ugrad-HMC, workers, class, working class, labor, unions — 15 more, United States, history, autobiography, Big Bill Haywood, missing where from, google snippet, AFL, Albert R. Parsons, CPUSA, American Railway Union, Anaconda, hardcover, book, Wobblies, move √
Status
Available
Call number
HD8073.H3A3 1929

The Life and Times of James Connolly

by C. Desmond Greaves
Paperback, 1971
Tags
book, nonfiction, history, ∫LT-bibkid, Ireland, 19th century, 20th century, biography, James Connolly, socialism, socialists — 46 more, needs label, needs physical data, Belfast, Great Britain, British Empire, Catholics, Dublin, Edinburgh, Scotland, United States, elections, employers, Home Rule, independence, industrial unionism, Irish, Labour, Land League, leaders, Liberals, nationalism, nationalists, socialist party, police, politics, strikes, struggle, trade unions, Trades Council, workers, Irish Socialist Republican Party, Socialist Labor Party, IWW, Irish Citizen Army, James Larkin, Daniel De Leon, William O'Brien, ITWU, Irish Labour Party, Irish Volunteers, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, google terms added, needs cover, Read in 2021
Status
Available
Call number
DA965.C7G7 1971

C.L.R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary

by Paul Buhle
Paperback, 2017
Tags
nonfiction, history, biography, Marxism, socialism, C.L.R. James, Trotskyism, Trotskyists, socialists, 20th century, pan-Africanism — 4 more, needs tags, book, needs label, needs physical data
Status
Available
Call number
PR9272.9.J35Z59 2017

Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa

by Jacques E. Levy
Hardcover, 1975
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biography, nonfiction, Larry, Cesar Chavez, United Farm Workers, class, organizing, unions, 20th century, California, unionists — 22 more, labor leaders, United States, history, Mexican Americans, Latinos, migrant workers, farm workers, agriculture, migrants, labor, UFW, Publisher-Norton, Read in 2010, google partial, AFL-CIO, agribusiness, hardcover, dustjacket, book, rural, mcr?, move √
Status
Available
Call number
HD6509.C48L48 1975

Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor

by Steve Fraser
Hardcover, 1991
Tags
book, biography, nonfiction, Sidney Hillman, ILGWU, unionists, labor leaders, labor, unions, United States, history — 69 more, selection read, Publisher-Cornell University Press, hardcover, dustjacket, 20th century, Great Depression, CIO, New Deal, ACWA, Amalgamated Clothing Workers Association, American Labor Party, bureaucracy, Chicago, clothing industry, clothing workers, collective bargaining, cooperatives, David Dubinsky, Democratic Party, elections, Felix Frankfurter, Filenes, Frances Perkins, garment workers, Harold Ickes, immigrants, industrial democracy, Italians, Jacob Potofsky, Jews, labor movement, Labor Party, labor relations, leaders, leadership, John L. Lewis, manufacturers, OHCCU, production, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Senate, shtetls, socialists, strike, textiles, trade unions, Harry Truman, TWOC, unemployment, wages, Henry Wallace, WFTU, workers, WTUL, New York, August Bellanca, Robert M. La Follette, Labor's Non-Partisan League, William Leiserson, Philip Murray, Donald Richberg, Joseph Schlossberg, Leo Wolman, Anthony Capraro, Progressive Party, google terms added, WWII, politics, federal government
Status
Available
Call number
HD8073.H5F73 1991

The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor

by Les Leopold
Paperback, 2007
Tags
nonfiction, history, United States, labor, unions, organizing, biography, Tony Mazzocchi, OCAW, OSHA, 20th century — 8 more, health and safety, Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, book, AQR 2011, OWS/Library overlap, google partial, needs tags, move √
Status
Available
Call number
HD6509.M39L46 2007

Labor Radical: From the Wobblies to C I O: A Personal History

by Len De Caux
Hardcover, 1970
Tags
210, StbR, move √, nonfiction, yard sales 9/8/07, ∫Book-The CIO, biography, CIO, 20th century, 1930s, 1940s — 29 more, 1950s, Congress of Industrial Organizations, industry, IWW, Industrial Workers of the World, radicalism, syndicalism, labor, United States, history, autobiography, unions, Publisher-Beacon Press, google snippet, 1919 steel strike, A. J. Muste, Adolph Germer, American Federation of Labor, AFL, Akron, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, CPUSA, American Labor Party, American Newspaper Guild, anti-communism, hardcover, dustjacket, book, AQR 2007
Status
Available
Call number
HD6508.D38 1970

China Under Mao: a Revolution Derailed

by Andrew G. Walder
Paperback, 2015
Tags
book, nonfiction, history, China, CCP, Mao, biography, 20th century, Chinese Revolution, communism, needs tags — 2 more, needs label, needs physical data
Status
Available
Call number
DS777.75.W343 2015

Fanny Wright: Rebel in America

by Celia Morris
Paperback, 1992
Tags
biography, nonfiction, class-ugrad-HMC, feminists, Publisher-Harvard University Press, google partial, Albert Gallatin, women, 19th century, United States, Jeremy Bentham — 22 more, Charles Wilkes, Cincinnati, Phiquepal d'Arusmont, England, Frances Trollope, Free Enquirer, Marie Fretageot, George Flower, Harmony Gazette, James Mylne, Mary Shelley, Mathew Carey, Men's party, Nashoba, Robert Dale Owen, slavery, William Maclure, Workingmen's Institute, American Colonization Society, Andrew Jackson, book, move √
Status
Available
Call number
HQ1413.D2E25 1984

Althusser: The Detour of Theory

by Gregory Elliott
Paperback, 2009
Tags
nonfiction, political economy, Marxism, Louis Althusser, class, needs tags, ∫Review-American Political Science Review, CG B/BC/BD, French Communist Party, Maoism, Reading Capital — 12 more, relations of production, Marxism-Leninism, Cultural Revolution, 20th century, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, biography, history, intellectual history, book, needs date acquired
Status
Available
Call number
B2430.A474E55 2005

The Mind of Frederick Douglass

by Waldo E. Martin, Jr.
Paperback, 1992
Tags
biography, nonfiction, class-ugrad-HMC, intellectual history, African Americans, abolitionism, politics, social movements, Frederick Douglass, slaves, abolition — 17 more, abolitionists, 19th century, history, United States, anti-slavery, slavery, google partial, Abraham Lincoln, Black Republicans, African colonization movement, American Colonization Society, African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, American Anti-Slavery Society, ancient Egypt, book, cover-brown, move √
Status
Available
Call number
E449.D75M37 1984

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

by D. Riazanov
Hardcover, 1927
Tags
book, hardcover, dustjacket, history, biography, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, 19th century, Marxism, needs tags, needs label — 5 more, needs physical data, translation, Russian, needs cover, selection read
Status
Available
Call number
HB501.M5G6 1927

Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona

by Mario T. García
Paperback, 1994
Tags
nonfiction, favorite nonfiction, ind-read-list, biography, autobiography, labor, organizers, politics, Mexican Americans, WWII, veterans — 14 more, United States, history, 20th century, organizing, Publisher-University of California Press, Chicano Studies, google partial, Alianza Federal de Mercedes, CPUSA, anti-poverty, book, S-Latinos in American Society and Culture, amazon source recheck, move √
Series
Latinos in American Society and Culture (2)
Status
Available
Call number
HD8037.C67G37 1994

Three American Radicals: John Swinton, Crusading Editor; Charles P. Steinmetz, Scientist and Socialist; William Dean Howells and the Haymarket Era

by Sender Garlin
Hardcover, 1991
Tags
nonfiction, history, book, hardcover, dustjacket, needs tags, biography, United States, 19th century, 20th century, journalists — 12 more, authors, novelists, engineers, John Swinton, Charles P. Steinmetz, William Dean Howells, Haymarket, labor, needs cover, socialism, socialists, selection read
Status
Available
Call number
HN90.R3G27 1991

Pierre Broué: Revolutionary Historian; Revolutionary History, Volume 9, No 4, 2007

by John McIlroy Editor
Magazine (paper), 2007
Tags
nonfiction, history, periodical, essays, Trotskyism, needs tags, Pierre Broué, biography, needs label, needs physical data, needs cover — 2 more, translation, French
Series
Revolutionary History [Socialist Platform] (9.4)
Status
Available
Call number
HX 3 .R44 v.9 no.4 2007

Every Cook Can Govern: The Life, Impact & Works of C.L.R. James

by Ceri Dingle Director
DVD, 2016
Tags
DVD, film, documentary, biography, C.L.R. James, socialism, 20th century, unviewed, history, ∫Louis Proyect, woman author — 1 more, move √
Status
Available
Call number
PR9272.9.J35 Z67 2016

In Defence of Lenin

by Rob Sewell
Paperback, 2024
Tags
book, nonfiction, biography, 19th century, 20th century, Lenin, communism, Bolshevism, Russia, RSDLP, Russian Revolution — 3 more, needs tags, needs label, needs physical data
Status
Available
Call number
DK254.L4S4 2024

John Swinton: American Radical (1829-1901); Including the Full Text of his Interview with Karl Marx in 1880

by Sender Garlin
Photocopy, 2009
Tags
nonfiction, history, United States, 19th century, journalism, journalists, reformers, John Swinton, biography, labor, unions — 8 more, Karl Marx, Walt Whitman, New York Times, New York Sun, newspapers, photocopy, google snippet, S-American Institute for Marxist Studies Occasional Papers
Series
Occasional papers - American Institute for Marxist Studies (no. 20)
Status
Available
Call number
HD8073.S84G37 1976
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