Henry Carter Hull

A memoir of a life in activism by one of the original defendants in the Trial of the Chicago 7, subject of the 2020 Oscar-nominated Aaron Sorkin film of the same name. In March 1969, eight young men were indicted by the federal

A vividly illustrated collaboration between two of Chicago's most celebrated architecture critics casts a wise and unsparing eye on inequities in the built environment and attempts to rectify them.   From his high-profile battles with Donald Trump to his insightful celebrations of Frank Lloyd Wright and front-page takedowns of Chicago mega-projects like Lincoln Yards, Pulitzer Prize–winning architecture critic Blair Kamin has long informed...

Bob Skaleski spins a story with microscopic accuracy sautéed in laugh-out- loud humor (although a few tales require a box of Kleenex). He writes with sensitivity and illustrates how his understanding of today's world was established by the time he entered high school. "The Child is Father of Man," declared English Poet, William Wordsworth. Bob Skaleski exemplifies this point. Bob guides us through remembrances about Baseball, Civil Rights, God and...

Item #176: A fire drill. No, not an exercise in which occupants of a building practice leaving the building safely. A drill which safely emits a bit of fire, the approximate shape and size of a drill bit.   Item #74: Enter a lecture class in street clothes. Receive loud phone call. Shout "I NEED TO GO, THE CITY NEEDS ME!" Remove street clothes to reveal superhero apparel. Run out for the good of the land.   Item #293: Hypnotizing a chicken...

This is a Project Gutenberg edition released in 2015. From preface What greater insult can be offered to the children of freedom than for people of foreign birth to usurp the birthrights and trample upon the institutions for which their fathers bled and died? Never before were citizens of any country placed on trial for so grave and flagrant a transgression, who received such consideration and fairness at the hands of the administrators of law and...

He's wealthy and ruthless.She's poor and alone. Cesare is the underboss of the notorious Italian mafia, the New York Syndicate.Kinsey is his best friend from childhood, and the one woman he has never forgotten. Life has pulled them apart, yet an impending mafia war is pushing them back together. But maybe it's too late for a second chance once Cesare discovers Kinsey's current secret? This novella is an introduction into the anarchic Syndicate world....

From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them, though scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing. Recently, however, things have begun to shift in the other direction, and anthropologist Barbara J. King is at the forefront of that movement, arguing strenuously that we can-and should-attend to animal emotions. In the stories she tells here, King relays how some farm...

Do voters cast ballots for the candidates whose positions best match their own? Or does the race for president come down to who runs the most effective campaign? In their book, The Timeline of Presidential Elections, published in 2012, Erikson and Wlezien documented how both factors come into play. Having amassed data from national polls covering presidential elections from 1952 to 2008, they could track how outcomes take shape over the course of...

Itzel's 13th birthday party starts in just about the unluckiest way possible-with her dad having a heart attack. In those frantic moments, the piñata and the frosted sheetcake and the Styrofoam cups of orange soda are forgotten; the day's highlights end up being CPR, an ambulance ride, and angioplasty. But when her father gets home from the hospital, his problems are far from over-and Itzel's are just getting started. Nothing's Ever the Same...

When Scott Walker was elected Governor of Wisconsin, the state became the focus of debate about the appropriate role of government. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall, he was subsequently reelected. But why were the very people who would benefit from strong government services so vehemently against the idea of big government? With “The Politics of Resentment”, Katherine J. Cramer uncovers an oft-overlooked...