Indiana Books

Too often most of the stuff people churn out about the era of the Russian Revolution is long on b.s. and short on facts. It is to often a re-hash of already over used scholarship based on hearsey---very seldom do you come across anything original. Heather Hogan's work is original.

Forging Revolution takes a look at the material basis of the Russian revolution. It looks at the the Russian industrial workers who made the revolution and at their workplaces.

I am hoping that Heather will carry on and do a part two covering 1914 to 1924. Possibly, adding some facts on Russian industrial technology in 1914; which may turn out to have been not as backwards as portrayed by other analysts.

Another thing that I found re-freshing about this book is that has no political axe to grind and one senses no slavophobic viewpoint all too common among authors; just an attempt to get at the facts!

Forging Revolution is serious political/economic/historical analysis!

Fort Lee Film Commission member Richard Koszarski's book "Fort Lee: The Film Town" is the first comprehensive book on the first "film town" in America. Scholars now will be able to reference the role this New Jersey community played in American film histroy. The world's first studio was built in New Jersey - Thomas Edison's "Black Maria." America's first studio town was Fort Lee, New Jersey. This book will serve to inform scholar and general reader alike that the film industry did not go from New York to Hollywood but actually from New Jersey to New York & Hollywood.

This is a profound exploration of the work of three of the most influential Jewish thinkers of modernity.

Excellent. Robert O'Neil is the nation's foremost expert on the First Amendment. This is a brilliant look at free speech and the role of higher education. The role of free speech in higher education is in continual jeopardy and under constant scrutiny, a text like this could revolutionize the way you view free speech, the college community, and possibly the world. Of special note: O'Neil's discussion of the role of technology is particularly resonant.

In "Free Women of Spain", Martha Ackelsberg does an excellent job documenting the lives and struggles of Mujeres Libres, a revolutionary organization of Spanish libertarian socialist women fighting against capitalism, fascism and patriarchy. This outstanding book will resonate with activists today engaged in class war feminism (not to be confused with the liberal, corporate, reformist women's movement, i.e. Hilary Clinton or NOW). Not only is the book informative, it is also a real page-turner! I highly recommend this book!

This book is a thorough survey and examination of the right of the people to have access to mass media. It is written by a professor at Indiana University and covers:

1. Access to the Press: Introduction
2. Freedom of the press, Chicago Style: A Judicial Solution
3. Access to the Campus Press
4. The Campus Press--Underground or Aboveground?
5. A Letter to the Editor
6. Access Through Congress?
7. The Media--Within or Beyond the First Amendment
8. Marcuse, Mill, and Agnew
9. The Search for an Audience
10. Crime as a Forum
11. Broadcasting--The Half-Opened Media
12. Broadcasters and Controversy
13. The Roar of Red Lion: The Rights of the Viewer
14. The Unfairness of Fairness
15. The Movement for Access to Television
16. The Rise of Citizen Groups
17. Media, Pa.: A Success for the Citizen Group?
18. Three That Almost Made a Revolution--Access and Concentration of Ownership in the Media
19. The Petition to Deny--A Weapon for the Citizen Group?
20. The Citizen Group at Work
21. CATV: Instant Access or Not?
22. Access for What?
23. The Media Look at Access
24. The Future of Access to the Media

Of course, the Internet now provides a modicum of access to the public for ordinary people. But it is a squeek next to the roar of TV, movies and the New York publishing industry.

It would be nice to have a updated second edition of this extraordinarily important book, but this book as it stands provides an exhaustive list of the possibilities.

Excerpt from Foreword by William B. Ellis:

"The book is the long-awaited story of a mutiny against social injustices by black officers in the United States Army Air Corps during World War Two. In the style of the tribal storyteller, the men involved in this mutiny have for a half-century told, retold, and listened to each other recount the events that led to the incident.

This detailed story of the mutiny is told by Lt. Col. James C. Warren, an original Tuskegee Airman, and an active participant in the mutiny itself. In this significant work he explores what tit meant to be a Negro in the United States Army Air Forces during World War Two, and to have been a part of the first stirrings of the social revolution in the military."

When William Cohen edited the French version of this book in 1981, The French press was really aggressive and bitter.

This book is a classic,because it destroys the French myth of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" , ( Liberté, égalité, Fraternité) between human beings.

The French scholars of the 18 and 19 th centuries are highly involved in the modern theory of "superior" and "inferior" races, with one central example : The count Gobineau.

We know that the ideas displayed in his book( in fact a summary of his french contempories fellow scholars) inspired some guys in Germany. We all know the dramatic result...

A French scholar ( canadian citizen), Pierre H Boulle wrote a book in 2007 : "Race et esclavage dans la France de l'Ancien Régime".

And this book confirms William B Cohen views on french racism 28 years ago.

Morrow's book serves as a good source for readers interested in learning about Indiana's rich literary heritage.FROM BEN HUR TO SISTER CARRIE is beautifully written and meticulously researched. I especially enjoyed the many black and white photographs that accompanied the text.

As someone who looks forward to reading Ms. Paul's monthly editorials in Indianapolis Monthly, I was excited to see that she had a book filled with, what she thought, were the best of the best. I especially enjoyed reading the added comments at the end of many of the entries which updated it and let us know . .. the rest of the story.
Deborah Paul shows her humanness in her articles and it resonates with those of us who might be experiencing or have experienced the same things, albeit . . . marriage, children, weight issues, hair issues, empty nest, etc. There is something here for everyone.