“. . . an able exposition of many of the ugly realities
behind the global marketplace’s attractive exterior.”
Quiverfull,
Katherine Joyce, March 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-1070-9
Ctv (Canadian Television) / Sex TV – The Series: Episode
10-19 “Quiverfull: Shunned from God’s Army;” author interview
in episode chronicling the story of Cherly Seelfhoff, one of the women featured
in Quiverfull; original air date June 21st and 22nd at 8:00 p.m.
The Opinion Makers,
David W. Moore, September 2008, cloth, $23.95, 978-0-8070-4232-8 Recent Blog
Coverage:
Thanks to an early mention of the book on Taegan Goddars’ Political
Wire, The Opinion Makers is already getting some blog attention (and some
interesting reader comments):
The Wilson Quarterly; review with cover art in Summer 2008 issue
“Nancy Rubin Stuart, the author of several popular biographies
of women, presents Warren in a colorfully anecdotal style. Given the difficulty
of reconstructing Warren’s life, Stuart has artfully set the story in
the context of the Revolution and relied upon her subject’s friendships,
especially with the Adamses….As a lively introduction to the great Mercy
Otis Warren, this book is appealing.”
American History; featured excerpt in August issue
Sundays in America,
Suzanne Strempek Shea, April 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7224-0
Suzie Musings; lengthy write up with photos on this blog, posted
August 3rd
Yankee Magazine; the front page of www.yankeemagazine.com
will feature the book in a week-long series on the surprising natural histories
of Boston landmarks; to run last week of August; a featured review will run
in the November print issue
Natural History Magazine; forthcoming review in the November issue
The Post-Gazette; review in August issue
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Illegal People,
David Bacon, September 2008, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-4226-7
Upcoming Events:
Bay Area/San Francisco:
Thursday, September 4th, 5:00pm; “Communities Without Borders”;
The Art Gallery at San Francisco State University; Terrace Level, Cesar Chavez
Student Center, 1650 Holloway Ave; San Francisco, CA
Wednesday, September 29th; 6:00pm; World Affairs Council; 312 Sutter Street,
2nd Floor; San Francisco, CA
Tuesday, September 30th, 7:00pm; Modern Times Bookstore; 888 Valencia St;
San Francisco, CA
Boston:
Tuesday, September 9th, 7:00pm; Jamaica Plain Forum; Parish Hall, First
Church of Jamaica Plain; 6 Elliot Street, near the monument; Jamaica Plain,
MA
Washington D.C.:
Wednesday, September 10th, 7:00pm; AFL- CIO; Gompers Room, First Floor,
815 Sixteenth St. NW; Washington, D.C
New York:
Thursday, September 11th, 12:00pm; Demos Forum; 220 Fifth Ave, 5th Floor
(btw. 26th & 27th); New York, NY
Thursday, September 11th, 6:00pm; North American Congress on Latin America;
Location to come; New York, NY
Los Angeles
Monday, October 6th, 6:00pm; UCLA/Downtown Labor Center; 675 S. Park View
St, 1st Fl; Los Angeles, CA
Upcoming Advertising:
Nation, quarter page, 4-color, September 22nd issue (mailed to subscribers
9/4, on stands 9/16)
NACLA Report on the Americas, half page, BW, September/October 2008
issue
Dollars and Sense, third page vertical BW, September/October 2008
issue
Traveling
Light, Kath Weston, September 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-4137-6
Upcoming Events:
New Dominion Bookshop; reading and signing; part of the Virginia Festival
of the Book Fall Fundraiser; Thursday, September 18th, 5:30pm Charlottesville,
VA
Harvard Coop; reading and signing, Friday, September 26th, 7:00pm Cambridge,
MA
Upcoming Publicity:
ForeWord; review in October print issue of at www.foreword.com
Library Journal; review forthcoming
Upcoming Advertising:
Nation; quarter page, 4-color, September 29th issue (mailed to subscribers
9/11, on stands 9/23)
The Opinion
Makers, David W. Moore, September 2008, cloth, $23.95, 978-0-8070-4232-8
Upcoming Events:
Water Street Bookstore; Tuesday, September 16th; 7:00pm; 125 Water Street
Exeter, NH
McNally Robinson Booksellers; Thursday, October 9th; 7:00pm; 52 Prince
Street; New York, NY
Cambridge Forum; Wednesday, October 15th; 7:30pm; First Parish (Unitarian
Universalist) at 3 Church Street in Cambridge, MA
Upcoming Advertising:
Columbia Journalism Review, September/October 2008 issue (on sale
9/1), 1/6 page BW
Nation, quarter page, 4-color, October 6th issue (mailed to subscribers
9/18, on stands 9/30)
Pollster.com, standard size blog ad (150 px x 200 px), 1 week run
in late August or early September
The Porning
of America, Carmine Sarracino and Kevin M. Scott, September 2008, cloth,
$24.95, 978-0-8070-6153-4
Upcoming Publicity:
Alternet; excerpt to run closer to pub date
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas; reviewer lined up
Publishers Weekly; Carmine interviewed for comment in PW’s erotica
books feature
Lancaster New Era; an interview has been scheduled for the end of August
in person with Carmine and via telephone for Kevin
Elizabethtown College Alumni Magazine; review in September issue
Upcoming Advertising:
Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture; quarter page ad, Winter
issue
Journal of Popular Culture; half page, December issue
Beacon Acquisition:
Beacon has successfully sold Howard Thurman’s Jesus and the Disinherited
for over a decade, yet no one has ever written a biographical account of Thurman—founder
of one of the first explicitly interracial American congregations, whose work
deeply influenced Martin Luther King Jr. and James Farmer, Jr. (co-founder of
the Congress for Racial Equality). In this new book, Quinton Dixie and Peter Eisenstadt—both
senior volume editors for the Howard Thurman papers project—draw on archival
and obscure contemporaneous material and a pivotal four month trip Howard Thurman
took to India in 1935 to introduce readers to Thurman and his importance to the
epochal shift in race relations in the U.S. that occurred in the 20th century.
Fall 2011
Beacon Press is a department of the