Results for "Crouch, Stanley"

The grievous loss of Stanley Crouch, one of America’s most renowned intellectuals, is underscored by the posthumous appearance of these remarkable essays. With Stanley Crouch’s untimely death in 2020, American literature lost “a critic without peer” (Ta-Nehisi Coates). Born in Los Angeles in 1945, C... Read More about Victory Is Assured: Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch

The first collection of published and unpublished work by Harold Cruse, one of America's foremost and controversial black writers.In 1967, as the movement for civil rights was turning into a bitter, often violent battle for black power, Harold Cruse's The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual burst onto ... Read More about The Essential Harold Cruse: A Reader

“An enduring testament and prophecy.” –Chicago Sun-TimesA Penguin Classic Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a “registrar of madness,” a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with the promises... Read More about Mr. Sammler's Planet

“A tour de force. . . . Crouch has given us a bone-deep understanding of Parker’s music and the world that produced it. In his pages, Bird still lives.” — Washington Post A stunning portrait of Charlie Parker, one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, fro... Read More about Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker

A landmark graphic novel about the civil rights leader, complete in one volume. This groundbreaking body of comics journalism collects Anderson's entire biography of the renowned civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Over a decade in the making, the saga has been praised for its vivid rec... Read More about King: The Complete Edition: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Published in 1967, as the early triumphs of the Civil Rights movement yielded to increasing frustration and violence, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual electrified a generation of activists and intellectuals. The product of a lifetime of struggle and reflection, Cruse's book is a singular amal... Read More about The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership