Metropolitan Books imprint: 234 books

Freud

The Making of an Illusion

by Frederick Crews
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017

From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator Since the 1970s, Sigmund Freud’s scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin—but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary...

Desert America

Boom and Bust in the New Old West

by Rubén Martínez
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012

A brilliantly illuminating portrait of the twenty-first-century West—a book as vast, diverse, and unexpected as the land and the people, from one of our foremost chroniclers of migration The economic boom—and the devastation left in its wake—has been writ nowhere as large as on the West,...

Red Fortress

History and Illusion in the Kremlin

by Catherine Merridale
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

A magisterial, richly detailed history of the Kremlin, and of the centuries of Russian elites who have shaped it—and been shaped by it in turn The Moscow Kremlin is the heart of the Russian state, a fortress whose blood-red walls have witnessed more than eight hundred years of political drama...

A Reenchanted World

The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature

by James William Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009

A surprising and enlightening investigation of how modern society is making nature sacred once again For more than two centuries, Western cultures, as they became ever more industrialized, increasingly regarded the natural world as little more than a collection of useful raw resources. The...

Imperial Ambitions

Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

In this first collection of interviews since the bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign policy Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating, this important volume of previously unpublished interviews conducted by award-winning radio...

Fatal Purity

Robespierre and the French Revolution

by Ruth Scurr
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007

A riveting biography of the French Revolution's most enigmatic figure that restores him to his pivotal historic place Since his execution by guillotine in July 1794, Maximilien Robespierre has been contested terrain for historians, at once the most notorious leader of the French Revolution...

The Song Poet

A Memoir of My Father

by Kao Kalia Yang
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016

From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing...

Dismantling the Empire

America's Last Best Hope

by Chalmers Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010

The author of the bestselling Blowback Trilogy reflects on America's waning power in a masterful collection of essays In his prophetic book Blowback, published before 9/11, Chalmers Johnson warned that our secret operations in Iraq and elsewhere around the globe would exact a price at home....

What's the Matter with Kansas?

How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

by Thomas Frank
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

One of "our most insightful social observers"* cracks the great political mystery of our time: how conservatism, once a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank turns his eye on what he calls the...

With Liberty and Justice for Some

How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful

by Glenn Greenwald
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011

From "the most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years" (Bill Moyers), a scathing critique of the two-tiered system of justice that has emerged in America From the nation's beginnings, the law was to be the great equalizer in American life, the guarantor of...

Texas Tough

The Rise of America's Prison Empire

by Robert Perkinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010

A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolution In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation...

The Sorrows of Empire

Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic

by Chalmers Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

From the author of the prophetic national bestseller Blowback, a startling look at militarism, American style, and its consequences abroad and at home In the years after the Soviet Union imploded, the United States was described first as the globe's "lone superpower," then as a "reluctant...

Ideal Illusions

How the U.S. Government Co-opted Human Rights

by James Peck
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011

From a noted historian and foreign-policy analyst, a groundbreaking critique of the troubling symbiosis between Washington and the human rights movement The United States has long been hailed as a powerful force for global human rights. Now, drawing on thousands of documents from the CIA, the...

The Arabs and the Holocaust

The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives

by Gilbert Achcar
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010

An unprecedented and judicious examination of what the Holocaust means—and doesn't mean—in the Arab world, one of the most explosive subjects of our time There is no more inflammatory topic than the Arabs and the Holocaust—the phrase alone can occasion outrage. The terrain is dense with...
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