Chicago Review Press: 838 books
Klandestine
How a Klan Lawyer and a Checkbook Journalist Helped James Earl Ray Cover Up His Crime
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
James Earl Ray, an escaped convict from Missouri, was punished for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. despite the fact that he did not fit the caricature of a hangdog racist thirsty for blood. The media has often portrayed him as hapless and apolitical, someone who must have been paid by...
The Stone Crusher
The True Story of a Father and Son's Fight for Survival in Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was arrested by the Nazis. Along with his sixteen-year-old son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany, where a new concentration camp was being built. It was the beginning of a six-year odyssey almost without parallel. They helped build...
Frederick Douglass
Selected Speeches and Writings
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his life-from the abolition of slavery to women’s rights, from the Civil...
Freedom's Journey
African American Voices of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
The men and women represented in this book had the extraordinary opportunity of witnessing the end of a 200-year struggle for freedom: the Civil War. Gathered here are the stirring testimonies of many African Americans including slaves who endured their last years of servitude before escaping from...
Friends of the Earth
A History of American Environmentalism with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The history of American environmentalism is the history of men and women who dedicated their lives to protecting the nation’s natural heritage. Almost singlehandedly, John James Audubon introduced the study of birds in North America. John Muir pushed a president and a nation into setting aside vast...
Kids Celebrate!
Activities for Special Days Throughout the Year
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
Children love learning about special days and celebrating them with arts and crafts. Skipping the typical green shamrocks, orange paper pumpkins, and red doily hearts, Kids Celebrate! lists 100 days to remember with 200 related activities for children and grown-ups. There’s a Hansel and Gretel walk...
by John Blake
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Profiling 24 of the adult children of the most recognizable figures in the civil rights movement, this book collects the intimate, moving stories of families who were pulled apart by the horrors of the struggle or brought together by their efforts to change America. The whole range of players is covered,...
Women of the Frontier
16 Tales of Trailblazing Homesteaders, Entrepreneurs, and Rabble-Rousers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
In 1849 Luzena Wilson set out for California in a covered wagon with her husband and two little boys, hungry to join the tide of gold seekers. Like thousands of others, Luzena undertook the nearly 2,000 mile journey to an unknown land, where she’d rise from flood and fire, a survivor of the wild...
Kentucky Clay
Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Eleven generations of a founding American family are examined in this sweeping history that traces the Clays of Kentucky, a true Southern dynasty. The Clays of Virginia and the Cecils of Maryland were second sons of the English aristocracy who gambled on the New World. Some of the most well-known...
Code Name Pauline
Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Pearl Witherington Cornioley, one of the most celebrated female World War II resistance fighters, shares her remarkable story in this firsthand account of her experience as a special agent for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). Told through a series of reminiscences—from a difficult...
Sweet Thunder
The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Sugar Ray Robinson was one of the most iconic figures in sports and possibly the greatest boxer of all time. His legendary career spanned nearly 26 years, including his titles as the middleweight and welterweight champion of the world and close to 200 professional bouts. This illuminating biography...
Fighting the Devil in Dixie
How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Examining the growth of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) following the birth of the civil rights movement, this book is filled with tales of the heroic efforts to halt their rise to power. Shortly after the success of the Montgomery bus boycott, the KKK-determined to keep segregation as the way of life in...
Lucie Aubrac
The French Resistance Heroine Who Outwitted the Gestapo
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Brilliant, intensely political, and inseparable for nearly 70 years, Lucie Aubrac and her husband, Raymond, are legendary figures of the French Resistance. Founding leaders of Libération-Sud, one of the most important resistance movements in France, they ran the underground newspaper Libération...
I Was Born a Slave
An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature. I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most significant slave narratives.” They describe whippings, torture, starvation, resistance,...