Beacon Press

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. Beacon Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses. 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... More

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