Civil Rights & Liberties Books


The Godless Constitution: A Moral Defense of the Secular StateThe Godless Constitution: A Moral Defense of the Secular State
Best Price: $8.00
An ill-chosen title, also, since it probably decreases the book's chances of being read by its...
What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in AmericaWhat Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America
Best Price: $21.56
Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran...
Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black PowerRadio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
Best Price: $19.95
As one reviewer notes, Robert Williams name is not noted in other books about this era. This is...
Drug Smuggling: The Forbidden BookDrug Smuggling: The Forbidden Book
Best Price: $11.98
To start with, I haven't read this book yet, but I will be reading it soon, and will leave a...
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Best Price: $10.97
There is a disturbing self-published book here: http://www.lulu.com/content/2687797 which sums...


The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America's CampusesThe Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America's Campuses
Best Price: $4.68
The Shadow University takes the political correctness horror of the early 90's and puts it into...
Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights (Oxford Political Theory)Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights (Oxford Political Theory)
Best Price: $34.79
Kymlicka's Multiculturalism well explains about the importance of cultural pluralism and how to...
Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for JusticeRacism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice
Best Price: $17.50
I love this book. Haney Lopez gives us an intriguing description of the history of...
The Rights of Indians and Tribes: The Authoritative ACLU Guide to Indian and Tribal Rights, Third Edition (American Civil Liberties Union Handbook)The Rights of Indians and Tribes: The Authoritative ACLU Guide to Indian and Tribal Rights, Third Edition (American Civil Liberties Union Handbook)
Best Price: $17.10
I was very satisfied with my order. When i recieved the book it was just like new without any...
War and Liberty: An American Dilemma: 1790 to the PresentWar and Liberty: An American Dilemma: 1790 to the Present
Best Price: $7.50
An essential work on the challenges of preserving civil liberties in wartime by a preeminent...


The Quick and Dirty Guide to Learning Languages FastThe Quick and Dirty Guide to Learning Languages Fast
Best Price: $11.88
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/RW1BPNPSL6S7C This is my video review of The...
Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy (Pivotal Moments in American History)Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy (Pivotal Moments in American History)
Best Price: $10.75
James T. Patterson's Brown v. Board of Education is an exceedingly well researched historical...
Feminism and WarFeminism and War
Best Price: $29.88
Women - both within and without the United States - are being dramatically affected by war as...
Justice at War: The Men and Ideas that Shaped America's War on Terror (New York Review Books Collection)Justice at War: The Men and Ideas that Shaped America's War on Terror (New York Review Books Collection)
Best Price: $8.67
How did America become a nation that tortured prisoners, spied on its citizens, and gave its...
All Alone in the World: Children of the IncarceratedAll Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated
Best Price: $10.00
This book is an amazing in depth look into the lives of children with incarcerated parents. The...

The Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Fighting the Lawless World of Guantanamo BayThe Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Fighting the Lawless World of Guantanamo Bay
Best Price: $5.44
Tragic book, very well written. I suspect all of it is true. If 10% is true, people who care...
Liberty before LiberalismLiberty before Liberalism
Best Price: $10.00
Slim but packed with first rate scholarship, Skinner mines conceptions of Liberty...
The Riddle of GenderThe Riddle of Gender
Best Price: $8.97
This books contains exhaustive research on the medical and societal history of transsexualism,...
What Would Martin Say?What Would Martin Say?
Best Price: $10.49
I am so impressed with Mr Jones' observations. He takes the historical Martin King and brings...
Fighting Power: German and U.S. Army Performance, 1939-1945 (Contributions in Military Studies)Fighting Power: German and U.S. Army Performance, 1939-1945 (Contributions in Military Studies)
Best Price: $18.00
This is a pretty expensive book but its well worth reading and owning if you are a serious...

From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial EqualityFrom Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Best Price: $13.50
Professor Klarman's book is a study of the interplay between Politics, Social Forces, and legal...
A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Best Price: $21.48
My parents and I have listened to all the CDs with the greatest enthusiasm over and over again....
Courageous Journey: Walking the Lost Boys Path from the Sudan to AmericaCourageous Journey: Walking the Lost Boys Path from the Sudan to America
Best Price: $6.74
Courageous Journey tells the tale of thousands of young children cruelly separated from their...
Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency (Inalienable Rights)Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency (Inalienable Rights)
Best Price: $4.99
To couch this review and Posner's argument, I paste a quote from Posner himself found the in The...
Community and the Politics of PlaceCommunity and the Politics of Place
Best Price: $6.29
Required reading for anyone who wonders how America came to be a divided, polarized nation....

International Human Rights (Dilemmas in World Politics)International Human Rights (Dilemmas in World Politics)
Best Price: $25.10
I originally read this book for a class at Vassar College my freshman year. Yes, this book can...
American Public Policy: Promise and PerformanceAmerican Public Policy: Promise and Performance
Best Price: $54.44
Guy Peter's "American Public Policy: Promise and Performance" provides an informed and...
Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUACHazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC
Best Price: $19.54
Wow,Wow, I just finished reading this book and it is really an excellent book. First of all let...
Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
Best Price: $2.94
This history may be the best one written about the Civil Rights Movement. It certainly affords...
DO IT!: Scenarios of the RevolutionDO IT!: Scenarios of the Revolution
Best Price: $49.82
Historically speaking the book has value... for understanding an ideology the book is worthless...

Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of ChildrenNanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children
Best Price: $11.95
A good review of the "wussification" of America. Why can't people live and let live? ...
Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black PowerRadio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
Best Price: $19.95
As one reviewer notes, Robert Williams name is not noted in other books about this era. This is...
Invisible Resistance to Tyranny: How to Lead a Secret Life of Insurgency in an Increasingly Unfree WorldInvisible Resistance to Tyranny: How to Lead a Secret Life of Insurgency in an Increasingly Unfree World
Best Price: $12.40
Invisible Resistance to Tyranny: How to Lead a Secret Life of Insurgency in an Increasingly...
Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color LineAgainst Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line
Best Price: $10.61
This book seems hopelessly out of touch with Black culture and US culture in general. It also...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Norton Critical Editions)A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Norton Critical Editions)
Best Price: $4.89
This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities. Wollstonecraft is not easy to...

Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press)Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press)
Best Price: $18.63
In the 1950s, the exclusion of women and of black and Latino men from higher-paying jobs was so...
Exodus/?xodo (Bill and Alice Wright Photography Series)Exodus/?xodo (Bill and Alice Wright Photography Series)
Best Price: $29.99
Immigration has become one of the most important and contentious issues of our time. But even as...
Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human DespairDisappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair
Best Price: $18.45
This book claims that Palestine is fast disappearing and fulfilling the objectives of Israel's...
Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LAImperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA
Best Price: $19.93
Asians and Latinos comprise the vast majority of contemporary immigrants to the United States,...
Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?
Best Price: $3.65
If you will get one message from this book, it will be that there is no dichotomy between the...

A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in AmericaA Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
Best Price: $4.37
In this book Shelby Steele eloquently argues his position in opposition to modern day liberalism...
The Politics of Freedom: Taking on The Left, The Right and Threats to Our LibertiesThe Politics of Freedom: Taking on The Left, The Right and Threats to Our Liberties
Best Price: $5.98
An excellent source for understanding the threats to our liberties from government. Boaz rests...
Illegal, Alien, or Immigrant: The Politics of Immigration ReformIllegal, Alien, or Immigrant: The Politics of Immigration Reform
Best Price: $15.84
While the United States cherishes its identity as a nation of immigrants, the country's...
Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color LineAgainst Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line
Best Price: $10.63
This book seems hopelessly out of touch with Black culture and US culture in general. It also...
The Right to PrivacyThe Right to Privacy
Best Price: $3.75
THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY is an excellent legal resource which can be read by legal scholars,...

The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender RightsThe Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights
Best Price: $6.89
What an amazing book. Marvelously written, highly informative, i was shocked and entertained,...
Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who are Changing Our WorldSpeak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who are Changing Our World
Best Price: $15.00
In the interst of full disclosure, I have not read through this book in its entirety. Nor to I...
Privacy: The Lost RightPrivacy: The Lost Right
Best Price: $50.16
This is a book that should be required reading for all journalists and lawyers dealing with this...
The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the WorldThe Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
Best Price: $5.22
The Great Escape by Kati Marton. The book is about the lives of amazing Jewish Hungarians who...
The Philosophy of Human Rights (Paragon Issues in Philosophy)The Philosophy of Human Rights (Paragon Issues in Philosophy)
Best Price: $19.93
the condition was listed as good, and becuase i was short on cash i figured i could handle that...

Where Do We Go from Here:  Chaos or Community?Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
Dr. King's penultimate book provides a snapshot of where we were in 1967. Two turning points had...
iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era (CultureAmerica)iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era (CultureAmerica)
Best Price: $18.66
Whether you're purchasing groceries with your safeway "club card" or casting a vote on...
Rights of Man and Common Sense (Everyman's Library)Rights of Man and Common Sense (Everyman's Library)
Best Price: $11.93
This was required reading for a graduate course in the history of the French Revolution. For...
Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on TerrorTorture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror
Best Price: $5.10
This book offers a chilling rendition of the events that occured at Abu Gharib. It fairly...
International Human Rights (Dilemmas in World Politics)International Human Rights (Dilemmas in World Politics)
Best Price: $13.26
I originally read this book for a class at Vassar College my freshman year. Yes, this book can...
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