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WHY NATIONS FAIL by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 OPEN BORDERS TO A REVOLUTION Edited by Jaime Marroqun Arredondo, Adela Pineda Franco and Magdalena Mieri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 SHAPING OUR NATION by Michael Barone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 GENERATION ROE by Sarah Erdreich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 COOL WAR by Noah Feldman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 THE DEMOCRACY PROJECT by David Graeber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 THE PATH TO HOPE by Stphane Hessel and Edgar Morin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 REIMAGINING EQUALITY by Anita Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 THE VICTORY LAB by Sasha Issenberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 BROKERS OF DECEIT by Rashid Khalidi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF DIXIE by Bruce Levine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 EMBERS OF WAR by Fredrik Logevall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 DRIFT by Rachel Maddow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 THOMAS JEFFERSON by Jon Meacham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 COMING APART by Charles Murray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 OUT OF ORDER by Sandra Day OConnor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 TO MOVE THE WORLD by Jeffrey D. Sachs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 WHO STOLE THE AMERICAN DREAM? by Hedrick Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 OUR POLITICAL NATURE by Avi Tuschman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 RED INK by David Wessel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
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rilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poorwhy are nations divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Or perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. Instead, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, as described in the book, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. While the south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutionswith no end in sight. Based on fifteen years of original research, Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including:
China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overwhelm the West? Are Americas best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted, to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority? What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson's breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions?
Why Nations Fail will change the way your students look atand understandthe world.
Why Nations Fail is a truly awesome book. Acemoglu and Robinson tackle one of the most important problems in the social sciencesa question that has bedeviled leading thinkers for centuriesand offer an answer that is brilliant in its simplicity and power. A wonderfully readable mix of history, political science, and economics, this book will change the way we think about economic development. Why Nations Fail is a must-read book. Steven Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics
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JAIME MARROQUN ARREDONDO is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at The George Washington University (Washington, D.C.). He is the author of La Historia de los Prejuicios en Amrica: La Conquista (2007). ADELA PINEDA FRANCO is an Associate Professor of Spanish American literature in the Department of Romance Studies and the Latin American Studies Program at Boston University. She is the author of Geopolticas de la Cultura Finisecular en Buenos Aires, Pars y Mxico: Las Revistas Literarias y el Modernismo (2006). MAGDALENA MIERI is currently the Director of the Program in Latino History and Culture at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
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ew York Times bestselling author, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Fox News contributor Michael Barone reveals the power and lasting influence of M migrations on American history, economics, politics, and culture m over the last three centuries. o Four hundred years ago, students would find most of the F concentrations of populationChina, India, the Muslim world, co Western Europe, and Russiavery familiar. But North America W then was vastly different from today. It was not vacant, but Indian th ci civilizations had only the slightest of connections to the societies of E Europe and Asia, and their peoples were to suffer from enormous d depopulation due to diseases for which they had no immunity. In their place today, in vivid contrast with the years around 1600, is a nation with 5 percent of the worlds population that produces 25 percent of its economic product and deploys more than 50 percent p of its military capacity, a nation in which only 1 percent of its o current population claims ancestry from the peoples variously cu called American Indians or Native Americans. The United States is ca b by definition the cumulative product of successive migrations, first fr from across the oceans and then also within the nation itself. S Shaping Our Nation tells the story of how surges of migration of great magnitude shaped and reshaped America.
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GENERATION ROE
Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement
By Sarah Erdreich
Website: www.SarahErdreich.com
ne-third of all American women will have an abortion by the time they are 45, and most of those women are already m mothers. Yet, the topic remains taboo. In this provocative book on th the heels of the Planned Parenthood controversy, Sarah Erdreich pr presents the antidote to the usual abortion debates. Inextricably connected to issues of autonomy, privacy, and In sexuality, the abortion debate remains home base for the culture se wars in America. Yet, there is more common ground than meets w the eye in favor of choice. Generation Roe delves into phenomena th su such as abortion-recovery counseling, crisis pregnancy ce centers, and the infamous anti-choice black children are an en endangered species billboards. It tells the stories of those who risk th their lives to pursue careers in this stigmatized field, and it outlines th the legislative battles that are being waged against abortion rights al all over the country. With an inspiring spirit and a forward-looking ap approach, Erdreich holds abortion up as a moral and fundamental hu human right.
I several sagaciously researched essays, Erdreich presents some In of the voices of women who choose abortion and why. An honest probing of law, public perception and conscience in the abortion pr debate. de Kirkus Reviews Seven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-60980-458-9 | 272pp. $16.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-60980-459-6 | $16.95/$16.95 Can. E Each generation experiences the battles for reproductive choice uniquely. Sarah Erdreich digs into our current terrainone of crisis pregnancy centers, the lulling effect of Roe, and the introduction of a new cadre of young activists onlineto illustrate the morality and urgency that animate the right to abortion. Jennifer Baumgardner, author of Manifesta and Abortion & Life Sarah Erdreich zeroes in on the central paradox of abortion in America: One in three women will have at least one abortion by menopause, but the anti-choice movement is scoring victory after victory. Stigma and shameand, let's not forget, fear of antichoice violencekeep too many women from speaking out even as their rights are whittled away. Can the young activists of Generation Roe revitalize the pro-choice movement? If you want to know what theyre thinking, this book is a great place to begin. Katha Pollitt
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COOL WAR
The Future of Global Competition
By Noah Feldman
ool War provides a compelling view of the future political power struggles that await U.S.-China relations and the consequent reshaping of the international political landscape. c Not unlike the Cold War, which pitted global superpowers against N each other for geopolitical control, this new Cool War will have the e United States contending with China for ever-shrinking resources U and increasingly essential alliances. The strains of this coming a conflict are already visible in the tense relations in the Middle East c with Israel (U.S. backed) and Iran (Chinese backed) and will soon w extend beyond. Feldman provides an analysis of the future under ex this paradigm, as well as the opportunities and risks that will arise, th and makes the case for the benefits of competition. a Feldman insightfully approaches the difficulties that arise when F global superpowers struggle against each other in the modern g world, which is more economically interdependent than ever, and w presents competitive cooperation as the only viable path to peace p and prosperity for the conflicting nations. a
W are leaving the era of Chimericawhen China and America We were economically joined at the hipand entering the era of what w Noah Feldman has justly and wittily dubbed Cool War. Feldman N anatomizes the rapid transformation of the Sino-American a relationship from an unequal trading partnership into a new and heavily armed ambivalence. Just how cool the conflict stays, Feldman suggests, will be determined not in cyberspace or at sea but in international institutions. Cool War is essential reading for any serious student of the emergent bipolar order in the AsiaPacific region. Niall Ferguson, New York Times bestselling author of Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire and Civilization: The West and the Rest By giving realism and liberal internationalism their due, and by giving credence to both naked self-interest and legal norms, Noah Feldman's dissection of the United StatesChina relationship is smart, balanced, and wise. Robert D. Kaplan, New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography
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emocracy has been the American religion since before the Revolutionfrom New England town halls to the multicultural democracy of Atlantic pirate ships. But can our current political system, one that seems responsive only to the wealthiest among us and leaves most Americans feeling disengaged, voiceless, and disenfranchised, really be called democratic? And if the tools of our democracy are not working to solve the rising crises we face, how can weaverage citizensmake change happen? David Graeber, one of the most influential scholars and activists of his generation, takes students on a journey through the idea of democracy, provocatively reorienting our understanding of pivotal historical moments, and extracting their lessons for todayfrom the birth of Athenian democracy and the founding of the United States of America to the global revolutions of the twentieth century and the rise of a new generation of activists. Underlying it all is a bracing argument that in the face of increasingly concentrated wealth and power in this country, a reenergized, reconceived democracyone based on consensus, equality, and broad participationcan yet provide us with the just, free, and fair society we want. The Democracy Project tells the story of the resilience of the democratic spirit and the adaptability of the democratic idea. It offers a fresh take on vital history and an impassioned argument that radical democracy is, more than ever, our best hope.
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he Path to Hope is a short, incisive political tract that criticizes the culture of finance capitalism and calls for
a return to the humanist values of the Enlightenment: equality, liberty, freedom as defined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty, and an end to theocracy and fundamentalism. The authors argue that a return to these values constitutes a path to hope, leading the way out of the present worldwide malaise brought on by economic collapse, moral failure, and an ignorance of history. For the authors, twentieth-century fascism was no mere abstractionit was a brutal system brought on by a similar malaise, a system they fought against.
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The book is written by two esteemed French thinkers 94-year-old Stphane Hessel and 90-year-old Edgar Morin, following on the heels of Hessels Indignez-vous! (Time for Outrage!). Both books have become bestsellers in France and throughout Europe. Both have also become foundational documents underpinning the worldwide protest movement, of which Occupy Wall Street is the American subset.
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A Message from Jeff Madrick, senior fellow of the Roosevelt Institute and author of Age of Greed
I do not necessarily believe in pluralism for its own sake. It always makes sense for students to understand opposing viewpoints, of course. But reading the many opposing views on key intellectual issues is not always an adequate path to knowledge. Should young students be required to read the works in support of creationism, for example, to understand the pros and cons of evolutionary theory? Or all the efforts to undermine global warming theories? At some point, one has to separate the theories that move beyond superstition, that are grounded in adequate deductive thought, and that are based on available empirical knowledge from those that do not and are not. The social sciences clothe themselves in the virtues of being grounded in deductive thought and empirical knowledge, of course, and that is the problem. How can students broaden their perspectives constructively? Economics in most academic institutions has become especially uniform, if also well-disguised in scientific methodology, and has failed in so many ways that a search for broader views about economic life and how it affects social life, aspirations, true freedom, and for many outright survival, is necessary for college students. The Path to Hope is one of those educated and passionate alternatives to prevailing economic thought, and one of such sweep and urgency that I believe it is extremely useful for students to read it. I would recommend a glance at my own foreword to the book by the eminent ninety-somethings whose experience of modern society began with the French Resistance during World War II. In essence, Stphane Hessel and Edgar Morin are calling for a new communitarianism. They are also saying traditional economics has failed. How do they justify the claim? As I write in the foreword, they implicitly say just look around you: extreme poverty and inequality, ever more power to the wealthy, advanced economies brought down by dubious financial speculation, and all the tensions that poor economic performance conjure up, including rising ethnic bigotry. Isnt such bigotry also behind the euro crisis? Look at the slurs that the Greeks have been subjected to. It wont take long to read Path to Hope, but it will inspire us all. It will open vistas for young people too entrenched in the narrow and often self-serving conventional wisdom of todays media and the shallow values of much of todays popular entertainment. Above all, it should lead to more readingof history, political philosophy, good fiction, and, let us hope, unorthodox social scientists like Hessel and Morin.
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REIMAGINING EQUALITY
Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
By Anita Hill
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rom the heroic lawyer who spoke out against Clarence Thomas in the historic confirmation hearings twenty years ago, comes Anita Hills first book since the bestselling Speaking Truth to Power. A On the twentieth anniversary of the Clarence Thomas confirmation O hearings, where she spoke out against workplace sexual h harassment, Anita Hill turns her attention to the topic of home. As h our country recovers from the subprime mortgage meltdown and o the resulting devastation of so many families, communities, and t cities, Hill takes us inside the crisis of home we are confronting. c A Along the way she exposes its deep roots in race and gender i inequities that continue to haunt the country and imperil every A Americans ability to achieve the American Dream. Reaching back t to the story of her slave ancestors, as well as narrating the stories of i individuals who are now caught in the crossfire of the current h housing collapse, she invites us into homes across the U.S., from h her grandparents homestead in Arkansas to Baltimores toughest n neighborhoods. Hill bridges the experiences of women and men struggling to make homes in our country and the world of high s finance and mortgage lending. In this period of recovery and its f aftermath, what is at stake is the inclusive democracy the a Constitution promises. The achievement of that ideal, Hill argues, C depends on each Americans ability to secure a place that provides d access to every opportunity our country has to offer. Building on the great strides of the womens rights and civil rights struggles, Hill presents concrete proposals, which encourage students to broaden their thinking about home and to reimagine equality for Americas future.
In a book that is rigorous and heartfelt, sharply analytical and deeply moving, Anita Hill examines the idea of what home means to Americans. Bringing to bear her formidable skills as a scholar of American law, history, and culture, Hill has produced a personal narrative that reaches across color and class to explore how our family homes and our national home are inextricably linked to how we understand achievement, opportunity, and equality.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University
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Its hard to believe that almost two decades have passed since the dramatic Clarence Thomas Senate confirmation hearing that had such an impact on so many in our nation, including perhaps some of you. Ive been very proud of the era of heightened awareness and concern about sexual harassment that followed that frankly grueling experience. I have had the privilege of meeting exceptional women and men in nearly every state in the country who seek nothing more than to end behavior, like sexual harassment, that keeps women from reaching their full potential. Some real good did emerge. And I wrote an autobiographical book that some of you may remember, Speaking Truth to Power, back in 1997. For me the positive developments of the recent past are just the beginning. Starting from the premise that a fair and just society is in everyones best interest, I have spent a great deal of time studying, researching, and lecturing about how important it is that we strive for full equality in our nation, no matter how difficult an achievement it may seem. Ive been working on my new book, Reimagining Equality, which reflects my ideas about how we can begin to realize equality for women, for blacks, and, particularly, for black women. In it I look back at my ancestors, and forward, based on my experiences and discoveries since the hearing. I hope you will enjoy the stories and ideas presented here. I wanted to publish this new book on the twentieth anniversary of the hearingwhen there will be a fresh round of media and other attentionnot only to shine a bright light on the accomplishments of the past twenty years, but also to examine the issues that continue to trouble me and many of you. Its my hope that this book will help a new generation to better understand and meet the challenges of remaking our society into one that might actually reach the goal of liberty and justice for all. Thank you for your support of my work, past and present, and all best wishes for a successful year. Anita Hill
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n The Victory Labwhich Politico has described as Moneyball for politicsjournalist Sasha Issenberg tells the hidden story of the analytical revolution upending the way political campaigns are t run in the 21st century. r The Victory Lab follows the academics and maverick operatives that T have re-engineered a high-stakes industry previously run on little h more than gut instinct and outdated assumptions. With insights m from behavioral psychology and randomized voter experiments, f the smartest campaigns now believe they know who you will vote t for even before you do. The Victory Lab offers the secret history of f m modern American politics, pulling back the curtain on the tactics a and strategies used by some of the eras most important figures in including Barack Obama, Rick Perry, and Mitt Romneywith ic iconoclastic insights into human decision-making, marketing, and h how analytics can put any business on the road to victory.
magnificently reported and wonderfully written book, full of A eye-opening revelations and a colorful cast of characters whose e groundbreaking strategies and tactics have injected 21st-century g science into politics and changed it forever in the process. The s Victory Lab is essential for anyone who wants to understand what V really goes on along the campaign trailand a delight for those r who simply enjoy a terrific read. w John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, authors of Game Change Sasha Issenberg cracks open the secretive realm of modern campaigns, revealing a revolution that is influencing not only who wins elections but also the fate of the nation. This is a terrific and important book. David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z
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Prologue: How to Win an Election Without Anyone Knowing 1. Blinded by Political Science 2. A Game of Margins 3. The New Haven Experiments 4. The Two Percent Solution 5. You Mean You Dont Do This in Politics? 6. Geeks Versus the Gurus 7. When Shame Pays a House Call 8. Showdown at the Oasis 9. Models and the Matrix 10. The Soul of a New Machine Epilogue: Pushing the Envelope
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BROKERS OF DECEIT
How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East t
By Rashid Khalidi
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or more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no end in sight, and for much of that time, the United States has been involved as a m mediator in the conflict. In this book, acclaimed historian Rashid m Khalidi zeroes in on the United States role as the purported K impartial broker in this failed peace process. i Khalidi closely analyzes three historical moments that illuminate K how the United States involvement has, in fact, thwarted progress h toward peace between Israel and Palestine. The first moment he t investigates is the Reagan Plan of 1982, when Israeli prime i minister Menachem Begin refused to accept the Reagan m administrations proposal to reframe the Camp David Accords a more impartially. The second moment covers the period after the m Madrid Peace Conference, from 1991 to 1993, during which M negotiations between Israel and Palestine were brokered by the n United States until the signing of the secretly negotiated Oslo U accords. Finally, Khalidi takes on President Barack Obamas retreat a from plans to insist on halting the settlements in the West Bank. f Through in-depth research into and keen analysis of these three T moments, as well as his own firsthand experience as an advisor to m the Palestinian delegation at the 1991 preOslo negotiations in t Washington, D.C., Khalidi reveals how the United States and Israel have actively colluded to prevent a Palestinian state and resolve the situation in Israels favor. Brokers of Deceit bares the truth about why peace in the Middle East has been impossible to achieve: for decades, U.S. policymakers have masqueraded as unbiased agents working to bring the two sides together, when, in fact, they have been the agents of continuing injustice, effectively preventing the difficult but essential steps needed to achieve peace in the region.
Drawing on his own experience as a Palestinian negotiator and recently released documents, Rashid Khalidi mounts a frontal attack on the myths and misconceptions that have come to surround Americas role in the so-called peace process which is all process and no peace. The title is not too strong: the book demonstrates conclusively that far from serving as an honest broker, the U.S. continues to act as Israels lawyerwith dire consequences for its own interests, for the Palestinians, and for the entire region. Professor Khalidi deserves much credit for his superb exposition of the fatal gap between the rhetoric and reality of American diplomacy on this critically important issue. Avi Shlaim, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford and author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
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major new history of the Civil War, The Fall of the House of Dixie tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South. In 1860, the American South was a vast, wealthy, imposing region where a small minority had amassed great political power and enormous fortunes. By the end of 1865, these structures of wealth and power had been shattered. Millions of black people had gained their freedom, many poorer whites had ceased following their wealthy neighbors, and plantation owners were devastated, losing not only their slaves but also their political power, their worldview, and their very way of life. As historian Bruce Levine demonstrates, the true stakes of the Civil War become clearer than ever before, as slaves battle for their freedom in the face of brutal reprisals; Abraham Lincoln and his party turn what began as a limited war for the Union into a crusade against slavery; and the slave owners grow ever more desperate as their social order is destroyed. Not only Dixie, but all of American society is changed forever.
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Thoroughly argued and engrossing, The Fall of the House of Dixie illuminates the way a war undertaken to preserve the status quo became a second American Revolution whose impact on the country was as strong and lasting as that of our first. The book presents a detailed account of the destruction of the old South during the Civil War, offering a fresh perspective on the most colossal struggle in our history and the new world it brought into being.
Levine illuminates the experiences of southern men and women white and black, free and enslaved, civilians and soldierswith a sure grasp of the historical sources and a deft literary touch. He masterfully recaptures an era of unsurpassed drama and importance. Gary W. Gallagher, author of The Confederate War This book limns the relationship between slavery and the rise and fall of the Confederacy more clearly and starkly than any other study. General readers and seasoned scholars alike will find new information and insights in this eye-opening account. James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom
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EMBERS OF WAR
The Fall of an Empire and the Making of Americas Vietnam m
By Fredrik Logevall
W Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize W (given by the Society of American Historians) (g
he struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of three decades, the conflict drew in all the worlds powers and saw two of them th first France, then the United Statesattempt to subdue the fi revolutionary Vietnamese forces. For France, the defeat marked the re effective end of its colonial empire, while for America the war left a ef gaping wound in the body politic that remains open to this day. ga Tapping into newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nations T and making full use of the published literature, distinguished an scholar Fredrik Logevall traces the path that led two Western sc nations to lose their way in Vietnam. Embers of War opens in 1919 n at the Versailles Peace Conference, where a young Ho Chi Minh tries to deliver a petition for Vietnamese independence to President tr Woodrow Wilson. It concludes in 1959, with a Viet Cong ambush W on an outpost outside Saigon and the deaths of two American officers whose names would be the first to be carved into the black of granite of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. gr
Random House | HC | 978-0-375-50442-6 | 864pp 864pp. $40.00/$46.00 Can. | Exam Copy $20.00 Do not order paperback before 1/14/2014. Random House | TR | 978-0-375-75647-4 | 864pp. $20.00/$24.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $10.00 Also available: e-Book: 978-0-679-64519-1 | $14.99/$16.99 Can. I a world full of nascent, potentially protracted wars, Fredrik In Logevalls Embers of War is manifestly an important book, illuminating the long, small-step path we followed into the quagmire of Vietnam. But I was also struck by the quality of Logevalls writing. He has the eye of a novelist, the cadence of a splendid prose stylist, and a filmmakers instinct for story. Embers of War is not just an important book of history, it is an utterly compelling read. Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, winner of the Pulitzer Prize Fredrik Logevall is a wonderful writer and historian. In his new book on the origins of the American war in Vietnam, he gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the French war and its aftermath, from the perspectives of the French, the Vietnamese, and the Americans. Using previously untapped sources and a deep knowledge of diplomatic history, Logevall shows to devastating effect how America found itself on the road to Vietnam. Frances FitzGerald, author of Fire in the Lake, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Superb . . . penetrating . . . Embers of War is a product of formidable international research. It is lucidly and comprehensively composed. And it leverages a consistently potent analytical perspective. . . . Outstanding. Gordon Goldstein, The Washington Post
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DRIFT
The Unmooring of American Military Power
By Rachel Maddow
O of The Washington Posts 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction for 2012 One One O of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2012
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ne of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier, Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern n national security state, with its tens of thousands of privateers; its n bloated Department of Homeland Security; its rusting nuclear bl weapons, ill-maintained and difficult to dismantle; and its strange w fascination with an unproven counterinsurgency doctrine. fa Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddows Drift W ar argues that weve drifted away from Americas original ideals and b become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, and all the fi financial and human costs that it entails. To understand how weve ar arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes students from the V Vietnam War to todays war in Afghanistan, along the way ex exploring the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual o outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, th the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fi fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G G.I. Joe. Ultimately, she shows students just how much we stand to lo lose by allowing the priorities of the national security state to ov overpower our political discourse. Sensible yet provocative, Drift will reinvigorate a loud and jangly political debate about how, when, and where to apply Americas strength and powerand who gets to make those decisions.
Thank Ms. Maddow for picking this and every other fight that Drift provokes. It will be a smarter public debate than the kinds were used to. Janet Maslin, The New York Times Maddows distinctive voice in Drift is highly intelligent, often incredulous and intermittently and humorously profane. . . . Her thesis, which is passionately and effectively articulated, remind[s] us of how far we have drifted from linking the sacrifices of our armed forces around the world to the citizens at home they so selflessly serve . . . Maddow . . . [has] provided readers with a timely and perhaps necessary provocation to examine the far-reaching consequences of the American way of war. Gordon M. Goldstein, The Washington Post Rachel Maddows Drift is a long overdue and provocative examination of the abuses, excesses and just plain foolish elements in our national security systems. These are issues that deserve our attention. Tom Brokaw, NBC News Special Correspondent and best-selling author of The Greatest Generation
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National security is a real imperative for our countryfor any country. But the connection between that imperative and what we do about it has gone as frowsy as my hometowns little pump station in high August. Our national security policy isnt much related to its stated justifications anymore. To whatever extent we do argue and debate what defense and intelligence policy ought to be, that debateour political processdoesnt actually determine what we do. Were not directing that policy anymore; it just follows its own course. Which means weve effectively lost control of a big part of who we are as a country. And weve broken faith with some of the best advice the founders ever gave us. Our constitutional inheritance didnt point us in this direction. If the colonists hadnt rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldnt exist. The Constitutional Convention debated whether America should even have a standing army. The founders feared that maintaining one would drain our resources in the same way that maintaining the eighteenth-century British military had burdened the colonies. They worried that a powerful military could rival civilian government for power in our new country, and of course they worried that having a standing army around would create too much of a temptation to use it. Those worries about the inevitable incentives to war were part of what led to the division of government at the heart of our Constitution, building into the structure of our new country a deliberate peaceable bias. But in the past generation or two, weve drifted off that historical course. The steerings gone wobbly, the brakes have failed. Its not a conspiracy, there arent rogue elements pushing us to subvert our national interests to instead serve theirs. Its been more entertaining and more boneheaded than that. The good news is we dont need a radical new vision of postCold War American power. We just need a small c conservative return to our constitutional roots, a course correction. This book is about how and why weve drifted. It wasnt inevitable. And its fixable.
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n this magnificent biography, Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston, brings vividly to life an a extraordinary man and his remarkable times. The Jefferson story resonates r today not only because he led his nation through ferocious partisanship p and cultural warfare amid economic change and external threats, t but also because he embodies an eternal drama, the struggle of the leadership l of a nation to achieve greatness in a difficult and confounding world. w Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power shows students Jefferson the politician and a president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars w of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jeffersons genius was w that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art a of power.
Fascinating and insightful. . . . Many books have been written about Jeffersons life, but few have created such a vivid portrait. . . . Meacham J immerses the reader in that period of history to explain Jeffersons i behavior during an era when the nation was as contradictory as he was . . . b extraordinary . . . essential. The Associated Press [Meacham] brings to bear his focused and sensitive scholarship, rich prose style. . . . The Jefferson that emerges from these astute, dramatic pages is a figure worthy of continued study and appreciation . . . [a] very impressive book. Booklist (starred review)
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AMERICAN LION
Andrew Jackson in the White House
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
The most readable singlevolume biography ever written of our seventh president.
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AMERICAN GOSPEL
God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
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To his friends, who were numerous and devoted, Jefferson was among the greatest men who had ever lived, a Renaissance figure who was formidable without seeming overbearing, sparkling without being showy, winning without appearing cloying. Yet to his foes, who were numerous and prolific, Jefferson was an atheist and a fanatic, a demagogue and a dreamer, a womanly Francophile who could not be trusted with the government of a great nation. His task was to change those views as best he could. He longed for affection and for approval. A master of emotional and political manipulation, sensitive to criticism, obsessed with his reputation, and devoted to America, he was drawn to the world beyond Monticello, endlessly at work, as he put it, to see the standard of reason at length erected after so many ages during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles. As a planter, lawyer, legislator, governor, diplomat, secretary of state, vice president, and president, Jefferson spent much of his life seeking control over himself and power over the lives and destinies of others. For Jefferson, politics was not a dispiriting distraction but an undertaking that made everything else possible. Inspired by his own fathers example, he long sought to play the part of a patriarch, acceptingeven embracingthe accompanying burdens of responsibility. He was the father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the Louisiana Purchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, of the American West. He led the first democratic movement in the new republic to check the power and influence of established forces. And perhaps most important, he gave the nation the idea of American progressthe animating spirit that the future could be better than the present or the past. The greatest American politicians since have prospered by projecting a Jeffersonian vision that the countrys finest hours lay ahead. The story of Jeffersons life fascinates still in part because he found the means to endure and, in many cases, to prevail in the face of extreme partisanship, economic uncertainty, and external threat. Jeffersons political leadership is instructive, offering us the example of a president who can operate at two levels, cultivating the hope of a brighter future while preserving the political flexibility and skill to bring the ideal as close as possible to reality.
Excerpted from Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham. Copyright 2012 by Jon Meacham. Excerpted by permission of Random House, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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COMING APART
The State of White America, 19602010
By Charles Murray
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rom the bestselling coauthor of The Bell Curve, author and political scientist Charles Murray offers a thought-provoking commentary on class in contemporary America. He presents co extensive research and statistical data to illustrate that the U.S. ex today is divided into upper and lower classes that differ so to drastically in values and habits as to virtually constitute two dr separate nations. In doing so, Murray emphasizes that the troubling se fissures are based not on race, but rather class. The book is sure to fis spark meaningful debate about class, values, and being American in sp th the twenty-first century.
M Murray continues the argument he began with Richard Herrnstein in The Bell Curve, stating that a new upper class is increasingly isolated from the lives and concerns of ordinary Americans, while a iso new lower class is losing original virtues of the U.S. A vital tool for n comparing the communities where the new upper and lower co classes are concentrated, Murrays contribution to the discussion of cla social stratification is timely and thoughtful. so CHOICE B zeroing in on troubling trends in white America, he keeps the By focus on the countrys increasing polarization along class lines. . . . fo [He] offers a hopeful long view of elites, who have enormous [H influence on economic and social policy, coming to understand the in peril of their disconnection from the rest of America. pe Booklist (starred review)
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Mr. Murrays sobering portrait is of a nation where millions of people are losing touch with the founding virtues that have long lent American lives purpose, direction and happiness. W. Bradford Wilcox, The Wall Street Journal Coming Apart: The State of White America 19602010 brims with ideas about what ails America. The Economist A timely investigation into a worsening class divide no one can afford to ignore. Publishers Weekly Charles Murray . . . has written an incisive, alarming, and hugely frustrating book about the state of American society. Roger Lowenstein, Bloomberg Businessweek
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rom Justice Sandra Day OConnor, the first woman to sit on the United States Supreme Court, comes this fascinating work
about the evolution of the highest court in the land. a Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court sheds O light on the centuries of change that transformed the Supreme l Court from its uncertain beginnings into the remarkable institution C that endures today. With an insiders unparalleled perspective, t Justice OConnor provides a rare glimpse into the Supreme Courts J inner workings. Written in the wise, candid, and assured voice of a i natural-born storyteller, Out of Order engages students with stories n from one of our countrys most important institutions, by one of f our countrys most respected pioneers. o
this delightful collection of tales, Sandra Day OConnor In shows us the personal side of the Supreme Court while reminding s us of the critical role the Court plays. Its a lovely bookand a u valuable treasure for all Americans. v Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs
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Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest
By Sandra Day OConnor and H. Alan Day
A loving but clear-eyed portrait of a distinctive and vanished American way of life.
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Excerpted from Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court by Sandra Day OConnor. Copyright 2013 by Sandra Day OConnor. Excerpted by permission of Random House, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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he last great campaign of John F. Kennedys life was not the battle for reelection he did not live to wage, but the struggle for a sustainable peace with the Soviet Union. To Move the World recalls the th extraordinary days from October 1962 to September 1963, when JFK JF marshaled the power of oratory and his remarkable political skills sk to establish more peaceful relations with the Soviet Union and a dramatic slowdown in the proliferation of nuclear arms. Kennedy Ke and his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, led their nations na during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the two superpowers came ca to the brink of nuclear war. This near-death experience shook bo leaders deeply. Jeffrey D. Sachs shows how Kennedy emerged both fr from the Missile Crisis with the determination and prodigious skills to forge a new and less threatening direction for the world. D During his final year in office, Kennedy gave a series of speeches in w which he pushed back against the momentum of the Cold War to pe persuade the world that peace with the Soviets was possible. M Mankind, argued Kennedy, could bring a new peace into reality th through a bold vision combined with concrete and practical m measures. Sachs shows how Kennedy campaigned for his vision and op opened the eyes of the American people and the world to the po possibilities of peace. Featuring the full text of JFKs speeches from this period, as well as striking photographs, To Move the World gives students a startlingly fresh perspective on Kennedys presidency and a model for strong leadership and problem solving in our time.
Half a century ago J. K. Galbraiths The Affluent Society changed the political consciousness of a generation. . . . Jeffrey Sachss new book is a landmark in this great and essentially American tradition. The Spectator Stimulating . . . a must-read for every concerned citizen . . . [a] hard-hitting brief for a humane economy. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Excerpted from To Move the World: JFKs Quest for Peace by Jeffrey D. Sachs. Copyright 2013. Excerpted by permission of Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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ulitzer Prize-winner Hedrick Smiths new book is an eyeopening account of how the American Dream has been dismantled. Smith connects political and economic developments and significant shifts in American capitalism under the last six presidents and combines penetrating profiles of corporate and political leaders with close-up reporting on the experience of average Americans. This interdisciplinary work offers excellent reading and teaching material for American history, political science, economics, public policy, business, journalism and government courses. This is a book full of surprises and revelationsthe accidental beginnings of the 401(k) plan, with disastrous economic consequences for many; the major policy changes that began under Jimmy Carter; and how America lost the title of Land of Opportunity. Smith reveals how pivotal laws and policies were altered while the public wasnt looking, how Congress often ignores public opinion, why moderate politicians got shoved to the sidelines, and how Wall Street often wins politically by hiring over 1,400 former government officials as lobbyists. This magnificent work of history and reportage is filled with the penetrating insights, provocative discoveries, and great empathy of a master journalist. Finally, Smith offers ideas for restoring Americas great promise and reclaiming the American Dream.
Who stole the American Dream? The short answer to the question in the title of Hedrick Smiths new book is: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Wal-Mart. But the longer answer is one heck of a story, told by one of the great journalists of our time . . . [a] sweeping, authoritative examination of the last four decades of the American economic experience. . . . Smith [has] extraordinary clarity in describing this sometimes obscured narrative arc. Huffington Post Hedrick Smith has done it again! Who Stole the American Dream? provides a readable and comprehensive account of how Americans have been robbed of our dream of a broad middle class over the past forty years. It is essential reading. Jay W. Lorsch, the Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations, Harvard Business School
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ur Political Nature is the first book to reveal to students the hidden roots of deeply held moral values. It shows how political orientations across space and time arise from three clusters p of measurable personality traits. These clusters entail opposing o attitudes toward tribalism, inequality, and differing perceptions of a human nature. Together, these traits are by far the most powerful h cause of left-right voting, even leading people to regularly vote c against their economic interests. a According to the author, our political personalities also influence A our likely choice of a mate, and shape societys larger reproductive o patterns. Most importantly of all, it tells the evolutionary stories of p these crucial personality traits, which stem from epic biological t conflicts. c Based on dozens of exciting new insights from primatology, B genetics, neuroscience, and anthropology, this groundbreaking g work brings core concepts to life through current news stories and w personalities. Profiles on Glenn Beck and Hugo Chavez will help p students to further understand the underlying evolutionary forces s they represent. By blending serious research with relevant t contemporary examples, Our Political Nature casts important light c onto the ideological clashes that so dangerously divide and imperil o our world today. o
Our Political Nature shows us that there are evolutionary underpinnings to our political attitudes, and that being liberal or conservative may reflect much deeper tendencies than we are inclined to think. This book is important reading for anyone trying to understand the sources of our present-day political world. Francis Fukuyama, author of The Origins of Political Order In a remarkable interdisciplinary tour de force, evolutionary anthropologist Avi Tuschman integrates findings from social psychology, genetics, and neuroscience to provide a rich understanding of the polarization in politics throughout history, and of mans inhumanity to man. In Our Political Nature he makes clear that be it vote choice or the decision to go to war, our politics are the product of the passions that drive us, which are deeply rooted in humanitys evolutionary origins. Jerrold M. Post, M.D., Director, Political Psychology Program at George Washington University, and author of Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World
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RED INK
Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget
By David Wessel
avid Wessel, the Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter, columnist, and bestselling author of In Fed We Trust, dissects a topic the federal budgetthat is fiercely debated today in the halls of Congress Con and the media, and yet is misunderstood by the American Am public. In a sweeping narrative about the people and the politics behind the budget, Wessel looks at the 2011 fiscal year (which ended September Sep 30) to see where all the money was actually spent, and why the budget process has grown wildly out of control. Through the eyes of key peopleJacob Lew, White House director of the Off of Management and Budget; Douglas Elmendorf, director of Office the Congressional Budget Office; Pete Peterson, Blackstone founder Now in and former Commerce Secretary; and moreWessel gives students Paperback i an inside look at the making of an unsustainable budget.
Sh Should be a first port of call for American voters sadly misinformed about their federal budget. . . . Wessels aim is to mis explain for a general audience the basics of the budgetwhere the exp money comes from and goes toand to make the explanation mo interesting. He succeeds. inte Financial Times We Wessel . . . has an insiders grasp of the players, issues and argot surrounding the budget. Yet he writes with an outsiders eye, sur distilling his tale of the fiscal monster into about 150 pages of dist simple prose and a smattering of charts. sim Businessweek Crown Business | TR | 978-0-7704-3616-2 | 208pp. $12.99/$14.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-7704-3615-5 | $11.99/$11.99 Can.
IN FED WE TRUST
Ben Bernankes War on the Great Panic
Wessel looks at the opaque and undemocratic inner workings of the most powerful economic institution in the world, revealing how the Bernanke Fed led the desperate effort to prevent the worlds financial engine from grinding to a halt.
No one can understand what happened and what did not happen without reading this book.
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PUBLIC ENEMY
Confessions of an American Dissident
By Bill Ayers
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THE NETWORK
Portrait Conversations
By Lincoln Schatz
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SARGE
The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver
By Scott Stossel
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GLOCK
The Rise of Americas Gun
By Paul M. Barrett
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MANHUNT
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad
By Peter L. Bergen
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DECISION POINTS
By George W. Bush
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POWER IN WORDS
The Stories behind Barack Obamas Speeches, from the State House to the White House
By Mary Frances Berry and Josh Gottheimer Foreword by Theodore C. Sorensen
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Was There an Alternative?
By Noam Chomsky
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ME THE PEOPLE
One Mans Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America
By Kevin Bleyer
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A COLOSSAL WRECK
A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption, and American Culture
By Alexander Cockburn
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FAST FUTURE
How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World
By David D. Burstein
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DIVIDED WE FAIL
The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation
By Sarah Garland
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BROTHERS EMANUEL
A Memoir of an American Family
By Ezekiel J. Emanuel
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THE FUTURE
Six Drivers of Global Change
By Al Gore
Random House | HC | 978-0-8129-9294-6 | 592pp. $30.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $15.00 Do not order paperback before 10/8/2013. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8289-3 | 592pp. $18.00/$20.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 Audio CD: 978-0-449-01546-9 | $50.00/$58.00 Can. Audio DL: 978-0-449-01547-6 | $25.00/$29.95 Can. e-Book: 978-0-679-64430-9 | $15.99/$16.99 Can.
JIHAD INCORPORATED
A Guide to Militant Islam in the US
By Steven Emerson
Prometheus | HC | 978-1-59102-453-8 | 535pp. $28.99/$30.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $14.50
GENERATION ROE
Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement
By Sarah Erdreich For full description, see page 8.
Seven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-60980-458-9 | 272pp. $16.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-60980-459-6 | $16.95/$16.95 Can.
DEBT
The First 5,000 Years
By David Graeber For full description, see page 12.
Melville House | TR | 978-1-61219-129-4 | 544pp. $22.00/$22.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.00 e-Book: 978-1-61219-098-3 | $32.00/$37.00 Can.
PREDATOR NATION
Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America
By Charles H. Ferguson
Crown Business | TR | 978-0-307-95256-1 | 384pp. $15.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 Audio DL: 978-0-307-96983-5 | $20.00/$24.00 Can. e-Book: 978-0-307-95257-8 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.
REIMAGINING EQUALITY
Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
By Anita Hill For full description, see page 16.
Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-1443-1 | 224pp. $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-0-8070-1438-7 | $25.95/$29.00 Can.
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SOMALIS IN MAINE
Crossing Cultural Currents
Edited by Kimberly A. Huisman, Mazie Hough, Kristin M. Langellier and Carol Nordstrom Toner Afterword by Ahmend I. Samatar
North Atlantic Books | TR | 978-1-55643-926-1 | 400pp. $27.95/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $14.00
AMAZING GRACE
The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
By Jonathan Kozol
Broadway | TR | 978-0-7704-3566-0 | 336pp. $15.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-0-7704-3665-0 | $11.99/$13.99 Can. For more books by Jonathan Kozol, go to: tiny.cc/0k1c1w
TOP DOWN
A Novel
By Jim Lehrer
Do not order before10/8/2013. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6916-3 | 208pp. $26.00/$30.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00 e-Book: 978-0-679-60350-4 | $12.99/$14.99 Can.
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EMBERS OF WAR
The Fall of an Empire and the Making of Americas Vietnam
By Fredrik Logevall For full description, see page 24.
Random House | HC | 978-0-375-50442-6 | 864pp. $40.00/$46.00 Can. | Exam Copy $20.00 e-Book: 978-0-679-64519-1 | $14.99/$16.99 Can.
BILLIONAIRES BALL
Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
By Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks
Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-0343-5 | 280pp. $18.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-0-8070-0340-4 | $26.95/NCR
AMERICAN GOSPEL
God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
By Jon Meacham
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7666-3 | 448pp. $16.00/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 Audio DL: 978-0-7393-3438-6 | $16.48/$21.00 Can. e-Book: 978-1-58836-577-4 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.
AMERICAN LION
Andrew Jackson in the White House
By Jon Meacham For full description, see page 28.
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7346-4 | 512pp. $18.00/$22.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 Audio CD: 978-0-7393-3458-4 | $39.95/$45.00 Can. Audio DL: 978-1-4159-5712-7 | $25.00/$28.00 Can. e-Book: 978-1-58836-822-5 | $13.99/$14.99 Can.
DRIFT
The Unmooring of American Military Power
By Rachel Maddow For full description, see page 26.
Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-46099-8 | 288pp. $15.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 Audio CD: 978-0-307-97038-1 | $35.00/$41.00 Can. Audio DL: 978-0-307-97039-8 | $17.50/$20.50 Can. e-Book: 978-0-307-46100-1 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The Art of Power
By Jon Meacham For full description, see page 28.
Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6766-4 | 800pp. $35.00/$41.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $17.50 Audio CD: 978-0-7393-3461-4 | $50.00/$58.00 Can. Audio DL: 978-0-7393-3462-1 | $27.50/$32.00 Can. e-Book: 978-0-679-64536-8 | $17.99/$19.99 Can.
PROPHETIC ENCOUNTERS
Religion and the American Radical Tradition
By Dan McKanan
Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-1317-5 | 336pp. $24.00/$28.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.00 e-Book: 978-0-8070-1316-8 | $34.95/$40.00 Can.
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COLONEL ROOSEVELT
By Edmund Morris
Random House | TR | 978-0-375-75707-5 | 784pp. $18.00/$20.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 Audio CD: 978-0-307-75040-2 | $50.00/$59.00 Can. Audio DL: 978-0-307-75042-6 | $32.50/$37.50 Can. e-Book: 978-0-679-60415-0 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.
COMING APART
The State of White America, 19602010
By Charles Murray For full description, see page 30.
Crown Forum | TR | 978-0-307-45343-3 | 432pp. $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-0-307-45344-0 | $12.99/$13.99 Can.
PINCHED
How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It
By Don Peck
Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-88653-8 | 240pp. $14.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-0-307-88654-5 | $9.99/$12.99 Can.
TOLD YOU SO
The Big Book of Weekly Columns
By Ralph Nader Introduction by Jim Hightower
Seven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-60980-474-9 | 540pp. $29.95/$29.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $15.00 e-Book: 978-1-60980-475-6 | $29.95/$29.95 Can.
LAZY B
Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest
By Sandra Day OConnor and H. Alan Day For full description, see page 32.
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-6673-2 | 336pp. $16.00/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 Audio DL: 978-0-553-75566-4 | $12.50/$15.50 Can. e-Book: 978-1-58836-143-1 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.
SNOB ZONES
Fear, Prejudice, and Real Estate
By Lisa Prevost
Beacon Press | HC | 978-0-8070-0157-8 | 208pp. $25.95/$30.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00 e-Book: 978-0-8070-0158-5 | $25.95/$30.00 Can.
PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP
By Nick Ragone
Prometheus | HC | 978-1-61614-237-7 | 332pp. $25.00/$26.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50
HUNTING SEASON
Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town
By Mirta Ojito
Do not order before 10/29/2013. Beacon Press | HC | 978-0-8070-0181-3 | 240pp. $24.95/$27.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50 e-Book: 978-0-8070-0182-0 | $24.95/$27.95 Can.
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NO HIGHER HONOR
A Memoir of My Years in Washington
By Condoleezza Rice
Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-98678-8 | 784pp. $18.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 Audio CD: 978-0-307-96697-1 | $60.00/$68.00 Can. Audio DL: 978-0-307-96698-8 | $30.00/$35.00 Can. e-Book: 978-0-307-95247-9 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.
OUTLAW MARRIAGES
The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples
By Rodger Streitmatter
Beacon Press | HC | 978-0-8070-0334-3 | 224pp. $26.95/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.50 e-Book: 978-0-8070-0335-0 | $26.95/$32.00 Can.
CORRUPTED CULTURE
Rediscovering Americas Enduring Principles, Values, and Common Sense
By Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
Prometheus | TR | 978-1-61614-749-5 | 275pp. $19.00/$20.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-61614-750-1 | $11.99/$11.99 Can.
INDOMITABLE WILL
LBJ in the Presidency
By Mark Updegrove
Crown | HC | 978-0-307-88771-9 | 400pp. $27.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.50 Audio DL: 978-0-307-96999-6 | $22.50/$26.50 Can. e-Book: 978-0-307-88773-3 | $13.99/$15.99 Can.
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MUZZLED
The Assault on Honest Debate
By Juan Williams
Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-95202-8 | 304pp. $15.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-0-307-95203-5 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.
PARECOMIC
Michael Albert and the Story of Participatory Economics
By Sean Michael Wilson and Carl Thompson Introduction by Noam Chomsky
Seven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-60980-456-5 | 224pp. $18.95/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-60980-457-2 | $18.95/$18.95 Can.
REVIVAL
The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House
By Richard Wolffe
Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-71742-9 | 352pp. $16.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 Audio CD: 978-0-307-74989-5 | $40.00/$47.00 Can. Audio DL: 978-0-307-74990-1 | $25.00/$28.95 Can. e-Book: 978-0-307-71743-6 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.
NOTHING TO ENVY
Ordinary Lives in North Korea
By Barbara Demick Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize
Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52391-2 | 336pp. $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-0-385-52961-7 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.
MONSOON
The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
By Robert D. Kaplan
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7920-6 | 400pp. $17.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-0-679-60405-1 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.
DAMNED NATIONS
Greed, Guns, Armies, and Aid
By Samantha Nutt, M.D.
Signal | TR | 978-0-7710-5146-3 | 240pp. $17.99/$19.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-0-7710-5147-0 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.
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MAONOMICS
Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
By Loretta Napoleoni Translated by Stephen Twilley
Seven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-60980-431-2 | 384pp. $18.95/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-60980-352-0 | $26.95/$31.00 Can.
GANDHI
A Political and Spiritual Life
By Kathryn Tidrick
Verso | TR | 978-1-78168-101-5 | 400pp. $19.95/$22.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-78168-239-5 | $19.95/$22.95 Can.
DEAD FUNNY
Telling Jokes in Hitlers Germany
By Rudolph Herzog Translated by Jefferson Chase
Melville House | TR | 978-1-61219-130-0 | 256pp. $16.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-935554-93-6 | $26.00/$26.00 Can.
LOGAVINA STREET
Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood
By Barbara Demick
Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-8129-8276-3 | 272pp. $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-0-679-64412-5 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.
ROADS TO BERLIN
By Cees Nooteboom Translated by Laura Watkinson
Do not order before 10/102013. MacLehose Press | HC | 978-1-62365-097-1 | 400pp. $24.95/$24.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50 e-Book: 978-1-62365-098-8 | $24.95/$24.95 Can.
MASKS OF ANARCHY
The History Of A Radical Poem, From Percy Shelley To The Triangle Factory Fire
By Michael Demson Illustrated by Summer McClinton
Verso | TR | 978-1-78168-098-8 | 128pp. $16.95/$18.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-78168-229-6 | $16.95/$18.95 Can.
STORY OF MY PEOPLE
By Edoardo Nesi Winner of the Strega Prize
Other Press | HC | 978-1-59051-554-9 | 176pp. $19.95/$23.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $10.00 e-Book: 978-1-59051-555-6 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.
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PLANET OF SLUMS
By Mike Davis
Verso | TR | 978-1-84467-160-1 | 228pp. $19.95/$25.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-84467-485-5 | $19.95/$22.95 Can.
WE ARE DOOMED
Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism
By John Derbyshire
Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-40959-1 | 272pp. $15.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-0-307-46248-0 | $11.99/$12.99 Can.
FREEDOM MANIFESTO
Why Free Markets Are Moral and Big Government Isnt
By Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames
Crown Business | HC | 978-0-307-95157-1 | 304pp. $26.00/$31.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00 e-Book: 978-0-307-95159-5 | $13.99/$16.99 Can.
BLUE REVOLUTION
Unmaking Americas Water Crisis
By Cynthia Barnett
Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-0328-2 | 296pp. $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-0-8070-0318-3 | $26.95/$31.00 Can.
HOW WE LEAD
Canada in a Century of Change
By Joe Clark
Do not order before 11/5/2013. Random House Canada | HC | 978-0-307-35907-0 | 304pp. $32.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $16.00 e-Book: 978-0-307-35909-4 | $15.99/$16.99 Can.
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GRIFTOPIA
A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History
By Matt Taibbi
Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52996-9 | 320pp. $16.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 Audio DL: 978-0-307-75109-6 | $20.00/$23.00 Can. e-Book: 978-0-385-52997-6 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.
MEME WARS
The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics
Edited by Kalle Lasn and Adbusters
Seven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-60980-473-2 | 400pp. $29.95/$29.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $15.00
THE 4% SOLUTION
Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs
By The Bush Institute Edited by Brendan Miniter Introduction by James K. Glassman Foreword by George W. Bush
Crown Business | HC | 978-0-307-98614-6 | 368pp. $26.00/$31.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00 e-Book: 978-0-307-98615-3 | $13.99/$16.99 Can.
EXIT STRATEGY
Ending the Tyranny of Finance
By Giulio Tremonti
Rizzoli Ex Libris | HC | 978-0-8478-4024-3 | 252pp. $25.95/$25.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00 e-Book: 978-0-8478-4027-4 | $24.95/$24.95 Can.
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IN FED WE TRUST
Ben Bernankes War on the Great Panic
By David Wessel For full description, see page 40.
Crown Business | TR | 978-0-307-45969-5 | 352pp. $16.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 Audio DL: 978-0-307-71352-0 | $20.00/$24.95 Can. e-Book: 978-0-307-45970-1 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.
THE FUTURE
Six Drivers of Global Change
By Al Gore
Random House | HC | 978-0-8129-9294-6 | 592pp. $30.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $15.00 Do not order paperback before 10/8/2013. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8289-3 | 592pp. $18.00/$20.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 Audio CD: 978-0-449-01546-9 | $50.00/$58.00 Can. Audio DL: 978-0-449-01547-6 | $25.00/$29.95 Can. e-Book: 978-0-679-64430-9 | $15.99/$16.99 Can.
RED INK
Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget
By David Wessel For full description, see page 40.
Crown Business | TR | 978-0-7704-3616-2 | 208pp. $12.99/$14.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-0-7704-3615-5 | $11.99/$11.99 Can.
RAISING GLOBAL IQ
Preparing Our Students for a Shrinking Planet
By Carl Hobert
Beacon Press | HC | 978-0-8070-3288-6 | 232pp. $26.95/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.50 e-Book: 978-0-8070-3290-9 | $26.95/$32.00 Can.
COOL WAR
The Future of Global Competition
By Noah Feldman For full description, see page 10.
Random House | HC | 978-0-8129-9274-8 | 224pp. $26.00/$31.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00 Audio DL: 978-0-385-36215-3 | $17.50/$20.50 Can. e-Book: 978-0-679-64383-8 | $13.99/$15.99 Can.
CITIZENS OF NOWHERE
From Refugee Camp to Canadian Campus
By Debi Goodwin
Anchor Canada | TR | 978-0-385-66723-4 | 336pp. $17.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-0-307-37603-9 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.
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ENGINEERS OF VICTORY
The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World War
By Paul Kennedy
Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6761-9 | 464pp. $30.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $15.00 Do not order paperback before 12/10/2013. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7939-8 | 480pp. $16.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-58836-898-0 | $14.99/NCR
INTELLIGENCE WARS
Lessons from Baghdad
By Steven K. OHern
Prometheus | HC | 978-1-59102-670-9 | 292pp. $25.99/$27.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00
BROKERS OF DECEIT
How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East
By Rashid Khalidi For full description, see page 20.
Beacon Press | HC | 978-0-8070-4475-9 | 208pp. $25.95/$30.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00 e-Book: 978-0-8070-4476-6 | $25.95/$30.00 Can.
EXPORTING DEMOCRACY
The Risks and Rewards of Pursuing a Good Idea
By Bob Rae
McClelland & Stewart | TR | 978-0-7710-7290-1 | 288pp. $19.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-55199-343-0 | $14.99/$13.99 Can.
LANDGRABBING
Journeys In The New Colonialism
By Stefano Liberti Translated by Enda Flannery
Do not order before 11/19/2013. Verso | HC | 978-1-78168-117-6 | 224pp. $24.95/$27.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50 e-Book: 978-1-78168-232-6 | $24.95/$27.95 Can.
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MY NAME IS VICTORIA
The Extraordinary Story of one Womans Struggle to Reclaim her True Identity
By Victoria Donda Translated by Magda Bolin
Other Press | TR | 978-1-59051-404-7 | 272pp. $15.95/$17.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-59051-405-4 | $12.99/$12.99 Can.
HAVANA REAL
One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth About Cuba Today
By Yoani Snchez Translated by M. J. Porter
Melville House | TR | 978-1-935554-25-7 | 256pp. $16.95/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-935554-91-2 | $16.95/$16.95 Can.
OPERATION MASSACRE
By Rodolfo Walsh Translated by Daniella Gitlin Foreword by Michael Greenberg Afterword by Ricardo Piglia
Seven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-60980-513-5 | 252pp. $16.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-60980-514-2 | $16.95/$16.95 Can.
PLAIN, HONEST MEN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY, POLITICS AND SOCIETY OPEN BORDERS TO A REVOLUTION
Culture, Politics, and Migration
Edited by Jaime Marroqun Arredondo, Adela Pineda Franco, and Magdalena Mieri For full description, see page 4.
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press | HC | 978-1-935623-12-0 270pp. | $39.95/$46.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $20.00
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QUEER (IN)JUSTICE
The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
By Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock
Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-5115-3 | 240pp. $18.00/$20.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-0-8070-5117-7 | $27.95/$32.00 Can.
NARCOLAND
The Mexican Drug Lords And Their Godfathers
By Anabel Hernandez Introduction by Roberto Saviano
Verso | HC | 978-1-78168-073-5 | 304pp. $26.95/$31.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.50 e-Book: 978-1-78168-248-7 | $26.95/$31.00 Can.
CHEATING JUSTICE
How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law and Plotted to Avoid Prosecutionand What We Can Do about It
By Elizabeth Holtzman and Cynthia Cooper
Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-0338-1 | 224pp. $18.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-0-8070-0322-0 | $26.95/$32.00 Can.
OUT OF ORDER
Stories from the History of the Supreme Court
By Sandra Day OConnor For full description, see page 32.
Random House | HC | 978-0-8129-9392-9 | 256pp. $26.00/$31.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00 Audio CD: 978-0-385-36079-1 | $35.00/$41.00 Can. Audio DL: 978-0-385-36080-7 | $17.50/$20.50 Can. e-Book: 978-0-8129-9393-6 | $12.99/$14.99 Can.
MARANOIA
Weed, Greed, and the End of California
By David Rose
Melville House | HC | 978-1-61219-186-7 | 256pp. $24.95/$24.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50 e-Book: 978-1-61219-187-4 | $24.95/$24.95 Can.
ENEMIES
A History of the FBI
By Tim Weiner
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7923-7 | 560pp. $20.00/$24.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $10.00 Audio CD: 978-0-307-93393-5 | $45.00/$52.00 Can. Audio DL: 978-0-307-93394-2 | $27.50/$32.00 Can. e-Book: 978-0-679-64389-0 | $15.99/$17.99 Can.
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CENSORED 2013
The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 20112012
Edited by Mickey Huff Contribution by Project Censored Illustrated by Khalil Bendib
Seven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-60980-422-0 | 464pp. $19.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-60980-423-7 | $19.95/$19.95 Can.
REFLECTIONS ON ANTI-SEMITISM
By Alain Badiou, Eric Hazan and Ivan Segre
Verso | TR | 978-1-84467-877-8 | 256pp. $29.95/$34.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $15.00 e-Book: 978-1-78168-226-5 | $29.95/$34.95 Can.
CENSORED 2014
Fearless Speech in Fateful Times; The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 201213
Edited by Mickey Huff, Andy Lee Roth and Project Censored Foreword by Sarah Van Gelder Illustrated by Khalil Bendib
Do not order before 10/1/2013. Seven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-60980-494-7 | 288pp. $16.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-60980-495-4 | $16.95/$16.95 Can.
WARRIORS OF GOD
Inside Hezbollahs Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel
By Nicholas Blanford
Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6836-4 | 544pp. $30.00/$34.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $15.00 Audio DL: 978-0-307-96760-2 | $24.00/$27.00 Can. e-Book: 978-0-679-60516-4 | $17.99/$17.99 Can.
TENSION CITY
Inside the Presidential Debates from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain
By Jim Lehrer
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8143-8 | 240pp. $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 Audio CD: 978-0-307-87844-1 | $30.00/$34.00 Can. Audio DL: 978-0-307-87845-8 | $14.00/$16.00 Can. e-Book: 978-0-679-60351-1 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.
HAMAS
From Resistance to Government
By Paola Caridi Translated by Andrea Teti
Seven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-60980-382-7 | 416pp. $24.95/$24.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50 e-Book: 978-1-60980-083-3 | $24.95/$24.95 Can.
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MY PROMISED LAND
The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
By Ari Shavit
Do not order before 11/19/2013. Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-385-52170-3 | 464pp. $28.00/$33.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $14.00 Audio CD: 978-0-385-35959-7 | $35.00/$40.00 Can. Audio DL: 978-0-385-35960-3 | $20.00/$23.00 Can. e-Book: 978-0-8129-8464-4 | $13.99/$14.99 Can.
REPORTING IRAQ
An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It
By Mike Hoyt Edited by John Palattella
Melville House | TR | 978-1-933633-34-3 | 300pp. $21.95/$27.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.00
IMAGINED COMMUNITIES
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By Benedict Anderson
Verso | TR | 978-1-84467-086-4 | 240pp. $21.95/$27.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.00 e-Book: 978-1-84467-484-8 | $21.95/$24.95 Can.
EMBRACING ISRAEL/PALESTINE
A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East
By Michael Lerner
North Atlantic Books | TR | 978-1-58394-307-6 | 448pp. $17.95/$20.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-58394-338-0 | $16.99/$16.99 Can.
CAPTIVITY
118 Days in Iraq and the Struggle for a World Without War
By James Loney
Vintage Canada | TR | 978-0-307-39928-1 | 432pp. $18.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-0-307-39929-8 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.
SHATTERED HOPES
Obamas Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace
By Josh Ruebner
Verso | HC | 978-1-78168-120-6 | 256pp. $26.95/$31.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.50 e-Book: 978-1-78168-183-1 | $26.95/$31.00 Can.
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UNCIVIL SOCIETY
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
By Stephen Kotkin Contribution by Jan Gross
Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-6679-4 | 256pp. $16.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-58836-917-8 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.
IDEOLOGY
An Introduction
By Terry Eagleton
Verso | TR | 978-1-84467-143-4 | 242pp. $23.95/$30.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.00
DANGEROUS GAMES
The Uses and Abuses of History
By Margaret MacMillan
Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7996-1 | 208pp. $15.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-58836-768-6 | $11.99/NCR
GROWING UP ABSURD
Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
By Paul Goodman Foreword by Casey Nelson Blake Afterword by Susan Sontag
NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-59017-581-1 | 312pp. $17.95/$21.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-59017-596-5 | $17.95/$17.95 Can.
AGONISTICS
Thinking The World Politically
By Chantal Mouffe
Verso | TR | 978-1-78168-103-9 | 224pp. $24.95/$27.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50 e-Book: 978-1-78168-235-7 | $24.95/$27.95 Can.
AMERICAN INDIVIDUALISM
How a New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party
By Margaret Hoover
Crown Forum | TR | 978-0-307-71816-7 | 272pp. $15.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-0-307-71817-4 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.
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MAPPING IDEOLOGY
Edited by Slavoj iek Contribution by Nicholas Abercrombie, Theodor Adorno, Louis Althusser and Michele Barrett
Verso | TR | 978-1-84467-554-8 | 348pp. $26.95/$28.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.50 e-Book: 978-1-84467-612-5 | $26.95/$31.00 Can.
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CARBON DEMOCRACY
Political Power in the Age of Oil
By Timothy Mitchell
Verso | TR | 978-1-78168-116-9 | 288pp. $19.95/$22.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-84467-896-9 | $26.95/$31.00 Can.
THE YOUNG ACTIVISTS GUIDE TO BUILDING A GREEN MOVEMENT AND CHANGING THE WORLD
By Sharon J. Smith
Ten Speed Press | TR | 978-1-58008-561-8 | 224pp. $14.99/$16.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-60774-016-2 | $11.99/$12.99 Can.
WALKING HOME
The Life and Lessons of a City Builder
By Ken Greenberg
Vintage Canada | TR | 978-0-307-35815-8 | 400pp. $21.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $10.50 e-Book: 978-0-307-35816-5 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.
ON A FARTHER SHORE
INVISIBLE NATURE
Healing the Destructive Divide Between People and the Environment
By Kenneth Worthy
Prometheus | TR | 978-1-61614-763-1 | 325pp. $19.00/$20.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-61614-764-8 | $11.99/$11.99 Can.
ENERGY VICTORY
Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil
By Robert Zubrin
Prometheus | TR | 978-1-59102-707-2 | 357pp. $19.99/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
FOOLS RULE
Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change
By William Marsden
Vintage Canada | TR | 978-0-307-39825-3 | 352pp. $17.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-0-307-36673-3 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.
INTEGRATED ACTIVISM
Applying the Hidden Connections between Ecology, Economics, Politics, and and Social Progress
By Alexis Zeigler
Evolver Editions | TR | 978-1-58394-604-6 | 280pp. $18.95/$21.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-58394-619-0 | $14.95/$14.95 Can.
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RUSSIAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY A MEMOIR OF THE WARSAW UPRISING
By Miron Bialoszewski Translated by Madeline Levine
Do not order before 12/3/2013. NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-59017-665-8 | 256pp. $16.95/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-59017-697-9 | $16.95/$16.95 Can.
RADICAL PASSION
Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action
By Andrew Harvey
North Atlantic Books | TR | 978-1-58394-503-2 | 592pp. $29.95/$35.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $15.00 e-Book: 978-1-58394-512-4 | $23.95/$23.95 Can.
GENERAL BLINDSPOT
Hidden Biases of Good People
By Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald
Delacorte Press | HC | 978-0-553-80464-5 | 272pp. $27.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.50 e-Book: 978-0-440-42329-4 | $13.99/$15.99 Can.
OCCUPY SPIRITUALITY
A Radical Vision for a New Generation
By Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox Foreword by Mona Eltahawy and Andrew Harvey Afterword by Lama Surya Das
North Atlantic Books | TR | 978-1-58394-685-5 | 248pp. $17.95/$20.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-58394-686-2 | $14.99/$14.99 Can.
ARMED
By Gary Kleck and Don B. Kates
Prometheus | HC | 978-1-57392-883-0 | 363pp. $30.99/$32.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $15.50
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SNOWBALLS CHANCE
By John Reed Foreword by Alexander Cockburn Afterword by James Sherry
Melville House | TR | 978-1-61219-125-6 | 160pp. $15.00/$15.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-1-61219-126-3 | $15.00/$15.00 Can.
JOSEPH ANTON
A Memoir
By Salman Rushdie
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8260-2 | 656pp. $18.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00 Audio CD: 978-0-449-80781-1 | $60.00/$68.00 Can. Audio DL: 978-0-449-80782-8 | $25.00/$29.95 Can. e-Book: 978-0-679-64388-3 | $15.99/NCR
TRUDEAU TRANSFORMED
The Shaping of a Statesman 19441965
By Max Nemni and Monique Nemni
McClelland & Stewart | TR | 978-0-7710-5127-2 | 544pp. $24.99/$24.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50 e-Book: 978-0-7710-5126-5 | $19.99/$19.99 Can.
SACRED GROUND
Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America
By Eboo Patel
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CONSUMER REPUBLIC
Using Brands to Get What You Want, Make Corporations Behave, and Maybe Even Save the World
By Bruce Philp
Emblem Editions | TR | 978-0-7710-7004-4 | 288pp. $17.95/$19.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 e-Book: 978-0-7710-7006-8 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.
NEWTONS FOOTBALL
The Science Behind Americas Game
By Allen St. John and Ainissa G. Ramirez, Ph.D.
Ballantine | HC | 978-0-345-54514-5 | 256pp. $26.00/$30.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00 e-Book: 978-0-345-54515-2 | $12.99/$14.99 Can.
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