Fifty years ago today (October 1), students at the University of California at Berkeley surrounded a campus police car on the school’s main plaza and held it captive for 33 hours. This non-violent protest in the fall of 1964 launched the Free Speech Movement, the first major campus protest by white students of the sixties. […]
Tag: SUBVERSIVES
Kirkus Reviews’ Best Nonfiction of 2012!
Huzzah! Kirkus Reviews continues their year-end celebration by inviting all of their top nonfiction picks to the party! 18 of their top 100 nonfiction selections were published or distributed by Macmillan this year:
WINTER JOURNAL By Paul Auster
VISIT SUNNY CHERNOBYL: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places By Andrew Blackwell
AFTERMATH: On Marriage and Separation By Rachel Cusk
CITY: A Guidebook for the Urban Age By P.D. Smith
THE TENDER HOUR OF TWILIGHT: Paris in the '50s, New York in the '60s: A Memoir of Publishing's Golden Age By Richard Seaver
WHAT MONEY CAN'T BUY: The Moral Limits of Markets By Michael J. Sandel
POWER, INC.: the Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government--and the Reckoning that Lies Ahead By David Rothkopf
HAITI: The Aftershocks of History By Laurent Dubois
FREEDOM'S CAP: The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War By Guy Gugliotta
LIVING, THINKING, LOOKING: Essays By Siri Hustvedt
LEONARDO AND THE LAST SUPPER By Ross King
THE PATAGONIAN HARE: A Memoir By Claude Lanzmann
SAVAGE CONTINENT: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II By Keith Lowe
DESERT AMERICA: Boom and Bust in the New "New West" By Rubén Martínez
SUBVERSIVES: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power By Seth Rosenfeld
RED PLENTY By Francis Spufford
THE BIG SCREEN: The Story of the Movies By David Thomson
RISE TO GREATNESS: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year By David Von Drehle
See the the full Best Nonfiction of 2012 list from Kirkus Reviews. Also take a look at all of the great Macmillan titles in their Best of Fiction 2012! [...]