A Taste of Power

  • A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
    By Elaine Brown

    The author recalls her years as a leader in the Black Panther Party, including her complicated relationship with fellow Panther Huey Newton, her own struggles with racism and sexuality, and what ultimately destroyed the party. Reissue.

  • A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
    By Elaine Brown

    Stunning, lyrical, and acute, this is the indelible testimony of a black woman’s battle to define herself. “A glowing achievement.” —Los Angeles Times “Honest, funny, subjective, unsparing, and passionate. . .

  • A Taste of Power: Food and American Identities
    By Katharina Vester

    James McWilliams, A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America (New York: Columbia University Press, ... “This Beautiful Noble Eare: Corn,” in America's Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking (Chapel Hill: ...

  • A Taste of Power: Food and American Identities
    By Katharina Vester

    The book engages in close reading of a wide variety of sources and genres to uncover the intersections of food, politics, and privilege in American culture.

  • A Taste of Power: Food and American Identities
    By Katharina Vester

    In this brilliant interdisciplinary work, Katharina Vester examines how cookbooks became a way for women to participate in nation-building before they had access to the vote or public office, for Americans to distinguish themselves from ...

  • A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
    By Elaine Brown

    I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, comrades? With these words, Elaine Brown proclaimed to the...

  • A Taste of Power
    By Elaine Brown

    "I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, Comrade?" So said Elaine Brown on becoming the first female leader of the Black Panther Party in 1974.