Metropolitan Books imprint: 234 books
Nemesis
The Last Days of the American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
The long-awaited final volume of Chalmers Johnson's bestselling
Blowback trilogy confronts the overreaching of the American empire and the threat it poses to the republic
In his prophetic book Blowback, Chalmers Johnson linked the CIA's clandestine activities abroad to disaster at home. In...
Global Woman
Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
In a remarkable pairing, two renowned social critics offer a groundbreaking anthology that examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide
Women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles,...
The Age of Illusions
How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
A thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power.
When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed...
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
The astonishing untold story of a woman who tried to stop the rise of Fascism and change the course of history
At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 7, 1926, a woman stepped out of the crowd on Rome's Campidoglio Square. Less than a foot in front of her stood Benito Mussolini. As he raised his arm...
by Götz Aly
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2020
From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, the first book to move beyond Germany’s singular crime to the collaboration of Europe as a whole.
The Holocaust was perpetrated by the Germans, but it would not have been possible without the assistance of thousands of helpers in other countries:...
Three New Deals
Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
From a world-renowned cultural historian, an original look at the hidden commonalities among Fascism, Nazism, and the New Deal
Today Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal is regarded as the democratic ideal, the positive American response to an economic crisis that propelled Germany and Italy...
White Man's Game
Saving Animals, Rebuilding Eden, and Other Myths of Conservation in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
A probing examination of Western conservation efforts in Africa, where our feel-good stories belie a troubling reality
The stunningly beautiful Gorongosa National Park, once the crown jewel of Mozambique, was nearly destroyed by decades of civil war. It looked like a perfect place for Western...
The Body of Il Duce
Mussolini's Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
A brilliant young historian follows the odyssey of Mussolini's body in an original exploration of the history and legacy of Italian Fascism
Bullet-ridden, spat on, butchered bloody: this was the fate of Il Duce, strung up beside his dead mistress in a Milan square, as reviled in death as he...
The Nubian Prince
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
A cutting, comic odyssey of a hapless hero ensnared by globalization, humanitarian aid, and the international sex trade, from an award-winning young Spanish writer
To save lives and get handsomely paid for it—what job could be more rewarding? Moises Froissard has found the career opportunity...
Marianne in Chains
Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
A startling and original view of the occupation of the French heartland, based on a new investigation of everyday life under Nazi rule
In France, the German occupation is called simply the "dark years." There were only the "good French" who resisted and the "bad French"...
I Like Being Killed
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Fiendishly funny and dark, here is a Canterbury Tales for the millennium, a vision of the New Europe where the young and bright live ultra-hip lives of noisy desperation
Tibor Fischer has been called "a Joseph Conrad with jokes" (The Sunday Times, London). Now he earns the title again...
Athens
A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
A lively and accessible history of Athens's rise to greatness, from one of the foremost classical historians.
The definitive account of Athens in the age of Pericles, Christian Meier's gripping study begins with the Greek triumph over Persia at the Battle of Salamis, one of the most significant...
by Jeffrey Rotter
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
A darkly comic, wildly original novel of a family in flight from the law, set in a near-future American dystopia.
In an America of the semi-distant future, human knowledge has reverted to a pre-Copernican state. Science and religion are diminished to fairy tales, and Earth once again occupies...
Crusade
Chronicles of an Unjust War
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
A devastating indictment of the Bush administration's war policies from the bestselling author and respected moral authority
With the words "this Crusade, this war on terror," George W. Bush defined the purpose of his presidency. And just as promptly, James Carroll-Boston Globe columnist,...