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  • John Brown

    Series series Modern Library Classics
    A moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one of the most important African-American intellectuals of the twentieth century.In the history of slavery and its legacy, John Brown looms large as a hero whose deeds partly precipitated the Civil War. As Frederick Douglass wrote: "When John Brown stretched forth his arm ... the clash of arms was at hand." DuBois's biography ... Read more

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    Redeeming the Dream

    The Case for Marriage Equality

    Unabridged

    12 hours 28 min

    The riveting inside story of the Supreme Court's landmark rulings on the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8—by the two lawyers who argued the caseOn June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a pair of landmark decisions, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and eliminating California's discriminatory Proposition 8, thereby reinstating the freedom to marry for gays ... Read more

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  • Redeeming the Dream

    The Case for Marriage Equality

    “Breathtakingly inspiring.” —Laurence H. Tribe, Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law SchoolWhen advocates for marriage equality sought to challenge California’s notorious Proposition 8, they were fortunate to have the support of two of the nation’s preeminent lawyers, David Boies and Theodore B. Olson. Despite the fact that they had argued against one another in the landmark Bush v. Gore ... Read more

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  • Darkwater

    The Givens Collection

    W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the most celebrated intellectuals of the twentieth century, published Darkwater -- a powerful collection of essays, verse and fiction -- in 1920, two decades after his most famous book, The Souls of Black Folk. Throughout his long life and extraordinary career as a scholar, activist, writer and educator, Du Bois's body of work illumined America's understanding of the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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    Uncertain Justice

    The Roberts Court and the Constitution

    Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 25 min

    Harvard Law School scholars Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz reveal how Chief Justice John Roberts is shaking the foundation of our nation’s laws in Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution.From Citizens United to its momentous rulings regarding Obamacare and gay marriage, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has profoundly affected American life. Yet the court remains ... Read more

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  • The Souls of Black Folk

    W.E.B. Du Bois was the foremost black intellectual of his time. The Souls of Black Folk (1903), his most influential work, is a collection of fourteen beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, historical, and autobiographical. Here, Du Bois records the cruelties of racism, celebrates the strength and pride of black America, and explores the paradoxical "double-consciousness" of African ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Souls of Black Folk

    With "The Talented Tenth" and "The Souls of White Folk"

    The landmark book about being black in America, now in an expanded edition commemorating the 150th anniversary of W. E. B. Du Bois’s birth and featuring a new introduction by Ibram X. Kendi, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist, and cover art by Kadir Nelson“The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.”When The Souls of Black Folk was first ... Read more

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    Forcing the Spring

    Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality

    by Jo Becker ...
    Narrated by Jamie Leonhart ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 58 min

    Forcing the Spring begins on Election Night 2008, when a controversial California ballot initiative called Proposition 8—which removed the right of gay men and women to marry—passed alongside Barack Obama’s stunning victory.Forcing the Spring details how a small but determined group of political and media insiders took the fight for marriage equality all the way to the Supreme Court. Gay activists ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Souls of Black Folk

    First published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is an American classic of race, culture and education at the turn of the twentieth century. The book contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in a magazine called, Atlantic Monthly.This book comprises fourteen essays written between 1897 and 1903 that range across social, political and economic history, religion ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • 1900: A Quick Read edition

    or, The last President

    Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 1 hour- Reading time of the summarized text: 9 minutes ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Portable Walt Whitman

    by Walt Whitman ...
    A comprehensive collection of Whitman's most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short storiesWhen Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. To give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civil war, he spent his entire life revising and adding to the ... Read more

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  • The Souls of Black Folk

    Centennial Edition

    Series series Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books
    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first published in 1903, Du Bois dares as no one has before to describe the ... Read more

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