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Beacon Press is a non-profit publisher of nonfiction and fiction books, many of which have a focus on subjects such as diversity, independence, and religion. The company has published titles that include James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Sun and Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man. Its books are distributed in the US by Houghton Mifflin Company. The publisher is a division of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Beacon Press was established in 1854.
Officers:
Director: Helene Atwan
Manager Business Operations: Greg Kanter
CFO: John Wong
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National Academies Press
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| Parent company | Unitarian Universalist Association |
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| Founded | 1854 |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Boston |
| Distribution | Random House Publisher Services |
| Key people | Helene Atwan, director |
| Official website | www.beacon.org |
Beacon Press is an American non-profit book publisher. Founded in 1854 by the American Unitarian Association, it is currently a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association.[1]
Beacon Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses.[2]
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History
Under director Gobin Stair (1962-1975), new authors included James Baldwin, Kenneth Clark, Herbert Marcuse, Jurgen Habermas, Howard Zinn, Ben Bagdikian, Mary Daly, and Jean Baker Miller. Wendy Strothman became Beacon's director in 1983; she set up the organization's first advisory board, a group of scholars and publishing professionals who advised on book choices and direction. She turned a budget deficit into a surplus. In 1995, her last year at Beacon, Strothman summarized the Press's mission: "We at Beacon publish the books we choose because they share a moral vision and a sense that greater understanding can influence the course of events. They are books we believe in."[3] Stair was replaced by Helene Atwan in 1995.
In 1971, it published the "Senator Gravel edition" of The Pentagon Papers for the first time in book form, when no other publisher was willing to risk publishing such controversial material. Robert West, then-president of the Unitarian Universalist Association, approved the decision to publish the The Pentagon Papers, which West claims resulted in two-and-a-half years of harassment and intimidation by the Nixon administration.[4] In Gravel v. United States, the Supreme Court decided that the Constitution's "Speech or Debate Clause" protected Gravel and some acts of his aide, but not Beacon Press.
Beacon Press seeks to publish works that "affirm and promote" several "principles: the inherent worth and dignity of every person; justice, equity and compassion in human relations; acceptance of one another; a free and responsible search for truth and meaning; the right of conscience and the use of the democratic process in society; the goal of the world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all; respect for the interdependent web of all existence; and the importance of literature and the arts in democratic life".[5]
Beacon Broadside
Beacon Press launched its blog, Beacon Broadside, in late September 2007.[6]
Books and authors
Beacon Press publishes non-fiction, fiction, and poetry titles. Some of Beacon's most recent and well-known titles are listed below.
| Title | Author(s) |
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| Notes of a Native Son[7] | James Baldwin |
| Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun[8] | Geoffrey Canada |
| Gyn/Ecology[9] | Mary Daly |
| Man's Search for Meaning[10] | Viktor Frankl |
| Without a Map[11] | Meredith Hall |
| Resurrecting Empire[12] | Rashid Khalidi |
| All Souls: A Family Story from Southie[13] | Michael Patrick MacDonald |
| One-Dimensional Man[14] | Herbert Marcuse |
| Thirst[15] | Mary Oliver |
| New and Selected Poems: Volume One[16] | Mary Oliver |
| Race Matters[17] | Cornel West |
| The Court and the Cross[18] | Frederick Lane |
Awards
In 1992, Beacon won a New England Book Award for publishing.[19] In 1993, Beacon was voted "Trade Publisher of the Year" by the Literary Market Place.[5]
See also
References
- ^ "Beacon Press Celebrates 150 Years of Publishing". UU World: The Magazine of the Unitarian Universalist Association. September/October 2004. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4071/is_200409/ai_n9428646. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
- ^ "Association of American University Presses Membership Directory". http://www.aaupnet.org/membership/directory.html. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
- ^ Wilson, (2004) p 209
- ^ http://www.uua.org/events/generalassembly/2007/choicesthat/30971.shtml
- ^ a b History and Mission
- ^ Philocrites: Beacon Press launches 'Beacon Broadside' blog
- ^ Baldwin, James (July 9, 1984). Notes of a Native Son. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-6431-3.
- ^ Canada, Geoffrey (January 31, 1995). Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-0423-4.
- ^ Daly, Mary (November 12, 1990). Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-1413-4.
- ^ Frankl, Viktor (June 14, 2006). Man's Search for Meaning. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-1429-5.
- ^ Hall, Meredith (April 11, 2007). Without a Map. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-7273-8.
- ^ Khalidi, Rashid (April 15, 2005). Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-0235-3.
- ^ MacDonald, Michael Patrick (October 4, 2007). All Souls: A Family Story from Southie. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-7213-4.
- ^ Marcuse, Herbert (October 1, 1991). One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-1417-2.
- ^ Oliver, Mary (September 2, 2007). Thirst. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-6897-7.
- ^ Oliver, Mary (November 15, 2005). New and Selected Poems: Volume One. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-6878-6.
- ^ West, Cornel (May 25, 2001). Race Matters. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-0972-7.
- ^ Lane, Frederick S. (June 1, 2008). The Court and the Cross. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. pp. 288 pages. ISBN 978-0-8070-4424-7. http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=4424.
- ^ "New England Book Awards". Archived from the original on 2007-07-24. http://web.archive.org/web/20070724003143/http://www.newenglandbooks.org/NE_awards.html. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
Further reading
- Wilson, Susan. "Beacon's Modern Era: 1945-2003," Journal of Scholarly Publishing (2004) 35#4 pp 200-209 online
External links
- Beacon Press's Home Page
- Beacon Broadside – a project of Beacon Press
- Democracy Now! Special: "How the Pentagon Papers Came to Be Published by the Beacon Press: Mike Gravel, Daniel Ellsberg, and Robert West (audio/video and transcript)
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