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1.Name appears in list of KICKSTARTER backers on Paul's website (scheduled for unveiling in about another week or so! ! Stay tuned!) expressing appreciation. 2. A copy of "Backstage Reflections" -- thoughts, insights, pictures, memories, and stories from the tour not published elsewhere. 3. A paperback copy of "The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama and the Real World of Power."
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1.Name appears in list of KICKSTARTER backers on Paul's website (scheduled for unveiling in about another week or so! ! Stay tuned!) expressing appreciation. 2. A copy of "Backstage Reflections" -- thoughts, insights, pictures, memories, and stories from the tour not published elsewhere. 3. A signed paperback copy of "The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama and the Real World of Power." with a personal message from Paul.
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1.Name appears in list of KICKSTARTER backers on Paul's website (scheduled for unveiling in about another week or so! ! Stay tuned!) expressing appreciation. 2. A copy of "Backstage Reflections" -- thoughts, insights, pictures, memories, and stories from the tour not published elsewhere. 3. A personalize message and signed hardcover copy of "The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama and the Real World of Power.".
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Paul Street is the author of five books to date: Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004); Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (New York: Routledge, 2005); Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: a Living Black Chicago History (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007); Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2009) and the soon-to-be-released sequel, The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama and the Real World of Power (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2010).
Street's essays, articles, reviews, and commentaries have appeared in numerous outlets, including the Chicago Tribune, Capital City Times, In These Times, Chicago History, Journal of American Ethnic History, Social History, Review of Educational, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, Dissent, Black Agenda Report, Dissident Voice, Black Commentator, Monthly Review, History News Network, Tom'sDispatch, AlterNet., and (above all) ZNet and Z Magazine. From the base of ZNet, Z Magazine, and Black Agenda Report, his essays are picked up and reproduced (often in numerous languages) across the planet/World Wide Web in venues too numerous to track and mention.
Street's writings, research findings, and commentary have been featured and presented in a large number and wide variety of media venues, including The New York Times, CNN, Al Jazeera, the Chicago Tribune, The Times of India, Morning Star (England), Al-Alkhbar (The News in Beirut, Lebanon), WGN (Chicago/national), WLS (ABC-Chicago), Fox News, the Chicago Sun Times, the Capital City Times (Madison, WI), and the Iowa City Press Citizen.
Street has appeared in more than 60 radio and television interviews/broadcasts and on the popular live Web book-chat at "Firedog." Lake
Street possesses a doctorate in modern U.S. History (with an emphasis on the history of industrial and class relations) - a degree that he will soon be marketing on E-Bay - and once hit a 25-foot jump shot over the outstretched arm of Michigan Wolverine basketball great and future NBA veteran Ricky Green.
Street has taught various aspects of U.S. history at a large number of Chicago-area colleges and universities. He has been strongly attached to Left political and intellectual culture since he read Volume 1 of Das Kapital and Leon Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution (the first at a snail's pace) in the basement of a house in DeKalb, Illinois in the spring of 1978. He was the Director of Research at The Chicago Urban League from 2000 through 2005.
