Books for the Fourth of July
this July 4th?
(psst ...check out the new book from Greg Palast, and (new to leftbooks) C.L.R. James' Black Jacobins!)
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Let's start by honoring the birthday of an activist who is still very active - Ron Kovic:
by Ron Kovic
"Ron Kovic's memoir is a classic of antiwar literature."Howard Zinn
This classic has an updated introduction by the author. Ron Kovic calls on this new generation to stop the U.S. war in Iraq, "...I have watched in horror the mirror image of another Vietnam unfolding. So many similarities, so many things said that remind me of that war thirty years ago that left me paralyzed for the rest of my life."
Ron Kovic served two tours of duty during the Vietnam War as a Marine Corps sargeant. He was paralyzed from the chest down in combat in Vietnam on January 20, 1968, and has been in a wheelchair ever since. He is an accomplished author and painter, and a tireless advocate for peace. Along with Oliver Stone, Kovic was co-screenwriter of the Academy Award-winning film Born on the Fourth of July (starring Tom Cruise as Ron Kovic).
2005 edition, softcover, 216ppGreg Palast is Back:
by Greg Palast
Palast's Sam Spade-style television and print exposés about elections manipulation, War on Terror and globalization, have been seen and heard on BBC's Newsnight and Amy Goodman's Democracy Now!
Hardcover, 360pp, Index.
by C.L.R. James
A classic and impassioned account of the only successful slave revolution.
This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of master toward slave was commonplace and ingeniously refined. And it is the story of a barely literate slave named Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led the Black people of San Domingo in a successful struggle against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces and in the process helped form the first independent nation in the Caribbean.
Softcover, First edition 1963, 2nd edition 1989, bibliography, appendix, index, 420pp
Find Out How the U.S. Supports Israeli Occupation:
The U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine
By Naseer H. Aruri
In this fully revised and updated version of his highly acclaimed book, The Obstruction of Peace: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians, Naseer H. Aruri dismantles the many myths about the failed Middle East "peace process."
Aruri analyzes the evolving relationship between the United States and the two protagonists--the Palestinians and Israel-- and argues that the U.S. government, rather than serving as an "honest broker," has allowed Israel to use violence and violate international law to maintain its occupation.
South End Press, Naseer H. Aruri, 2003, paperback, ISBN:0-89608-687-9, 263pp
Strange Liberators:
Militarism, Mayhem and the Pursuit of Profit
By Gregory Ilich
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How Media Monopoly Stifles Truth
By Lenora Foerstel (Ed.)
Authors include: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Scott Armstrong, Barbara Nimri Aziz, Ben Bagdikian, David Barsamian, Ramsey Clark, Michel Collon, Thomas Deichmann, Benjamin Dupuy, Nawal El Saadawi, Laura Flanders, Sara Flounders, Manse Jacobi, Diana Johnstone, Charles Levendosky, Manik Mukherjee, Michael Parenti, Zoran Pirocanac, Peter Phillips, Adel Samara, and Danny Schechter.
280 p.p., Index
Or This -
The Fire This Time
U.S. War Crimes in the Gulf War
By Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark
The Fire This Time, an invaluable resource for those organizing opposition to a new U.S. war against Iraq. It’s an important book to be in the hands of anti-war activists, students, and readers worldwide.
Praise for Ramsey Clark and The Fire This Time:
"A strong indictment of the war and especially of the needless deaths of civilians caused by bombing." --New York Times
"The Fire This Time shows that our leaders committed war crimes in the Persian Gulf War no less surely than the Nazis committed war crimes in World War II." --Kurt Vonnegut
"He risked his life by traveling for three weeks through Iraqi cities in an old American sedan at a time when the U.S. was staging 3,000 bombing sorties a day." --Los Angeles Times
And there's much, much more -
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