Metropolitan Books imprint: 234 books
Scars of Sweet Paradise
The Life and Times of Janis Joplin
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2000
Janis Joplin was the skyrocket chick of the sixties, the woman who broke into the boys' club of rock and out of the stifling good-girl femininity of postwar America. With her incredible wall-of-sound vocals, Joplin was the voice of a generation, and when she OD'd on heroin in October 1970, a generation's...
Everything Is Cinema
The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
A landmark biography explores the crucial resonances among the life, work, and times of one of the most influential filmmakers of our age
When Jean-Luc Godard wed the ideals of filmmaking to the realities of autobiography and current events, he changed the nature of cinema. Unlike any earlier...
Padre Pio
Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
The first historical appraisal of the astonishing life and times of a controversial twentieth-century saint
Padre Pio is one of the world's most beloved holy figures, more popular in Italy than the Virgin Mary and even Jesus. His tomb is the most visited Catholic shrine anywhere, drawing more...
by Elizabeth Warren
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works—and really doesn't—in A Fighting Chance
As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an...
First Words
A Childhood in Fascist Italy
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
An internationally acclaimed novelist and journalist movingly chronicles her childhood in Rome during World War II, providing a rare account by a Catholic of Jewish persecution and Papal responsibility
In 1937, Rosetta Loy was a privileged five-year-old growing up in the heart of the well-to-do...
My Life as a Russian Novel
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
An unsparingly truthful account of love, betrayal, and the traps we set for ourselves, by France's master of psychological suspense
In work after work, the critically acclaimed author Emmanuel Carrère has trained his unblinking gaze on the lives of others as they fight a losing battle with...
The Age of Deception
Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
For the first time, the Nobel Prize laureate and "man in the middle" of the planet's most explosive confrontations speaks out—on his dealings with America, negotiations with Iran, reform and democracy in the Middle East, and the prospects for a future free of nuclear weapons.
For...
Kissinger's Shadow
The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current imperial stance
In his fascinating new book Kissinger's Shadow, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin argues that to understand the crisis of...
Getting Schooled
The Reeducation of an American Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
In this powerful, eloquent story of his return to the classroom, a former teacher offers a rousing defense of his beleaguered vocation
Perhaps no profession is so constantly discussed, regulated, and maligned by non-practitioners as teaching. The voices of the teachers themselves are conspicuously...
The Great Dissent
How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--and Changed the History of Free Speech in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
A gripping intellectual history reveals how Oliver Wendell Holmes became a free-speech advocate and established the modern understanding of the First Amendment
No right seems more fundamental to American public life than freedom of speech. Yet well into the twentieth century, that freedom was...
This Fight Is Our Fight
The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
#1 New York Times bestseller
The fiery U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save it
Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America’s...
The Retail Revolution
How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
The definitive account of how a small Ozarks company upended the world of business and what that change means
Wal-Mart, the world's largest company, roared out of the rural South to change the way business is done. Deploying computer-age technology, Reagan-era politics, and Protestant evangelism,...
Hell's Cartel
IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War Machine
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The remarkable rise and shameful fall of one of the twentieth century's greatest conglomerates
At its peak in the 1930s, the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben was one of the most powerful corporations in the world. To this day, companies formerly part of the Farben cartel—the aspirin-maker...
The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq
In her groundbreaking reporting over the past few years, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad...