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9781926824567 | Independent Pub Group, September 1, 2012, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines each of the definitive American cooperative movements for social change—farmer, union, consumer, and communalist—that have been all but erased from collective memory...read more
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9781604865820 | 2 edition (Independent Pub Group, July 1, 2012), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines each of the definitive American cooperative movements for social change—farmer, union, consumer, and communalist—that have been all but erased from collective memory.

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Product Description: A new novel from the most outspoken African-American writer of our time.In 2010, the Newseum in Washington D.C. finally obtained the suit O. J. Simpson wore in court the day he was acquitted, and it now stands as both an artifactin their “Trial of the Century” exhibit and a symbol of the American media’s endless hunger for the criminal and the celebrity...read more
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9781564786371 | Dalkey Archive Pr, April 5, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A new novel from the most outspoken African-American writer of our time.

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Product Description: "The Domestic Crusaders" focuses on a day in the life of a modern Muslim Pakistani-American family of six eclectic, unique members, who convene at the family house to celebrate the twenty-first birthday of the youngest child. With a background of 9-11 and the scapegoating of Muslim Americans, the tensions and sparks fly among the three generations, culminating in an intense family battle as each "crusader" struggles to assert and impose their respective voices and opinions, while still attempting to maintain and understand that unifying thread that makes them part of the same family...read more
By Ishmael Reed (introduced by)
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9781936365173 | McSweeneys Books, February 8, 2011, cover price $9.00 | About this edition: "The Domestic Crusaders" focuses on a day in the life of a modern Muslim Pakistani-American family of six eclectic, unique members, who convene at the family house to celebrate the twenty-first birthday of the youngest child.

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Product Description: Angry and hilarious, this collection of satirical essays about Barack Obama confronts the racial tensions that have dogged the president during his campaign and first year in office. Some of the pieces include "Ma and Pa Clinton Flog Uppity Black Man," "Crazy Rev...read more
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9780981240572 | Independent Pub Group, September 1, 2010, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Angry and hilarious, this collection of satirical essays about Barack Obama confronts the racial tensions that have dogged the president during his campaign and first year in office.

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9780981240596 | Independent Pub Group, August 1, 2010, cover price $39.95

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Product Description: Historically acknowledged as one of America's most powerful orators, Washington challenged racial prejudice when such behavior from a black man was unheard of. Here is the dramatic, autobiographical account of how he stood fast against the social and ideological bias prevalent in his day...read more
By Ishmael Reed (introduced by)
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9780451531476 | Signet Classic, January 1, 2010, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Historically acknowledged as one of America's most powerful orators, Washington challenged racial prejudice when such behavior from a black man was unheard of.

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Product Description: The award-winning plays of one of the most celebrated and innovative American writers of our time.Ishmael Reed’s career as one of our great playwrights has long been eclipsed by his other work. Here published for the first time, Reed’s plays follow the ancient tradition of using the theater as a forum in which the official versions of our history can be critiqued...read more
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9781564785510 | Dalkey Archive Pr, September 2, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The award-winning plays of one of the most celebrated and innovative American writers of our time.

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Product Description: Using the yardstick that a short story is any fiction under 15,000 words, Ishmael Reed—with the assistance of Carla Blank—has assembled an anthology that includes work ranging from animal stories of the Northwest Coast Eyaks to African-American folklore to reflections on the American Muslim experience...read more
By Carla Blank (editor) and Ishmael Reed (editor)
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9781568583426 | Da Capo Pr, January 26, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Using the yardstick that a short story is any fiction under 15,000 words, Ishmael Reed—with the assistance of Carla Blank—has assembled an anthology that includes work ranging from animal stories of the Northwest Coast Eyaks to African-American folklore to reflections on the American Muslim experience.

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Product Description: Using the yardstick that a short story is any fiction under 15,000 words, Ishmael Reed—with the assistance of Carla Blank—has assembled an anthology that reexamines the history of the form across a broader, more inclusive spectrum...read more
By Carla Blank (contributor) and Ishmael Reed (editor)
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9781568583402 | Da Capo Pr, January 26, 2009, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Using the yardstick that a short story is any fiction under 15,000 words, Ishmael Reed—with the assistance of Carla Blank—has assembled an anthology that reexamines the history of the form across a broader, more inclusive spectrum.

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Product Description: Based on acclaimed author Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica—where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer during her visits in the 1930s—Tell My Horse is a fascinating firsthand account of the mysteries of Voodoo...read more
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9780061695131 | Harpercollins, January 1, 2009, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Based on acclaimed author Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica—where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer during her visits in the 1930s—Tell My Horse is a fascinating firsthand account of the mysteries of Voodoo.

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9781400054145 | Harmony Books, June 30, 2012, cover price $25.95

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Product Description: A new collection of essays first published in The New York Times and Playboy. Reed tackles subjects including Oakland, eugenics, and domestic violence,
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9781568583396 | Da Capo Pr, July 7, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A new collection of essays first published in The New York Times and Playboy.

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Explores the muticultural landscape of Oakland, California, discussing the city's complex history, cultural diversity, architecture, and landmarks, from the perspective of a urban center that reflects the newly emerging America.
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9781400045402 | 1 edition (Crown Pub, October 1, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Explores the muticultural landscape of Oakland, California, discussing the city's complex history, cultural diversity, architecture, and landmarks, from the perspective of a urban center that reflects the newly emerging America.

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9780307419941 | Crown Pub, December 18, 2007, cover price $16.00

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Product Description: Urban renewal threatens the dingy office of Becker’s gypsy cab company, just as his estranged son returns.
By Ishmael Reed (introduced by) and August Wilson
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9781559363044 | Theatre Communications Group, September 1, 2007, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Urban renewal threatens the dingy office of Becker’s gypsy cab company, just as his estranged son returns.

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Product Description: First poetry collection in nearly twenty years. In language that is pointed, innovative and profoundly optimistic, Reed weaves politics and war with Nigerian poetry and jazz all in the service of his continual redefinition of American culture.
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9781568583419 | Da Capo Pr, July 25, 2007, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: First poetry collection in nearly twenty years.

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Product Description: One of the founding fathers of multi-cultural studies, award-winning writer Ishmael Reed first came to the attention of the literary world as a poet, and despite success as a novelist, playwright, essayist, and recording artist, has never ceased to be a poet...read more
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9780786717880 | 1 edition (Da Capo Pr, April 11, 2006), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Culled from four decades of writing, a volume of multicultural poetry offers insight into the MacArthur fellow's spiritual and political beliefs as well as his journeys throughout America, Japan, Africa, and other regions, in an anthology that includes pieces on such topics as war, prejudice, and George W.

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9780786719532 | Carroll & Graf Pub, May 28, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: One of the founding fathers of multi-cultural studies, award-winning writer Ishmael Reed first came to the attention of the literary world as a poet, and despite success as a novelist, playwright, essayist, and recording artist, has never ceased to be a poet.

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Product Description: Ishmael Reed Publishing Company is proud to introduce UNDER BURNING WHITE SKY, the first poetry collection to be published by Boadiba, a Haitian-born poet and translator who currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area...read more
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9781413480146 | Xlibris Corp, August 31, 2005, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Ishmael Reed Publishing Company is proud to introduce UNDER BURNING WHITE SKY, the first poetry collection to be published by Boadiba, a Haitian-born poet and translator who currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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'David Matlin's account of his experiences teaching in American prisons exposes the corruption of the prison business and the inhumanity of our system of punishment in the United States'--Provided by publisher.
By David Matlin and Ishmael Reed (foreword by)
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9781556435492 | 2 edition (North Atlantic Books, February 28, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: 'David Matlin's account of his experiences teaching in American prisons exposes the corruption of the prison business and the inhumanity of our system of punishment in the United States'--Provided by publisher.

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Product Description: A gifted interpreter of timeless Buddhist wisdom creates ardent, moving images, exhorting contemporary readers to speak out for peace and justice. An excerpt: ""All people have the right to live in peace! What is needed now is for each individual to become stronger, to check and triumph over authority...read more
By Daisaku Ikeda and Ishmael Reed (foreword by)
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9781931501002 | Dunhill Pub, May 1, 2004, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A gifted interpreter of timeless Buddhist wisdom creates ardent, moving images, exhorting contemporary readers to speak out for peace and justice.

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A evocative portrait of the muticultural landscape of Oakland, California explores the city's complex history, cultural diversity, landscape, architecture, and landmarks, from the perspective of a urban center that reflects the newly emerging America. Read by the author.
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9780739306857 | Abridged edition (Random House, October 1, 2003), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A portrait of the multicultural landscape of Oakland, California, explores the city's complex history, cultural diversity, landscape, architecture, and landmarks, from the perspective of an urban center that reflects the newly emerging America.

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Product Description: Mercury House is proud to launch the NEA Heritage & Preservation Series, which celebrates the multicultural diversity of American letters by restoring to print unduly neglected modern classics of cultural identity. Our second title for this series, which will include an introduction by Ishmael Reed, is The Wig by Charles Wright...read more
By Ishmael Reed (introduced by) and Charles Wright
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9781562791278 | Mercury House, February 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Mercury House is proud to launch the NEA Heritage & Preservation Series, which celebrates the multicultural diversity of American letters by restoring to print unduly neglected modern classics of cultural identity.

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Collects American poetry divided into sections such as nature, family, and politics, by individuals including Bessie Smith, Langston Hughes, Agha Shahid Ali, Marianne Moore, Tupac Shakur, Russell Leong, and Ernesto Trejo. (view table of contents)
By Ishmael Reed (editor)
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9781560255000 | Thunder''s Mouth Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Collects American poetry divided into sections such as nature, family, and politics, by individuals including Bessie Smith, Langston Hughes, Agha Shahid Ali, Marianne Moore, Tupac Shakur, Russell Leong, and Ernesto Trejo.

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A collection of essays by the author of Airing Dirty Laundry is a social criticism of the perpetuators of what he identifies as America's war on the black population, citing historical and ongoing conflicts while noting areas of responsibility in governmental, media, and public arenas. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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9780465068913 | Basic Books, December 1, 2002, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Offers a collection of seventeen essays, book reviews, and profiles addressing racial attitudes in American society.

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9780465068920 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, January 7, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Offers a collection of seventeen essays, book reviews, and profiles addressing racial attitudes in American society.

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An extensive multicultural anthology showcases poets from all walks of life, including Gertrude Stein, Ai, Bessie Smith, Askia Toure, and Ernest Hemingway, and covers American poetry from its pre-Columbian beginnings to the hip hop lyricists of today. Original.
By Ishmael Reed (editor)
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9781560254584, titled "From Totems to Hip-hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002" | Da Capo Pr, December 30, 2002, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Collects American poetry divided into sections such as nature, family, and politics, by individuals including Bessie Smith, Langston Hughes, Agha Shahid Ali, Marianne Moore, Tupac Shakur, Russell Leong, and Ernesto Trejo.
9789990045666 | Pub Group West, December 1, 2002, cover price $0.02

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