by Susan Berry Casey (2016)
"Jean Dubofsky's trailblazing journey that helped change America. This untold intimate and powerful biography of Jean Dubofsky is our story too. It is a tale of the pain of discrimination and of young revolutionaries out to save the world. This poignant narrative of a time in our country's history breaks our heart and renews our spirit. The Jean Dubofsky story and the drama of Romer v. Evans places Colorado in its rightful place at the center of our country's fight for justice"--Back cover.
Peter Mackay
The memoir of a man (1926 - 2013) who, after emigrating to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1948, was active in promoting African liberation in Nyasaland (now Malawi) and Rhodesia, working with nationalist leaders like Yatuta Chisiza in Nyasaland and James Chikerema and George Nyandoro in Rhodesia. This book covers the years 1959 - 1967.
edited, with an Introduction by Karin Bauer
"No other figure embodies revolutionary politics and radical chic quite like Ulrike Meinhof, who formed, with Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin, the Red Army Faction (RAF), also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang, notorious for its bombings and kidnappings of the wealthy in the 1970s. But in the years leading up to her leap into the fray, Meinhof was known throughout Europe as a respected journalist, who informed and entertained her loyal readers with monthly magazine columns. Never before translated into English, Meinhof's writings show a woman increasingly engaged in the major political events and social currents of her time."--Jacket.
Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni
This biography of Marcus Cato the Younger -- Rome's bravest statesman, an aristocratic soldier, a Stoic philosopher, and staunch defender of sacred Roman tradition -- is rich with resonances for current politics and contemporary notions of freedom.
Sybil Downing and Robert E. Smith
Thomas McDonald Patterson, described by contemporaries as the most prominent figure in Colorado history, achieved a degree of political influence, professional fame, and financial success that makes his relative obscurity a mystery. As the acknowledged leader of the Democratic party from 1876 to 1892, he raised the party's respectability. By engineering a fusion of silver Democrats and populists to challenge Republican dominance, he brought about an effective two-party system. In Patterson's lengthy career he was instrumental in Colorado's quest for statehood, served as territorial delegate to Congress, was the first Democratic U.S. congressman, and later a U.S. senator. As owner and publisher of the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Times, Patterson supported many unpopular causes, among them organized labor. In defending freedom of the press, he survived serious boycotts by large advertisers and a contempt citation by the Colorado Supreme Court. Infuriated by election swindles, Patterson worked with other progressive reformers to curtail corruption in municipal and state government, including the Democratic machine of mayor Robert Speer.