Books from Lake View Press

Note: University of Minnesota Press has acquired all Lake View Press titles listed below. Please order from them.

Books by Jan Myrdal
Confessions of a Disloyal European
This is a new edition of a sixties classic, chosen by the New York Times as one of "ten notable books" of 1968. Jan Myrdal sat down at the age of 34 to tell the truth about himself. He ended up seven years later with a book of hard truths about the generation shaped by the war against Hitler; about the next generation, shaped by the Vietnam War; and about Western intellectuals and their claims to honesty and enlightenment.

"Myrdal has tried the impossible—to tell the truth about himself, whom he sees as representative of the decadent breed of European intellectual whose perception, analysis, and moral discrimination have been powerless to stop the...holocausts of the twentieth century."—Newsweek

Childhood
Foreword by Harrison Salisbury

Jan's parents were both Nobel Prize-winners. He was a "problem child." Or so his parents told everyone. And they were symbols of progressive thinking about the family. They were founders of the modern welfare state and Sweden's most influential intellectuals. And when police viciously beat and arrested Jan Myrdal at a 1967 antiwar demonstration, his mother was Minister of Disarmament.

This is the story of how, in order to become Jan Myrdal, he became the child his parents and their generation didn't want.

"All his life Jan Myrdal has prided himself on being a maverick. Now this maverick has taken his place in the forefront of Swedish letters."
   —Harrison Salisbury, in the introduction to "Childhood"

Another World

The look and feel of New York in 1938, seen through the eyes of an 11-year old who is changing worlds. The stunning fidelity to the language, fantasies and realities of childhood won this book Sweden's Grand Prize for the novel and acclaim as a literary masterpiece.

Gunnar travels to America to "solve the Negro problem" and Jan to become an American. This was long before Gunnar and Alva Myrdal won their Nobel prizes, long before Jan became the notorious "disloyal European," long before Jan's childhood novels shocked Sweden with their harsh portraits of the private lives of the founders of the welfare state. Jan Myrdal's childhood novels began as scandals and became classics.

12 Going on 13
The look and feel of New York and Stockholm at a turning point for Myrdal's life and the world, the outbreak of World War II. Winner of Sweden's prestigious Esselte Prize for Literature.

"I am my own person now. I looked Alva right in the eye and said I didn't belong to their family any more, I wasn't part of it any more. Again they sacrifice us to their political ambitions while theytalk about their noble principles."
—Jan Myrdal, age 12

He is twelve going on thirteen. It is 1939, the war in Europe has begun. The war between Jan and his parents continues.

"The astonishing variety of young Jan's thoughts and fantasies...by turns esthetic, sexual and violent...[is] all vividly rendered in darkly lyrical prose...[Myrdal] forc[es] the reader to explore the nature and interrelationship of parenthood, accomplishment and fame...[a] bitterly beautiful book."—NY Times Book Review

"This searing self-portrait...is told from the point of view of a rebellious, wounded preadolescent. It opens in New York City in 1940 where 12-year-old Jan had been attending school, then moves to Sweden, where his parents leave him with his aunt and uncle while they travel. Hitler's invading armies are taking over Europe, and Jan, though embroiled in ihis own private domestic hell, castigates the hypocrisy of pious Swedes who ring churchbells on Sundays yet refuse to speak out against the Nazis or to take up arms... Myrdal's fiercely honest account of how he resisted and overcame parental psychological abuse has the emotional intensity of a Strindberg play."—Publishers Weekly

India Waits
"With poker-hot prose, Myrdal makes us feel each horror anew, impressing through the force of his writing his conviction in the unacceptability of hunger, poverty and racism."
—Kirkus Reviews

Books by John M. Hagedorn
People and Folks
Gangs, Crime and the Underclass in a Rustbelt City
By John M. Hagedorn
"This new edition...gives the reader a succinct summary of major developments in gang research and opens up new and important questions.   Nothing else in the field gives the student such a good feel for research and for why direct research with gang members is so important."
    —Joan Moore, Former President, Society for the Study of Social Problems; Author, Homeboys: Gangs, Drugs and Prison in the Barrios of Los Angeles

Female Gangs in America
Essays on Girls, Gangs and Gender
Edited by Meda Chesney-Lind and John M. Hagedorn

"A long overdue collection of scholarship on female gangs and female gang members, this volume challenges many of the myths and stereotypes that hae characterized much of the literature and allows the reader to meet the subjects 'up close and personal.' Must reading for everyone seeking to have an informed and balanced perspective on the 'other' gangs in Ameria and what can be done to help these young women meet their needs."
—C. Ronald Huff, Dir., School of Public Policy and Management, Ohio State University

Forsaking our Children
Bureaucracy and Reform in a Child Welfare System
By John M. Hagedorn
"This is a solution-offering book. The chord struck is the fate of children, and the question of whether children receive the services they need and deserve...An on-the-ground book...Hagedorn's solutions make sense. He's not asking for more money, just more imagination and, shall we say, vision."
   —Los Angeles Times

Books on film

Political Companion to American Film
Edited by Gary Crowdus
Foreword by Ed Asner
Leading film critics write an encyclopedic collection of critical essays offering provocative social and political commentary on the work of filmmakers (from Woody Allen to Darryl Zanuck) and other film personalities (from Charles Chaplin to John Wayne), film genres (from crime Movies to World War II Animated Propaganda Cartoons), racial and ethnic portrayals (from African Americans to Native Americans), social issues (from Big Businessmen to the Small Town), theoretical and critical issues (from the Auteur Theory to  Postwar American Film Criticism), economic and industrial issues (from Conglomerates to the Studio System), and much more.

The Cineaste Interviews 2
Filmmakers on the Art and Politics of the Cinema
Edited by Gary Crowdus and Dan Georgakas
"In an age of mindless celebrity profiles and fellating Q and As, the interviews in Cineaste are among the most consistently thoughtful, insightful, and thorough available anywhere. The subjects are invariably articulate, and usually at the cutting edge, aesthetically and politically, of moviemaking today. We can rejoice at having these pieces preserved in book form."
    —Philip Lopate
    Author, Totally, Tenderly, Tragically: Essays and Criticism from a Lifelong Love Affair with the Movies

The Cineaste Interviews
On the Art and Politics of the Cinema
Edited by Dan Georgakas and Lenny Rubenstein
Foreword by Roger Ebert

Thirty-five in-depth interviews from Cineaste magazine with the world's leading filmmakers and critics, from Fonda to Fassbinder, from Canby to Costa-Gavras, from Sarris to Sayles.

"Fascinating look at the not always easy marriage of art and politics."
—Library Journal

History
Solidarity Forever
An Oral History of the IWW
Edited by Stewart Bird, Dan Georgakas, and Deborah Shaffer
"This study of the Wobblies is a vital part of our history that has never appeared in the traditional chronicles. It's time—high time—we knew of this indigenous Amerian movement. An excellent book."
—Studs Terkel

Black Bolshevik
Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist
By Harry Haywood
"Of all the Afro-American figures in the history of American Communism, none was more important in ultimate impact than Harry Haywood. "
   —Encyclopedia of the American Left

The Mossadegh Era
Roots of the Iranian Revolution
By Sepehr Zabih
"The reader of this engaging book will soon discover that Sepehr Zabih is perhaps the outstanding student of Iranian revolutionary and nationalist politics."
—Amos Perlmutter

Books about South Africa
The Cinema of Apartheid
Race and Class in South African Film
By Keyan Tomaselli
"A fascinating and invaluable book for anyone interested in film, anywhere."
  -—Nadine Gordimer

Studies in the South African Media
South African Media Policy: Debates of the 1990s
Edited by Eric Louw

The Press in South Africa
Edited by Ruth & Keyan Tomaselli, and Johan Muller

Broadcasting in South Africa
Edited by Ruth & Keyan Tomaselli, and Johan Muller

The Alternative Press in South Africa
Edited by Keyan Tomaselli & Eric Louw
Other Titles

Fruits of Apartheid
Experiencing Independence in a Transkeian Village
By Julia Segar