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For February, 2020, the University of Chicago free ebook is A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain by Simon Goldhill.
The Victorians: conventional, patriarchal, family-focused, and strait-laced? Then there were the Bensons: Edward White Benson, archbishop of Canterbury; his wife, the lesbian writer Mary Sidgwick Benson, to whom he proposed marriage when she was only twelve; and their children, all of whom became prominent writers and none of whom married, including Fred Benson, gay and a competitive figure skater, who authored the Mapp and Lucia series of comic novels. Drawing on the voluminous writings of the Bensons—collectively they wrote tens of thousands of letters and hundreds of books—Simon Goldhill created the compulsively readable A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain, our free e-book for February. Via the Benson family, Goldhill shows us a world transitioning to modernity. Check it out here. |
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For March, 2020, the University of Chicago free ebook is Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago by Gillian O’Brien.
“Chicago’s reputation for dramatic crime and corruption predates Al Capone and Prohibition—by decades. In May 1889 Dr. P. H. Cronin, an esteemed physician, was found in a sewer. He was naked, dead, and savagely beaten. The investigation and trial caused an international sensation, and one of the world’s first media circuses, over a story that involved Irish revolutionaries and reactionaries, secret societies, and even a French spy.… All at a time when Chicago had been burned down, and was reborn as the fast-growing city in America.”—Scott Simon, NPR’s Weekend Edition Check it out here. |
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For May, 2020, the University of Chicago free ebook is Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today by Ilana Gershon.
“In this beautifully written volume, Ilana Gershon explores the subtle violence that ensues when, in order to get a job, you have to apply branding and marketing techniques to your own personality, and reconfigure your very sense of being in the world as a result.”—David Graeber Check it out here. Last edited by DNSB; 06-01-2020 at 07:02 PM. |
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For June, 2020, the University of Chicago free ebook is The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence—Laurence Ralph.
“Chicago has a long history of police violence. The starkest evidence is seen in the hundreds of recent cases of torture of suspects in custody—overwhelmingly African-American men. Our latest free e-book, available until noon on June 6, is The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence by Laurence Ralph. The book is based on ten years of interviews and archival research and takes the form of open letters to victims, witnesses, participants, activists, mayors, and police. With compassion and careful skill, Ralph traces institutional racism through law enforcement, the political machine, and the courts in Chicago, amplifying the voices of torture victims who are still with us and lending a voice to those deceased.” Check it out here. Sadly, a very appropriate book for this month. |
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For August, 2020, the University of Chicago free ebook is Uselessness by Eduardo Lalo. Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine
We follow our narrator through his romantic and intellectual awakenings in Paris, where he elevates his adopted home over the moribund one he has left behind. But as he falls in and out of love he comes to realize that as a Puerto Rican, he will always be apart. Ending the greatest romance of his life—that with the city of Paris itself—he returns to San Juan and his lifelong task to discover the use (or uselessness) of literature and writing. “In this dreamy and succinct novel, Lalo takes readers on an intimate journey of companionship abroad.… Set between glowing, literary Paris, the deceptively dangerous Spanish coast, and various humble San Juan apartments, Uselessness is a novel of modern plight that’s brimming with hope and wisdom.”—Booklist Check it out here. Last edited by DNSB; 08-03-2020 at 04:25 PM. Reason: Added translator |
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For October, 2020, the University of Chicago free ebook is The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? by Gerald N. Rosenberg
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For November, 2020, the University of Chicago free ebook is Who Freed the Slaves: The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment by Leonard L. Richards.
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For December, 2020, the University of Chicago free ebook is Lost Mars: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet edited by Mike Ashley.
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For 48 hours only, the University of Chicago has made They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45 by Milton Mayer.
A rather interesting read and, sadly, some of the themes are being seen in today's headlines. They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Mayer’s book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the University of Frankfurt and lived in a nearby small Hessian town which he disguised with the name “Kronenberg.” “These ten men were not men of distinction,” Mayer noted, but they had been members of the Nazi Party; Mayer wanted to discover what had made them Nazis. His discussions with them of Nazism, the rise of the Reich, and mass complicity with evil became the backbone of this book, an indictment of the ordinary German that is all the more powerful for its refusal to let the rest of us pretend that our moment, our society, our country are fundamentally immune. “When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg.” That’s Milton Mayer, writing in a foreword to the 1966 edition of They Thought They Were Free. He’s right about the critics: the book was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1956. General readers may have been slower to take notice, but over time they did—what we’ve seen over decades is that any time people, across the political spectrum, start to feel that freedom is threatened, the book experiences a ripple of word-of-mouth interest. And that interest has never been more prominent or potent than what we’ve seen in the past year. |
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For February, 2021, the University of Chicago free ebook is Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture by Bruce Lenthall.
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For March, 2021, the University of Chicago free ebook is The Safe House by Christophe Boltanski.
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