Politics

Series of essays about business/economy from the authors of The Baffler

Story of the Daniel Burnham plan for Chicago

From back cover: How America shortchanges art and communities and what can be done about it"

From back cover: "John Conroy sits down with torturers from several nations and comes to understand their motivations."

Autobiography of an african american communist.

Collection of prose, poetry, and other from the OBAC collective in Chicago. From the back cover 'A Literary Legacy of Black Chicago contains early and new poetry, fiction, drama, and essays by over 50 past or current OBAC members.'

Collection of essays analyzing racism.

Using the South Side of Chicago as a microcosm, Spear analyzes the creation and circumstances that caused the 'Negro' 'ghetto' to form the way that it did. From back cover 'Allan Spear explores here the history of a major Negro community during a crucial thirty-year period when a relatively fluid pattern of race relations gave way to a rigid system of segregation and discrimination'.

History of the Dil Pickle Club (1920s) as told in a series of essays by (mostly) former members