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From Yale to Jail by David Dellinger 9781608990610
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608990610Author David DellingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 501Imprint -
David Dellinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary by Andrew E. Hunt 9780814736388
Booksplease Price: £56.56The year was 1969. In a Chicago courthouse, David Dellinger, one of the Chicago Eight, stood trial for conspiring to disrupt the National Democratic Convention. Dellinger, a long-time but relatively... -
The Conspiracy Trial of the Chicago Seven by John Schultz
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.75In 1969, the Chicago Seven were charged with intent to "incite, organize, promote, and encourage" antiwar riots during the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The defendants... -
Conspiracy In The Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight Jon Weiner 9781565848337
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Michael Moore mocks George Bush and Al Franken ridicules Rush Limbaugh, but the mixing of play and politics today is polite and respectful compared to the carnival of contempt known as the Chicago... -
The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Booksplease Price: £12.76The brilliant screenplay of the forthcoming film The Trial of the Chicago 7 by Academy and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin.Sorkin's film dramatizes the 1969 trial of seven... -
William Blake and the Age of Aquarius by Stephen F. Eisenman 9780691175256
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.73A stunningly illustrated look at how Blake's radical vision influenced artists of the Beat generation and 1960s counterculture In his own lifetime, William Blake (1757-1827) was a relatively unknown... -
Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975 by Kelly Moore
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21In the decades following World War II, American scientists were celebrated for their contributions to social and technological progress. They were also widely criticized for their increasingly close... -
Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest by Lawrence Roberts
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £12.52A vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon's Washington They surged into Washington by the tens of thousands in the spring of 1971. Fiery radicals,... -
Direct Action: Radical Pacifism from the Union Eight to the Chicago Seven by James Tracy 9780226811277
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30This text tells the story of how a small group of "radical pacifists" - nonviolent activists such as David Dellinger, Staughton Lynd, A.J. Muste, and Bayard Rustin played a major role in the rebirth... -
Direct Action: Radical Pacifism from the Union Eight to the Chicago Seven by James Tracy 9780226811307
Booksplease Price: £28.13This text tells the story of how a small group of "radical pacifists" - nonviolent activists such as David Dellinger, Staughton Lynd, A.J. Muste, and Bayard Rustin played a major role in the rebirth... -
Fighting for Africa: The Pan-African Contributions of Ambassador Dudley J. Thompson and Bill Sutherland by Robert Johnson 9780761847915
Booksplease Price: £37.42Fighting for Africa captures the commitment and contributions of two men who dedicated their lives to the fight to free Africa from colonialism and racism. Ambassador Dudley Thompson, though born in... -
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial and the Press by Nick Sharman 9781137573872
Booksplease Price: £46.58This book analyzes the newspaper coverage of one of America's most famous and dramatic trials-the trial of the "Chicago 8." Covering a five month period from September 1969 to February 1970 the book... -
The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam by Jerry Lembcke 9780814751473
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70How the startling image of an anti-war protested spitting on a uniformed veteran misrepresented the narrative of Vietnam War political debate One of the most resilient images of the Vietnam era is... -
Rank And File: Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers by Alice Lynd 9781608461509
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.69A collection of oral testimonies documenting the trials and tribulations of firebrand union organisers, from the 1930s through to the 1970s. Dozens of working-class heroes tell their stories in their...