The New Press: 370 books
Bill Moyers Journal
The Conversation Continues
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
A companion volume to the Emmy Award**–**winning PBS® series—interviews with “an essential voice in our national conversation” (Brian Williams, MSNBC anchor).
This “provocative” and “absorbing” (Star Tribune) companion book to Bill Moyer’s acclaimed PBS series invites readers...
Syria
A History of the Last Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
“A fluent introduction to Syria’s recent past, this book provides the backstory to the country’s collapse into brutal civil conflict” (Andrew Arsan, author of Lebanon: A Country in Fragments).
The fall of Syria into civil war over the past two years has spawned a regional crisis with...
Down for the Count
Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The updated edition of Steal This Vote—a rollicking history of US voter suppression and fraud from Jacksonian democracy to Citizens United and beyond.
In Down for the Count, award-winning journalist Andrew Gumbel explores the tawdry history of elections in the United States. From Jim Crow...
A People's History of Sports in the United States
250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
From the author Robert Lipsyte calls “the best young sportswriter in America,” a rollicking, rebellious, myth-busting history of sports in America that puts politics in the ring with pop culture
In this long-waited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog Edge of Sports...
Invisible Punishment
The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
In a series of newly commissioned essays from the leading scholars and advocates in criminal justice, Invisible Punishment explores, for the first time, the far-reaching consequences of our current criminal justice policies. Adopted as part of get tough on crime” attitudes that prevailed in the...
Able Archer 83
The Secret History of the NATO Exercise That Almost Triggered Nuclear War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In November 1983, Soviet nuclear forces went on high alert. After months nervously watching increasingly assertive NATO military posturing, Soviet intelligence agencies in Western Europe received flash telegrams reporting alarming activity on U.S. bases. In response, the Soviets began planning for...
The Genius of Impeachment
The Founders' Cure for Royalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A more-timely-than-ever argument that impeachment is an essential American institution from the author of Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse.
This surprising and irreverent book by one of America’s leading political reporters makes the case that impeachment is much more than a legal and congressional...
P.S.
Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
This “electrifying” collection of unpublished work demonstrates the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “great gift for tapping into the lifeblood of America” (Booklist).
Millions of Studs Terkel fans have come to know the prizewinning oral historian through his landmark books—The...
So Rich, So Poor
Why It's so Hard to End Poverty in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
“A competent, thorough assessment from a veteran expert in the field.” —*KirkusReviews***
Income disparities in our wealthy nation are wider than at any point since the Great Depression. The structure of today’s economy has stultified wage growth for half of America’s workers—with...
Words of Fire
An Anthology of African-AmericanFeminist Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
"In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. Only since the seventies have black women used the term "feminism." And yet, it is that concept that she uses to bring into the same frame the ideas and analyses...
Behind the Shock Machine
The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
When social psychologist Stanley Milgram invited volunteers to take part in an experiment at Yale in the summer of 1961, none of the participants could have foreseen the worldwide sensation that the published results would cause. Milgram reported that fully 65 percent of the volunteers had repeatedly...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
The Consumer Society Reader features a range of key works on the nature and evolution of consumer society. Included here is much-discussed work by leading critics such as Jean Baudrillard, Susan Bordo, Dick Hebdige, bell hooks, and Janice Radway. Also included is a full range of classics, such as...
Addicted to Reform
A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America’s misguided approaches to K-12 school reform
During an illustrious four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow—winner of the George Polk Award, the Peabody Award, and the McGraw Prize—reported from every state in...
Be Honest
And Other Advice from Students Across the Country
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
Students speak up about American education in this book from 826 National, the celebrated tutoring center founded by Dave Eggers and Nínive Calegari.
This unique volume collects personal essays, letters, and stories by dozens of high school students who were given the chance to speak their...