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Bad Moon Rising: How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution – Coming Out October 2016!

Roz — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:25:56 +0000

I’m so proud of my client Arthur Eckstein, whose book Bad Moon Rising: How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution will be released October 2016 from Yale University Press!

In the summer of 1970 and for years after, photos of Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jones, and other members of the Weather Underground were emblazoned on FBI wanted posters. In Bad Moon Rising, Arthur Eckstein details how Weather began to engage in serious, ideologically driven, nationally coordinated political violence and how the FBI attempted to monitor, block, and capture its members-and failed. Eckstein further shows that the FBI ordered its informants inside Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to support the faction that became Weather during the tumultuous June 1969 SDS convention, helping to destroy the organization; and that the FBI first underestimated Weather’s seriousness, then overestimated its effectiveness, and how Weather outwitted them. Eckstein reveals how an obsessed and panicked President Nixon and his inner circle sought to bypass a cautious J. Edgar Hoover, contributing to the creation of the rogue Plumbers Unit that eventually led to Watergate.

Arthur Eckstein is professor of history and distinguished scholar-teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. He did his graduate work in Berkeley in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He lives in Greenbelt, MD.

See more and pre-order here!

Is DoD’s Use of Predator & Reaper Drones on US Soil Heroic?

Roz — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:47:10 +0000

(Photo by: John Moore)

The US Department of Defense has been using military drones to surveil its own people since 2006, a fact revealed in 2013 when Robert Mueller, then FBI Director, admitted the DoD had been using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to aid US investigations, though in a “very, very minimal way.” The use of drones by the DoD to spy on Americans emerged again yesterday as USA TODAY noted the release of a new report from the Pentagon claiming its drone use entirely legal and, again, rare, citing anodyne uses, such as “to assist with search and rescue, floods, fires or National Guard exercises” (read more from USA TODAY).

In his thriller WAYPOINT, debut author Matthew Howe explores how mass media can be used to spin a terrorizing tale across the nation. Protagonist Julie LePlant’s nail-biting thrill ride, once picked up by the national press, whips up an unchecked populist fear and a desire for safety above all else. However, it’s fascinating to note that the Pentagon’s recent report takes a completely different tack, waving off the use of MQ-1B Predators and MQ-9 Reapers in our everyday lives as a part of heroic rescue missions that US citizens would be heartless to forbid.

WAYPOINT is “Absolutely Gripping!” ~Patrick Robinson, Author of NYT Bestseller LONE SURVIVOR

Roz — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 21:18:10 +0000

We think we have a breakout! And so does Patrick Robinson, author of The New York Times #1 bestseller LONE SURVIVOR, who says debut novelists Matthew Howe’s work is “absolutely gripping. WAYPOINT is tense, twisting and fast-paced. Doesn’t let up until the final page is turned.”

Julie LePlant is a mousy, young photographer living in a nowhere town. She has a dead-end job at a coffee shop where her prints hang endlessly for sale. But the night a creepy customer buys one of her photographs for quadruple its going price, her life changes, if you can believe it, for the worse. Drugged and kidnapped from her own apartment, she wakes the next morning terrified and alone in a strange hotel room—with a bomb strapped tightly to her chest.

Julie has 24 hours to travel a thousand miles where she’ll find a code to disarm the bomb before it kills her and anyone who might be nearby. Her wallet is missing, her keys are gone, and her cellphone is nowhere to be found. The only other object she finds in her own jacket pocket is a loaded handgun. For Julie LePlant—the shy, artistic barista who had been going nowhere slowly—nothing matters now but doing whatever it takes to find the waypoint fast.

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Beautiful First Edition of N.C. Wyeth Illustrated RIP VAN WINKLE

Roz — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 21:05:43 +0000

This first edition version of Washington Irving’s RIP VAN WINKLE features color plate illustrations by the celebrated artist N.C. Wyeth. A color print of the cover art is pasted onto the brown cloth binding. Printed by David McKay, Co. in Philadelphia, 1921, this bright and musty book, with its rich color plate frontispiece inside entitled “A village in the Catskill Mountains,” is one of the most prized books in Roots Digital’s collection.

First Edition American Literary Treasure found for One Dollar!

Roz — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:19:01 +0000

In 1946, Doubleday & Co. released a new edition of the well-known historian Francis Parkman’s The Oregon Trail (originally published in 1847). This new edition was illustrated by the famous muralist, Thomas Hart Benton, who gained notoriety in the thirties with five mural projects completed for the Works Progress Administration. He was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement, artists who eschewed urban life for the rural. The Regionalists painted scenes of everyday people engaged in life in the American heartland. Chris found the first edition of this American literary treasure at the Bibliobarn in Margaretville for exactly one dollar!

WAYPOINT is “absolutely gripping.” ~Patrick Robinson

Roz — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:05:03 +0000

“Absolutely gripping. WAYPOINT is tense, twisting and fast-paced. Doesn’t let up until the final page is turned.”
~ Patrick Robinson, author of the New York Times #1 bestseller LONE SURVIVOR

WAYPOINT is available for pre-order now!

Jeff Young’s project “Re: Learning” maps new shifts in our education landscape.

Roz — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:56:47 +0000

So proud of client Jeff Young, Senior Editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, whose project “Re:Learning” maps radical new shifts in our education landscape. Learn more about “Re: Learning” here…

Kirkus Review: Rita Indiana’s PAPI is “masterfully drawn.”

Roz — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:36:43 +0000

Most children believe their parents are perfect, and the realization that they aren’t typically comes as something of a shock.

But the 8-year-old unnamed protagonist of Dominican writer Indiana’s English-language debut is not typical. In fact, she’s always had mixed feelings about Papi, the father who can bring her from agony to exultation in the course of an afternoon….

Pissing Off a Serial Killer

Roz — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:54:54 +0000

post by Matthew Howe

Donald Harvey’s killing spree came to an end in 1987. It was a fluke. Harvey worked as a hospital orderly and he’d poured cyanide into the feeding tube of a near-comatose patient who’d suffered massive brain injuries in a motorcycle accident. A “mercy killing.” Unfortunately for this particular angel of death, Ohio law dictates that anyone dying as a result of a traffic accident requires an autopsy…

Cecily McMillan: The Rikers nightmare is far from over

Roz — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 14:18:01 +0000

My client, Cecily McMillan, on Al Jazeera’s The Stream talking about “Fixing America’s ‘broken system’ of criminal justice.

Also, read her recent piece: “The Rikers nightmare is far from over”:

Last summer, I was inmate 310-14-00431 of the Rose M. Singer Center, the women’s facility on Rikers Island. I was only there 58 days, but it was long enough to experience and witness firsthand almost every form of abuse that has since surfaced in the news — and much more that hasn’t yet…

Click to read more at Al Jazeera…