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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]
Under director Gobin Stair (1962-1975), new authors included [2] Strothman 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.[3] 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.
Beacon Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses.[4]
Beacon Press publishes non-fiction, fiction, and poetry titles. Some of Beacon's most well-known titles are listed below.
In 2009, Beacon Press announced a new partnership with the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. for a new publishing program, "The King Legacy."[18] As part of the program, Beacon is printing new editions of previously published King titles and compile Dr. King's writings, sermons, orations, lectures, and prayers into entirely new editions, including new introductions by leading scholars.
Beacon Press launched its blog, Beacon Broadside, in late September 2007.[19]
In 1992, Beacon won a New England Book Award for publishing.[20] In 1993, Beacon was voted "Trade Publisher of the Year" by the Literary Market Place.[21]
Calvinism, Christianity, Bible, Unitarian Universalism, God
Universalist Church of America, Christianity, Hell, Methodism, Unitarian Universalism
Religion, Universalist Church of America, Hinduism, Buddhism, Unitarian Universalist Association
Graduate Theological Union, Liberal Religious Youth, Unitarian Universalist Association, Berkeley, California, University of California, Berkeley
Christianity, United States, Massachusetts, Unitarianism, Liberal Religious Youth
New York City, New York, Palo Alto, California, Stanford University, California
University of Minnesota, Minnesota, Mythopoetic men's movement, Grimms' Fairy Tales, Spanish language
Socialism, Oclc, Noam Chomsky, Anarchism, YouTube
Manhattan, Brown University, Transgender, South Bronx, United States