Gene Santoro, Highway 61 Revisited: The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock, & Country Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004);
Mat Callahan, The Trouble with Music (Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2005).
Lee Sustar and Aisha Karim, eds., Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2006).
Inez Hedges, Framing Faust: Twentieth-Century Cultural Struggles (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005).
Norman Mailer and John Buffalo Mailer, The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America (New York: Nation Books, 2006).
Andrew E. Hunt, David Dellinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary (New York: New York University Press, 2006).
Nobody ever said it would be easy” is the time-worn reminder in the movement for peace and justice when the moment has become miserable. Leadership is the light that somehow is found to fill the gap. Perhaps you remember the song, “Where have all the flowers gone?” These days we may almost be singing, “Where have all the nonviolent movement leaders gone?”
Dan Berger, Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Oakland: AK Press, 2006).
Eric Stener Carlson, The Pear Tree: Is Torture Ever Justified? (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2006).
Carl Mirra, ed., Enduring Freedom or Enduring War? Prospects and Costs of the New American 21st Century (Washington, D.C.: Maisonneuve Press, 2005).
Anthony Arnove, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal (New York and London: The New Press, 2006).
Read this book! Better, buy a dozen and give them to your friends and family. Even better, pass them out like leaflets at your local high school or community college.
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar is a political activist affiliated with the People's Rights Movement (PRM) in Pakistan, a nationwide political confederation of working-class struggles. He also teaches history and political economy at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. <amajid@isb.comsats.net.pk>
Theodore W. Allen (1919-2005) is best known for his 2-volume study The Invention of the White Race. For background and discussion, see Jonathan Scott’s article in this issue.