Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes

Magdalena J. Zaborowska (Author)

James Baldwin: The Life Album

1,An intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close relationships and private life "Baldwin authority Zaborowska's gracefully impassioned biography. . . . A creatively conceived appreciation for a decorated life and its far-flung influences on race, queer culture, and art."--Kirkus Reviews James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a pivotal figure of the twentieth century, an influential author, intellectual, and activist who led a celebrated public life--and whose words and image and persona remain current in our culture. Baldwin's many incarnations--"son of Harlem," "Black icon," "great twentieth-century writer," "race man," "prophet," "witness"--have reemerged in the digital age as Baldwin's work becomes a touchstone for a new generation. It is the private, vulnerable, and messier Baldwin--the man behind the prophet and the online meme--who is the focus of this book. Magdalena J. Zaborowska draws on Baldwin's archives and material legacy--from his unpublished papers to his books to his house in France--to offer a fresh look at the writer's understated and obscured private life. Taking a cue from Baldwin's own love of the ...

Alexandra Popoff (Author)

Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success

A deeply researched biography of the prominent and divisive writer Ayn Rand, whose pro-capitalist

Alan MacEachern (Author)

Becoming Green Gables: The Diary of Myrtle Webb and Her Famous Farmhouse

In 1909 Myrtle and Ernest Webb took possession of an ordinary farm in Cavendish, Prince Edward Islan