Indie Next; title selected as a “Year-End Highlight"—one of twenty titles chosen for an Indie Next List in hardcover that is now available in paperback format.
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The Lonely Soldier, Helen Benedict, April 2010, paperback, $17.00, 978-0-8070-6149-7
PRI’s To the Best of Our Knowledge; interview on November 11th was part of the TTBOOK’s Veteran’s Day special. Benedict’s story starts at the 33 minute mark.
To Uphold the World, Bruce Rich, March 2009, paperback, $23.00, 978-0-8070-0613-9
“The only era when change was as profound as it is now was roughly 2,400 years ago, a time of defining prophets and the unification of the West, India, and China. No one then contributed more for the good than Ashoka. No one ever has brought Ashoka and his relevance so much to life as Bruce Rich in this wonderful volume.”
—Bill Drayton, Founder and Chair, Ashoka
Beacon Acquisition:
Beacon is delighted to announce the third acquisition in our ReVisioning American History series—a unique collection of accessibly written books by notable scholars that reinterpret America’s past through minority perspectives. Historian and noted Helen Keller biographer Kim E. Nielsen will write A Disability History of the United States, the first book to adequately address this diverse yet relatively unknown narrative, from colonial times to the present. Absorbing stories emerge: Black Panther members bringing food to disability activists at a Berkeley sit-in; a deaf man, wrongly accused of rape, is released after being incarcerated for 65 years; a fifteen-year-old girl escapes slavery because of bouts of epilepsy. Nielsen uses these stories and archival research to reveal the prominent role that disability has played in the American experience from shifting cultural expressions of care-giving to medicinal and technological breakthroughs to education and labor reform. In many ways, disability will be revealed to be our own story, the story of someone we love, the story of whom we may become, and undoubtedly the story of our nation. Fall 2012
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