Book Review

Media and power

February 7, 2012 By Tim Pelzer

Canadian sociologist Jeffery Klaehn has put together a penetrating collection of essays dealing with the political economy of the mass media spanning a broad range of topics.

Left on the bookshelf: “Blacks, Reds and Russians”

January 24, 2012 By Joseph Zimmermann

There is a much less known story of another group of immigrants who sought freedom and opportunity, but it wasn't to America but to the Soviet Union that they fled.

“Retirement Heist” shows how they stole the pensions

January 11, 2012 By Bruce Bostick

Three decades ago, prior to Reagan's "Republican Revolution," 40 percent of America's retirees were receiving real, defined benefit pensions.

Finding Joe Hill in new biography

December 20, 2011 By Gene Lantz

Nowhere is the romance of the Industrial Workers of the World more beautifully told than in the life and songs of its greatest troubadour, Joe Hill.

“Why Marx Was Right”: lively challenge to 10 myths

December 16, 2011 By Frederick Barr

Eagleton's bright, witty book marches forward into the usual stumbling blocks erected over the decades in the environment of popular ideology and topples them.