One Hundred Red Hot Years: Big Moments of the 20th Century

Opening with a brilliant, reflective essay by Eduardo Galeano, this book presents an entertaining and readable chronology of the last century. Also included is a history of U.S. aggression in Latin America and a list of the CIA’s assassination targets. Illustrated with revolutionary posters of the 20th century.

It’s the adventure of making changes and changing ourselves which makes worthwhile this flicker in the history of the universe that we are, this fleeting warmth between two glaciers.–Eduardo Galeano

As long as someone controls your history, the truth shall remain just a mystery.–Ben Harper

Radical History is a new series from Ocean Press seeking to restore our collective memory of events, struggles and people erased from conventional (and conservative) histories and media. These mini-anthologies include eyewitness accounts and historic, forgotten or ignored documents as well as new essays, chronologies and further reading suggestions. This series is designed to appeal to a new generation of political activists.