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UC Press author and associate professor of government at Claremont McKenna College Frederick Lynch published an op-ed in today’s New York Times about the AARP’s identity crisis and the actions the organization needs to take if it hopes to protect the interests of Americans over 50 in an era of retrenchment. Lynch, whose book One Nation [more...]  In the video introduction to Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression, written by Dale Maharidge with photographs by Michael Williamson, Bruce Springsteen talks about how the authors inspired him to write the song “Youngstown.” Springsteen often gave this introduction to “Youngstown” on his Ghost of Tom Joad tour. Maharidge and Williamson have started [more...] Now that The Oprah Winfrey Show has come to an end, will Oprah’s fans find a new icon to worship? In the run-up to the show’s final episode, which aired today, media outlets have been turning to Kathryn Lofton, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University and the author of Oprah: the Gospel of an [more...] The legendary civil rights activist, writer, and organizer Grace Lee Boggs was the subject of a recent multimedia profile in The Nation. The feature included a podcast interview, a video from her panel at the Brecht Forum, and an excerpt from her new book, written with Scott Kurashige, The Next American Revolution. Boggs describes her [more...] We are pleased to announce that W. Joseph Campbell has received the Sigma Delta Chi Award in Research from the Society of Professional Journalists for Getting it Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism. In the book, Campbell addresses ten prominent media-driven myths—stories about or by the news media that are widely [more...] In the latest UC Press podcast, Dale Maharidge, author of Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression, talks about his experiences reporting on working-class America for the last three decades. Maharidge describes the emerging class of “new homeless” across the country, the symbolic significance of Youngstown, Ohio, and the way Bruce Springsteen took [more...] Many people look at a vacant lot and see failure, destruction, or nothing at all. Grace Lee Boggs sees possibilities for a cultural revolution. Boggs, a 95-year-old Detroit-based activist and author of The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century spoke to Democracy Now! yesterday about Obama’s new budget plan and the state [more...] Bill Fletcher, Jr., co-author of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice, recently appeared on Democracy Now! with Michael Eric Dyson to talk about the death of his longtime friend and fellow activist, Manning Marable. Marable passed away last week just days before the release of his monumental [more...] In his latest blog post, W. Joseph Campbell undertakes the Sisyphean task of discrediting yet another media myth: the notion that the Washington Post was vital to the outcome of Watergate. This widely held belief “is the stuff of legend,” Campbell says. Read on for the full scoop on what really brought down Nixon. Maybe this [more...] David Kipen served for seven years as book editor and book critic for the San Francisco Chronicle before relocating to L.A., where he started the used bookstore and lending library, Libros Schmibros. Kipen makes his triumphant return to San Francisco this Tuesday night, where he will read from UC Press’s new edition of San Francisco [more...] |
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