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For Abolition

Essays on Prisons and Socialist Ethics

By: David Scott

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For Abolition

Essays on Prisons and Socialist Ethics

By: David Scott

According to Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) ‘Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.’ Connecting the politics of abolition to wider emancipatory struggles for liberation and social justice, this book argues that penal abolitionism should be understood as an important public critical pedagogy and philosophy of hope that can help to reinvigorate democracy and set society on a pathway towards living in a world without prisons. For Abolition draws upon the socialist ethics of dignity, empathy, freedom and paradigm of life to systematically critique imprisonment as a state institution characterised by ‘social death’. A systematic critique of imprisonment which challenges established views and myths. Examines why there still exists so much political and other misguided support for a long failing institution. Reviews ‘A thoroughly engaging and passionate challenge to dominant understandings of crime and punishment … Prisons are revealed as sites of mental and physical brutality, utterly incapable of providing constructive transformative regimes’-- Professor Emma Bell, University of Savoie. ‘A timely and urgent reminder of the need for Abolition … excellently exposes prisons as institutions of domination, repression and power … A must read for all concerned with the state of prisons’-- Dr Kathryn Chadwick, Manchester Metropolitan University. ‘A book that should be cherished by scholars, students, practitioners and activists alike … it is rare to find a text so sensitively and empathically composed’-- Dr Alana Barton, Edge Hill University.

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Waterside Press

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1909976822

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9781909976825

The Enemy Never Came

The Civil War in the Pacific Northwest

By: Scott McArthur

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The Enemy Never Came

The Civil War in the Pacific Northwest

By: Scott McArthur

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Although the Pacific Northwest was the area furthest removed from the actual battles of the Civil War, it was nonetheless profoundly affected by the war. The Enemy Never Came examines the everyday lives of the volunteer soldiers who battled Native American renegades of the region and of the settlers who were deeply affected by the war yet unable to do much about it. Pacific Northwest pioneers soon chose sides, most allying with the North, others supporting the southern states’ right to withdraw from the union. Still others attempted to ignore the entire issue of the War between the States, leaving “that problem” to the folks back east. Because communication with the rest of the nation was slow and tenuous during the early years of the war, the early settlers of what are now Oregon, Washington, and Idaho concentrated on controlling the restive Native Americans whose land and society had been overwhelmed by white settlers. These same settlers, however, nonetheless vigorously argued politics and worried about invaders from the south, from the British colonies to the north, and from the sea—none of whom ever materialized.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0870045709

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9780870045707

Love Inspired Historical August 2015 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Regina Scott,Noelle Marchand,Jo Ann Brown,Shannon Farrington

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Love Inspired Historical August 2015 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Regina Scott,Noelle Marchand,Jo Ann Brown,Shannon Farrington

Love Inspired Historical brings you four new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these historical romances of adventure and faith. FRONTIER ENGAGEMENT Frontier Bachelors by Regina Scott After schoolteacher Alexandrina Fosgrave is stranded in the wilderness with James Wallin, he offers her his hand in marriage to protect her reputation. Both are afraid to fall in love, but could an engagement of convenience make them reconsider? THE TEXAN'S COURTSHIP LESSONS Bachelor List Matches by Noelle Marchand Since Isabelle Bradley would never marry her sister's former suitor, she offers to help Rhett Granger court himself a wife. As she warms to Rhett, a future together doesn't seem so difficult to imagine—but is she too late? PROMISE OF A FAMILY Matchmaking Babies by Jo Ann Brown After Captain Drake Nesbitt discovers a tiny boat of foundling children adrift at sea, he and Lady Susanna Trelawney begin searching for their families. What they'll discover is an unexpected love that anchors their wayward hearts. SECOND CHANCE LOVE by Shannon Farrington When her fiancé dies suddenly, Elizabeth Martin believes her life is over. It's up to her betrothed's brother, David Wainwright, to help her through the pain…without falling for his brother's almost-bride.

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Harlequin

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1460392663

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9781460392669

All the Sad Young Men by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

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All the Sad Young Men by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘All the Sad Young Men by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Fitzgerald includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘All the Sad Young Men by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Fitzgerald’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

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Delphi Classics

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1788771990

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9781788771993

Three Uncles and a Lawman

By: Keith G. Scott

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Three Uncles and a Lawman

By: Keith G. Scott

Hardin Steele vows to become a lawman after his family are brutally murdered in the wilderness. Through fate Hardin is adopted by three very unusual uncles, a mountain of a mountain man, an educated, skilled Mexican pistolero and a powerful Sioux chief. Now grown and trained to a sharp edge is appointed as a United States Marshal for Montana territory. He will need every bit of skill and a whole lot of luck to keep the Bill Mathers killing mob from controlling the territory. It will be hot lead and gun smoke.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1543432441

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9781543432442

A Doctor's Christmas: A Heartwarming Holiday Medical Romance

By: Laura Scott

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A Doctor's Christmas: A Heartwarming Holiday Medical Romance

By: Laura Scott

A heartwarming medical romance from USA Today Bestselling Author Laura Scott! Lifeline Air Rescue - Falling in love while saving lives... A father for her unborn child... When Lifeline Pilot Megan Hoffman finds herself pregnant with her ex-fiancé’s baby, she is determined to remain independent and to raise her child alone. Normally keeping her distance from the rotating residents, isn’t a problem, until she meets the very attractive and very serious Dr. Drake Thorton who discovers her secret. Drake hasn’t recovered from losing his wife and unborn child shortly before Christmas, but when he realizes Megan is pregnant and the baby’s father out of the picture, he finds himself unable to stay away. Megan is not only beautiful but an amazing pilot especially in a crisis. He opens himself up to friendship, and leans on Megan for support after discovering the identity of his birth mother. Will Drake learn to celebrate Christmas and allow himself to fall in love, again? Enjoy this sweet Christmas medical romance featuring medical professionals who find love miles in the air! Fans of Lynn Shannon, Christy Barritt and Lisa Phillips will love this story!

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Laura Iding

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1949144364

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9781949144369

All the Sad Young Men

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

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All the Sad Young Men

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

All the Sad Young Men is the third collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The volume contains nine stories, Fitzgerald wrote at a time of disillusionment.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3734726298

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Millennials and the Moments That Made Us

A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1982-Present

By: Shaun Scott

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Millennials and the Moments That Made Us

A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1982-Present

By: Shaun Scott

A generation on the move, a country on the brink, and a young author's search to find out how we got here. Millennials and the Moments That Made Us is a cultural history of the United States, as seen through the eyes of the largest, most diverse, and most disprivileged generation in American history. The book is a relatable pop culture history that critiques the capitalist status quo our generation inherited - a critical tour of the music, movies, books, TV shows, and technology that have defined us and our times.

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John Hunt Publishing

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1785355848

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9781785355844

Harry's Absence

Looking for My Father on the Mountain

By: Jonathan Scott

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Harry's Absence

Looking for My Father on the Mountain

By: Jonathan Scott

A “moving memoir of son in search of his father,” recounting the life of a psychologist and pacifist who died climbing New Zealand’s highest peak (Publishers Weekly). On February 1, 1960, Harry Scott, conscientious objector, psychologist, and mountaineer, was killed while climbing Mt. Cook. Thirty-five years later, his son set out to look for him. Funny, moving, and beautifully written, this is the story of a father's absence, told partly through the rich and exciting mix of biography, autobiography, and intellectual and social history. HARRY'S ABSENCE is a passionately argued book about New Zealand, addressing the distinction between nationalism and love of country. Finally, it is a recovery, from death, of reasons for living.

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Open Road Media

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149763363X

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9781497633636

Sins of the Fathers

By: James Scott Bell

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Sins of the Fathers

By: James Scott Bell

A parent’s worst nightmare.A lawyer’s biggest challenge.A young boy’s life on the line.The unimaginable has happened. A thirteen-year-old boy has fired a rifle into a baseball game, killing several of the kids on the field. Parents are devastated. The townspeople are horrified. When public opinion swells to an enraged cry for justice, an ambitious deputy district attorney sees his opportunity—a sensational trial that will catapult him into the D.A.’s office in the upcoming election. There’s just one obstacle: the boy’s defense attorney, Lindy Field. To all appearances, the case is a slam-dunk. Convict the killer, make him pay. But it’s not that simple. Lindy’s young client is unwilling—or unable—to help Lindy defend him. And as the case progresses, it becomes clear that someone doesn’t want the truth revealed. As Lindy delves into the haunted world of her client’s torment, she finds a spiritual darkness that dredges up her own troubled past. And when dangerous forces close in around her, Lindy must fight for answers not only in the justice system, but in the very depths of her soul.

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HarperChristian + ORM

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0310542006

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9780310542001

The Angel of the Garden

Stories

By: Scott Ely

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The Angel of the Garden

Stories

By: Scott Ely

Ely's perceptions about the desire to find security as well as the rhythms of his prose, his vivid detail, and the fullness of his characters make The Angel of the Garden a compelling collection of short fiction.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826212115

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27 Views of Raleigh

The City of Oaks in Prose & Poetry

By: Margaret Maron,John Kessel,Elaine Neil Orr,G.D. Gearino,David Rigsbee,Bridgette A. Lacy,Angela Davis-Gardner,Kelly Starling Lyons,Andrea Weigl,Scott Huler

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27 Views of Raleigh

The City of Oaks in Prose & Poetry

By: Margaret Maron,John Kessel,Elaine Neil Orr,G.D. Gearino,David Rigsbee,Bridgette A. Lacy,Angela Davis-Gardner,Kelly Starling Lyons,Andrea Weigl,Scott Huler

27 VIEWS of RALEIGH: The City of Oaks in Prose & Poetry features the work of twenty-seven (plus two) Raleighites who create a literary montage of North Carolina's capital city in fiction, essays, and poetry. Novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and even a science fiction writer capture the city in a variety of genres—spanning neighborhoods, generations, cultural and racial experiences, historic eras—reflecting the social, historic, and creative fabric of Raleigh. As Wilton Barnhardt writes in the book's introduction, “We seem to have flourished not because we have solved all the problems of the New South, despite leading the way now and again, but because we the citizens of Raleigh decided to be erudite, cultured, enriched, and entertained . . .

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Eno Publishers

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0983247560

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9780983247562

Legendary Locals of Monroe

By: Griffin Scott,Amy Sliger

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Legendary Locals of Monroe

By: Griffin Scott,Amy Sliger

Located at the center of the 12 rural parishes that comprise northeastern Louisiana, Monroe has long been a tiny metropolis offering its citizens a taste of the colorful politics and rich cultural history for which the Bayou State is known. Featuring the tales of the areas most prominent politicians, innovators, entrepreneurs, broadcasters, musicians, reality stars, athletes, educators, movers, shakers, and rabble-rousers, Legendary Locals of Monroe takes a look at the characters whose fascinating stories paint the vibrant history of this southern river city. Presented in a clear, concise format, this volume features biographical accounts that range from inspiring and captivating to shocking and tragic. Profiles include such notable locals as indie-film queen Parker Posey, Coca-Cola innovator Joseph Biedenharn, pizza restaurant dynamo Johnny Huntsman, Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton, baseball great Chuck Finley, country music superstar Andy Griggs, internationally renowned composer Frank Ticheli, flamboyant politician Shady Wall, and many more.

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128

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439648352

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9781439648353

The Good Fight

By: Scott Bachmann,Frank Byrns,Marion G. Harmon,Warren Hately,Drew Hayes,Hydrargentium,Michael Ivan Lowell,T. Mike McCurley,Landon Porter,R. J. Ross,Cheyanne Young,Jim Zoetewey

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The Good Fight

By: Scott Bachmann,Frank Byrns,Marion G. Harmon,Warren Hately,Drew Hayes,Hydrargentium,Michael Ivan Lowell,T. Mike McCurley,Landon Porter,R. J. Ross,Cheyanne Young,Jim Zoetewey

The Pen & Cape Society, in conjunction with Local Hero Press, is proud to present The Good Fight, an anthology of superhero fiction from some of the best authors working in the genre. Collected within this volume are stories by Scott Bachmann, Frank Byrns, Marion Harmon, Warren Hately, Drew Hayes, Ian Thomas Healy, Hydrargentium, Michael Ivan Lowell, T. Mike McCurley, Landon Porter, R. J. Ross, Cheyanne Young, and Jim Zoetewey. After enjoying the stories in The Good Fight, please be sure to check out the works of the individual authors, because they're just super!

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Local Hero Press, LLC

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1310026467

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9781310026461

Steel Wind Rising

By: Scott Gray Meintjes

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Steel Wind Rising

By: Scott Gray Meintjes

In a ruined and desolate land, a young woman finds herself stranded and alone, with no memory of her past and only a single clue to identity: an engagement ring with the inscription, 'Cybil'. Even if she can navigate the hostile realm of homicidal, hybridised beasts, what hope does she have of ever finding home? An encounter with some unlikely allies, offers her a chance of survival. But will the 'smash and grab' tactics of the continent's most notorious smuggling crew be enough to see her through this dystopian nightmare? They quickly find themselves caught up in the intensifying discord between the fascist City States and the anarchic Outlands. Cybil's unyielding desire to find her lost love must take a back seat to the bonds of friendship, as her unfailing sense of loyalty draws her into a conspiracy that threatens to tear civilization apart. Can a handful of misfit rebels thwart the most powerful entity on the continent and change the course of history...? "A well conceived story, with a furious pace and a half-dozen twists that completely blindside you.

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Rutherford-Leigh Publishing

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0992615429

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9780992615420

European Perceptions of Terra Australis

By: Anne M. Scott

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European Perceptions of Terra Australis

By: Anne M. Scott

Terra Australis - the southern land - was one of the most widespread concepts in European geography from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, although the notion of a land mass in the southern seas had been prevalent since classical antiquity. Despite this fact, there has been relatively little sustained scholarly work on European concepts of Terra Australis or the intellectual background to European voyages of discovery and exploration to Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through interdisciplinary scholarly contributions, ranging across history, the visual arts, literature and popular culture, this volume considers the continuities and discontinuities between the imagined space of Terra Australis and its subsequent manifestation. It will shed new light on familiar texts, people and events - such as the Dutch and French explorations of Australia, the Batavia shipwreck and the Baudin expedition - by setting them in unexpected contexts and alongside unfamiliar texts and people. The book will be of interest to, among others, intellectual and cultural historians, literary scholars, historians of cartography, the visual arts, women's and post-colonial studies."--publisher website.

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335

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409439410

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9781409439417

Parents Behaving Badly

A Novel

By: Scott Gummer

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Parents Behaving Badly

A Novel

By: Scott Gummer

Gummer's first novel provides a smart, funny, and long overdue look at the over-the-top behavior of parents involved in youth sports.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451609183

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9781451609189

Jim Crow Wisdom

Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940

By: Jonathan Scott Holloway

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Jim Crow Wisdom

Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940

By: Jonathan Scott Holloway

How do we balance the desire for tales of exceptional accomplishment with the need for painful doses of reality? How hard do we work to remember our past or to forget it? These are some of the questions that Jonathan Scott Holloway addresses in this exploration of race memory from the dawn of the modern civil rights era to the present. Relying on social science, documentary film, dance, popular literature, museums, memoir, and the tourism trade, Holloway explores the stories black Americans have told about their past and why these stories are vital to understanding a modern black identity. In the process, Holloway asks much larger questions about the value of history and facts when memories do violence to both. Making discoveries about his own past while researching this book, Holloway weaves first-person and family memories into the traditional third-person historian's perspective. The result is a highly readable, rich, and deeply personal narrative that will be familiar to some, shocking to others, and thought-provoking to everyone.

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UNC Press Books

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146961071X

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9781469610719

Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t

By: Scott Saul

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Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t

By: Scott Saul

In the long decade between the mid-1950s and the late ’60s, jazz was changing more than its sound. The age of Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite, John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, and Charles Mingus’s The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady was a time when jazz became both newly militant and newly seductive, its example powerfully shaping the social dramas of the Civil Rights movement, the Black Power movement, and the counterculture. Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t is the first book to tell the broader story of this period in jazz—and American—history. The story’s central figures are jazz musicians like Coltrane and Mingus, who rewrote the conventions governing improvisation and composition as they sought to infuse jazz with that gritty exuberance known as “soul.” Scott Saul describes how these and other jazz musicians of the period engaged in a complex cultural balancing act: utopian and skeptical, race-affirming and cosmopolitan, they tried to create an art that would make uplift into something forceful, undeniable in its conviction, and experimental in its search for new possibilities. Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t considers these musicians and their allies as a cultural front of the Civil Rights movement, a constellation of artists and intellectuals whose ideas of freedom pushed against a Cold War consensus that stressed rational administration and collective security. Capturing the social resonance of the music’s marriage of discipline and play, the book conveys the artistic and historical significance of the jazz culture at the start, and the heart, of the Sixties.

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Harvard University Press

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0674011481

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9780674011489

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