Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Independently published
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
About this Wordsworth Classic: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a classic representation of the impoverished and politically powerless underclass of British society in Edwardian England, ruthlessly exploited by the institutionalized corruption of their employers and the civic and religious authorities. Epic in scale, the novel charts the ruinous effects of the laissez-faire mercantilist ethics on the men, women, and children of the working...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
405 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
November 1918. A socialist revolution is sweeping across Germany, wreaking havoc on war-torn Berlin. Amid the ruin of the city's slums, four women are found dead-all with identical scars on their backs. Detective Inspector Nikolai Hoffner and his assistant, Hans Fichte, are baffled by the killings, and when another body is discovered, the case takes an ominous and unexpected turn. The fifth victim is none other than Rosa Luxemburg-a leader of the...
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With a gift for capturing the absurd in life, and a deadpan wisdom that comes from surviving a surreal childhood in the Socialist Workers Party, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh has crafted an unsentimental, funny, heartbreaking memoir. Saïd's Iranian-born father and American Jewish mother had one thing in common: their unshakable conviction that the workers' revolution was coming. Separated since their son was nine months old, they each pursued a dream of the...
7) First papers
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1964]
Physical Desc
502 pages 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The lives and fortunes of two families, close friends, on the fighting lines of the socialist, liberal movement in the United States, 1911-1920.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the bestselling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time"--
Rose Pastor arrived in New York City in 1903, a Jewish refugee from Russia who had worked in cigar factories since the age of eleven. Two years later, she captured headlines across...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 426 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
One of the major figures of twentieth-century European literature, Ignazio Silone (1900-78) is the subject of this award-winning new biography by the noted Italian historian Stanislao G. Pugliese. A founding member of the Italian Communist Party, Silone took up writing only after being expelled from the PCI and garnered immediate success with his first book, Fontamara, the most influential and widely translated work of antifascism in the 1930s. In...
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
© 2021
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Though her life generated voluminous literature, most people ignore the fact that iconic deaf-blind author Helen Keller (1880-1968) was one of the most passionate socialist advocates of her time. Continuing his work of patient and insightful political filmmaking, director John Gianvito (Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind) resurrects Keller's radical views, which have been largely suppressed or sanitized over the years. In Her Socialist Smile,...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
©2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A biographical sketch of Eugene V. Debs, labor leader, industrial unionist, American Socialist, and the only U.S. presidential candidate imprisoned for his campaign platform.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxix, 314 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An intimate account of Bernie Sanders as we have never seen him before, finally revealing the man behind the enigmatic progressive icon. Bernie Sanders is one of the most influential figures of our time, a politician who inspires fervent love and, even among his enemies, a measure of grudging respect-yet we know comparatively little about this famously private left-wing firebrand. Now, Ari Rabin-Havt, a trusted Sanders aide, is able to take us where...
Author
Publisher
Flame Tree
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
191 pages : color illustrations ; 29 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"William Morris was an outstanding character of many talents, being an architect, writer, social campaigner, artist and, with his Kelmscott Press, an important figure of the Arts and Crafts movement. Many of us probably know him best, however, from his superb furnishings and textile designs, intricately weaving together natural motifs in a highly stylized two-dimensional fashion influenced by medieval conventions."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
351 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Robert Tressell's groundbreaking socialist novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men in the fictional town of Mugsborough, and socialist journeyman-prophet Frank Owen who attempts to convince his fellow workers that capitalism is the real source of the poverty all around them. Owen's spirited attacks on the greed and dishonesty of the capitalist system, and support for a socialist society in which work is...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of a remarkable but largely unsung group known as the Bund, League of Socialist Life, which went on to resist the Nazis during WWII, sheltering Jews and covertly sending letters and parcels into concentration camps, among other activities"--
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xii, 128 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. Debs Eugene Victor Debs led the Socialist Party in the early twentieth-century to federal and state office across the country, helped to pioneer a fighting union politics that organized all workers, and became the beloved figurehead of American radicalism. Imprisoned for speaking out against World War I, Debs ran for president from prison, receiving over one million votes. Debs's story is the...
In Commonwealth Catalog
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing Network can be requested from other Commonwealth Catalog libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Purchase Suggestion Service. Submit Request