The Penn Press spring 2008 catalog announces Against the Wall, a wide-ranging series of essays, edited by Elijah Anderson, that look at the plight and prospects of young black urban men; Mapping Decline, by Colin Gordon, an illustrated history of urban decay in St. Louis; and Almost a Dynasty, by William Kashatus, about the world champion 1980 Philadelphia Phillies. Among many other notable new titles for the season are these: new editions of The Business of Sports Agents and The Academic Job Search Handbook; Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe; and Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden.
Series Editors: Glenda Gilmore, Michael Kazin, Thomas J. Sugrue
Blum, W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet (2007)
Brown, The Education of Jane Addams (2003)
Countryman, Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia (2005)
Gillette, Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City (2005)
Gordon, Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (Apr 2008)
Hall, Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960s (2004)
Jackson, From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice (2006)
Kornbluh, The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America (2007)
Lichtenstein, American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century (2006)
Mollin, Radical Pacifism in Modern America: Egalitarianism and Protest (2006)
Murray, The Progressive Housewife: Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945-1965 (2003)
Rossinow, Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America (2007)
Sacks, Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City Before World War I (2006)
Vettel, Biotech: The Countercultural Origins of an Industry (2006)
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