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Contents BY TITLE
Esack, Farid
Al’ America Asian Americans in the Twenty-first Century Beyond the Echo Chamber Blood and Faith A Bomb in Every Issue Critical Race Realism Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War Economics for the Rest of Us The Empire Strikes Out Fires in the Middle School Bathroom French Philosophy Since 1945 Minding the Store The Moral Underground The New Jim Crow A People’s History of Sports in the United States Political Awakenings Running Saving State U Stayin’ Alive Submersion Journalism Three Kings Ties That Bind Unjust Deserts Whose Gospel? Whose Qur’an? Why School? The World According to Monsanto
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Folbre, Nancy
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Forbes Jr., James A.
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Gardner, Lloyd C.
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Kreisler, Harry
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LaFarge, Albert
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Lee, Joann Faung Jean
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Parks, Gregory S.
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Rajchman, John
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Richardson, Peter
4–15
34 12 26–27 25
Rose, Mike Schiffrin, André
2–3 4 5 14–15
Schulman, Sarah
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Wasik, Bill
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Zirin, Dave
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31 32–33
BACKLIST
36–42 43–44
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INDEX
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FOREIGN RIGHTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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29 25
Balibar, Etienne
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Cardi, W. Jonathan
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Carr, Matthew
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Clark, Jessica
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Cowie, Jefferson
32–33
Curiel, Jonathan
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Dodson, Lisa
Rogers, Laura
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Daly, Lew
Robin, Marie-Monique
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Van Slyke, Tracy
Alperovitz, Gar
Cushman, Kathleen
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Alexander, Michelle
Coles, Robert
31 18–19
Jones, Shayne
BY AUTHOR Adler, Moshe
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Echenoz, Jean
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Elias, Robert
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The World According to Monsanto Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of Our Food Supply MARIE-MONIQUE ROBIN
WINNER OF THE RACHEL CARSON PRIZE, AN EXPLOSIVE EXPOSÉ OF THE DISTURBING PRACTICES OF THE WORLD’S MOST INFLUENTIAL MULTINATIONAL AGRICULTURAL CORPORATION
Sends chills down the spine. . . . After reading this, we can no longer afford to turn a blind eye. —LE POINT
The result of a remarkable three-year-long investigation that took award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin across four continents (North and South America, Europe, and Asia), The World According to Monsanto tells the little-known yet shocking story of this agribusiness giant—the world’s leading producer of GMOs (genetically modified organisms)—and how its new “green” face is no less malign than its PCB- and Agent Orange–soaked past. Robin reports that, following its long history of manufacturing hazardous chemicals and lethal herbicides, Monsanto is now marketing itself as a “life sciences”
A vast investigation of Monsanto—the first of this scope to dismantle the malicious practices of the St. Louis–based agrochemical firm, world leader of GMO’s. —TÉLÉRAMA
Truly noble journalistic work . . . Robin informs, enlightens, unveils, and begins the work of alerting the public. —LA MARSEILLAISE
company, seemingly convinced about the virtues of sustainable development.
An alarming and uncompromising investigation.
However, Monsanto now controls the majority of the yield of the world’s genetically
—LE MONDE
modified corn and soy—ingredients found in more than 95 percent of American households—and its alarming legal and political tactics to maintain this monopoly
Passionate and truly rich reporting.
are the subject of worldwide concern.
—LIBÉRATION
Released to great acclaim and controversy in France, throughout Europe, and in Latin America alongside the documentary film of the same name, The World
According to Monsanto is sure to change the way we think about food safety and the corporate control of our food supply.
Marie-Monique Robin is an award-winning French journalist and filmmaker. She
[An] incredibly documented work . . . just as we begin to defend the quality of what we consume, Marie-Monique Robin is there to contribute to the debate. —L’EXPRESS
received the 1995 Albert-Londres Prize, awarded to investigative journalists in France. She is the director and producer of over thirty documentaries and inves-
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tigative reports filmed in Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. She lives outside
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of Paris. George Holoch has translated more than twenty books, including Notes on the Occupation (The New Press). He lives in Hinesburg, Vermont.
Roundup is a weed killer that is produced by Monsanto. It is the most sold agrichemical of all time.
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Fires in the Middle School Bathroom Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers KATHLEEN CUSHMAN AND LAURA ROGERS
NOW IN PAPERBACK FOLLOWING THE BESTSELLING FIRES IN THE BATHROOM, PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR TEACHERS FROM MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS, IN AN AFFORDABLE PAPERBACK EDITION
This impressive book is a treasure for new and returning teachers to read and to ponder. —TED AND NANCY SIZER, AUTHORS OF THE STUDENTS ARE WATCHING
This book ignited an old flame in me. As a middle school principal for twenty-five years, I learned long ago that listening to kids is a major step in developing a meaningful learning environment. —TOM LEYDEN, FORMER MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
Cushman and Rogers help readers hear and understand the vital messages about adolescent learning that come through in what these students say. —PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
In this highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling Fires in the Bathroom, which brought the insights of high school students to teachers and parents, Kathleen Cushman now turns her attention to the crucial and challenging middle grades, joining forces with adolescent psychologist Laura Rogers. As teachers, counselors, and parents cope with the roller coaster of early
A useful resource.
adolescence, too few stop to ask students what they think about these critical
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
years. Here, middle school students in grades 5 through 8 across the country and
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from diverse backgrounds offer insights on what it takes to make classrooms more effective and how to forge stronger relationships between young adolescents and adults. Tackling such critical topics as social, emotional, and academic pressures as well as classroom behavior, organization, and preparing for high school, these students’ voices have essential things to tell us. In Fires in the Middle School Bathroom, Cushman and Rogers help readers both hear and understand the vital messages about adolescent learning. This invaluable
Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students Kathleen Cushman Paperback, $19.95, 978-1-56584-996-9
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resource provides a unique window into how middle school students think, feel, and learn, bringing their needs to the forefront of the conversation about education.
Kathleen Cushman is the author of Fires in the Bathroom (The New Press). She lives in New York City. Laura Rogers, EdD, has a doctorate from Harvard University and twelve years’ experience as a school psychologist working with adolescents. She teaches at Tufts University and lives in Harvard, Massachusetts.
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Why School? Reclaiming Education for All of Us MIKE ROSE
A POWERFUL AND TIMELY EXPLORATION OF THIS COUNTRY’S PUBLIC EDUCATION GOALS, AND HOW THEY ARE PUT INTO PRACTICE, BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND EDUCATOR
I ask how to educate a vast population, what to teach and how, who will do it, what the work will mean. We still ask these questions because we haven’t satisfactorily answered them. And the way we answer them says a lot about who we are—and what we want to become. —FROM WHY SCHOOL?
In the tradition of Jonathan Kozol, this little book is driven by big questions. What does it mean to be educated? What is intelligence? How should we think about intelligence, education, and opportunity in an open society? Why is a commitment to the public sphere central to the way we answer these questions? Drawing on forty years of teaching and research, from primary school to adult education and workplace training, award-winning author Mike Rose reflects on
Praise for Mike Rose’s books:
Lives on the Boundary [T]he best book I have read on American education. . . . Rose reports from the front lines in realistic, wise, authoritative terms. —THE BOSTON GLOBE
Vividly written. . . . Tears apart all of society’s prejudices about the academic abilities of the underprivileged. —THE NEW YORK TIMES
these and other questions related to public schooling in America. He answers them in beautifully written chapters that are both rich in detail—a first-grader conducting
Possible Lives
a science experiment, a carpenter solving a problem on the fly, a college student’s
[B]eautifully written. . . . Of all the new education books, Rose’s book is the only one to suggest that we need a new way to talk about idealism.
encounter with a story by James Joyce—and informed by a deep and powerful understanding of history, the psychology of learning, and the politics of education. Rose decries the narrow focus of educational policy in our time: the drumbeat of test scores and economic competition. Why School? will be embraced by parents and teachers alike, and readers everywhere will be captivated by Rose’s eloquent call for a bountiful democratic vision of the purpose of schooling.
Mike Rose, a professor in the UCLA Graduate School of Education
—THE NEW REPUBLIC
Rose, whose writing is rich and graceful, re-creates one magical scene after another. —THE BOSTON GLOBE
and Information Studies, is the author of Lives on the Boundary, The Mind at Work, and Possible Lives. Among his many awards are
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a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Grawemeyer Award in Education,
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and the Commonwealth Club of California Award for Literary Excellence in Nonfiction. He lives in Santa Monica.
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Submersion Journalism Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper’s Magazine EDITED BY BILL
WASIK
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROGER D. HODGE
NOW IN PAPERBACK FIFTEEN FASCINATING AND THRILLING PIECES OF FIRST-PERSON NARRATIVE JOURNALISM FROM THE AWARD-WINNING MAGAZINE
[P]roof of the indelible power of . . . detailed nonfiction storytelling. —WASHINGTON CITY PAPER
This collection should be read by any student who aspires to the true art of journalism, as well as anyone who wants to learn more about what really goes on in American politics— and society—today. —LIBRARY JOURNAL
[A]dmirable. . . . The selections are tightly and sometimes masterfully written.
This collection . . . makes me want to bear hug and lavish sloppy kisses on everyone at Harper’s—for not only still believing in long-form literary journalism in the Age of Twitter, but for engaging in it with such wit and purposeful mischief and, well, a sense of adventure. —SIMON DUMENCO, ADVERTISING AGE
“Submersion journalism” happens when a reporter dares to see a story from the inside: to participate in the events at hand, sometimes undercover, and then to tell the tale from a distinct point of view rather than pretend to some ideal of objectivity. When Jeff Sharlet lodges with the secretive Christian brotherhood the Family, when William T. Vollmann searches for the Chinese tunnels of Mexicali, when Barbara Ehrenreich files a dispatch from the pink-painted world of Cancerland, or when Wells Tower infiltrates the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign, they produce
—AUSTIN CHRONICLE
work that is not only highly entertaining but also more honest, more realistic, and
A terrific retrospective collection.
much more revealing than conventional journalism. Submersion journalism is a
—BOOKLIST
[A] great anthology, chock full of fantastic articles. —GOOD
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breed of reporting that Harper’s has fostered to powerful effect. This collection—which covers such perennial subjects as politics, violence, illness, vice, the arts, and war—also includes writing by Charles Bowden, Adam Davidson, Steve Featherstone, Kristoffer A. Garin, Gary Greenberg, Jay Kirk, Willem Marx, Morgan Meis, Jake Silverstein, Ken Silverstein, and Bill Wasik. Here are some of the best examples of participatory reporting published in the past decade, called “brilliant work” by the Los Angeles Times.
Bill Wasik is a senior editor at Harper’s Magazine. He is the author of And Then There’s This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture. He lives in Brooklyn.
Roger D. Hodge is the editor of Harper’s Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn.
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A Bomb in Every Issue How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America PETER RICHARDSON
THE ROLLICKING STORY OF RAMPARTS —THE MAGAZINE THAT CAPTURED THE ZEITGEIST OF THE ’60S, REPEATEDLY SCOOPED THE NEW YORK TIMES, BROUGHT THE NEW LEFT INTO AMERICAN LIVING ROOMS, AND MADE AN INDELIBLE IMPRINT ON AMERICAN JOURNALISM Ramparts was part of the media mud puddle out of which some of the most lively forms of journalism crawled, like gonzo journalism and new journalism. . . . It was rambunctious and clever at a time when journalism had grown stodgy and stale. —MITCH STEPHENS, AUTHOR OF A HISTORY OF NEWS
A Bomb in Every Issue tells the largely untold story of the wild ride of this hugely influential magazine that achieved countless firsts: it published the first conspiracy theory about JFK’s assassination, it was the first to reveal that the CIA had backed the National Student Association during the Cold War, and its article about the use of napalm on Vietnamese children (another first) caused Martin Luther King Jr. to speak out against the war for the first time. Launched in 1962 as an intellectual Catholic quarterly, within five years
Ramparts had become a secular magazine and won a George Polk Award for “its
Ramparts Alumni: Warren Hinckle Robert Scheer Eldridge Cleaver Adam Hochschild David Horowitz Jessica Mitford Jann Wenner Tom Hayden Todd Gitlin Thomas Merton Paul Krassner Peter Collier Michael Lerner Susan Griffin Also Available
explosive revival of the great muckraking tradition.” Deeply committed to the civil rights and antiwar movements, its contributors included Noam Chomsky, Cesar Chavez, Seymour Hersh, Angela Davis, and Susan Sontag. It was in its pages that Che Guevera’s diaries and the prison diaries of Eldridge Cleaver (which became Soul
on Ice) first appeared. But by 1975, out of money and time, it had folded for good. Ramparts was “the journalistic equivalent of a rock band,” Richardson argues and, despite its early demise, it left an important journalistic legacy, influencing a generation of reporters and editors, that is still apparent today.
The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition Edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillian Paperback, $24.95, 978-1-56584-682-1
Peter Richardson is the author of American Prophet: The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams. He is the editorial director at PoliPoint Press and the interim chair of
the California Studies Association, and teaches courses on California culture at San Francisco State University. He lives in Marin County, California.
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Blood and Faith The Purging of Muslim Spain MATTHEW CARR
IN THE TRADITION OF ADAM HOCHSCHILD’S KING LEOPOLD’S GHOST , A MAJOR NEW HISTORICAL EXPOSÉ WITH HAUNTING RESONANCE FOR THE PRESENT, BY A JOURNALIST WHOSE PREVIOUS BOOK WAS CALLED “A BOOK FOR THE AGES” BY THE BOSTON GLOBE In this first comprehensive appreciation in many decades of the Muslim expulsion from Spain, Matthew Carr offers a grim lesson about religious and racial repression for our contemporary age of contested faiths. —DAVID LEVERING LEWIS, AUTHOR OF GOD’S CRUCIBLE
Praise for Matthew Carr’s The Infernal Machine : Makes about as much sense of terrorism, in its historic and current permutations, as any author is likely to do.
In April 1609, King Philip III of Spain signed an edict denouncing the Muslim
—THE BOSTON GLOBE
inhabitants of Spain as heretics, traitors, and apostates. Later that year, the entire
A primer for our frightening times.
Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory, on threat of death. In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families and communities were obliged
—EDMONTON JOURNAL Also Available
to abandon homes and villages where they had lived for generations, leaving their property in the hands of their Christian neighbors. In Aragon and Catalonia, Muslims were escorted by government commissioners who forced them to pay whenever they drank water from a river or took refuge in the shade. For five years the expulsion continued to grind on, until an estimated 300,000 Muslims had been removed from Spanish territory, nearly 5 percent of the total population. By 1614 Spain had successfully implemented what was then the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history, and Muslim Spain had effectively ceased to exist.
Blood and Faith is celebrated journalist Matthew Carr’s riveting chronicle of this virtually unknown episode, set against the vivid historical backdrop of the history of Muslim Spain. Here is a remarkable window onto a little-known period in modern Europe—a rich and complex tale of competing faiths and beliefs, of cultural oppression and resistance against overwhelming odds.
The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism Matthew Carr Paperback, $18.95, 978-1-59558-408-3
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A People’s History of Sports in the United States 250 Years of Politics, Protest, the People, and Play DAVE ZIRIN A NEW PRESS PEOPLE’S HISTORY HOWARD ZINN, SERIES EDITOR
NOW IN PAPERBACK FROM THE AUTHOR ROBERT LIPSYTE CALLS “THE BEST YOUNG SPORTSWRITER IN AMERICA,” A ROLLICKING EXPOSÉ OF THE WAYS POLITICS AND SPORTS HAVE WALKED ARM IN ARM Dave Zirin is the conscience lacking in the mainstream sports media.
This sprawling, insightful and contrarian book is worth reading for its portrayal of the rebel athletes to whom it is dedicated, and to whom we are all indebted.
—THE WASHINGTON POST
—TIME
The heroes of the stories Zirin tells seem less lonely in the context of his chronicle than they probably felt when they were standing against the various tides of their times. —THE BOSTON GLOBE
What Dave Zirin does in his new, wonderful, unashamedly left-wing [book] is overturn the usual allegories.
A book that unabashedly stands with the tradition of radical athletes, sports columnists, bloggers, and fans, A People’s History of Sports is the culmination of Dave Zirin’s pathbreaking writing on sports and politics. In this “thought-provoking, contrarian take on American sport” (Booklist ), Zirin offers a riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sporting characters and dramatic contests, sketching an alternative history of the United States as seen through the games its people played—games that Zirin argues are a reflection of the political conflicts that shape American society. Replete with surprises for even seasoned sports fans, A People’s History of
—FINANCIAL TIMES
Sports includes the story of how black baseball player Moses Fleetwood Walker
This is the one sports book we all need—an insight into the joy and anguish, the pressures, and the pleasures.
brandished a revolver to keep racist fans at bay a half century before Jackie
—NIKKI GIOVANNI
A masterpiece of activist journalism and scholarship. —JEREMY SCHAAP, ESPN
Robinson was born. It also tells the story of how, during the Vietnam War, the University of Washington football team forced their stadium announcer to read an antiwar statement. These and other stories “rescue scores of real sporting heroes from the ‘vast realm of the forgotten’ ” (The Guardian). Anyone interested in history will be amazed by the connections Zirin draws between politics and pop flies. As Jim Bouton says of the book, “Put this first in the line of sports books on your shelf. It will help make sense of all the others.”
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Dave Zirin is the author of three books, including What’s My Name Fool! and Welcome to the Terrordome. He writes the
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Takoma Park, Maryland.
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The Empire Strikes Out Baseball and the Rise (and Fall) of the American Way Abroad ROBERT ELIAS
MIXING SHARP POLITICAL ANALYSIS AND COMPELLING LORE, AN EYE-OPENING LOOK AT BASEBALL’S RELATIONSHIP TO AMERICAN EMPIRE, FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA TO THE PRESENT It’s our game . . . America’s game: it has the snap, go, fling of the American atmosphere—belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly as our Constitution’s laws, [and] is just as important in the sum total of our historic life. —WALT WHITMAN SPEAKING ABOUT BASEBALL
Is the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly American? Has baseball crafted its own image or instead been at the mercy
Praise for Robert Elias’s Baseball and the American Dream : For a closer look at the cultural import of the game as it is now played and marketed, thoughtful dads (and others) can turn to Baseball and the American Dream. —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
of broader forces shaping our society and the globe? The Empire Strikes Out gives
developing the American empire, first at home and then beyond our shores. And
Elias notes that baseball offers a common denominator that cuts across conflicting ideologies. . . . An enlightening book.
from Albert Spalding and baseball’s first World Tour to Bud Selig and the World
—FOREWORD MAGAZINE
Baseball Classic, we witness the globalization of America’s national pastime and
A thought-provoking, multifaceted perspective on the state of the game and our collective national psyche.
us the sweeping story of how baseball and America are intertwined in the export of “the American way.” From the Civil War to George W. Bush and the Iraq War, we see baseball’s role in
baseball’s role in spreading the American dream. Besides describing baseball’s frequent and often surprising connections to America’s presence around the world, Elias assesses the effects of this relationship both on our foreign policies and on the sport itself and asks whether baseball can play a positive role or rather only
—ELYSIAN FIELDS QUARTERLY
reinforce America’s dominance around the globe. Like Franklin Foer in How Soccer
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Explains the World, Elias is driven by compelling stories, unusual events, and unique individuals. His seamless integration of original research and compelling analysis makes this a baseball book that’s about more than just sports.
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Minding the Store Great Writing About Business, from Tolstoy to Now EDITED BY
ROBERT COLES AND ALBERT LAFARGE
NOW IN PAPERBACK ILLUMINATING LITERARY SELECTIONS EXPLORING THE DRAMAS OF THE WORKPLACE, COLLECTED BY THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER ROBERT COLES—“A JOY AND A TREASURE” ( NEW MILFORD TIMES ) Impressive. . . . Uses business as a lens on human conundrums and refreshes our appreciation for such old favorites as John O’Hara, Joseph Heller, [and] Flannery O’Connor. —THE WEEK
A powerful opportunity for personal reflection on the ethical dimensions of business. —TOM PIPER, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
Of the making of business books, there is no end. Of collections of the literature, however, there are few. All the more reason to welcome Minding the Store. —THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
“There’s more to business than sales and profits,” and Minding the Store explores “the greed, desperation, and other moral pitfalls on the road to making a fortune— or a living” (Reuters). Here, for corporate professionals, armchair entrepreneurs, and other students of commerce and literature, esteemed psychiatrist and author Robert Coles has gathered a generous, stimulating, and above all timely collection of classic literary reflections on the ethical and spiritual predicaments of the
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business world. Praised by the Wall Street Journal for Jill Nelson’s “elegant, often hilarious prose,” “James Agee’s iconic journal of the Great Depression,” and the classic stories by Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and John Updike that remind us “what genuine craftsmen can do with the American suburbs,” Minding the Store offers the essential literary gems that illuminate the human predicaments of the working life
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and the moral quandaries of the marketplace. With selections including Death of
a Salesman and Tolstoy’s “Master and Man” in a book that dean of Harvard Extension School Michael Shinagel says “informs and enlightens,” Coles and LaFarge offer us a richly human vision of the business world.
Robert Coles is the former James Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University, where he taught at Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School. He is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the “Children of Crisis” series of books and lives in Concord, Massachusetts. Albert LaFarge is the former deputy editor of DoubleTake magazine. He lives in Boston.
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Three Kings The Rise of an American Empire in the Middle East After World War II LLOYD C. GARDNER
A MAGISTERIAL HISTORY OF AMERICA’S ASCENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST DURING AND AFTER WORLD WAR II—THE ESSENTIAL, UNTOLD BACKSTORY TO AMERICA’S CURRENT PREDICAMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND IN THE WORLD—BY THE EMINENT HISTORIAN “The American Century” was truly launched in the Middle East, as Washington took charge of managing the fallout from the creation of the state of Israel, allotting military weapons to friends, keeping the Russians out, and containing Arab nationalism. —FROM THREE KINGS
As American policy makers ponder a strategy for withdrawal from Iraq, one of our preeminent diplomatic historians uncovers the largely hidden story of how the United States got into the Middle East in the first place. A breathtaking recovery of decisions taken, brazen motives, and backroom dealings, Three Kings is the first history of America’s efforts to supplant the British empire in the Middle East, during and following World War II. From F.D.R. to L.B.J., this is the story of America’s scramble for political influence, oil concessions, and
Praise for Lloyd C. Gardner’s The Long Road to Baghdad : Combines a keen grasp of sprawling subject matter with a non-ideological stance and a controlled, accessible writing style that’s sometimes even droll. —KIRKUS
Gives a sharp historical and intellectual framework for understanding the current Iraq war. —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
a new military presence based on airpower and generous American aid to shaky regimes in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, and Iraq.
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Marshaling new and revelatory evidence from the archives, Gardner deftly weaves together three decades of U.S. moves in the region, chronicling the early efforts to support and influence the Saudi regime (including the creation of Dhahran air base, the target of Osama bin Laden’s first terrorist attack in 1996), the CIA-engineered coup in Iran, Nasser’s Egypt, and, finally, the rise of Iraq as a major petroleum power. Here, the tangled threads of oil, U.S. military might, Western commercial interests, and especially the Israel-Palestine question are visible from the very beginning of “The American Century”—a history with frightening relevance for the distant prospect of peace and stability in the region today.
Lloyd C. Gardner is the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers
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University and the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam. He lives in Newtown,
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Eric Godal, October 25, 1944
Theodor Seuss Geisel, August 15, 1941
Saul Steinberg, November 15, 1942
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Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War The World War II Editorial Cartoons of America’s Leading Comic Artists ANDRÉ SCHIFFRIN
THE FASCINATING SEQUEL TO THE BESTSELLING DR. SEUSS GOES TO WAR , WITH OVER ONE HUNDRED NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED SEUSS CARTOONS AND INCLUDING THE WORK OF SAUL STEINBERG, AL HIRSCHFELD, AND OTHERS And now, rescued from the newsprint where they moldered unseen for over half a century, we can turn to the cartoons that let us know what happens when Horton hears a heil. —ART SPIEGELMAN, PULITZER PRIZE–WINNING AUTHOR OF MAUS ON DR. SEUSS GOES TO WAR
Hailed by Entertainment Weekly as “a provocative history of wartime politics,”
Dr. Seuss Goes to War, published nearly a decade ago, sold over one hundred thousand copies and introduced readers to the World War II–era political cartoons of Theodore Seuss Geisel, better known to the world as Dr. Seuss. Published to great acclaim, the collection included over two hundred cartoons from Geisel’s years working for the New York daily newspaper PM. Now Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War presents a new trove of close to four hundred
Praise for Dr. Seuss Goes to War : Vigorous, trenchant and vividly memorable, Geisel’s cartoons . . . are a salutary reminder of an era in which patriotism and liberalism went hand in hand. —THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Succeeds as both a darkhumored history lesson and a glimpse into the artistic development that would carry into Seuss’s best-known books. —MOTHER JONES
discoveries from the PM World War II archives, including over one hundred cartoons by Seuss, fifty cartoons by the New Yorker’s Saul Steinberg, and works by the lead-
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ing cartoonists of the time, such as Al Hirschfeld, caricaturist for the New York
Time s; Polish-born American artist Arthur Szyk; and future New Yorker cartoonists Carl Rose and Mischa Richter. The cartoons and commentary in this handsome volume (to be published in the same format as the original Dr. Seuss Goes to War) cover the five years of the war, illustrating changing attitudes and providing a complex picture of the issues that concerned Americans.
In close to fifty years as an editor, first at Pantheon Books and then as Founding Director of The New Press, André Schiffrin was responsible for a great many books on World War II. He is the author of several books himself, among them The Business of Books and A Political Education. He lives in New York City.
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Asian Americans in the Twenty-first Century Oral Histories of First- to Fourth-Generation Americans from China, Japan, India, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Laos JOANN FAUNG JEAN LEE
NOW IN PAPERBACK A HIGHLY ENGAGING PORTRAIT OF THE MANY DIVERSE THREADS OF CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN LIFE, TOLD THROUGH INTERVIEWS WITH ASIAN AMERICANS THEMSELVES A heroic effort. —SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
For those interested in the current moment of everyday Asian Americans, these voices will illuminate. —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Also Available
A masterful collection, each story told with such honesty and insight that you want to pull up a chair and join in the conversation. —HELEN ZIA, AUTHOR OF ASIAN AMERICAN DREAMS
In this sequel to her bestselling 1992 collection Asian Americans, journalist Joann Lee has conducted all new interviews with students, musicians, lawyers, engineers, politicians, stay-at-home moms, activists, and others to illuminate a rich mosaic of contemporary Asian Americans. Lee broaches the provocative and timely topics readers want to know about being Asian American today, including immigration, adoption, and racism. But in the end, like Studs Terkel, she lets the subjects tell their own stories. From well-known people like Gary Locke, former governor of Washington and President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Commerce, and Jake Shimabukuro,
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whose Hendrix-like ukulele video shot him to YouTube fame, to those less in the limelight including Qing Shan Liang, who moved from China to New York City in the late 1990s as a young bride, or Daniel Jung, who speaks of the complexities of owning a Korean liquor store in Los Angeles, Joann Lee draws out incredibly
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Americans in the Twenty-first Century will become a touchstone for understanding Asian American life in our era.
Formerly a broadcast journalist for CNN, Joann Faung Jean Lee is the chair of the communication department at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. She lives in Northvale, New Jersey.
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Ties That Bind Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences SARAH SCHULMAN
A BRILLIANT, PIONEERING BOOK BY ACCLAIMED NOVELIST AND PLAYWRIGHT SARAH SCHULMAN ABOUT HOW HOMOPHOBIA WITHIN FAMILIES AFFECTS AND DIMINISHES ALL OF US
Sarah Schulman is one of our most ferocious, uncompromising voices.
Praise for Sarah Schulman:
Schulman illustrates how societal homophobia is rooted in the family but reaches
Appreciative readers and those who are shocked or outraged by Schulman’s trademark candor and honesty on these important, explosive issues should ask themselves this question: How can we break the cycle? . . . Schulman targets homophobia by explaining how it hurts all of us: it hurts kids, it hurts families, and it hurts a nation still struggling to understand that civil and human rights are the natural hallmarks of a humane world.
into all levels of social interaction, including how gay people treat each other.
—JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS
—MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
In this groundbreaking book, playwright and social critic Sarah Schulman explores the family, the first place where all people—straight, gay, and bisexual—learn homophobia. For it is within the family that homophobia begins to control people’s lives, whether as perpetrators or recipients. Written in the tradition of Susan Brownmiller’s revolutionary Against Our Will:
Men, Women, and Rape—which reconceptualized rape and transformed it from a private problem into an internationally recognized cultural crisis that is now punishable in the International Criminal Court—Schulman’s book uncovers the hidden crime of “familial homophobia” and moves it into the open for social and political scrutiny.
Ambitious, original, and deeply important, Schulman deftly probes the complex uals and institutions of authority so that we can all live a better life together on
Sarah Schulman consistently presents us with original and intricately realized visions.
truly equal terms.
—MARY GORDON
issues involved and prescribes third-party interventions on the part of both individ-
Ties That Bind will fundamentally change our understanding of homophobia and will redefine the political landscape not just for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people but for us all.
Sarah Schulman remains what she has been: a rare, fearless teller of unpleasant truths. —MARTIN DUBERMAN
Sarah Schulman is the author of nine novels, four nonfiction
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Whose Gospel? A Concise Guide to Progressive Protestantism REVEREND DR. JAMES A. FORBES JR. WITH A FOREWORD BY BILL MOYERS
A PASSIONATE CALL TO JUSTICE FROM THE FIGURE NEWSWEEK CALLS “ONE OF THE TWELVE MOST EFFECTIVE PREACHERS IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD”
War violates all Ten Commandments. There is no getting around this. How it does so is a matter of interpretation, but any honest reading of the list makes it hard to deny: God forbids war. —FROM WHOSE GOSPEL?
In Whose Gospel?, one of America’s greatest living preachers offers a compelling vision of progressive social change. Known as “the preacher’s preacher,” Dr. James A. Forbes Jr. has tirelessly advocated progressive views on the crucial issues of our time—from poverty, war, and women’s equality to racial justice, sexuality, and the environment. Long a powerful voice for progressive Protestants, Forbes draws on a record of political commitment ranging from the civil rights movement to his stirring address
Praise for Reverend Forbes: Twice named by Ebony as “One of America’s Greatest Black Preachers” Praise for Whose Gospel? : A must-read book. . . . The reader is introduced to a host of images and scenes that illuminate the text and deliver it face to face with the local and global issues of our time. —REV. DR. JOAN BROWN CAMPBELL, FORMER GENERAL SECRETARY, NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES IN CHRIST USA
at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, in addition to his eighteen years at the helm of New York City’s historic Riverside Church. Reflecting the insights of his
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years as a pastor, a teacher, and an adviser to political leaders, this inspiring manifesto “for the healing of the nations” epitomizes the best thinking of one of the country’s foremost religious leaders. Published with a foreword by longtime Riverside Church member Bill Moyers, Whose Gospel? is a pithy and insightful introduction to Forbes’s thought and a welcome source of inspiration in this era of hope and change.
The Reverend Dr. James A. Forbes Jr. is founder and president of the Healing of the Nations Foundation and Senior Minister Emeritus of Riverside Church. Formerly a professor at Union Theological Seminary, he has also hosted The Time Is Now on Air America radio. He lives in New York City. Bill Moyers is the host of Now with Bill Moyers on PBS. He was one of the organizers of the Peace Corps, spokesperson
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Al’ America Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots JONATHAN CURIEL American Book Award Winner
NOW IN PAPERBACK THE 2008 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD–WINNING LOOK AT THE OFTEN SURPRISING ARAB INFLUENCES ON AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE
The author’s intent here is pure; his eye for telling detail, sharp. —THE WASHINGTON POST
Yield[s] many surprises and leave[s] little doubt about a crucial historical connection too easily forgotten in facile appeals to American identity. —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Al’ America will blow up any ideas people may have that Islamic culture is foreign to the United States. —JEANNE CARSTENSEN, SALON.COM
From the origin of blues to New Orleans architecture, this is a must read for everyone interested in American heritage. —JAMAL DAJANI, LINK TV
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Written in energetic prose, with a tenacious hold on the facts and a sharp eye for cultural resonance, Al’ America uncovers Arab and Muslim influence in everything from Elvis and Emerson to surf music and the Alamo. —SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
In this lively “cultural odyssey [that] moves swiftly and engagingly across time and geography” (Publishers Weekly), journalist Jonathan Curiel shows that America is actually steeped in Islamic and Arab culture—despite the fact that four out of ten Americans say they dislike Muslims, according to a recent Gallup poll. Winner of a 2008 American Book Award, Al’ America offers a fascinating tour through the littleknown Islamic past and present of American cultural touchstones. From highbrow to pop, from lighthearted to profound, Al’ America reveals the Islamic and Arab influences before our eyes, under our noses, and ringing in our ears. Curiel demonstrates that many of America’s most celebrated places— including the Alamo, the French Quarter, and even the World Trade Center architecture—reflect the profound influence of Arab and Islamic culture. Likewise, some of America’s most recognizable music—the surf sounds of Dick Dale, the rock and psychedelia of Jim Morrison—is indebted to Arab music. Curiel reveals a continuous pattern of give-and-take between America and the Arab-Muslim world. A book that challenges stereotypes and explodes preconceptions, Al’ America will “play a role in persuading the skeptical that Arab and Muslim traditions are already woven deeply into the American fabric” (The Washington Post ).
Jonathan Curiel, longtime staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, has reported on Arab and Muslim issues here
and abroad. His journalism has been honored by Columbia University and he has taught as a Fulbright scholar at
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Running A Novel JEAN ECHENOZ TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY LINDA COVERDALE
A BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED PORTRAIT OF THE LEGENDARY CZECH RUNNER EMIL ZÁTOPEK, BY “THE MASTER MAGICIAN OF THE CONTEMPORARY FRENCH NOVEL” ( THE WASHINGTON POST )
A small wonder of writing and humanity.
Elegant and joyous.
—L’EXPRESS
—LE MONDE
Magnificent. Following his brilliant portrait of Maurice Ravel, Jean Echenoz turns to the life of one of the greatest runners of the twentieth century, and once again demonstrates his astonishing abilities as a prose stylist. Set against the backdrop of the Soviet
—MAGAZINE LITTERAIRE
Vivid and extraordinary. —LA CROIX
liberation and post–World War II communist rule of Czechoslovakia, Running — a bestseller in France—follows the famed career of Czech runner Emil Zátopek:
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a factory worker who, despite an initial contempt for athletics as a young man, is forced to participate in a footrace and soon develops a curious passion for the physical limits he discovers as a long-distance runner. Zátopek, who tenaciously invents his own brutal training regimen, goes on to become a national hero, winning an unparalleled three gold medals at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and breaking countless world records along the way. But just as his fame brings him upon the world stage, he must face the realities of an
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increasingly controlling regime. Written in Echenoz’s signature style—elegant yet playful—Running is both a beautifully imagined and executed portrait of a man and his art, and a powerful depiction of a country’s propagandizing grasp on his fate.
Jean Echenoz won France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt for I’m Gone (The New
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Press). He is the author of five previous novels in English translation and is the winter of numerous literary prizes, among them the Prix Medicis and the European Literature Jeopardy Prize. He lives in Paris. Linda Coverdale’s most recent translation for The New Press was Tanguy Viel’s Beyond Suspicion. She was the recipient of the French American Foundation’s 2008 Translation Prize for her translation of Echenoz’s Ravel and lives in Brooklyn.
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Beyond the Echo Chamber How a Networked Progressive Media Can Reshape American Politics JESSICA CLARK AND TRACY VAN SLYKE
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A CONCISE, PARADIGM-SHIFTING STRATEGY GUIDE TO ACHIEVING POLITICAL IMPACT VIA THE PROGRESSIVE MEDIA
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What do high-impact projects look like? What are the common goals against which success might be measured in the progressive media sector? —FROM BEYOND THE ECHO CHAMBER
In less than a decade, a new breed of progressive media projects—from the The New Blue Media: How Michael Moore, MoveOn.org, Jon Stewart and Company Are Transforming Progressive Politics Theodore Hamm Hardcover, $24.95, 978-1-59558-040-5
Huffington Post to Air America to Brave New Films—not only have captured huge, nontraditional audiences, they also have shaped political campaigns, public debates, and policy in ways that could never have been imagined in a previous era. As the upstarts struggle to gain attention and respect in a media sphere dominated by corporate and entertainment interests and roiled by an influx of user-driven content, the fight is clearly on. In Beyond the Echo Chamber, media experts Jessica Clark and Tracy Van Slyke lay out a clear, hard-hitting theory of media impact, drawing on years of research, extensive interviews, and case studies with key media players and new
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media experts across the country. The book showcases influential projects such as TPM Café, FireDogLake, and Feministing, suggesting ways in which media makers can exploit changes in journalism, technology, and politics. For the broad cross-section of progressive journalists, bloggers, producers, activists, and readers committed to change, here is a first-ever road map to victory and a book that will change the national conversation about progressive media.
Jessica Clark directs the Future of Public Media Project at American University’s Center for Social Media and is editor-at-large for In These Times. She lives in Philadelphia. Tracy Van Slyke is currently the program director of the Media Consortium and is the former publisher of In These Times. She lives in Chicago. The two are co-authors of the progressive media blog Build the Echo (www.buildtheecho.net).
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Critical Race Realism Intersections of Psychology, Race, and Law GREGORY S. PARKS, SHAYNE JONES, W. JONATHAN CARDI
EDITED BY AND
WITH A FOREWORD BY RICHARD DELGADO
NOW IN PAPERBACK THE BOOK RICHARD DELGADO CALLS A “WELCOME AND LONG OVERDUE ADDITION TO SCHOLARSHIP ON RACE, RACISM, AND AMERICAN LAW” THAT TAKES CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Promises to revolutionize how legal scholars approach the study of race. —JEFFREY RACHLINSKI, CORNELL LAW SCHOOL
Contributors include: Omoniyi O. Adekanmbi Richard R.W. Brooks Faye J. Crosby Theodore Eisenberg Susan T. Fiske Sheri Lynn Johnson Christine Jolls Jerry Kang Linda Hamilton Krieger Kristina R. Schmukler Samuel R. Sommers Megan Sullaway Cass R. Sunstein Elisabeth Morgan Thompson
An important and timely book that creates a new genre of scholarship, one that combines legal analysis and psychology to demonstrate the subtle but significant ways in which racism and color blindness can comfortably exist. —DEVON W. CARBADO, UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW
Building on the field of critical race theory, which took a theoretical approach to questions of race and the law, Critical Race Realism offers a practical look at the way racial bias plays out at every level of the legal system, from witness identification and jury selection to prosecutorial behavior, defense decisions, and the way expert witnesses are regarded. Using cutting-edge research from across the social sciences and, in particular, new understandings from psychology of the way prejudice functions in the brain, this new book—the first overview of the topic—includes many of the seminal writings to date along with newly commissioned pieces filling in gaps in the literature. The authors are part of a rising generation of legal scholars and social scientists intent on using the latest insights from their respective fields to understand the racial biases built into our legal system and to offer concrete measures to over-
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come them. A foreword by Richard Delgado, a founding figure in the critical race theory movement, sets the book in the context of related movements in the law and points to new avenues worthy of future investigation.
Gregory S. Parks, PhD, is a student at Cornell Law School and the editor of African American Fraternities and Sororities. Shayne Jones, PhD, is an assistant professor
at the University of South Florida. W. Jonathan Cardi, JD, is an associate professor of law at the University of Kentucky. Richard Delgado co-authored How Lawyers Lose Their Way: A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds. He lives in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
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The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness MICHELLE ALEXANDER
A BOLD AND INNOVATIVE ARGUMENT THAT MASS INCARCERATION AMOUNTS TO A DEVASTATING SYSTEM OF RACIAL CONTROL, BY A RISING LEGAL STAR
Jarvious Cotton’s great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon and is currently on parole. —FROM THE NEW JIM CROW
As the United States celebrates the nation’s “triumph over race” with the election
• The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. • In Washington, D.C., three out of four young black men (and nearly all those in the poorest neighborhoods) can expect to serve time in prison.
of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status—much like their grandparents before them. In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have sim-
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ply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community—and all of us—to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.
A longtime civil rights advocate and litigator, Michelle Alexander was a 2005 Soros Justice Fellow. She holds a joint appointment at the Moritz College of Law and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in Columbus, Ohio, where she lives. The New Jim Crow is her first book.
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The Moral Underground How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy LISA DODSON
THE UNTOLD STORY OF A SILENT MOVEMENT FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE—LED BY ORDINARY MIDDLE-CLASS AMERICANS WHO BEND THE RULES TO HELP THE WORKING POOR
I pad their paychecks because you can’t live on what they make.
Praise for Lisa Dodson’s Don’t Call Us Out of Name :
—SUPERVISOR OF A FAST-FOOD PIZZA PLACE
Absolutely required reading for anyone concerned about the lives of poor women in postwelfare America.
Here is a book that tells the real story of the countless unsung heroes who bend or break the rules to help those millions of Americans with impossible schedules, paychecks, and lives. Whether it is a nurse choosing to treat an uninsured child, a supervisor deciding to overlook infractions, or a restaurant manager sneaking food to a worker’s children, middle-class Americans are secretly refusing to be complicit in a fundamentally unfair system that puts a decent life beyond the reach of the working poor. In a national tale of a kind of economic disobedience—told in whispers to Lisa Dodson over the course of eight years of research across the country—hundreds of supervisors, teachers, and health care professionals describe intentional acts of defiance that together tell the story of a quiet revolt, of a moral underground that has grown in response to an immoral economy. A hugely important book, as hopeful as it is searing and with profound implica-
—BARBARA EHRENREICH
A formidable deconstruction of the rhetoric behind the widely believed myth that poor young women and girls enjoy their plight as denizens of the nation’s economic underbelly. —THE BOSTON GLOBE
[A] brief but impassioned call for low-income women to have a major say in creating new policies that will work for them.
tions, The Moral Underground combines narratives and social research to document
—WOMEN’S REVIEW OF BOOKS
a whole new phenomenon—people reaching across America’s economic fault line—
An elegantly written . . . challenge to current American thinking about the poor and poverty.
and provides a missing national account of the human consequences and lives behind the business-page headlines.
Lisa Dodson worked as a union activist, an obstetrical nurse, and the director of the Division of Women’s Health for the state of Massachusetts before becoming a professor of sociology at Boston College. The author of Don’t Call Us Out of Name, she lives in Auburndale, Massachusetts.
—KIRKUS REVIEWS
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Unjust Deserts How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back GAR ALPEROVITZ AND LEW DALY
NOW IN PAPERBACK THE BOOK JAMES K. GALBRAITH CALLS “AN ELEGANT WORK OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY” THAT MAKES A PERSUASIVE CASE FOR WHY WEALTH MUST BE SHARED
The authors strike upon a vital topic when they highlight the need for the benefits from productivity gains to be shared throughout society. —THE NATION
Unjust Deserts reveals the untold story of wealth creation in our time. —BARBARA EHRENREICH
No reader will fail to learn from this work. —KENNETH J. ARROW, PULITZER PRIZE– WINNING ECONOMIST
Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly are opening important new ground in the struggle to reimagine America and redeem our deepest values. —WILLIAM GREIDER, AUTHOR OF THE SOUL OF CAPITALISM: OPENING PATHS TO A MORAL ECONOMY
In a book the economist Robert H. Frank calls “brilliant and wonderfully timely,” Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly demonstrate that up to 90 percent of society’s overall wealth is not the result of individual ingenuity or private investment but rather the collective inheritance of scientific and technological knowledge: an inheritance we all receive as a “free lunch.” Hailed by the nation’s leading economists, political scientists, and philosophers as a book that, in the words of Bill Moyers, “changes the fundamental terms of
Their timely, deftly argued book redefines our vision of the common good.
reference for future debates about inequality,” Unjust Deserts makes a powerful
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economic and moral case for wealth redistribution and serves as “a call for constructive action” (Noam Chomsky). In fact, so powerful is its argument that it was for Liberty.
You will see the world differently after you have read this book. —WILLIAM A. GALSTON, THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
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“A liberal manifesto for the twenty-first century, written with verve and compassion” (Joel Mokyr), Unjust Deserts is the essential starting point for anyone interested in rethinking the fundamentals of our economy.
Gar Alperovitz is the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland. His previous books include The Decision to Use the Atomic
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Economics for the Rest of Us Debunking the Science That Makes Life Dismal MOSHE ADLER
IN A MASTERFUL AND WONDERFULLY ACCESSIBLE BOOK—THINK FREAKONOMICS AND THE TIPPING POINT —ECONOMIST MOSHE ADLER DOES FOR ECONOMICS WHAT HOWARD ZINN HAS DONE FOR AMERICAN HISTORY According to conventional economic theory, what’s good for the rich and powerful is good “for the economy.” Why is economic theory so one-sided? What about the rest of us?
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Why do contemporary economists consider food subsidies in starving countries, rent control in rich cities, and health insurance everywhere “inefficient”? Why do they feel that corporate executives deserve no less than their multimillion-dollar “compensation” packages and workers no more than their meager wages? Here is a lively and accessible debunking of the two elements that make economics
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the “science” of the rich: the definition of what is efficient and the theory of how wages are determined. The first is used to justify the cruelest policies, the second grand larceny. Filled with lively examples—from food riots in Indonesia to eminent domain in Connecticut and everyone from Adam Smith to Jeremy Bentham to Larry Summers—Economics for the Rest of Us shows how today’s dominant economic theories evolved, how they explicitly favor the rich over the poor, and why they’re not the only or best options. Written for anyone with an interest in understanding contemporary economic thinking—and why it is dead wrong—Economics for the
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Whose Qur’an? A Concise Guide to Progressive Islam FARID ESACK
A LEADING MUSLIM SCHOLAR AND ACTIVIST RECLAIMS ISLAM AS A FAITH COMMITTED TO PROGRESSIVE VALUES AND THE MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE—THE NEWEST ADDITION TO THE NEW PRESS’S GROUNDBREAKING WHOSE RELIGION? SERIES Praise for Farid Esack’s Qur’an, Liberation, and Pluralism : Stunning and challenging . . . Esack offers a challenge to all religions: that human liberation and interreligious dialogue cannot be achieved without each other. . . . An extraordinarily good book. —PAUL KNITTER, UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Also Available
At its core, Islam is a religion of peace. And despite the many violent manifestations in many parts of the world, [Islam] has at its core the yearning for peace, the oneness of people with themselves, the earth—their home—and with God. —FARID ESACK
In his work to build a post-apartheid South Africa, noted scholar, writer, and activist Farid Esack found grounding in his Muslim faith. While trained in a Pakistani madrassah where he became acquainted with deeply orthodox forms of Islam, he also came to realize that his religion’s teachings of justice and peace could guide the struggle against apartheid and gender injustice. Offering perceptive, groundbreaking insights, Esack describes how progressive Islam can speak to social change on six burning issues today: war, poverty, race, gender, sexuality, and the environment. He shows how it is not only possible but necessary for Islam to promote sexual equality. He advocates for women’s rights and reproductive freedom. He demonstrates how Islam fosters racial and economic justice and supports practices of nonviolence, and he develops its understandings of protection of the environment.
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Esack provides a clear rebuttal of the hysterical stereotypes of Islam and a compelling vision of liberation for those seeking to reconcile politics and faith.
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national interreligious organization focusing on the work of justice. The author Commissioner of South Africa and has taught at a number of universities across the world, including Harvard. He lives in Cape Town.
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Saving State U Fixing Public Higher Education NANCY FOLBRE
HOW TO RESCUE PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES, BY THE NATIONALLY KNOWN ECONOMIST
We used to be state-supported, then state-assisted, and now we are state-located.
Praise for Nancy Folbre’s The Invisible Heart :
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Important and illuminating. . . . An outstandingly provocative book about the economics of care and reciprocity.
Once upon a time, students who were willing and able to work hard could obtain an affordable, high-quality education at a public university. Those times are gone.
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Intensified admissions competition coupled with opposition to public spending has
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mining the best path to upward mobility that this country ever built.
A wise book about the values that should guide our private lives and public policy.
But despite all of this, Americans still embrace ideals of equal opportunity and know that higher education represents a public good. Students, faculty, staff, and advocates are beginning to build political coalitions and develop new strategies to improve access, enhance quality, and simplify financial aid. This book celebrates and will fortify their efforts. In Saving State U, economist Nancy Folbre brings the national debates of education experts down to the level of trying to teach—and trying to learn—at major state universities whose budgets have repeatedly been slashed, restored, and
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politics, and the key debates raging through public campuses today. In a passionate,
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accessible voice, Folbre also offers a sobering vision of the many possible futures
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then slashed again. Here is a brilliant firsthand account of the stakes involved, the
of public higher education and their links to the fate of our democracy while looking at the practical ways in which change is now possible.
A unique voice among U.S. economists. —JULIET SCHOR, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Nancy Folbre, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, lives in Montague, Massachusetts. She is the author or co-author of three other New Press books: The Invisible Heart, The War on the Poor, and Field Guide to the U.S. Economy.
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Stayin’ Alive The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class JEFFERSON COWIE
THE TORTUOUS PATH FROM NIXON TO REAGAN—THINK ARCHIE BUNKER, DOG DAY AFTERNOON, AND MERLE HAGGARD—IN A MAJOR NEW WORK ON THE CULTURAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE 1970S, FROM A PRIZEWINNING HISTORIAN You’re laughing at a loser, a loser because of his misconceptions. [A]ll these things are a threat to his life . . . [a] life in the United States is no longer livable for him, for Archie Bunker. —ACTOR CARROLL O’CONNOR, ON HIS MOST FAMOUS CHARACTER
An epic account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the ’70s, Stayin’ Alive is a wide-ranging cultural and political history that presents the decade in a whole new light. Jefferson Cowie’s edgy
Praise for Jefferson Cowie’s Capital Moves : A thought-provoking analysis . . . [Cowie] demonstrates a new range that labor historians have gained in their approach to the problems of workers. —THE AMERICAN PROSPECT
and incisive book—part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film, and TV lore—makes new sense of the ’70s as a crucial and poorly understood transition from the optimism of New Deal America to the widening economic inequalities and dampened expectations of the present.
Stayin’ Alive takes us from the factory floors of Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and
Cowie has crafted a fresh and provocative piece of scholarship that ought to shake up conventional modes of historical thinking.
Detroit to the Washington of Nixon, Ford, and Carter. Cowie connects politics to
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culture, showing how the big screen and the jukebox can help us understand how America turned away from the radicalism of the ’60s and toward the patriotic
A major contribution both to labor and community studies.
promise of Ronald Reagan. He also makes unexpected connections between the
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secrets of the Nixon White House and the failings of the George McGovern campaign, between radicalism and the blue-collar backlash, and between the earthy
A conceptually rich and deeply humane book.
twang of Merle Haggard’s country music and the falsetto highs of Saturday
—MICHAEL KAZIN, AUTHOR OF A GODLY HERO
Night Fever. Cowie captures nothing less than the defining characteristics of a new era. Stayin’ Alive is a book that will forever define a misunderstood decade.
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French Philosophy Since 1945 Problems, Concepts, Inventions Postwar French Thought, Volume IV ETIENNE BALIBAR AND JOHN RAJCHMAN ANNE BOYMAN
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THE LONG-AWAITED FINAL VOLUME IN THE NEW PRESS POSTWAR FRENCH THOUGHT SERIES, WITH EXCERPTS FROM KEY WORKS OF THE LEADING POSTWAR FRENCH PHILOSOPHERS, FROM SARTRE TO LACAN Contributors include: Louis Althusser Raymond Aron Alain Badiou Georges Canguilhem Gilles Deleuze Jacques Derrida Michel Foucault Marcel Gauchet Luce Irigiray Jacques Lacan Emmanuel Levinas Jean-François Lyotard Maurice Merleau-Ponty Jacques Rancière Paul Ricoeur Jean-Paul Sartre Claude Levi-Strauss February Hardcover, 978-1-56584-882-5 $40.00 / $56.00 CAN 6 1⁄8” x 9 1⁄4”, 512 pages Philosophy Multiple rights holders
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After World War II, philosophy in France entered a rich period whose influence is still strong today. New styles were invented, new problems were formulated, and new critical functions were engaged, reaching into many domains around the world.
French Philosophy Since 1945, the final volume in the four-volume New Press Postwar French Thought series, provides a fresh map and analysis for understanding this singular period in the history of ideas. Organized around a series of interconnected questions, featuring many different and sometimes opposed voices,
French Philosophy Since 1945 brings together the writings of both celebrated and unknown French philosophers for the first time. With new translations by Arthur Goldhammer, the material is contextualized within a larger intellectual and political history and chronology. Indispensable for understanding the development of postwar French philosophy as a whole, this anthology also includes a comprehensive chronology.
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Political Awakenings Conversations with Twenty of the World’s Most Influential Writers, Politicians, and Activists EDITED BY
HARRY KREISLER
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL STORIES OF INSIGHT AND INSPIRATION FROM TWENTY LEADERS AND THINKERS WHO HAVE CHANGED THE WORLD—INCLUDING HOWARD ZINN, AMIRA HASS, AND RON DELLUMS I met Randall Keeler in 1969, and when I understood that he was on his way to prison for draft resistance, it had a shattering effect on me. So I asked myself for the first time, what could I do to help end the war if I were willing to go to prison? —DANIEL ELLSBERG, FROM POLITICAL AWAKENINGS
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From Political Awakenings : If you’re engaged in a movement, even if the objective looks very far away, you don’t have to look for some victory in the future. The very engagement with other people in a common struggle for something that you all believe in— that is a victory in itself. —HOWARD ZINN
to their marriage after the Iranian Revolution effectively erased the legal rights of women. Elizabeth Warren set out to expose those frauds declaring bankruptcy and
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Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media Robert W. McChesney
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10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care Edited by Mary O’Brien and Martha Livingston
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Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences Edited by James Lardner and David A. Smith PB, $16.95, 978-1-59558-175-4, 336 pages Economics Leading American scholars and activists explore the question our leaders have been working overtime to ignore
Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America Jonathan Teller-Elsberg, Nancy Folbre, James Heintz, and the Center for Popular Economics
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An engrossing history of American labor for a new generation
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All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated Nell Bernstein
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Studs Terkel
“The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II Studs Terkel
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression Studs Terkel
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times Studs Terkel
PB, $16.95, 978-1-56584-343-1, 608 pages Military History/World War II
PB, $16.95, 978-1-56584-656-2, 480 pages History
PB, $16.95, 978-1-56584-937-2, 360 pages History
A trade paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning book
Studs Terkel’s classic history of the Great Depresssion
Studs’s look at the 1930s, 1960s, and the present; at times when ordinary people in America had great hopes for the future, and what became of those hopes
P.S.: Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening Studs Terkel
Touch and Go: A Memoir Studs Terkel
Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession Studs Terkel
PB, $16.95, 978-1-59558-423-6, 240 pages Anthology The Pulitzer Prize–winning oral historian shares a selection of his greatest and favorite writings, broadcasts, and interviews
PB, $17.95, 978-1-59558-411-3, 288 pages Memoir The extraordinary, widely praised memoir from “the most distinguished oral historian of our time” (The Washington Post )
The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater Studs Terkel
The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century Studs Terkel
PB, $16.95, 978-1-59558-359-8, 384 pages Performing Arts
PB, $16.95, 978-1-59558-177-8, 560 pages History
An elegant new edition of the Pulitzer Prize winner’s “richly entertaining” (Publishers Weekly ) conversations with the masters of stage and screen
The Pulitzer Prize–winning oral historian’s “greatest hits” in one affordable volume
PB, $16.95, 978-1-56584-989-1, 400 pages History A rare and revealing look how at how people in America truly feel about race
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do Studs Terkel PB, $16.95, 978-1-56584-342-4, 640 pages History/Labor Studs Terkel’s classic oral history, a perennial bestseller
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New Press Classics
The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault PB, $14.95, 978-1-59558-134-1, 240 pages Philosophy Two of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers debate a perennial question, available for the first time in the United States
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W. Loewen HC, $26.95, 978-1-59558-326-0, 464 pages American History/Education The national bestseller and winner of the American Book Award, thoroughly updated to include textbooks written since 2000, and featuring a new chapter on what textbooks get wrong about 9/11 and Iraq
Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation Edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller PB w/CD, $29.95, 978-1-59558-228-7, 416 pages History/ African American Studies A book-and-CD set featuring the only known original recordings of interviews with former slaves, now available on MP3 audio CDs
The Consumer Society Reader Edited by Juliet B. Schor and Douglas Holt PB, $24.95, 978-1-56584-598-5, 528 pages Sociology
The Essential Chomsky Noam Chomsky Edited by Anthony Arnove PB, $19.95, 978-1-59558-189-1, 528 pages Current Affairs
A unique and definitive reader of our national passion— “buying stuff”—and its consequences for American society
In a single volume, the seminal writings of the world’s leading philosopher, linguist, and critic
Mexican Lives Judith Adler Hellman
Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer Helen Caldicott
PB, $16.95, 978-1-56584-178-9, 272 pages Latin American Studies/Economics
PB, $15.95, 978-1-59558-213-3, 240 pages Current Affairs
A moving and insightful look into the daily struggles of a cross-section of Mexicans
An exposé of the hidden costs and dangers of nuclear energy production and why it’s not the solution to global warming
Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches Edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky Noam Chomsky Edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel
PB, $16.95, 978-1-59558-126-6, 288 pages African American Studies Now in paperback, a century of riveting public speeches by leading African American orators
PB, $21.95, 978-1-56584-703-3, 432 pages Political Science A major new collection from “arguably the most important intellectual alive” (The New York Times )
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10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Hate Taxes
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Adamson, Rebecca Adler, Moshe Al’ America Alexander, Michelle All Alone in the World Alperovitz, Gar Arnove, Anthony Asch, Chris Myers Asian Americans in the Twenty-first Century Ayers, William
38 29 20 25 39 28 42 40 16 36
Balibar, Etienne Berlin, Ira Bernstein, Nell Beyond the Bake Sale Beyond the Echo Chamber Big History Bitterly Divided Blood and Faith Bobo, Kim Bollier, David A Bomb in Every Issue Brewer, Rose Brown, Cynthia Stokes Buhle, Paul Caldicott, Helen Calegari, Nínive Clements Cardi, W. Jonathan Carr, Matthew Chesney-Lind, Meda Chester, Jeff Chitty, A.B. Chomsky, Noam The Chomsky-Foucault Debate City Kids, City Teachers Clark, Jessica Classroom Conversations Cole, David Coles, Robert Collins, Chuck The Color of Wealth Communication Revolution The Consumer Society Reader Cowan, Paul Cowie, Jefferson Crenshaw, Kimberlé Crimes Against Humanity Critical Race Realism Critical Race Theory Curiel, Jonathan Cushman, Kathleen Cushman, Kathleen Daly, Lew Delpit, Lisa
34 42 39 36 22 40 40 8–9 38 37 7 38 40 38 42 36 24 8–9 39 37 38 42 42 36 22 36 39 12 38 38 37 42 37 32–33 39 39 24 39 20 4 36 28 36
The Devil in Dover Digital Destiny Dodson, Lisa Dowdy, Joanne Kilgour Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War Echenoz, Jean Economic Apartheid in America Economics for the Rest of Us Eggers, Dave Elias, Robert Ellis, Catherine The Empire Strikes Out Esack, Farid The Essential Chomsky Everyday Antiracism “Exterminate All the Brutes”
37 37 26–27 36 14–15 21 38 29 36 11 42 11 30 42 36 40
Favreau, Marc 42 Field Guide to the U.S. Economy 38 Fires in the Bathroom 36 Fires in the Middle School Bathroom 4 Folbre, Nancy 31, 38 Foley, Michael S. 40 Forbes Jr., James A. 18–19 Ford, Patricia 36 French Philosophy Since 1945 34 Foucault, Michel 42 Founding Myths 40 From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend 38 Gardner, Lloyd C. “The Good War” Gotanda, Neil T. Greenwood, Stephanie Guitton, Stephanie
13, 40 41 39 38 39
Hard Times Heintz, James Hellman, Judith Adler Henderson, Anne T. The Herb Kohl Reader History in the Making Holt, Douglas B. Home Fronts Hope Dies Last
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Inequality Matters Invisible Punishment Irons, Peter
38 39 39
Johnson, Vivian R. Jones, Shayne
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Kohl, Herbert Kreisler, Harry
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LaFarge, Albert Lardner, James
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Law Lit Lebo, Lauri Lee, Joann Faung Jean Less Safe, Less Free Lies My Teacher Told Me Lindqvist, Sven Livingston, Martha Lobel, Jules Loewen, James W. The Long Road to Baghdad Lui, Meizhu
39 37 16 39 42 40 38 39 42 40 38
Mapp, Karen L. Mauer, Marc May It Please the Court McCarthy, Timothy Patrick McChesney, Robert W. McMillian, John Mexican Lives Miletta, Alexandra Miletta, Maureen Miller, Steven F. Minding the Store Mitchell, Peter R. The Moral Underground Moulthrop, Daniel Muckraking! Murolo, Priscilla
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The New Jim Crow Nichols, John No Equal Justice Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer
25 37 39 42
O’Brien, Mary O’Malley, Brendan P. Other People’s Children
38 40 36
P.S. Parks, Gregory S. Pekar, Harvey Peller, Gary A People’s History of Sports in the United States Political Awakenings Pollock, Mica
41 24 38 39
Race Race to Incarcerate The Radical Reader Rajchman, John Raphael, Ray Remembering Slavery Rich Media, Poor Democracy Richardson, Peter Robertson, Geoffrey
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Robin, Marie-Monique Robles, Bárbara Rogers, Laura Rose, Mike Rosenbaum, Thane Running
Saving State U Say It Plain Schiffrin, André Schoeffel, John Schor, Juliet B. Schulman, Sarah The Senator and the Sharecropper Serrin, Judith Serrin, William The Skin That We Speak Smith, David A. Smith, Stephen Drury Stayin’ Alive Stranger in a Strange Land The Studs Terkel Interviews The Studs Terkel Reader Studs Terkel’s Working Submersion Journalism
2–3 38 4 5 39 21 31 42 14–15 42 42 17 40 37 37 36 38 42 32–33 37 41 41 38 6
Teachers Have It Easy Teller-Elsberg, Jonathan Terkel, Studs Thomas, Kendall Three Kings Ties That Bind Touch and Go Tragedy and Farce The Tribes of America
36 38 41 39 13 17 41 37 37
Understanding Power Unjust Deserts
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Van Slyke, Tracy Viral Spiral
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Wage Theft in America Ward, Kyle Wasik, Bill Whose Gospel? Whose Qur’an? Why School? Williams, David Working The World According to Monsanto
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Yeskel, Felice Younge, Gary
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The New Press extends heartfelt thanks to the following philanthropic institutions for their support between January 2008 and January 2009: The Atlantic Philanthropies The Bauman Foundation The Benton Foundation Butler’s Hole Fund of the Boston Foundation Carnegie Corporation of New York The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation The Florence Gould Foundation The Ford Foundation Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature French American Cultural Exchange HKH Foundation The J. M. Kaplan Fund The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation The Kendeda Sustainability Fund of the Tides Foundation New York State Council on the Arts The Open Society Institute The Overbrook Foundation Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’ Universities The Reed Foundation The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation The Starry Night Fund of the Tides Foundation The Surdna Foundation W. K. Kellogg Foundation
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The New Press thanks the following New Press authors, who made a financial contribution to The Studs and Ida Terkel Fund through the Author Royalty Giveback Program: AndrĂŠ Aciman, Pat and Hugh Armstrong, William Ayers, Ira Berlin, Philippe Burrin, Noam Chomsky, David Cole, Haruko Taya and Theodore F. Cook, Jefferson Cowie, Bruce Cumings, Hamid Dabashi, Don Davies, John Dinges, John W. Dower, Martin Duberman, John Eatwell, Hal Foster, Lloyd C. Gardner, Carmen Lomas Garza, Adolfo Gilly, Jane Perry Gunther, Leslie M. Harris, Anne T. Henderson, Eric Hobsbawn, Esther Kaplan, Joann Faung Jean Lee, Nelson Lichtenstein, Lucy Lippard, Stephanie Luce, Henning Mankell, James Marcus, Steven Miller, Martha Minow, Bill Moyers, Priscilla Murolo, Laurie Olsen, Nelson Peery, Patricia Politzer, Robert Pollin, Paul Rabinow, R. D. Rosen, Lois G. Schwoerer, Beth Shulman, Robert J. Spitzer, Josh Sugarmann, Studs Terkel, Dan Terkell, Reg Theriault, Enzo Traverso, Tom Vanderbilt, Horacio Verbitsky, Richard Walker, Glenn Wallach, Reg Whitaker, John Womack Jr., Patrick Woodall, Marilyn B. Young, Jianying Zha, and Howard Zinn. Special Thanks
The New Press thanks the following people and organizations for their collaboration in New Press special events from January 2008 to January 2009, including our Freedom of Expression dinner series, Hot Off The New Press series, and the Studs Terkel Memorial Service:
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The New Press also thanks the following people who have given their time and talent to The New Press between January 2008 and January 2009: Donald Altman, Theresa Amato, Anthony Arnove, William Ayers, Patricia Bauman, Mia Bay, Richard Brick, Shannon Brunette, Richard Cahan, Shonna Carter, Thom Clark, Michelle Coffey, Hesu Coue-Wilson, Brenda Coughlin, Lew Daly, Bernardine Dohrn, Sunny Fischer, Lloyd C. Gardner, Tom Geoghegan, Lynn Goldberg, Becca Hartman, Dwight Hopkins, Aziz Huq, Devon Kearney, Alice Kim, Gina Kim, Sara Koenig, Alex Kotlowitz, Lisa Lee, David Lerner, Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Carlin Meyer, Greg Miller, Rhett Millsaps II, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Robin Panovka, Niko Pfund, Robert Scammacca, Ellen Schrecker, Adele Simmons, Deborah Small, Julia Stasch, Tracy Van Slyke, Margaret Walano, Maya Wiley, and David Wolf. The New Press Interns: Frances Bajet, Richard Bellis, Jeffrey Chang, Arielle Cohen, Pilar Damato, Ziona Eyob, Cerise Fontaine, Caitlin Graf, Catherine Hunter, Tavia Levy, Anna Luft, Carl Moon, Julie Moon, Sarah Schulman, Alyssa Sewlal, Hana Silverstein, and Michael Sosa. Thank you again to all who have given generously to support publishing in the public interest. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of these lists. If you believe you have been omitted, we extend our heartfelt apologies and ask you to bring the error to our attention by calling Jen Swanda in the development department at 212-629-8811 or e-mailing jswanda@thenewpress.com.
The New Press remembers longtime friend, supporter, and Board member Woodward A. Wickham (1942–2009), our beloved friend and author Studs Terkel (1912–2008), and brilliant critic, author, and friend John Leonard (1939–2009). The world was a better place with them in it.
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