xxi, 584 p. ; 24 cm
Contains biographical profiles of authors
Includes bibliographical references (p. [525]-548) and index
Works discussed in this volume : About David (Susan Beth Pfeffer) -- The affluent society (John Kenneth Galbraith) -- After such knowledge, what forgiveness? : my encounters with Kurdistan (Jonathan C. Randal) -- The age of Keynes (Robert Lekachman) -- All quiet on the Western front (Erich Maria Remarque) -- America in legend (Richard M. Dorson) -- American civics (William H. Hartley and William S. Vincent) -- The American pageant : a history of the republic (Thomas A. Bailey) -- Andersonville (MacKinlay Kantor) -- Animal farm (George Orwell) -- Areopagitica (John Milton) -- Black boy (Richard Wright) -- Bloods : an oral history of the Vietnam War by black veterans (Wallace Terry) -- Born on the Fourth of July (Ron Kovic) -- Boss : Richard J. Daley of Chicago (Mike Royko) -- Burger's daughter (Nadine Gordimer) -- Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Brown) -- By way of deception : the making and unmaking of a Mossad officer (Victor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy) -- Cancer ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) -- The Case for India (Will Durant) -- Cat's cradle (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.) -- The China lobby in American politics (Ross Y. Koen) -- The CIA and the cult of intelligence (Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks) -- Citizen Tom Paine (Howard Fast) -- The commercial restraints of Ireland considered (John Hely-Hutchinson) -- Comparative politics today : a world view (Gabriel A. Almond, general editor) -- Cry Amandla! (June Goodwin)
Das Kapital (Karl Marx) -- Daughter of earth (Agnes Smedley) -- The day they came to arrest the book (Nat Hentoff) -- Decent interval (Frank Snepp) -- Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak) -- The Drapier's letters (Jonathan Swift) -- A dry white season (André Brink) -- Du Pont : behind the nylon curtain (Gerard Colby Zilg) -- El señor presidente, The president (Miguel Angel Asturias) -- Fail-safe (Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler) -- Fields of fire (James Webb) -- A fleet in being: notes from two trips with the channel squadron (Rudyard Kipling) -- The fragile flag (Jane Langton) -- The fugitive, Perburuan (Pramoedya Ananta Toer) -- A global history of man (Leften S. Stavrianos, et al.) -- The grapes of wrath (John Steinbeck) -- The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) -- Gulliver's travels (Jonathan Swift) -- Handbook for conscientious objectors (Robert A. Seeley, editor) -- A hero on a donkey (Miodeag Bulatovic) -- The hoax of the twentieth century (Arthur R. Butz) -- I am the cheese (Robert Cormier) -- Inside Russia today (John Gunther) -- Inside the company : CIA diary (Philip Agee) -- In the spirit of Crazy Horse (Peter Matthiessen) -- An introduction to problems of American culture (Harold O. Rugg) -- The invisible government (David Wise and Thomas B. Ross) -- It can't happen here (Sinclair Lewis) -- Johnny got his gun (Dalton Trumbo) -- A journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow (Aleksandr Nikolaevich Radishchev) -- Julie of the wolves (Jean Craighead George) -- The jungle (Upton Sinclair) -- Keeping faith : memoirs of a president (Jimmy Carter)
The land and people of Cuba (Victoria Ortiz) -- Land of the free : a history of the United States (John W. Caughey, John Hope Franklin, and Ernest R. May) -- Laughing boy (Oliver La Farge) -- Les Miserables (Victor Hugo) -- The manifesto of the Communist Party (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) -- Marxism versus Socialism (Vladimir G. Simkhovitch) -- Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler) -- Men and nations (Anatole G. Mazour and John M. peoples) -- My brother Sam is dead (James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier) -- My name is Asher Lev (Chaim Potok) -- My people : the story of the Jews (Abba Eban) -- Nelson and Winnie Mandela (Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler) -- 1984 (George Orwell) -- Novel without a name (Duong Thu Huong) -- Oil! (Upton Sinclair) -- One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) -- One people, one destiny : the Caribbean and Central America today (Don Rojas) -- Our land, our time : a history of the United States (Joseph Robert Conlin) -- Paradise of the blind (Duong Thu Huong) -- The prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
Principles of nature (Elihu Palmer) -- Promise of America (Larry Cuban and Philip Roden) -- Report of the Siberian delegation (Leon Trotsky) -- The rights of man (Thomas Paine) -- Russia (Vernon Ives) -- Secrecy and democracy : the CIA in transition (Stansfield Turner) -- -- Slaughterhouse-five, or the children's crusade (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.) -- Spycatcher (Peter Wright) -- The state and revolution (Vladimir I. Lenin) -- Strong wind, Viento fuerte (Miguel Angel Asturias) -- The green pope, El papa verde (Miguel Angel Asturias) -- The struggle is my life (Nelson Mandela) -- A summary view of the rights of British America (Thomas Jefferson) -- Sylvester and the magic pebble (William Steig) -- Ten days that shook the world (John Reed) -- The things they carried (Tim O'Brien) -- This earth of mankind (Pramoedya Ananta Toer) -- Child of all nations (Pramoedya Ananta Toer) -- 365 days (Ronald J. Glasser) -- Today's isms : communism, fascism, capitalism, socialism (William Ebenstein) -- The ugly American (William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick) -- Uncle Tom's cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe) -- United States-Vietnam relations, 1945-1967, The Pentagon papers (U.S. Department of Defense) -- Why are we in Vietnam? (Norman Mailer) -- Words of conscience : religious statements on conscientious objection (A. Stauffer Curry, editor, first edition ; Shawn Perry, editor, ninth edition)