The war in Vietnam was a seminal event in post-1945 world affairs. The conflict had a profound and lasting impact on the politics and…
In one of the most detailed and powerfully argued books published on American intervention in Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall examines the last…
“On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur, aka JoAnne Chesimard, lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local,…
“In a memoir about the power of race to share one’s personal identity, the daughter of Jewish father and African-American mother recalls…
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“Rosa Guy’s novel follows Wade Williams, a brilliant young black man who wakes up in a mental hospital and is told he has assaulted his…
“Henry Rios is introduced as a troubled San Francisco public defender battling alcoholism and burnout. While investigating the murder of an…
Written in alternating chapters, a mother and daughter describe the accident that nearly killed the daughter and left her paralyzed, and…
“Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and…
“In 1985 an ambitious young Mexican-American from California’s rural San Joaquin Valley became one of the few Latinos to enter America’s…
“A multi-generational saga of the Sioux Indians, mixing magic and reality. Set in the Dakotas, it begins in the 1860s with the tragic…