By any measure, the 2008 presidential race has been historic. The race has created an enthusiasm and a high degree of interest in politics few have ever seen before. At the center of the race is Barack Obama, the first African American to become the presumptive Democratic nominee. Many Americans agree with his politics, and many don't, but most ...

Black Enterprise Titans of the B.E. 100s: Black CEOs Who Redefined and Conquered American Business

Author: Derek T. Dingle

Publisher: Wiley (April 12, 1999)

Media: Hardcover, 256 pages

Price: $0.44

ISBN-10: 0471318531

ISBN-13: 9780471318538

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"Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it." —A. G. Gaston Black Enterprise's 1992 Entrepreneur of the Century.
For more than 25 years, Black Enterprise, the premier African American business magazine, has ranked and chronicled the B.E. 100s—its ...

Writing African American Women [Two Volumes]: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and about Women of Color

Author: Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu

Publisher: Greenwood Press (April 30, 2006)

Media: Hardcover, 1040 pages

Price: $149.89

ISBN-10: 0313331960

ISBN-13: 9780313331961

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African American culture is enormously diverse, and the experience of women in African American society is especially complex. Women were among the first African American writers, and works by black women writers are popular among students and general readers alike. At the same time, African American women have been oppressed, and texts by black male ...

The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr and the Speech that Inspired a Nation

Author: Drew D. Hansen

Publisher: Ecco (July 1, 2003)

Media: Hardcover, 304 pages

Price: $0.39

ISBN-10: 0060084766

ISBN-13: 9780060084769

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A riveting account of the origins and legacy of "I Have a Dream"

Forty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. electrified the nation when he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. King's prophetic utterances started the long overdue process of changing America's idea of itself. His words would ente ...

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Author: Barack Obama

Publisher: Random House Audio (October 17, 2006)

Media: Audio CD, pages

Price: $4.50

ISBN-10: 0739334085

ISBN-13: 9780739334089

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In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. Now, in The Audacity of Hope, Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics–a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the “endless clash of armies” w ...

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Author: Barack Obama

Publisher: Random House Audio (May 3, 2005)

Media: Audio CD, pages

Price: $25.95

ISBN-10: 0739321005

ISBN-13: 9780739321003

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Includes the senator's speech from the 2004 Democratic National Convention!

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he ...

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Bridging the Divide: My Life

Author: Edward Brooke

Publisher: Rutgers University Press (November 9, 2006)

Media: Hardcover, 352 pages

Price: $29.95

ISBN-10: 0813539056

ISBN-13: 9780813539058

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"Read about Ed Brooke-who in a just world, would have been President-and see the kindness, wisdom and courage the country missed. Join his friends and constituents who are inspired and enlarged by knowing him."-Gloria Steinem, cofounder Ms. Magazine and National Women's Political Caucus
"Senator Brooke's story shows the kind o ...

Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War

Author: Stanley Meisler

Publisher: Wiley (December 22, 2006)

Media: Hardcover, 384 pages

Price: $0.10

ISBN-10: 0471787442

ISBN-13: 9780471787440

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In this thoughtful, balanced biography, former Los Angeles Times foreign and diplomatic correspondent Stanley Meisler traces Kofi Annan’s unconventional rise from optimistic student to striving personnel and budget specialist in the United Nations bureaucracy to full-time manager of the world’s crises. The book presents a unique po ...

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage)

Author: Barack Obama

Publisher: Vintage (July 15, 2008)

Media: Mass Market Paperback, 464 pages

Price: $25.00

ISBN-10: 0307455874

ISBN-13: 9780307455871

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The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics—a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and i ...

Author: Barack Obama

Publisher: Three Rivers Press (August 10, 2004)

Media: Paperback, 480 pages

Price: $14.95

ISBN-10: 1400082773

ISBN-13: 9781400082773

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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden ...

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