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<?=$who;?> Non-fiction Wish List Here's a list of books that I would love to check out! Nevermind the HB or PB designations... if you come across any copy to post in the Box, I'll pick it up :) Books are not listed in any particular order.
List created by Sara C. (sarajlewis) - on Aug 15, 2014
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by...
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Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920 by Charles Reagan Wilson
Charles Reagan Wilson documents, for the first time, that for over half a century there existed not one, but two civil religions in the United States, the second not dedicated to honoring the American nation. Extensively researched in primary sources, Baptized in Blood is a significant and...  more


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Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession by Chuck Thompson
Featuring a new Foreword from the author about publishing one of the most controversial books of the year, this ?hilarious, dirty, and incendiary? (Vanity Fair) narrative argues that both sides might be better off if the South were to secede.Secession is not exactly a suitable cocktail party...  more


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The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act by Clay Risen
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. This one law so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, it seems preordained?as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the...  more


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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.? But before it even began, America?s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other...  more


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The Central Park Five: The Untold Story Behind One of New York City's Most Infamous C...
In this spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case, Sarah Burns powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crimes and its aftermath.   On April 20th, 1989, two passersby discovered the body of the "Central Park jogger" crumpled in a ravine. She'd been...  more


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Civil Disobedience: An American Tradition by Lewis Perry
The distinctive American tradition of civil disobedience stretches back to pre-Revolutionary War days and has served the purposes of determined protesters ever since. This stimulating book examines the causes that have inspired civil disobedience, the justifications used to defend it,...  more


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The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America by Edward J. Blum
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safe...
A myth-shattering exposé of America?s nuclear weapons Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America?s nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs,...  more


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Dallas 1963 by Bill Minutaglio & Steven L. Davis
Named one of the Best History Books of 2013 by Amazon. Named one of the Top 3 JFK Books by Parade Magazine. Named 1 of The 5 Essential Kennedy assassination books ever written by The Daily Beast. Named one of the Top Nonfiction Books of 2013 by Kirkus Reviews. In the months and weeks...  more


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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Rec...
"Absorbing . . . Riveting . . . A legal thriller."?Kevin Boyle, The New York Times Book ReviewFollowing the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town like many where African Americans and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army of white ex?Confederate soldiers, enraged after...  more


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Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America by Ph...
Why did the youthful optimism and openness of the sixties give way to Ronald Reagan and the spirit of conservative reaction--a spirit that remains ascendant today? Drawing on a wide array of sources--including tabloid journalism, popular fiction, movies, and television shows--Philip Jenkins...  more


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The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968 by Kari Frederickson
In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the "Dixiecrats," and chose Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate. Thrown on the defensive by federal civil rights initiatives and unprecedented grassroots political activity by...  more


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Down with Big Brother : The Fall of the Soviet Empire (Vintage) by Michael Dobbs
"One of the great stories of our time . . . a wonderful anecdotal history of a great drama."--San Francisco Chronicle Book ReviewAs Washington Post correspondent in Moscow, Warsaw, and Yugoslavia in the final decade of the Soviet empire, Michael Dobbs had a ringside seat to the extraordinary...  more


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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
From a master historian, the story of Lincoln's?and the nation's?transformation through the crucible of slavery and emancipation.In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Lincoln and the end of slavery in America. Foner begins with...  more


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The Fight by Norman Mailer
In 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaïre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible ?professor of boxing.? The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer, a...  more


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The Fight of the Century: Ali vs. Frazier March 8, 1971 by Michael Arkush
Advance Praise "The Fight of the Century brings back memories of a different and troubled time both in sports and in our country. It is vividly reported and a perfect example of the old saying that the genius is in the details." ?John Feinstein "The Fight of the Century just floats...  more


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The First World War : A Complete History by Martin Gilbert
The acclaimed British historian offers a majestic, single-volume work incorporating all major fronts-domestic, diplomatic, military-for "a stunning achievement of research and storytelling" (Publishers Weekly) It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of...  more


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Flashes of a Southern Spirit: Meanings of the Spirit in the U.S. South by Charles Rea...
Flashes of a Southern Spirit explores meanings of the spirit in the American South, including religious ecstasy and celebrations of regional character and distinctiveness.Charles Reagan Wilson sees ideas of the spirit as central to understanding southern identity. The South nurtured a patriotic...  more


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Founding Faith: How Our Founding Fathers Forged a Radical New Approach to Religious L...
The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a ?Christian nation.? Many on the left contend that the First Amendment was designed to boldly separate church and state. Neither...  more


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Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War t...
This sweeping portrait of religion in the South puts race and culture at the center of more than a century of spiritual and political strife. Harvey deploys cultural history in fresh and innovative ways and fills a decades-old need for a comprehensive history of religion and its relationship to...  more


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From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of...
A prize-winning, five-decade history of the evangelical movement in Southern California that explains a sweeping realignment of American politics.From Bible Belt to Sun Belt tells the dramatic and largely unknown story of ?plain-folk? religious migrants: hardworking men and women from...  more


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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II b...
THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY-  AT THE HEIGHT OF WORLD WAR II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians -many of them young women from small towns across the South-...  more


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Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militias ...
Why has the turn of the twenty-first century been rocked by a new religious rebellion? From al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents in Iraq, a strident new religious activism has seized the imaginations of political rebels around the world. Building on his groundbreaking book, The New Cold...  more


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God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right by Daniel K. Williams
When the Christian Right burst onto the scene in the late 1970s, many political observers were shocked. But, as God's Own Party demonstrates, they shouldn't have been. The Christian Right goes back much farther than most journalists, political scientists, and historians realize. Relying on...  more


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The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan by Gregory Feifer
The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a grueling debacle that has striking lessons for the twenty-first century. In The Great Gamble, Gregory Feifer examines the conflict from the perspective of the soldiers on the ground. In gripping detail, he vividly depicts the invasion of a volatile country...  more


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Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World by Evan Thomas
Evan Thomas's startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust. Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his campaign promise to end the Korean War. Yet while Eisenhower was quickly viewed by many as a...  more


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Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 (Vintage) by Max Hastings
From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences.   For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the first time, he gives...  more


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Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum
In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of...  more


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Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll by Ann Wilson & Nan...
The story of Heart is a story of heart and soul and rock ?n? roll. Since finding their love of music and performing as teenagers in Seattle, Washington, Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson, have been part of the American rock music landscape. From 70s classics like ?Magic Man? and ?Barracuda? to chart-...  more


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The Killing of Crazy Horse (Vintage) by Thomas Powers
He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century. His victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat inflicted on the frontier Army. And the death of Crazy Horse in federal custody has remained a controversy for more than a century. The...  more


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Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida (Florida Histor...
From New Spain, to Old South, to New South, to Sunbelt, the story of how and why millions have come to Florida and influenced the enduring but changing meanings of a dreamstate. 52 b&w and 6 color photos, 4 maps.


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The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness by Harlow Gil...
In this lively and compelling biography Harlow Giles Unger reveals the dominant political figure of a generation. A fierce fighter in four critical Revolutionary War battles and a courageous survivor of Valley Forge and a near-fatal wound at the Battle of Trenton, James Monroe (1751?1831) went...  more


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Lincoln's Greatest Speech : The Second Inaugural by Ronald C. White Jr.
As the day for Lincoln's second inauguration drew near, Americans wondered what their sixteenth president would say about the Civil War. Would Lincoln guide the nation toward "Reconstruction"? What about the slaves? They had been emancipated, but what about the matter of suffrage? When Lincoln...  more


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Married to the Mouse : Walt Disney World and Orlando by Richard Foglesong
Joined together in an extraordinarily close relationship, Walt Disney World and Orlando, Florida, have become the world’s most popular tourist destination. This intriguing book traces the history of the ups and downs of this "marriage" and tells the inside story of Disney’s use and...  more


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Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History by Philip Jenkins
Are religious fringe movements a recent phenomena in American history? Are widespread fears of mass suicides, sexual abuse, and brainwashing in cults justified? Do marginalized religious groups play any positive role in American spiritual life? Do the panics over such groups follow any...  more


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The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism by Unknown Author
More than one-third of the population of the United States now lives in the South, a region where politics, race relations, and the economy have changed dramatically since World War II. Yet historians and journalists continue to disagree over whether the modern South is dominating, deviating...  more


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Never Surrender: Confederate Memory and Conservatism in the South Carolina Upcountry ...
Near Appomattox, during a cease-fire in the final hours of the Civil War, Confederate general Martin R. Gary harangued his troops to stand fast and not lay down their arms. Stinging the soldiers' home-state pride, Gary reminded them that "South Carolinians never surrender." By focusing on a...  more


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The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals in The New Jim Crow, today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in...  more


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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
In this landmark addition to the literature of totalitarianism, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick follows the lives of six North Korean citizens over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the rise to power of his son Kim Jong-il (the father of Kim...  more


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Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War ...
Part history, part thriller, Now the Hell Will Start tells the astonishing tale of Herman Perry, the soldier who sparked the greatest manhunt of World War II? and who became that war?s unlikeliest folk heroA true story of murder, love, and headhunters, Now the Hell Will Start tells the...  more


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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War b...
Thoroughly researched and with the pacing of a thriller, One Minute to Midnight is the definitive account of history's most dangerous hours. In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of...  more


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Osceola and the Great Seminole War: A Struggle for Justice and Freedom by Thom Hatch
At the time of his death in 1838, Seminole warrior Osceola was the most famous and respected Native American in the world. Born a Creek, young Osceola was driven from his home by General Andrew Jackson to Spanish Florida, where he joined the Seminole tribe. Years later, President Jackson signed...  more


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The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Flor...
Resurrecting a forgotten chapter in transatlantic history, James G. Cusick tells how, just before the United States went to war against Great Britain in 1812, an ill-advised invasion of a Spanish colony became a stage on which the young republic clumsily acted out its imperial ambitions and...  more


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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by ...
Finally in paperback, the story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties- when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives reenergized American rock with punk rock's do-it-yourself credo and created...  more


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The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Midd...
The New York Times–bestselling manifesto about America?s broken political system and how it got that way Mike Lofgren was once a proud Republican. When he came to Washington in the early 1980s, the party was controlled by what was mostly a rational group of people with a basic grasp of...  more


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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
SINCE ITS PUBLICATION FIVE DECADES AGO, William L. Shirer?s monumental study of Hitler?s empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of the twentieth century?s blackest hours. A worldwide bestseller with millions of copies in print, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers an...  more


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The Second World War by John Keegan
Praised as "the best military historian of our generation" by Tom Clancy, John Keegan here reconsiders his masterful study of World War II, The Second World War, with a new foreword. Keegan examines each theater of the war, focusing on five crucial battles and offering new insights into the...  more


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The Second World War : A Complete History by Martin Gilbert
A "magisterial" (The New York Times) single-volume history of WWII It began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. By the time it came to an end on V-J Day-August 14, 1945 -it had involved every major power and become global in its reach. In the final accounting, it would turn...  more


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The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. ...
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers...  more


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Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History by David R. Gol...
In this sweeping narrative of the South from the Civil War to the present, noted historian David Goldfield contemplates the roots of southern memory and explains how this memory has shaped the modern South both for good and ill. He candidly discusses how and why white southern men fashioned the...  more


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To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party by Heather Cox Richardson
A distinguished American historian traces the paradoxical evolution of the Republican Party—founded to give the poor equal opportunity, but too often aligned with the country?s elites.


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The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas by Anand Giridharadas
The True American tells the story of Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladesh Air Force officer who dreams of immigrating to America and working in technology. But days after 9/11, an avowed "American terrorist" named Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walks into the Dallas minimart where Bhuiyan...  more


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Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945 by Ronald D Eller
Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. Created by urban journalists in the years following the Civil War, the idea of Appalachia provided a counterpoint to emerging definitions of progress. Early-twentieth-century critics of modernity...  more


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Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressiv...
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Republican Party stood at the brink of an internal civil war. After a devastating financial crisis, furious voters sent a new breed of politician to Washington. These young Republican firebrands, led by ?Fighting Bob? La Follette of Wisconsin, vowed to...  more


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VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave by Nina Blackwood & Mark Goodman...
The original MTV VJs offer a behind-the-scenes oral history of the early years of MTV, circa 1981 to 1985, when it was exploding, reshaping the culture, and forming ?the MTV generation.?MTV?s first VJs (along with the late J.J. Jackson) had front-row seats to a cultural revolution?and the...  more


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Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
"The best, most comprehensive, and most balanced single-volume biography of Washington ever written." -Gordon S. Wood, The New York Review of Books Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other...  more


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The World's Most Dangerous Place: Inside the Outlaw State of Somalia by James Ferguss...
Although the war in Afghanistan is now in its endgame, the West?s struggle to eliminate the threat from Al Qaeda is far from over. A decade after 9/11, the war on terror has entered a new phase and, it would seem, a new territory. In early 2010, Al Qaeda operatives were reportedly “streaming?...  more


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Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre by Heather Cox Rich...
On December 29, 1890, five hundred American troops massed around hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. Outnumbered and demoralized, the Sioux posed no threat to the soldiers and put up no resistance. But in a chaotic scene, the Americans...  more


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A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future by Roger S. Gottl...
In a time of darkening environmental prospects, frightening religious fundamentalism, and moribund liberalism, the remarkable and historically unprecedented rise of religious environmentalism is a profound source of hope. In A Greener Faith , Roger S. Gottlieb chronicles the promises of this...  more


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Joining Hands: Politics and Religion Together for Social Change by Roger S. Gottlieb
Did Martin Luther King's spiritual understanding of political struggle truly help the Civil Rights movement? Can breast cancer victims incorporate both spiritual wisdom and political action in their fight for life? Confronting questions that challenge the foundations of both politics and...  more


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Liberating Faith: Religious Voices for Justice, Peace, and Ecological Wisdom by Roger...
This sweeping new anthology shows how religion has joined with and learned from movements for social justice, peace, and ecological wisdom. Liberating Faith surveys the entire range of religious social activism: from liberation theology and feminist religion to ecotheology and peace activism.


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