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Penn State University Press: University Park, Pennsylvania, 2002. Hardcover. Good. 6x0x9. [RADICAL POLITICS]. Mattson, Kevin. "Intellectuals in Action: The Origins of the New Left and Radical Liberalism, 1945-1970." University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2002. English language. Hardcover without jacket. Former library copy. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Library stickers on spine and back cover. Library stamp on top of page block. x, 305 pp. Ink notation on free front endpaper. Text clean. Good. ISBN: 0271021489."Born in 1966‚ a generation removed from the counterculture‚ Kevin Mattson came of political age in the conservative Reagan era. In an effort to understand contemporary political ambivalence and the plight of radicalism today‚ Mattson looks back to the ideas that informed the protest‚ social movements‚ and activism of the 1960s.

[NATION OF ISLAM]. A fine portrait of Nation of Islam leader, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the mentor of Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, and Louis Farrakhan, in oil paint, framed in gilt wood, with canvas and gilt metal matting. This painting, with an especially exquisite rendering of Elijah Muhammad's iconic crushed black velvet diamond-encrusted kofia, was sourced in Bedford-Stuyvesant, home of Masjid Abdul Muhsi Khalifah, Temple 7C of the Nation of Islam, which was purchased by Malcolm X in the 1960s. Though unsigned, the portrait was executed by a talented portraitist, and is far superior to other images based on the NOI leader's famous official photo. Elijah Muhammad, though a complicated man, was one of the most influential black leaders of the twentieth century, whose message had an outsize impact on politics, civil rights, and black nationalism in the United States. c.1960s-1970s. 20 x 24 inches, in a Dae Ryung Co. frame, and evidently previously auctioned, to judge by the sticker and markings on… Read More

Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 6x1x9. [RADICAL POLITICS]. Eds. Jason Del Gandio, AK Thompson. Contributors: Peter Marcuse, Nina Power, Douglas Kellner, Lesley Wood, Sabu Kohso, et al. "Spontaneous Combustion: The Eros Effect and Global Revolution." Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2017. English language. Hardcover. 9.25 x 6.25 x 1 in. 24 x 16 x 2 cm. 20 oz. pp. vii, 312. Text clean. Fine. ISBN: 9781438467276."From the events of May 1968 to the Arab Spring and Occupy, we have seen social movements develop spontaneously around the globe propelling thousands and, at times, millions of people into the streets to demand an end to oppression. "In order to make sense of such events, the authors draw on George Katsiaficas's conception of the eros effect, which picks up and takes off from concepts developed by Herbert Marcuse. This effect describes moments in which the instinctual human need for justice and freedom… Read More