Bold Type Books imprint: 172 books
Injustices
The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Now with a new epilogue-- an unprecedented and unwavering history of the Supreme Court showing how its decisions have consistently favored the moneyed and powerful.
Few American institutions have inflicted greater suffering on ordinary people than the Supreme Court of the United States. Since...
The Emancipation of Cecily McMillan
An American Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Cecily McMillan didn't come from much: she had a hardscrabble life bouncing between the members of a broken family scattered from Texas to Atlanta. Her relationship with her parents became increasingly strained, and at sixteen she was legally emancipated and taken in by a beloved teacher. She became...
This Is an Uprising
How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Strategic nonviolent action has reasserted itself as a potent force in shaping public debate and forcing political change. Whether it is an explosive surge of protest calling for racial justice in the United States, a demand for democratic reform in Hong Kong or Mexico, a wave of uprisings against...
Prophets of War
Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Enthralling and explosive, Prophets of War is an exposé of America's largest military contractor, Lockheed Martin. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his famous warning about the dangers of the military industrial complex, he never would have dreamed that a company could accumulate the kind...
Dreaming War
Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
When Gore Vidal's recent New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, the Los Angeles Times described Vidal as the last defender of the American republic. In Dreaming War, Vidal continues this defense by confronting the Cheney-Bush junta head on in a series of devastating...
Lords of the Land
The War Over Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
The 1967 Arab-Israeli War was a devastating triumph for Israel, which immediately began to establish settlements in the newly conquered territories. Those settlements, and the movement that made them possible, have utterly transformed Israel, and yet until now the full history of the occupation has...
The Goldstone Report
The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
The Goldstone Report is one of the most controversial UN reports ever published. It alleges that both Israel and Hamas committed atrocities when Israel invaded Gaza in January 2009 as a part of Operation Cast Lead. Justice Richard Goldstone, a celebrated South African and Jewish human rights lawyer,...
The Truth About Camp David
The Untold Story About the Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
The collapse of both sets of Arab-Israeli negotiations in 2000 led not only to recrimination and bloodshed, with the outbreak of the second intifada, but to the creation of a new myth. Syrian and Palestinian intransigence was blamed for the current disastrous state of affairs, as both parties rejected...
The Death and Life of American Journalism
The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
American journalism is collapsing as newspapers and magazines fail and scores of reporters are laid off across the country. Conventional wisdom says the Internet is to blame, but veteran journalists and media critics Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols disagree. The crisis of American journalism...
Kabuki Democracy
The System vs. Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
In this “agenda-setting” polemic, journalist and historian Eric Alterman explains what is really happening with the Obama presidency. While Obama’s many compromises have disappointed liberals, Alterman argues that these concessions are largely due to a political system that is rigged against...
The Quotable Atheist
Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
Surprisingly, no book of quotations on God and religion by atheists and agnostics exists. Luckily, for the millions of American nonbelievers who have quietly stewed for years as the religious right made gains in politics and culture, the wait is over. Bestselling author Jack Huberman's zeitgeist sense...
Tragedy in Crimson
How the Dalai Lama Conquered the World but Lost the Battle with China
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Tragedy in Crimson is award-winning journalist Tim Johnson’s extraordinary account of the cat-and-mouse game embroiling China and the Tibetan exile community over Tibet. Johnson reports from the front lines, trekking to nomad resettlements to speak with the people who guard Tibet’s slowly vanishing...
by Chris Hedges
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
In the face of modern conditions, revolution is inevitable. The rampant inequality that exists between the political and corporate elites and the struggling masses; the destruction wreaked upon our environment by faceless, careless corporations; the steady stripping away of our civil liberties and...
Radical
A Portrait of Saul Alinsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
From Left to Right, one man has influenced them all: Saul Alinsky. Radical is a personal portrait of this controversial mastermind of popular movements, a man who is often called the American Machiavelli.
The tactics and strategy of Alinsky, who died in 1972, have been studied by people as...