Beacon Press: 516 books
Can We Talk about Race?
And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
**Major new reflections on race and schools—by the best-selling author of “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?“
A Simmons College/Beacon Press Race, Education, and Democracy Series Book**
Beverly Daniel Tatum emerged on the national scene in 1997 with...
The Tent of Abraham
Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2006
In recent years there has been an explosion of curiosity and debate about Islam and about the role of religion, both in the world and in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The numerous books published on these questions speak to issues of politics, history, or global security. None speaks to the heart and...
Redemption
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
An “immersive, humanizing, and demystifying” (Charles Blow, New York Times) look at the final hours of Dr. King’s life as he seeks to revive the non-violent civil rights movement and push to end poverty in America.
At 10:33 a.m. on April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., landed in...
Uncovering Race
A Black Journalist's Story of Reporting and Reinvention
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
From an award-winning black journalist, a tough-minded look at the treatment of ethnic minorities both in newsrooms and in the reporting that comes out of them, within the changing media landscape.
From the Rodney King riots to the racial inequities of the new digital media, Amy Alexander has...
Showdown
JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
In 1961—as America crackled with racial tension—the Washington Redskins stood alone as the only professional football team without a black player on its roster. In fact, during the entire twenty-five-year history of the franchise, no African American had ever played for George Preston Marshall,...
Neruda and Vallejo
Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1993
"Chilean Pablo Neruda is Latin America's greatest poet and one of the finest ever to have written in the Spanish language. The Peruvian poet, Cesar Vallejo, part Indian and born in a mining village, ranks not far below Neruda. Robert Bly is one of America's foremost poets, and a translator of...
Looking for Lorraine
The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction
Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
**A New York Times Notable Book of 2018
A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted...
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party
Memory and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2001
George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the...
Soul Repair
Recovering from Moral Injury after War
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The first book to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families, and their communities
Although veterans make up only 7 percent of the U.S. population, they account for an alarming 20 percent of all suicides. And though treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder has undoubtedly...
Typhoid Mary
Captive to the Public's Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
She was an Irish immigrant cook. Between 1900 and 1907, she infected twenty-two New Yorkers with typhoid fever through her puddings and cakes; one of them died. Tracked down through epidemiological detective work, she was finally apprehended as she hid behind a barricade of trashcans. To protect the...
Plain Secrets
An Outsider among the Amish
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Joe Mackall has lived surrounded by the Swartzentruber Amish community of Ashland County, Ohio, for over sixteen years. They are the most traditional and insular of all the Amish sects: the Swartzentrubers live without gas, electricity, or indoor plumbing; without lights on their buggies or cushioned...
by Donald Hall
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Distinguished poet Donald Hall reflects on the meaning of work, solitude, and love
"The best new book I have read this year, of extraordinary nobility and wisdom. It will remain with me always."—Louis Begley, The New York Times
"A sustained meditation on work as the...
Belfast Diary
War as a Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Resolution of intractable problems around the world requires understanding ordinary people as well as leaders. This street-level view of Northern Ireland provides the best explanation of the twenty-five-year conflict.
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
A Personal History
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**If you’re both overcome and angered by the atrocities of our time, this will inspire a “new generation of activists and ordinary people who search for hope in the darkness” (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor).
Is change possible? Where will it come from? Can we actually make a difference? How...