The Radical Reader

Timothy Patrick McCarthy is a lecturer on history and literature and on public policy at Harvard University, where he directs the Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. An award-winning scholar, teacher, and activist, he is a co-editor, with John McMillian, of The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition and of Protest Nation: Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism; a co-editor, with John Stauffer, of Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism; and the editor of The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the "People's Historian", all published by The New Press. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.John McMillian is an assistant professor of history at Georgia State University. His articles and review essays have appeared in Radical History Review, Rethinking History, American Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is a co-editor, with Timothy Patrick McCarthy, of The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical and Protest Nation: Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism (both published by The New Press) and the author of Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America and Beatles vs. Stones.

Includes: - Common Sense, Thomas Paine- Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln- Confession, Nat Turner- Last Speech to the Jury, John Brown- Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, Sarah Grimke- Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention- Life in the Iron Mills, Rebecca Harding Davis- Speech to Striking Coal Miners, Mother Jones- Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr.- The Ballot or the Bullet, Malcolm X- The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan- Silent Spring, Rachel Carson