1992. 1st edition, 1st printing. -- 'MOTHER TERESA - A Life in Pictures'. INSCRIBED-- 'God bless you', M. Teresa, 19/4/93' -- on half-title page. Hardcover in dustjacket. A handsome book - 160 pages of b&w photographs and descriptions show Mother Teresa and her long life of service to humanity. Chapters include: Introduction/ The Early Years in Skopje/ The Long Awaited Arrival in India/ Home Away From Home; The Loreto Convent/ Loretto Entally, Calcutta; The Vocation Expands/ The Great famine And Direct Action Day/ The Call Within A Call/ The First True Home; Mother House/ Shishu Bhavan - Ch... View More...
2004 printing. "Angela Davis has been a political activist at the forefront of the Black Liberation, feminist, queer, and prison abolitionist movements for more than fifty years. First published and edited by Toni Morrison in 1974,' An Autobiography' is a powerful and commanding account of her early years in struggle. Davis describes her journey from a childhood on Dynamite Hill in Birmingham, Alabama, to one of the most significant political trials of the century: from her political activity in a New York high school to her work with the U.S. Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, and t... View More...
For ten years, Marlin Fitzwater was White House spokesperson for Presidents Reagan and Bush-- longer than any other spokesperson. This vivid memoir offers Fitzwater's clear-eyed, often astounding account of how the White House-- and the press-- works. View More...
In his memoir, Brent Staples poses some compelling questions: Where does the family end the self begin? What do we owe our families and what do we owe ourselves? What part of the past is a gift and what part a shackle? As the eldest son among nine children, Brent grew up in a small industrial town near Philadelphia. Scholarship opportunities pulled him out of the black world where he had grown up into a world largely defined by whites. Meanwhile, as the industries that supported his hometown failed, and drug dealing rushed in to fill the economic void, news of arrests and premature deaths amon... View More...
In Simone Weil, du Plessix Gray vividly evokes the life of a complex and intriguing figure. A patriot and a mystic, an unruly activist plagued by self-doubt, a pampered intellectual with a credo of manual labor, an ascetic who craved sensuous beauty, Simone Weil died at the age of thirty-four prematurely after a long struggle with anorexia. But her tremendous intellectual legacy foresaw many of the twentieth century's great changes and continues to influence philosophy today. Simone Weil traces this seminal thinker's transformation from privileged Parisian student to union organizer, activist,... View More...
Ralph Edmund Stanley (1927 - 2016), also known as Dr. Ralph Stanley, was an American bluegrass artist, known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing. Stanley began playing music in 1946, originally with his brother Carter as part of The Stanley Brothers, and most often as the leader of his band, The Clinch Mountain Boys. He was part of the first generation of bluegrass musicians and was inducted into both the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor and the Grand Ole Opry. 1/2" closed tear at the bottom of the front dj fold, else vg overall. View More...
NY, Free Press, 1991, Hardcover George Soros figures hugely in global politics-- thru his foundations, action commitees, organizations & affiliations-- Mr. Soros' politics and financial backings have shaped public opinion in the US and Europe. Book topics cover the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Eastern European history, questions of freedoms and values, philosophical writings by a major world leader- George Soros. Inscribed by Author on front-free end paper. Book is clean & unmarked; unclipped jacket in mylar cover. In good as new condition. View More...
