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...crowd of 50 or so gathered in the posh rooftop residence of the Quincy House Masters on Thursday evening to celebrate the release of the book Protest Nation: Words that Inspired a Century of American Radicalism. Guests included undergraduates, alumni, graduate students, and faculty—mostly friends and acquaintances of authors Timothy P. McCarthy, Quincy House tutor and Lecturer on History and Literature, and John C. McMillian, Quincy House tutor...
Protest Nation, released earlier this week, is a collection of speeches, letters, broadsides, essays, and manifestos from all activists who shaped the backbone of America's radical movements and tradition of activism. In the vein of McCarthy and McMillian's previous book, The Radical Reader, the new book focuses on activist movements that challenged the country and changed history...
...party, McCarthy spoke to guests about the ideas that inspired the book. He said that we should love our country enough to criticize it. "Obama's election represents the symbolic end of the twenty-first century civil rights movement," said McCarthy. He continued, "now it's time for another movement. It's time for us to critique our nation in order to make it better...
Schoenhof’s interaction with the French community doesn’t end with its most frequent book transactions. In 1978, a large French publishing conglomerate took over the business, after which things took a turn for the worse. On the verge of bankruptcy in 2005, Schoenhof’s was again sold to a private family...
Ifeanyi A. Menkiti, born in Nigeria and now a professor of philosophy at Wellesley, is the owner of the oft-overlooked Grolier Poetry Book Shop, nestled behind the more prominent Harvard Bookstore...