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A Radical Line

From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience

By: Thai Jones

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A Radical Line

From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience

By: Thai Jones

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More Powerful Than Dynamite

Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy

By: Thai Jones

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Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy

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An engrossing account of the events of 1914' - Sam Roberts, The New York Times

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1620405180

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A Radical Line

From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience

By: Thai Jones

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A Radical Line

From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience

By: Thai Jones

In this elegant family history, journalist Thai Jones traces the past century of American radical politics through the extraordinary exploits of his own family. Born in the late 1970s to fugitive leaders of the Weather Underground and grandson of Communists, spiritual pacifists, and civil rights agitators, Thai Jones grew up an heir to an American tradition of resistance. Yet rather than partake of it, he took it upon himself to document it. The result is a book of extraordinary reporting and narrative. The dramatic saga of A Radical Line begins in 1913, when Jones's maternal grandmother was born, and ends in 1981, when a score of heavily armed government agents from the Joint Anti-Terrorism Task Force stormed into four-year-old Thai's home and took his parents away in handcuffs. In between, Jones takes us on a journey from the turn-of-the-century western frontier to the tenements of melting-pot Brooklyn, through the Great Depression, the era of McCarthyism, and the Age of Aquarius. Jones's paternal grandfather, Albert Jones, committed himself to pacifism during the 1930s and refused to fight in World War II. The author's maternal grandfather, Arthur Stein, was a member of the Communist Party during the 1950s and refused to collaborate with the House Un-American Activities Committee. His maternal grandmother, Annie Stein, worked closely with civil rights legends Mary Church Terrell and Ella Baker to desegregate institutions in Washington, DC, and New York City. His father, Jeff Jones, joined the violent Weathermen and led hundreds of screaming hippies through the streets of Chicago to clash with police during the Days of Rage in 1969. Then Jeff Jones disappeared and spent the next eleven years eluding the FBI's massive manhunt. Thai Jones spent the first years of his life on the run with his parents. Beyond the politics, this is the story of a family whose lives were filled with love honored and betrayed, tragic deaths, painful blunders, narrow escapes, and hope-filled births. There is the drama of a pacifist father who must reconcile with a bomb-throwing son and a Communist mother whose daughter refuses to accept the lessons she has learned in a life as an organizer. There are parents and children who can never meet or, when they do, must use the ruses and subterfuge of criminals to steal a hug and a hello. Beautifully written and sweeping in its scope, A Radical Line is nothing less than a history of the twentieth century and of one American family who lived to shake it up.

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Simon and Schuster

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My Midnight Years

Surviving Jon Burge's Police Torture Ring and Death Row

By: Ronald Kitchen,Thai Jones,Logan McBride

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Surviving Jon Burge's Police Torture Ring and Death Row

By: Ronald Kitchen,Thai Jones,Logan McBride

Ronald Kitchen was 21, on his way to buy milk for his four-year-old, when he was picked up by the Chicago police, brutally tortured, and coerced to confess to five counts of heinous murder. He spent 22 years in prison, 13 of those on death row. Kitchen was only one of the many victims of Jon Burge and his notorious Midnight Crew—118 others have come forward so far. Kitchen cofounded the Death Row 10 from his maximum security cellblock and fought together with those men to expose the grave injustices that led to their wrongful convictions. The Death Row 10 appeared on nationwide media and, with the help of lawyers and activists outside, were instrumental in turning the tide against the death penalty in Illinois. Kitchen was finally exonerated in 2013 and filed a high profile lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department, Jon Burge, Mayor Richard Daley, and the Cook County state's attorney. Largely absent from the current social justice narratives are the testimonies of the victims themselves. Kitchen is a survivor who has turned his suffering into a powerful public cause. The atrocities of the Midnight Crew have been brought to light through Kitchen's work and are now part of the discussion as the nation engages in an unprecedented conversation about racism.

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214

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Chicago Review Press

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1613737696

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9781613737699

Corporate Governance and Statutory Derivative Actions

Comparative Approach to Shareholder Litigation

By: Lang Thai

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Corporate Governance and Statutory Derivative Actions

Comparative Approach to Shareholder Litigation

By: Lang Thai

This book is the first comprehensive study of the statutory derivative action in Australia, using the Australian model as a reference point and comparing it with the UK, Canada, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong and USA counterparts. The book includes an empirical study covering over a twenty-year period from the date the statutory framework came into operation, coupled with extensive case law analysis and comparisons with other jurisdictions. It informs the world about the uniqueness of Australia’s statutory derivative action, and what other countries can learn from it as shareholder protection and promotion of good corporate governance. While some countries have statutory derivative action, there are still countries that do not have the statutory framework that are considering introducing it into their corporate law. This book provides insights and suggestions for lawmakers, litigation practitioners and researchers worldwide in reforming their existing model.

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240

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Taylor & Francis

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1000958558

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9781000958553

China’s War on Smuggling

Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965

By: Philip Thai

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China’s War on Smuggling

Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965

By: Philip Thai

Smuggling along the Chinese coast has been a thorn in the side of many regimes. From opium and weapons concealed aboard foreign steamships in the Qing dynasty to nylon stockings and wristwatches trafficked in the People’s Republic, contests between state and smuggler have exerted a surprising but crucial influence on the political economy of modern China. Seeking to consolidate domestic authority and confront foreign challenges, states introduced tighter regulations, higher taxes, and harsher enforcement. These interventions sparked widespread defiance, triggering further coercive measures. Smuggling simultaneously threatened the state’s power while inviting repression that strengthened its authority. Philip Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China—its practice, suppression, and significance—to demonstrate the intimate link between illicit coastal trade and the amplification of state power. China’s War on Smuggling shows that the fight against smuggling was not a simple law enforcement problem but rather an impetus to centralize authority and expand economic controls. The smuggling epidemic gave Chinese states pretext to define legal and illegal behavior, and the resulting constraints on consumption and movement remade everyday life for individuals, merchants, and communities. Drawing from varied sources such as legal cases, customs records, and popular press reports and including diverse perspectives from political leaders, frontline enforcers, organized traffickers, and petty runners, Thai uncovers how different regimes policed maritime trade and the unintended consequences their campaigns unleashed. China’s War on Smuggling traces how defiance and repression redefined state power, offering new insights into modern Chinese social, legal, and economic history.

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Columbia University Press

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023154636X

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9780231546362

More Powerful Than Dynamite

Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy

By: Thai Jones

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More Powerful Than Dynamite

Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy

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An engrossing account of the events of 1914' - Sam Roberts, The New York Times

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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My Midnight Years

Surviving Jon Burge's Police Torture Ring and Death Row

By: Ronald Kitchen,Thai Jones,Logan McBride

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Surviving Jon Burge's Police Torture Ring and Death Row

By: Ronald Kitchen,Thai Jones,Logan McBride

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Chicago Review Press

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