The New Press: 370 books
1877
America's Year of Living Violently
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
“[A] powerful examination of a nation trying to make sense of the complex changes and challenges of the post–Civil War era.” —Carol Berkin, author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution
In 1877—a decade after the Civil War—not only was the United States gripped...
Blue Covenant
The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
A cautionary account of climate change and the global water supply. “You will not turn on the tap in the same way after reading this book.” —Robert Redford
In a book hailed by Publishers Weekly as a “passionate plea for access-to-water activism,” Blue Covenant addresses an environmental...
Bitterly Divided
The South's Inner Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
The little-known history of anti-secession Southerners: “Absolutely essential Civil War reading.” —Booklist, starred review
Bitterly Divided reveals that the South was in fact fighting two civil wars—the external one that we know so much about, and an internal one about which there...
by Dr. Helen Caldicott
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
The renowned antinuclear activist delivers a “frighteningly convincing argument” against nuclear energy as a solution to climate change (Publishers Weekly).
In a world torn apart by wars over oil, politicians have stepped up their search for alternative energy sources—and their leading...
Protest Nation
Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Historic writings by socialists, LGBT activists, environmentalists, and more: “An extraordinary collection of the voices of American dissidents.” —Howard Zinn
Protest Nation is a guide to the speeches, letters, broadsides, essays, and manifestos that form the backbone of the American...
Examined Life
Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
Philosophy reconnects with daily life in these conversations with eight renowned thinkers—the uncut interviews from the documentary film Examined Life.
Astra Taylor’s documentary film Examined Life took philosophy out of the academy and into the streets, reminding us that great ideas are...
Framing Innocence
A Mother's Photographs, a Prosecutor's Zeal, and a Small Town's Response
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
The harrowing true story of a mother whose innocent photos of her daughter resulted in child pornography charges—“an enthralling book” (Robert Coles).
When Oberlin, Ohio, resident Cynthia Stewart dropped off eleven rolls of film at a drugstore near her home, she had no idea that two snapshots...
The First Lady of Radio
Eleanor Roosevelt's Historic Broadcasts
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
“This anthology of 38 addresses . . . offer[s] a means for visiting anew the lifework of an extraordinary American woman” (HistoryNet).
A tie-in to the American RadioWorks® documentary—with audio and video content.
Eleanor Roosevelt’s groundbreaking career as a professional...
Eichmann's Executioner
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This acclaimed novel imagining the life of Israeli soldier Shalom Nagar explores the legacy of the Holocaust: “A fascinating book that doesn’t let you go” (Neue Deutschland, Germany).
In May 1962, twenty-two men gathered in Jerusalem to decide by lot who would be Adolf Eichmann’s executioner....
Fortress Europe
Dispatches from a Gated Continent
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Singled out by Foreign Affairs for its reporting on the brutal frontiers of new Europe,” Fortress Europe is the story of how the world’s most affluent region-and history’s greatest experiment with globalization-has become an immigration war zone, where tens of thousands have died in a humanitarian...
How the World Breaks
Life in Catastrophe's Path, from the Caribbean to Siberia
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
We’ve always lived on a dangerous planet, but its disasters aren’t what they used to be. How the World Breaks gives us a breathtaking new view of crisis and recovery on the unstable landscapes of the Earth’s hazard zones. Father and son authors Stan and Paul Cox take us to the explosive fire...
The Humorless Ladies of Border Control
Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
In 2009, musician Franz Nicolay left his job in the Hold Steady, aka “the world’s greatest bar band.” Over the next five years, he crossed the world with a guitar in one hand, a banjo in the other, and an accordion on his back, playing the anarcho-leftist squats and DIY spaces of the punk rock...
Speaking Freely
My Life in Publishing and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
What do Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Andrei Sakharov, and James Michener have in common? They were all published by Bob Bernstein during his twenty-five-year run as president of Random House, before he brought the dissidents Liu Binyan, Jacobo Timerman, Natan Sharansky, and Václav...
Cast Away
True Stories of Survival from Europes Refugee Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
**Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence 2017
Galvanizing and deeply compassionate.”
-O Magazine
From Time magazine’s European Union correspondent, a powerful exploration of the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, told through the stories of migrants who have...