Section: Biography

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

Richard Phillips Feynman, Edward Hutchings, and Ralph Leighton

a beautiful mind

sylvia nasar

A Child From The Village (Middle East Literature in Translation)

Sayyid Qutb, John Calvert, and William E. Shepard

A Criminal Power: James Baldwin and the Law

D. Quentin Miller

A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman

Sharon Rudahl (Author), Alice Wexler (Foreward), and Paul Buhle (Editor)

A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter

Nikki Giovanni (Author)

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Dave Eggers

A Life Dedicated to the Republic: Vavro Srob‡r's Slovak Czechoslovakism

Josette Baer

A Life in Motion: A Memoir (Jewish Women Writers)

Florence Howe

A Life of Kenneth Rexroth

Linda Hamalian

A Taste of Power : A Black Woman's Story

Elaine Brown (Author)

A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren

Simone de Beauvoir and Simone de Beauvoir

A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left

Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner

Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel

Marty Jezer

Abolitionists remember: antislavery autobiographies & the unfinished work of emancipation

Julie Roy Jeffrey

ADA Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist

Christopher Hollings, Ursula Martin, and Adrian Rice

Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life

Nicholas Phillipson

Adolf Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939

Volker Ullrich

Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary

Jasmine Guy and Afeni Shakur

After Kathy Acker

Chris Kraus

Alan Turing: The Enigma

Andrew Hodges

Albert Einstein : Rebel Lives (Rebel Lives)

Albert Einstein, John Jenkins, and Tom Keeble

Albert Einstein Speaking

R. J. Gadney

Alderson Story: My Life As a Political Prisoner

Elizabeth G. Flynn

Algerian Chronicles

Albert Camus

Ali: A Life

Jonathan Eig

All Governments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone

Myra MacPherson

America's First Black Socialist: The Radical Life of Peter H. Clark

Nikki M. Taylor

America's Mistress

John L. Williams (Author)

America's Mistress: The Life and Times of Eartha Kitt

John Williams

An Enemy of the State: The Life of Erwin Knoll

Bill Lueders

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

Frank McCourt

Anger Is an Energy: A Life Uncensored

John Lydon

Anger: The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger

Bill Landis

Annandale Blues

Guy Ducornet

Antonio Gramsci : Vidas Rebeldes (Rebel Lives) (Rebel Lives / Ocean Sur)

Antonio Gramsci and Nestor Kohan

Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet

Terese Svoboda

Anything We Love Can Be Saved

Alice Walker

Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul

Mark Bego

Aristide: An Autobiography

Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Christophe Wargny

Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny, Endurance, and the Role of the Artist

John Berger

Arthur Ashe: A Life

Raymond Arsenault

Arthur Ashe: Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era

Eric Allen Hall

As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl (P.S.)

John Colapinto

Assata: An Autobiography

Assata Shakur and Angela Yvonne Davis (introduction)

Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography

M. Sukru Hanioglu

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1

Mark Twain, Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, and Leslie Diane Myrick

Autobiography of W.E.B. Dubois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century

W. E. B. Du Bois and Herbert Aptheker

BAD : The Autobiography of James Carr (NABAT)

James Carr

Bakunin: The Creative Passion

Mark Leier

Baltimore Civil Rights Leader Victorine Q. Adams: The Power of the Ballot

Ida E. Jones

Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst

Adam Phillips

Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley

Christopher Farley (Author)

Beggars of Life : A Hobo Autobiography (NABAT)

Jim Tully

Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly

Peter Cole

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

Mary Norris

Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer's Awakening

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just

Kenneth R. Manning

Black Boy (The Restored Text Established by The Library of America) (Perennial Classics)

Richard A. Wright

Black Fire: The Making of an American Revolutionary

Nelson Peery

Black Hamlet (Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society)

Wulf Sachs, Saul Dubow, and Jacqueline Rose

Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine

Damon Tweedy, M.D.

Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X

Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith

Blood in My Eye

George L. Jackson

Blue-Eyed Devil: A Road Odyssey Through Islamic America

Michael Muhammad Knight

Bolano: A Biography

Monica Maristain

Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901

Louis R. Harlan

Borges, a Life

Edwin Williamson

Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus : A World-System Biography

Georgi M. Derluguian

Boys in the Trees

Carly Simon

Brecht and Company: Sex, Politics and the Making of the Modern Drama (Great Grove Lives)

John Fuegi

Bridge of Courage : Life Stories of the Guatemalan Companeros & Companeras

Jennifer Harbury and Noam Chomsky (introduction)

Brief Lives: Elizabeth Gaskell

Alan Shelston (Author)

Brother, I'm Dying (Vintage Contemporaries)

Edwidge Danticat

Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War

Marwan Hisham (Author) and Molly Crabapple (Illustrator)

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson

Brown, White, Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion

Nishta J. Mehra

Bruce

Peter Ames Carlin

Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties

Assistant Professor of History and Catholic Studies Kevin M Schultz and Kevin M. Schultz

Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938.

Stephen F Cohen

Bunuel

John Baxter

Burroughs Live: The Collected Interview of Wiliam S. Burroughs, 1960-1997 (Double Agents)

William S. Burroughs and Sylvere Lotringer

C. L. R. James: The Artist As Revolutionary

Paul Buhle

Camus at "Combat": Writing 1944-1947

Albert Camus, Jacqueline Levi-Valensi, David Carroll, and Arthur Goldhammer

Can't Jail the Spirit: Political Prisoners in the US

Safiya Bukhari, Marilyn Buck, and Sundiata Acoli

Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel

Nunzio Pernicone

Carrington, A Life

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Castro: A Graphic Novel

Reinhard Kleist

Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley

Timothy White

Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life

Peter Ackroyd

Che : A Memoir

Fidel Castro and David Deutschmann

Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

Jon Lee Anderson

Che Wants to See You: The Untold History of Che Guevara

Ciro Bustos

Cheikh Anta Diop: An Intellectual Portrait

Molefi Kete Asante

Chester B. Himes: A Biography

Lawrence P. Jackson

Children of the Movement: The Sons and Daughters of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, George Wallace, Andrew Young, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, James Chaney, Elaine Brown, and Others Reveal How the Civil Rights Movement T

John Blake

City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-soul Success

Nelson George

Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory

Patrick Wilcken

Cleopatra: A Life

Stacy Schiff

Communist Councilman from Harlem: Autobiographical Notes Written in a Federal Penitentiary

Benjamin J. Davis

Confessions of an English Opium-eater

Thomas De Quincey

Constance de Markievicz

Jacqueline Van Voris

Courage: Eight Portraits

Gordon Brown

Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters

John Waters

Crazy Horse: The Strange Man Of The Oglalas

Mari Sandoz, Vine, and Jr. Deloria

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (Negro American Biographies and Autobiographies)

Ida B. Wells and Alfreda M. Duster

Dancing Barefoot: The Patti Smith Story

Dave Thompson

David Dellinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary

Andrew E. Hunt

De Profundis

Oscar Wilde

Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America

Roy Morris Jr.

Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent (HARDCOVER)

Ernest Freeberg

Derek Jarman: A Biography

Tony Peake

Did It!: From Yippie to Yuppie: Jerry Rubin, an American Revolutionary

Pat Thomas

Die Nigger Die! A Political Autobiography

Jamil Al-Amin, Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, and H. Rap Brown

Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

Dan Lyons

Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes

Phillip Herring

Drugs Are Nice : A Post-Punk Memoir

Lisa Crystal Carver

Duchamp: A Biography

Calvin Tomkins

Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington

Terry Teachout

Durruti in the Spanish Revolution

Abel Paz and Chuck Morse

Eduardo Galeano

Daniel Fischlin and Martha Nandorfy

Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love

Sheila Rowbotham

Einstein: His Space and Times

Steven Gimbel

Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock

David Margolick

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement : A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture)

Barbara Ransby

Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life (Jewish Lives)

Vivian Gornick

Eqbal Ahmad: Critical Outsider in a Turbulent Age

Stuart Schaar

Eugene Debs: American Socialist

Anne Terry White

Eugene V. Debs: A Graphic Biography

Paul Buhle and Steve Max

Eugene V. Debs: The Making of an American Radical

Ray Ginger

Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard

Richard Brody

Ex-Inmate In Exile

Philip A. Kumin

Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance

Ady Barkan

Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin

Marlene Trestman

Fear and Loathing in America : The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

Hunter S. Thompson

Fela: The Life & Times of an African Musical Icon

Michael E. Veal

Felon for Peace: The Memoir of a Vietnam-Era Draft Resister

Jerry Elmer

Fidel Castro

Clive Foss

Fighting the Lamb's War: Skirmishes With the American Empire : The Autobiography of Philip Berrigan

Philip Berrigan, Fred A. Wilcox, and Fred Wilcox

Fire!!: The Zora Neale Hurston Story

Peter Bagge

Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas

Shaun Slifer, Bec Young, Shaun Slifer, Bec Young, and Justseeds Artists' Cooperative

Fireweed: A Political Autobiography (Critical Perspectives on the Past)

Gerda Lerner

Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto (NABAT)

Bernard Goldstein and Leonard Shatzkin

Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor

Brad Gooch

Flip: The Inside Story of TV's First Black Superstar

Kevin Cook

Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times As a Weatherman

Cathy Wilkerson

Footnote

Boff Whalley

For All the Saints: A Protest Primer

David Eberhardt

Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President

J. H. Hatfield and James Hatfield

Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President

James Hatfield

Framing History: The Rosenberg Story and the Cold War (American Culture, Vol 6)

Virginia Carmichael

Frantz Fanon: A Portrait

Alice Cherki and Nadia Benabid

Franz Kafka: The Tremendous World Inside My Head

Louis Begley

Frederick Douglass

William S. McFeely

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

David W. Blight

Freud: A Life for Our Times

Peter Gay

From Fascism to Libertarian Communism: Georges Valois Against the Third Republic

Allen Douglas

Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist

William Ayers

Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World that Made Him

David Henry and Joe Henry

Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World

Eknath Easwaran (Author)

Gandhi: The True Man Behind Modern India

Jad Adams

Garibaldi: Citizen of the World: A Biography

Alfonso Scirocco and Allan Cameron

Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero

Lucy Riall

George Clinton & the Cosmic Odyssey of the P-Funk Empire

Kris Needs

Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography

Michel Surya, Krzysztof Fijalkowsk, and Michael Richardson

Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah

David Biale

Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde

Jeff Guinn

Goddess of Anarchy

Jacqueline Jones (Author)

Greta & Cecil

Diana Souhami

Guy Debord

Anselm Jappe

Guy Debord (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives)

Andy Merrifield

Harp Song for a Radical : The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs

Marguerite Young

Harriet Tubman : The Moses of Her People (Dover Books on Americana)

Sarah Bradford

Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death

Lillian Faderman

Having Little Being Much: A Chronicle of Fredy Perlman's Fifty Years

Lorraine Perlman

Haydee Santamaria : Rebel Lives

Betsy Maclean, Haydée Santamaría, and Roque Dalton

Heartbeat of Struggle : The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama

Diane C. Fujino

Helen Keller

Helen Keller and John Davis

Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone

Beth Lisick

Hemingway Lives!: Why Reading Ernest Hemingway Matters Today

Clancy Sigal

Heresies: Anarchist Memoirs, Anarchist Art

Peter Lamborn Wilson

Hi, How Are You?: The Life, Art, & Music of Daniel Johnston

Tarssa Yazdani and Don Goede

Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab Calloway

Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

Margot Lee Shetterly

Ho Chi Minh: A Life

William J Duiker

How I Became One of the Invisible (Native Agents)

David Rattray

How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't

Lane Moore

How to Grow Up: A Memoir

Michelle Tea (Author)

How to Sit: A Memoir in Stories and Essays

Tyrese L. Coleman

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays

Alexander Chee

Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left

Martin Bauml Duberman

Huey: Spirit of the Panther

David Hilliard, Fredrika Newton, and Keith Zimmerman

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Malala Yousafzai

I Belong Only to Myself: The Life and Writings of Leda Rafanelli

Leda Rafanelli (Author) and Andrea Pakieser (Author)

I Spent My Life in the Mines: The Story of Juan Rojas, Bolivian Tin Miner

June Nash

I Was a Teenage Dominatrix: A Memoir

Shawna Kenney

If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew

Mike Marqusee

In Love and Struggle The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs

Stephen M. Ward (Author)

In the Country We Love: My Family Divided

Diane Guerrero

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions)

Harriet Jacobs

Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life (Lives of the Left)

Eric J. Hobsbawm

It Runs in the Family: On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing into Rebellious Motherhood

Frida Berrigan

J.D. Bernal: A Life in Science and Politics

Brenda Swann and Francis Aprahamian

Jack London and His Times: An Unconventional Biography

Joan London

Jack London's Racial Lives: A Critical Biography

Jeanne Campbell Reesman

Jackal: The Complete Story of the Legendary Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal

John Follain

Jailbreak Out of History: The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman and "the Evil of Female Loaferism"

Butch Lee

James A. Dombrowski An American Heretic 1897-1983

Frank T. Adams

James Baldwin: A Biography

David Leeming

Jane Austen: A Life

Claire Tomalin

Jean-Paul Sartre: A Life (Lives of the Left)

Annie Cohen-Solal, Cornel West, and Anna Cancogni

Joe Louis: Hard Times Man

Randy Roberts

Johnny Cash: The Life

Robert Hilburn

Jumping the Line: The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Radical

William Herrick and Paul Berman

Kafka

Robert Crumb and David Mairowitz

Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker

Stanley Crouch

Karl Marx: An Illustrated History

Werner Blumenberg and Douglas Scott

Kate Richards O'Hare: Selected Writings and Speeches

Philip Sheldon Foner and Sally M. Miller

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

William Taubman

King: A Comics Biography

Ho Che Anderson

Kwame Nkrumah

Yuri Smertin

Lady Byron and Her Daughters

Julia Markus

Langston Hughes: The Value of Contradiction

Bonnie Greer (Author)

Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs and James Grauerholz

Lazarus and the Hurricane: The Freeing of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

Sam Chaiton, Terry Swinton, and Terence Swinton

Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones

Carole Boyce Davies

Leila Khaled: Fighting for Palestine

Sarah Irving

Len, a Lawyer in History: A Graphic Biography of Radical Attorney Leonard Weinglass

Seth Tobocman

Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror

Victor Sebestyen

Leo Tolstoy

Anthony Briggs (Author)

leo tolstoy resident and stranger

richard f. gustafson

Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life (Jewish Lives)

Joshua Rubenstein

Life After Death

Damien Echols

Life of Black Hawk

Black Hawk

Life on the Color Line : The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black

Gregory Howard Williams

Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs

Ted Morgan

Little Boy

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Living My Life, Volume One

Emma Goldman

Living My Life, Volume Two

Emma Goldman

Lonesome Traveler: The Life of Lee Hays

Doris Willens

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism

Alan Bernheimer

Louise Michel

Edith Thomas

Louise Michel (1830-1905)

Gerald Dittmar

Louise Michel : Rebel Lives (Rebel Lives)

Louise Michel and Nic Maclellan

Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman

Candace Serena Falk

Lovf: An Illustrated Vision Quest of a Man Losing His Mind

Jesse Reklaw

Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted

Andrew Wilson

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

Colm Tóibín

Magnus Hirschfeld: The Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement

Ralf Dose

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

Stephanie Land

Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography

Andrew Helfer and Randy DuBurke

Mandela: The Authorised Biography

Anthony Sampson

Maps to the Other Side

Joe (CRT) Biel (Author) and Sascha DuBrul (Author)

Margaret Fuller: A New American Life

Megan Marshall

Marx

Corrine Maier

Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan: The Martyr Who Founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

Melody Ermachild Chavis

Memoir of a Race Traitor

Mab Segrest

Memoirs from the Women's Prison

Nawal el-Saadawi and Marilyn Booth

Memoirs of a Novelist

Virginia Woolf

Memoirs of Duc de Saint-Simon 1710-1715: The Bastards Triumphant

Lucy Norton and Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon

Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge

Frances Harriet Whipple

Memoirs of Vidocq: Master of Crime (NABAT)

Francois Eugene Vidocq

Mencken and Sara: A Life in Letters : The Correspondence of H.L. Mencken and Sara Haardt

Marion Elizabeth Rodgers

Miguel Mármol

Roque Dalton

Miles - the Autobiography

Miles Davis

Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member

Sanyika Shakur

Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America

Elliott J. Gorn

Muhammad Ali

Amazing Ameziane

Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times

Thomas Hauser

My Beloved World (Large Print Edition)

Sonia Sotomayor

My Bondage and My Freedom (Penguin Classics)

Frederick Douglass and John David Smith

My Futurist Years

Roman Jakobson, Bengt Jangfelt, and Stephen Rudy

My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century

Adina Hoffman

My Life and Battles

Jack Johnson

My Life As a Rebel

Angelica Balabanoff

My Life In CIA

Harry Mathews

My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography (Dover Value Editions)

Leon Trotsky

N.B.

Charlotte Shane

Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book

The Nelson Mandela Foundation and Umlando Wezithombe

Neruda: The Poet's Calling

Mark Eisner

Nestor Makhno, Anarchy's Cossack : The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921

Alexandre Skirda

Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

Walter A. Kaufmann

No Woman, No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley

Rita Marley

Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom

Brenda Maddox

Notebooks: 1936-1947

Victor Serge

On a Move : The Story of Mumia Abu Jamal

Terry Bisson

On the Move: A Life

Oliver Sacks

Openings: A Memoir from the Women's Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992

Sabra Moore

Out of the Night : The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin (NABAT)

Jan Valtin

Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson

William McKeen

Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953

Elizabeth Winder

Panegyric (Radical Thinkers)

Guy Debord

Pasajes de la guerra revolucionaria : Edicion autorizada (Ocean Sur)

Ernesto "Che" Guevara and Aleida Guevara March

Paul Robeson

Martin Bauml Duberman

Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen

Jeffrey C. Stewart, Paul Robeson Cultural Center, and Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum

Paul Robeson: The Great Forerunner

International Publishers and Editors of Freedomways

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, his revolutionary life, mind, and works

Edward Hyams

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: A Biography

George Woodcock

Pioneers of the Black Atlantic: Five Slave Narratives from the Enlightenment, 1772-1815

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and William L. Andrews

Poetic Lives: Dickinson

Rebecca Swift

Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney, the Communist Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports

Irwin Silber

Priest and Partisan: A South African Journey

Michael Worsnip

Prince Among Slaves

Terry Alford (Author)

Prince: Inside the Music and the Masks

Ronin Ro

Prison Memoirs of An Anarchist

Alexander Berkman

Prostitute Laundry

Charlotte Shane

Putting the World Together: My Father Walter Reuther, the Liberal Warrior

Elisabeth Reuther Dickmeyer

Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois

Gerald Horne (Author)

Radical Disciple: Father Pfleger, St. Sabina Church, and the Fight for Social Justice

Robert McClory

Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky

Nicholas von Hoffman

Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie

Ed Cray and Studs Terkel

Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams

Mark Ford and John Ashbery

RE/Search 4/5: William S. Burroughs, Throbbing Gristle, Brion Gysin

William S. Burroughs, Throbbing Gristle, Brion Gysin, and V. Vale

Rebel Girl: An Autobiography, My First Life

Elizabeth G. Flynn

Rebel In Paradise: A Biography of Emma Goldman

Richard Drinnon

Remember Us: My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust

Vic Shayne and Martin Small

Remembering Che: My Life With Che Guevara

Aleida Guevara March, Aleida March de la Torre, and Pilar Aguilera

Remembering Tomorrow: A Memoir

Michael Albert

Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War : The authorized and revised edition

Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison During the Vietnam War

Bruce Dancis

Richard Long: A Line Made by Walking (One Work)

Dieter Roelstraete

Richard Wright: The Life and Times

Hazel Rowley

Rilke and Andreas-Salome: A Love Story in Letters

Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salome, Edward Snow, and Michael Winkler

Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel

Edmund White

Role Models

John Waters

Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed

Robert A. Rosenstone

Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

Charles R. Cross

Rosa Luxemburg

Paul Frolich

Rosa Luxemburgo : Vidas Rebeldes (Rebel Lives) (Rebel Lives / Ocean Sur)

Rosa Luxemburg and Nestor Kohan

Rosa Parks

Douglas Brinkley

Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love

Brad Gooch

Sacco and Vanzetti : Rebel Lives (Rebel Lives)

Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and John Davis

Saddam Hussein: A Political Biography

Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi

Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian

James H. Cone

Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can): Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution

Peter Matthiessen and Ilan Stavans

SARTRE

Mathilde Ramadie

Sartre and Fiction

Gary Cox

Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman

Paul Avrich and Karen Avrich

Science Has No Sex: The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D.

Arleen Tuchman

Searching for Annabel Chong: Demystifying the Legend of Singapore's Most Famous Pornstar!

Gerrie Lim

Senator Joe McCarthy

Richard H. Rovere, Arthur M., and Jr Schlesinger

Sex Object: A Memoir

Jessica Valenti

Simon Bolivar (Simon Bolivar) : A Life

John Lynch

Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street

Richard R. Lingeman

Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha (Nabat)

Ben, Dr Reitman, Ben Reitman, Bertha Thompson, Ben, Dr Reitman, Ben Reitman, and Bertha Thompson

Slovo: The Unfinished Autobiography

Joe Slovo and Helena Dolny

So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley

Roger Steffens

Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol

Nell Irvin Painter

Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote 'Dracula'

David J. Skal

Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother's Story

Asha bandele (Author)

Soul of a Second Skin: The Journey of a Gay Christian Leatherman

Hardy Haberman

Soul on Ice

Eldridge Cleaver

Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra

John F. Szwed

Spain's Cause Was Mine: A Memoir of an American Medic in the Spanish Civil War

Hank Rubin and Peter N. Carroll

Spencer Tracy: A Biography

James Curtis

Starve the Vulture: A Memoir

Jason Carney

Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind

Kitty Ferguson

Stopping Time: Paul Bley and the Transformation of Jazz

Paul Bley and David Lee

Street Poison: The Life and Times of Iceberg Slim

Justin Gifford

Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me

Janet Mock

Tania : Undercover in Bolivia with Che Guevara

Ulises Estrada

Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age

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