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Growing up in a dysfunctional blue-collar family in Arizona during the Fifties and early Sixties, Eric Leif Davin struggled with the idea of what it meant to be a man. It was a long journey away from machismo and toward maturity. A violent coming of age at mid-century in the desert Southwest.

They wanted to leave Amerika behind. But Amerika wouldn't let them.

This book is meant as a general introduction, a short guide, for everyone, to the work of significant women's historians concerning some of the major questions in the field. Thus, this is not a book for specialists. Rather, it is a book for the non-specialist who simply wants to understand what women's history is all about.

The transition from medieval feudalism to the modern capitalist world -- like that from ancient slavery to feudalism itself -- is considered to be one of the major historical transitions of humanity. The most common explanations for this passage, however, suffer from being more descriptions for this passage than actual explanations for it. This book offers a more acceptable explanation for this passage: The secularization of the Peace of God m...

A collection of profiles and interviews with radical artists and activists who have devoted their lives to creating a more just and humane society. Among those interviewed and profiled are Philip Foner, Meridel Le Sueur, Buckminster Fuller, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Staughton Lynd, Howard Zinn, Dick Gregory, Gil Scott-Heron, Nikki Giovanni, Crystal Lee Sutton, Germaine Greer, Marge Piercy, Dave Dellinger, Michael Harrington, Sidney Lens, Daniel Berr...

This is an overview of the impact of the Industrial Revolution and corporate capitalism on the development of the American working class over the course of the nineteenth century. America went from farms to factories, and most Americans went from economic independence to wage dependency.

Award-winning fantasy & science fiction stories from "Galaxy's Edge, " "The Fantastic Civil War, " "Fantasy Book, " "Far Frontiers, " "Niekas, " "Space & Time, " "Triangulation, " as well as theme and "Year's Best" anthologies from major publishers. Includes two poems and 24 stories.

Eric Leif Davin was a draft resister during the Vietnam War. Drafted for the war, he refused to be drafted. This is his account of his life in the theater at Harvard, working in the Free School Movement, running for School Committee in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and surviving personally and politically in the swirling chaos of that era.

Deputy Dawg was a member of the STP Family, an informal counter-cultural group of street people in Boulder, Colorado in the 1970s. On the night of July 17, 1971, the Town Marshal of nearby Nederland, Colorado, arrested him and drove him to a dark and desolate mountain road. There the Town Marshal shot him in the head and left his body hidden in roadside bushes. This is the true story of that murder and its long aftermath.

Populism is the dominant political ideology in America. This book explores the origins of that ideology and finds a double genesis: The classical Enlightenment liberal republican tradition espoused by John Locke, and the religious tradition of equality and resistance to hierarchy espoused by New England Puritans. Populism is the secular expression of an amalgamation of radical Puritan theology and European Enlightenment liberalism. This book t...

Eric Leif Davin discusses a wide range of political issues and procedures. These include fascism, populism, sedition, elections, efforts to suppress electoral participation over the years, the deficit, balancing the budget, political demographics, the fourth branch of government, and how to create a powerful political movement.

Genevieve Taggard was a major nationally renowned poet of the early twentieth century. Critics hailed her debut book as the work of a distinguished poet. Magazines published her work as representative of the new "Modern Woman" of the post-suffrage Twenties. Aaron Copland set her poetry to music for performances at Carnegie Hall and on the radio. Major publishers issues multiple editions of her books. Then, witnessing the devastation of the Thi...

The massive 1054 Crab Supernova was recorded in ancient Chinese, Japanese, and Arab sources... but there is no mention of it any European or Byzantine source. This book explores what this curious omission might say about what medieval and Byzantine chroniclers thought the important events were on Earth in 1054. In particular, it raises questions about what they thought about the Great Schism that split apart Christiandom into the Latin West an...

Tom Roper was the top Wobblie in Pittsburgh. He was also the Bureau of Investigation's best undercover agent. At a time of war, labor strife, and government repression, which identity would ultimately claim his loyalty?

These essays cover a wide spectrum of fantasy and science fiction, dealing with its history, its personalities, and its evolution.

This is an eclectic collection of delectable stories. Hence, the title: "Delectus, " a Latin word meaning simply a selection from various authors. All of these authors are also writers who deserve wider notice, which is why they are here. The stories are of no rigid genre, although most of them are fantasy or science fiction. One might therefore classify this as a fantasy and science fiction anthology. Not all of them are such, however.

Anarchism, as represented by revolutionary leader Ricardo Flores Magon and the anarcho-syndicalist La Case del Obrero Mundial, had the potential to powerfully influence the ideological direction of the 1910 Mexican Revolution. It failed to do so because of a combination of strategic errors. Had these errors been avoided, the Mexican Revolution might well have become the twentieth century's first great ideological explosion.

The Great Steel StrikeThe horrors of the Great War, as World War I was then known, ended in Europe on November 11, 1918. Over the course of the next year, 1919, the hope of utopia, and the fear of a new tyranny, followed as the continent was engulfed in insurrection and reaction. In America, 1919 also brought hope and fear, the hope of a new era of working class empowerment, and the fear that such working class empowerment threatened the basic...

This book examines the rise and fall of a handful of progressive and leftist third party efforts over the last century, from the 1920s to the present, including the Progressive Party of 1924, the Labor Party Movement of the 1930s, The Progressive Party of 1948, The People's Party of the 1970s, the California Peace and Freedom Party, and the Vermont Progressive Party. It also explores the enduring features of the American political system, incl...

Radical change was everywhere in the early 1970s, including education. The early 1970s Free School Movement was part of the change. As part of the era's counter-culture, it demanded that a new type of school be created, one that freed the minds of students instead of shackling them to the status quo. It was part of the movement to create an America dedicated to freedom, justice, and equality for all.