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Antonio Labriola, Carteggio [Correspondence], 1861-1904, edited by Stefano Miccolis. vols. 1-5 (Naples: Edizioni di filosofia e scienze, 2000-06).

Luis Báez, El mérito es estar vivo (Havana: Prensa Latina, 2005).

On a visit to New York in 1995, someone asked Fidel Castro what ranked as his greatest accomplishment. The answer: “surviving” (estar vivo). Hence this book’s title. And indeed after reading these pages one wonders how he has managed it.

Ignacio Ramonet, Fidel Castro: Biografía a dos voces (Barcelona: Random House Mondarori, 2006).

Stanley Aronowitz, Just Around the Corner: The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005).

Stephen Duncombe and Andrew Mattson, The Bobbed-Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York (New York: New York University Press, 2006).

On a cold night in January 1924, a small, dark-haired woman in a beaded dress and a fur coat walked into a grocery store in Brooklyn. When she asked the manager for a package of eggs, he obligingly wrapped them up, tying the box shut with a piece of string. Then the customer pulled an automatic pistol from the pocket of her coat.

Ron Hayduk, Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the United States (London and New York: Routledge, 2006).

William DiFazio, Ordinary Poverty, a Little Food and Cold Storage (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006).

It was a cold day - winter 1984. Entering a building in the Bronx I stopped a tenant, identified myself in Spanish as a tenant organizer and asked why the building was so cold. He replied that he didn’t speak English and would get the super. I kept questioning the man in my bad Spanish while the man walked away, insisting in English that he didn’t speak English and couldn’t talk to me.

Michael Perelman, Manufacturing Discontent: The Trap of Individualism in Corporate Society (London: Pluto, 2005).

Jeff Chang, Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation (New York: Picador, St. Martin’s Press, 2005).