9780802717399, titled "The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress" | 1 edition (Walker & Co, May 25, 2010), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: For acclaimed historian William Jelani Cobb, the historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency is not the most remarkable development of the 2008 election; even more so is the fact that Obama won some 90 percent of the black vote in the primaries across America despite the fact that the established black leadership since the civil rights era―men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, Andrew Young, who paved the way for his candidacy―all openly supported Hillary Clinton.

9781560259770 | Basic Books, March 26, 2007, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: An collection of critical essays on the black experience at the turn of the twenty-first century draws on examples from pop culture, politics, and the arts in a volume that includes such pieces as the title essay, 'On the Stroll: The Pimping of Three 6 Mafia' and 'The Trouble with Harry.

9780814716700 | New York Univ Pr, February 1, 2007, cover price $79.00

9780312293970 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 1, 2002, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: In 1967, as the movement for civil rights was turning into a bitter, often violent battle for black power, Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual burst onto the scene.