Publicaffairs imprint: 611 books

Leap of Faith

Hubris, Negligence, and America's Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy

by Michael J. Mazarr
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019

The dramatic insider account of why we invaded Iraq, the motivations that drove it, and the frustrations of those who tried and failed to stop it, leading to the most costly misadventure in US history. A single disastrous choice in the wake of 9/11-the decision to use force to remove Saddam...

Trail Of Feathers

Searching for Philip True

by Robert Rivard
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009

In December 1998, San Antonio Express-News reporter Philip True vanished during a solo backcountry trek in western Mexico, home of the reclusive Huichol Indians and the Chapalagana, the Twisted Serpent Canyon, a 150-mile long gash that twists and plunges through the heart of the Sierra Madre. Five...

The Human Tide

How Population Shaped the Modern World

by Paul Morland
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019

A dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires The rise and fall of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower; the ebb and flow of global challenges from Nazi Germany, Imperial...

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, Authorized Edition

Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the Un

by Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011

The definitive report on what caused America's economic meltdown and who was responsibleThe financial and economic crisis has touched the lives of millions of Americans who have lost their jobs and their homes, but many have little understanding of how it happened. Now, in this very accessible report,...

Shakespeare and the Resistance

The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny

by Clare Asquith
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018

Shakespeare's largely misunderstood narrative poems contain within them an explosive commentary on the political storms convulsing his country The 1590s were bleak years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of war. Amid the rising tension,...

Escape from Earth

A Secret History of the Space Rocket

by Fraser MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019

The long-buried truth about the dawn of the Space Age: lies, spies, socialism, and sex magick. Los Angeles, 1930s: Everyone knows that rockets are just toys, the stuff of cranks and pulp magazines. Nevertheless, an earnest engineering student named Frank Malina sets out to prove the doubters...
by Judith O'Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009

When Judith O'Reilly, a successful journalist and mother of three, agreed to leave London for a remote northern outpost, she made a deal with her husband that the move was a test-run to weigh the benefits of country living. In the rugged landscape of Northumberland County, O'Reilly swapped her high...
by Robert Koenig
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009

The story of Anton Dilger brings to life a missing chapter in U.S. history and shows, dramatically, that the Great European War was in fact being fought on the home front years before we formally joined it. The doctor who grew anthrax and other bacteria in that rented house was an American-the son...

Shadowplay

The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare

by Clare Asquith
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018

In 16th century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The era was one of unprecedented authoritarianism: England, it seemed, had become a police state, fearful of threats from abroad and plotters at home. This age of terror...
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