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Mark Crispin Miller - Forbidden Bookshelf - R.K. Locke - 25-06-2014
Looks like Colby & Dennett's Thy Will Be Done is set for a re-release. Excellent news.
Forbidden Bookshelf
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OPEN ROAD MEDIA ANNOUNCES CREATION OF FORBIDDEN BOOKSHELF, A BOLD NEW SERIES OF IMPORTANT BOOKS THAT DISAPPEARED BECAUSE OF THEIR CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECT MATTER
PROFESSOR MARK CRISPIN MILLER CURATES AND NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL EDITOR AND COLUMNIST GRETCHEN MORGENSON WRITES INTRODUCTION TO THE LORDS OF CREATION
(New York, NYJune 9, 2014)Open Road Media announced today Forbidden Bookshelf, a series of books curated by Professor Mark Crispin Miller of New York University. Forbidden Bookshelf titles fill in the blanks of America's repressed history by resurrecting books that focused on issues and events that are too often left in the dark, including abortion, organized crime, the CIA, and financial inequality.
The series launches on June 10 with five books: Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy by Christopher Simpson, The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine, The Search for an Abortionist: The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy Before Roe v. Wade by Nancy Howell Lee, Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football by Dan E. Moldea, and The Lords of Creation: The History of America's 1 Percent by Frederick Lewis Allen. Each of the first four titles includes a new introduction.
Additional books by I. F. Stone, Gerard Colby, Charlotte Dennett, Kati Marton, Robert Fitch, Bertram Gross, and John Dinges will be released later this summer.
Open Road Media CEO Jane Friedman said, "This list of books is much deserving of renewed attention. The issues they address are as significant today as they were when the books were first published. We believe that we will stimulate new conversation and debate through our intensive and extensive marketing platform."
Mark Crispin Miller said, "Despite our First Amendmentor because of itcountless crucial books have been adroitly disappeared' through methods far less crude than outright censorship, from threats of litigation to press black-outs and/or charges of conspiracy theory.' Such tactics have repeatedly erased those books that we most need to read, because of their important truths about the powers that be; and so our purpose is to bring those books to life again."
Miller is a professor of media studies at NYU and an accomplished author of several books, from Boxed In: The Culture of TV (1988) and Seeing Through Movies (1990) to his more recent works on politics, including The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder and Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform. He has also written many articles for newspapers and journals, including four op-eds in the New York Times, as well as many pieces in the Nation, the New Republic,and the New York Review of Books, and articles for Harper's,the Atlantic, Mother Jones, Esquire, and the Wall Street Journal. Through his blog, News from Underground, he is also an influential presence on the web.
About Open Road Integrated Media
Open Road Integrated Media is a global digital publishing company that creates connections between authors and their audiences by marketing its ebooks through a new proprietary online platform, which uses premium video content and social media. Open Road has published fiction and nonfiction ebooks from authors including William Styron, Pat Conroy, Alice Walker, James Jones, Pearl S. Buck, David Halberstam, Victor S. Navasky, Gloria Steinem, Martin Duberman, and Richard Ben Cramer.
Abby Martin interviewed Miller today on RT:
Mark Crispin Miller - Forbidden Bookshelf - R.K. Locke - 25-06-2014
Correction: it looks like Behind the Nylon Curtain is the Colby/Dennett book being reissued.
Mark Crispin Miller - Forbidden Bookshelf - Kara Dellacioppa - 26-06-2014
I hope these works get some traction through this especially the Phoenix Program and Blowback..
Mark Crispin Miller - Forbidden Bookshelf - Magda Hassan - 26-06-2014
This is great news! Trust Abby Martin to be the one voice in the MSM covering it. It will be the most interesting book shelf in the library.
Mark Crispin Miller - Forbidden Bookshelf - Peter Lemkin - 26-06-2014
Bertram Gross' book must be his Friendly Fascism, which is one I've told a lot of people to read...but they couldn't find. Great news. I wonder how the Big Censors will try to disrupt this enterprise.....somehow, I'm sure. I know of so many other books that were censored and will send Miller a list, just in case they're not on his list yet. I have two copies [!] hardcover of the best book, until two years ago, on the RFK murder. After the print run, the publisher told the men in the printing warehouse to put all the pallets of the book into the incinerator. The workmen tasked to do this took one pallet of the books home, thinking they may someday have 'value'. Thus, about 150 copies of the book do exist - and when I bought the two 20 years ago they were expensive...today likely more so. Some dumbocracy we have...it makes me think of Langston Hughes refrain in his great poem 'America',
"America never was America, to me." ::prison::
Mark Crispin Miller - Forbidden Bookshelf - Magda Hassan - 26-06-2014
Is it Miller's show or is he just one of the authors?
Mark Crispin Miller - Forbidden Bookshelf - Peter Lemkin - 26-06-2014
Magda Hassan Wrote:Is it Miller's show or is he just one of the authors?
He has authored books, but they are in print. He is one of two editors of this collection - and apparently the main person choosing which are put out. He's a good person to do this.
Mark Crispin Miller - Forbidden Bookshelf - Magda Hassan - 26-06-2014
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Magda Hassan Wrote:Is it Miller's show or is he just one of the authors?
He has authored books, but they are in print. He is one of two editors of this collection - and apparently the main person choosing which are put out. He's a good person to do this.
I agree he is a good choice. I just wasn't clear if it was he was just one of he 5 authors, as he is, but also running the project. It is good that he is behind it.