Topic: Biographies & Autobiographies


$16.95 Add to Cart	Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur This intensely personal and political autobiography belies the fearsome image of JoAnne Chesimard, a.k.a. Assata Shakur, long projected by the media and the state. MORE INFO
$29.95 Add to Cart	Self-Portrait: Che Guevara Unique among the many books about Che Guevara, Self-Portrait has been compiled in close collaboration with Che’s family, using exclusive material from his family’s private archives. Revealed for the first time is Che Guevara’s personal world, unveiling his extraordinary candor, irony, dry humor and passion. MORE INFO
$16.95 Add to Cart	Fidel: My Early Years Introductory essay by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In this unprecedented and candid collection, the Cuban leader describes his family background, his education and the religious and moral influences that led to his involvement in politics from a very early age. MORE INFO
$19.95 Add to Cart	Fidel Castro: Biografía a dos voces por Ignacio Ramonet Sociólogo, teórico de la cultura, periodista y una de las voces más representativas del movimiento altermundista, Ignacio Ramonet ha logrado desvelar —tres semanas de intensas conversaciones— las claves de la Revolución cubana a través de la biografía humana y política del último monstruo sagrado, de la política internacional: el polémico Fidel Castro. MORE INFO
$9.95 Add to Cart	Rebel Lives: Albert Einstein This book takes a new, subversive look at Time magazine's 'Person of the Century,' whose passionate opposition to war and racism and advocacy of human rights put him on the FBI's files as a socialist enemy of the state MORE INFO
$17.95 Add to Cart	The Einstein File Using material newly obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Fred Jerome weaves information from Albert Einstein’s almost two-thousand-page FBI file with the history of the period to create a spy-story-like narrative that also explores Einstein’s political dimension. MORE INFO
$14.95 Add to Cart	Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic This classic is updated with a new introduction by the author. Ron Kovic calls on this new generation to stop the U.S. war in Iraq, "...I have watched in horror the mirror image of another Vietnam unfolding. So many similarities, so many things said that remind me of that war thirty years ago that left me paralyzed for the rest of my life." MORE INFO
$14.00 Add to Cart	Here I Stand by Paul Robeson "Blacklisted," his famed voice silenced, Robeson wrote Here I Stand as a bold answer to his accusers. It remains today a defiant challenge to the prevailing fear and racism that continues to characterize U.S. society. MORE INFO
$15.95 Add to Cart	Fidel: En la Memoria del Joven Que Es Con estas palabras, Fidel Castro describe cómo pueden transcurrir más de setenta años de vida y continuar siendo el joven que, en el decir del Che Guevara, se rebeló "en contra de las oligarquias y los dogmas revolucionarios". MORE INFO
$18.95 Add to Cart	Contrary Notions The Michael Parenti Reader This book is a powerful selection of Michael Parenti's most lucid and penetrating writings on real history, political life, empire, wealth, class power, technology, culture, ideology, media, environment, sex, and ethnicity. MORE INFO
$24.95 Add to Cart	DVD: Aleida Guevara Remembers Her Father, Che Who was the real Che? Aleida Guevara, his daughter, seven years old when her father died, separates the myth from the man. MORE INFO
$6.95 Add to Cart	Kwame Nkrumah By Yuri Smertin An original study of the life and work of renowned African Marxist Kwame Nkrumah that draws on key passages in Nkrumah's own writings and those of his contemporaries. MORE INFO
$16.00 Add to Cart	The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois As scholar, author, lecturer and organizer, Dr. Du Bois was a leader since the turn of the century in the movement for Black liberation. The story of his personal life is thus inseparable from the entire course of this struggle. MORE INFO