Someday We'll All Be Free
Author: Kevin Powell
Hurricane Katrina and 9/11 may have been wake-up calls to Americans insulated from the effects of poverty and terrorism, but according to Kevin Powell, similar disasters have been happening in slow motion throughout America for years. Instead of through floods and bombs, these disasters take place via things like rampant unemployment and police brutality, with consequences that are ultimately longer lasting and more damaging. Full of uncomfortable truths and difficult facts, Someday We'll All Be Free lays out Powell's case for how freedom and democracy are being subverted in 21st-century America. More than just a catalog of sins, Someday We'll All Be Free also finds Powell loudly calling for African-Americans to stand up and finish the work begun by MLK. The most blistering book yet from an author equally recognized for intellectual rigor and scalding rhetoric, Someday We'll All Be Free firmly establishes why Powell is widely considered one of America's brightest leaders and thinkers.
The Washington Post - Hakim Hasan
The enlightening essays in Someday We'll All Be Free are an interpretive collage of tragic events in American life that are redefining our debates about civil liberties and the unspoken expendability of the poor. Powell argues that the key to the future of American democracy is the willingness of Americans to assess their history and to reject rabid nationalism as a form of patriotism. He makes the point that freedom is measured by an evolving recognition of our shared humanity. Through this realization, problems such as poverty, natural disaster and terrorism can be addressed effectively.
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Arms and Influence
Author: Thomas C Schelling
In this landmark book, Nobel laureate Thomas C. Schelling considers the ways in which military capabilities—real or imagined—are used as bargaining power. This edition contains a new foreword by the author where he considers the book’s relevance over forty years after its first publication. Included as an afterword is the text of Professor Schelling’s Nobel acceptance speech in which he reflects upon the global taboo that has emerged against nuclear weapons since Hiroshima.
"This is a brilliant and hardheaded book. It will frighten those who prefer not to dwell on the unthinkable and infuriate those who have taken refuge in stereotypes and moral attitudinizing."—Gordon A. Craig, New York Times Book Review
Thomas C. Schelling is Distinguished University Professor, Department of Economics and School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University. He is co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics.
The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series
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