Describes the author's deep friendship with a mysterious intellectual who introduced her to the culture and people of El Salvador in the 1970s, a tumultuous period in the country's history, inspiring her work as an unlikely activist.

"The story of a remarkable but largely unsung group known as the Bund, League of Socialist Life, which went on to resist the Nazis during WWII, sheltering Jews and covertly sending letters and parcels into concentration camps, among other activities"--

This work considers the impact of nineteenth-century American secret societies leading up to and during the Civil War. It examines Knights of the Golden Circle (out of which developed the Ku Klux Klan) and Confederate groups, including the group that John Wilkes Booth was associated. In addition he looks at both white and African American involvement, reavealing the black fraternal experience in antebellum America as well as the clandestine opperations...

In all respects Gandhi was an uncommon person. Outraged by human suffering, revolted by injustice, and guided by faith, Gandhi spent his life standing up for what he believed to be right. He did this with unfailing strength and equanimity, ready to give his life for the poorest and most despised in the belief that every human being should be able to live with dignity and freedom.

"A riveting, chilling tale of how a group of ragtag activists infiltrated one of the most secure nuclear weapons sites in the United States, told alongside a broader history of America's nuclear stewardship, from the early stages of the Manhattan Project to our country's never-ending investment in nuclear weaponry. On Saturday, July 28, 2012, three senior citizens broke into one of the most secure nuclear weapons facilities in the world. An eighty-two-year-old...