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A People's History of American Empire

Paul Buhle; Howard Zinn; Mike Konopacki

Adapted from the critically acclaimed chronicle of U.S. history, a study of American expansionism around the world is told from a grassroots perspective and provides an analysis of important events from Wounded Knee to Iraq, in a volume created in the format of a graphic novel. Simultaneous. 100,000 first printing.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2008

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Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form

Paul Buhle

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Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World

Paul Buhle

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Hide In Plain Sight: The Hollywood Blacklistees In Film And Television, 1950-2002

Paul Buhle; Dave Wagner

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2003

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From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture

Paul Buhle

A lively, extensively illustrated history of the widespread influence of Jews on American popular culture through the twentieth century.
The contribution by Jews to American popular culture is widely acknowledged yet scarcely documented. This is the first comprehensive investigation of the formative Jewish influence upon the rise and development of American popular culture, drawing upon extensive oral histories with several generations of Jewish artists, little-utilized Yiddish scholarship, and the author's own connections with today's comic-strip artists. Buhle shows how the rich legacy of Yiddish prepared would-be artists to absorb the cultures of their surrounding environments, seeing the world through the eyes of others, and producing the talent required for theater, films, television, popular music and comics.
Buhle suggests that "premodern" and "postmodern" are arbitrary designations here, because the self-reflective content has always radiated an inner Jewishness. From Sholem Aleichem (who died in the Bronx) to Gertrude Berg, Woody Allen and Tony Kushner, from John Garfield to Roseanne Barr and Rube Goldberg to Cyndi Lauper, the cutting edge is never too far from home and humane antidotes to the pains of a troubled world. Contradictions between Jewish avant-garde and kitsch, mogul and artist, orthodoxy and heresy are given new sense here in the scope of cultural output adopted by ordinary Americans as their own. Illustrated with the work of Harvey Pekar and R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Ben Katchor, Trina Robbins and others, From the Lower East Side to Hollywood is full of humor and insight into the power of popular art to spark insight and encourage the endless quest for freedom. 25 b/w illustrations.

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Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies

Paul Buhle; David Wagner; Dave Wagner

A controversial and fascinating rewriting of the history of cinema's golden age.
Radical Hollywood is the first comprehensive history of the Hollywood Left. From the dawn of sound movies to the early 1950s, Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner trace the political and personal lives of the screenwriters, actors, directors, and producers on the Left and the often decisive impact of their work upon American film's Golden Age.
Full of rich anecdotes, biographical detail, and explorations of movies well-known, unjustly forgotten, and delightfully bizarre, the book is "an intelligent, well argued and absorbing examination of how politics and art can make startling and often strange bedfellows" (Publishers Weekly). Featuring an insert of rare film stillsRadical Hollywood relates the story-behind-the-story of films in such genres as crime, women's films, family cinema, war, animation, and, particularly, film noir.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2002

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Blacklisted: The Film-Lover's Guide to the Hollywood Blacklist

Paul Buhle; David Wagner; Dave Wagner

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Insurgent Images: The Labor Murals of Mike Alewitz

Paul Buhle; Mike Alewitz

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A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left

Paul Buhle; Dave Wagner

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2001

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Images of American Radicalism

Paul Buhle; Edmund B. Sullivan

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1998

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Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist

Paul Buhle; Patrick McGilligan

In this critically acclaimed milestone in Hollywood history, more than 30 blacklist survivors tell their deeply affecting stories. 35 photos.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1997

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Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor

Paul Buhle

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1999

From the Knights of Labor to the New World Order: Essays on Labor and Culture

Paul Buhle

This collection brings together the labor and cultural studies of the author over the past 20 years, during which time the fields of social history, women's history, ethnic studies, public history, and oral history have all been transformed. The essays, some rewritten or newly available and the rest original to this volume, offer important examples of historical analysis, comment on changing scholarly perceptions, and the public uses of history. By drawing upon his own research in popular culture, Yiddish periodicals, interracial unionism, oral history and a variety of other sources, the author demonstrates how the field of labor specialists has become the domain of social historians exploring a rich American past.

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A Dreamer's Paradise Lost: Louis C. Fraina Lewis Corey and the Decline of Radicalism

Paul Buhle

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Other editions: Softcover - 1995

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William Appleman Williams--The Tragedy of Empire: The Tragedy of Empire

Paul Buhle; Edward Rice-Maximin

Williams' controversial volumes, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, Contours of American History, and other works have established him as the foremost interpreter of US foreign policy. Both Williams and others deeply influenced by him have recast not only diplomatic history but also the story of pioneer America's westward movement, and studies in the culture of imperialism. At the end of the Cold War, when the US no longer faces any great enemy, the lessons of William Appleman Williams' life and scholarship have become more urgent than ever before. This study of his life and major works offers readers an opportunity to introduce, or re-introduce, themselves to a major figure of the last half-century.

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The American Radical

Paul Buhle; Mari Jo Buhle

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Other editions: Softcover - 1994

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The Encyclopedia of the American Left

Paul Buhle

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1990

Marxism in the United States: Remapping the History of the American Left

Paul Buhle

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Other editions: 1987, Softcover - 1987

C.L.R. James: The Artist As Revolutionary

Paul Buhle

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Other editions: 1988

Working for Democracy: American Workers from the Revolution to the Present

Paul Buhle

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Free Spirits: Annals of the Insurgent Imagination

Paul Buhle; Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)

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The Concise History of Woman Suffrage: Selections from the Classic Work of Stanton, Anthony, Gage and Harper

Paul Buhle; Mari Buhle

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Marxismus in Den USA

Paul Buhle

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