The Advocate, book excerpted in the July 18, 2006 issue
Q Syndicate, review will appear in July and August:
"There are pages in this memoir that will make readers cry."
Boston Firsts, Lynda Morgenroth, cloth, June 2006, $19.95, 0-8070-7130-7
Improper Bostonian , review in July 12th issue:
"Morgenroth colors this thrilling history with hip, current observations and makes you notice just how vast and various our accomplishments and inventions are... Each story zips with color."
My Father's Keeper, Jonathan G. Silin, cloth, May 2006, $23.95, 0-8070-7964-2
"Silin achieves a rare balance between clarity and immediacy, universality and specificity, and this is a supreme work, a searingly precise investigation into the times when ambivalence must coexist with love."
Big-Box Swindle, Stacy Mitchell, cloth, November 2006, $25.95, 0-8070-3500-9
"This is the ultimate account of the single most important economic trend in our country—the replacement of local businesses, and all they represent, with the big boxes. What Nickel and Dimed did for the Wal-Mart worker, Stacy Mitchell does for the community threatened by mega-retailers."
—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
"Through rich, real-life stories, Stacy Mitchell reveals that those 'low prices' so proudly promoted by big-box behemoths come at an intolerably high cost to our communities and culture. Can we beat the behemoths? Yes! And Mitchell shows us the way. Read on, take heart, and take action!"
—Jim Hightower, national radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and best-selling author
"A great read! The big-box shadow looms over us mightily, but, as Stacy Mitchell documents, hundreds of communities have already saved themselves. She tells us how they did it and firmly invites us to step forward into the light. Change-a-lujah!"
—Reverend Billy, Leader of the Church of Stop Shopping
"Big-Box Swindle is a well-researched and frightening book about an economic pandemic engulfing the United States... The big boxes are draining cities and towns of money and bankrupting neighborhood businesses that have long been the backbone of American communities. Big-Box Swindle is a book every citizen needs to read."
—Ben H. Bagdikian, author of The New Media Monopoly
"Stacy Mitchell provides an astonishing exposé of the broad-reaching implications of our shopping habits. Big Box Swindle should be required reading for everyone who cares about America's main streets, as well as a call to arms to small businesses everywhere to organize and take action."
—Kennedy Smith, former director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's National Main Street Center
"Immensely readable . . . [Villains of All Nations] provides penetrating background to our enduring cultural fascination with the seafaring outlaws."
—Publishers Weekly
"Marcus Rediker knows pirates, and he knows how to tell a story. Villains of All Nations is a must read; don't wait for the movie!"
—Robin Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams
"[Pirates] created life under the flag of death, liberty in a world of despotism, and equality where hierarchy dwelled. They also made an already savage world more barbarous. Understanding these conundrums requires placing the Jolly Roger in the context of history while respecting its place in the popular imagination. Marcus Rediker accomplishes both tasks with intelligence, insight, and balance, attentive both of the lives pirates would live and of the lives they did live."
—Ira Berlin, University of Maryland
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