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So You Think You're Irish: Hundreds of Questions on Everything Irish from James Joyce to the Blarney Stone

Margaret Kelleher · Castle Books; Reprint edition

With over 500 multiple choice questions about everything from the Blarney Stone to James Joyce, this book will test your IQ (Irish Quotient, that is), and determine how much of the Emerald Isle you really have in you. Test your Celtic qualifications in these categories: Irish-Americans;...

The Radical King

Cornel West · Beacon Press

A revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm XThe radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies. . . . The response of the radical King to our catastrophic...

Reframing Randolph: Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph

Andrew Kersten , · NYU Press

At one time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name. As president of the all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), he was an embodiment of America’s multifaceted radical tradition, a leading spokesman for Black America, and a potent symbol of trade unionism...

Homegrown terror : Benedict Arnold and the burning of New London

Eric D Lehman · Wesleyan University Press

A new look at the quintessential traitor

The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams

Phyllis Lee Levin · Palgrave Macmillan Trade; 1St Edition edition

A patriot by birth, John Quincy Adamss destiny was foreordained. He was not only The Greatest Traveler of His Age, but his countrys most gifted linguist and most experienced diplomat. John Quincys world encompassed the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the early and late Napoleonic...

When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington

Peter Snow · Thorndike Press

In August 1814, the United States army was defeated just outside Washington, D.C., by the world’s greatest military power. President James Madison and his wife had just enough time to flee the White House before the British invaders entered. British troops stopped to feast on the meal...

The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee's Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History

Jonathan Horn · Scribner; 1St Edition edition

The riveting true story of Robert E. Lee, the brilliant soldier bound by marriage to George Washingtons family but turned by war against Washingtons crowning achievement, the Union. On the eve of the Civil War, one soldier embodied the legacy of George Washington and the hopes of leaders...

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