BEACON
Updated 192 days ago
- Age: 170 years
- ID: 15873442/131
24 Farnsworth Street Boston, MA 02210-1409
Beacon is an associate member of the Association of American University Presses. We are a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association... Founded in 1854, Beacon has published many ground-breaking classics, including James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son, Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man, Jean Baker Miller's Toward a New Psychology of Women, and Mary Daly's Gyn/Ecology. In 1971, Beacon printed the Senator Gravel Edition of The Pentagon Papers in 5 volumes. This groundbreaking achievement marked the first time those papers had appeared in book form. Beacon is also the publisher of Marian Wright Edelman's best-selling book, The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, and Cornel West's acclaimed Race Matters. Recent publications include such widely acclaimed and best-selling books as James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz's An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, Judith Heumann's Being Heumann, Christopher Emdin's For..