Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Franklin Folsom, executive secretary to the League of American Writers for five of its seven years of often controversial activity, brings to life a time when writers became aware of the threats of fascism, and recalls vigorous efforts of many great U.S. writers to rescue from European concentration camps their anti-Nazi colleagues. Founded during the tense, pre-war period of the 1930s, the League sought to promote intellectual and political freedom worldwide. With photos of League members, bibliography and index. 376 pgs. ISBN: 0-87081-3323.

New York: Civitas Books / Perseus, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book in which Gates attempt to point us away from facile dichotomies engendered by the culture wars - either/orstradition versus modernity; Eurocentrism versus Afrocentricism. Cornel West says of Gates that "he is a seminal literary theorist whose work in African-American Studies has been profound and pioneering. In this book, he engages the Enlightenment, Frantz Fanon and the quests for identity in a vintage Gates manner: brilliant, witty and free thinking!" Notes, index. xiv, 205 pp. ISBN: 978-0465014101.