History and Politics
History; Politics,
Political History
Caruso's Mustache Off
and Other Writings about Music and Musicians
By Carl Van Vechten.
366 pages. ISBN 9781595690708.
Carl Van Vechten as Music Critic for the New York Times. He was first to offer serious assessments of the music of Stravinsky, Satie, Gershwin, and the operas of Richard Strauss. Selected reviews/texts, edited and with a Preface by Bruce Kellner.
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Zamenhof.
The Life, Works and Ideas of the Author of Esperanto -
by Aleksander Korzhenkov.
114 pages. ISBN 9781595691675.
Biography: Zamenhof was a child of his times, eager to find solutions to social ills, but alive to new ways of thinking that accompanied this change. Seeking to solve the specific problems of his own day, he created a language equally well suited to addressing those of ours.
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Esperanto in
The New York Times
(1887-1922)
By Ulrich Becker.
286 pages. ISBN 9781595691699.
The first 35 years of the history of Esperanto seen from the vantage point of The New York Times — a look back at the beginnings of the Esperanto movement in the US and beyond, opening a window into contemporaneous accounts on the pages of a world-renowned newspaper.
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Crusoes in Siberia
By Tivadar Soros.
132 pages. ISBN 9781595691828.
A Novel: If you want to know where the brothers Paul and George Soros got their business skills, look no further than this little adventure story told by their father: Tivadar Soros tells how he and his companions broke out of their Siberian prisoner-of-war camp at the time of the Russian Revolution...
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War of the Classes / Revolution / The Shrinkage of the Planet
By Jack London.
104 pages. ISBN 9781595690401.
Three Political Essays: "As yet, to the average bourgeois mind, socialism is merely a menace, vague and formless... It surely is time that the capitalists knew something about this socialism that they feel menaces them." (Jack London)
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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte - by Karl Marx.
104 pages. ISBN 9781595690234.
"The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx' most profound and most brilliant monographs. It may be considered the best work extant on the philosophy of history.
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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
By Friedrich Engels.
104 pages. ISBN 9781595690463.
Engels' introduction to socialism:"At the
request of my friend, Paul Lafargue, ...
I arranged three chapters of this book
(Anti-Dühring) as a pamphlet, which he
translated and published in 1880, under
the title: Socialisme utopique et Socialisme scientifique."
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1. Feuerbach - The Roots of the Socialist Philosophy. By Friedrich Engels.
2. Theses on Feuerbach. By Karl Marx.
104 pages.
ISBN 9781595691286.
"Marx has died without either of us having had an opportunity of coming back to the antithesis ... We never came back to Feuerbach, who occupies an intermediate position between the philosophy of Hegel and our own." (Engels)
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