City Lights Publishers: 100 books
National Insecurity
The Cost of American Militarism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
"Mel Goodman has spent the last few decades telling us what's gone wrong with American intelligence and the American military, and now, in National Insecurity, he tells us what we must do to change the way the system works, and how to fix it. Goodman is not only telling us how to save wasted...
Redefining Black Power
Reflections on the State of Black America
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Obama's presidency represents a major milestone in black history and the struggle for political, economic and cultural equality in the United States. Through interviews with black intellectuals, leaders and activists BBC journalist Griffith connects the dots with past civil rights and black power...
Mexico Unconquered
Chronicles of Power and Revolt
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Mexico Unconquered is an evocative report on the powers of violence and corruption in Mexico and the rebel underdogs who put their lives on the line to build justice from the ground up. Mexico Unconquered probes the overwhelming divisions in contemporary Mexico, home to the world’s richest man,...
Breaking Through Power
It's Easier Than We Think
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
The intention of this book is to crystalize Ralph Nader's core message and package it as a Thomas Paine wake up call--passionate, accessible, well-argued, story driven, and rooted in core American principles.
This title is an original work, rather than a collection of articles.
Nader's...
by Henry A. Giroux
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Henry Giroux's influence is growing and his political writing is hot. His political commentaries on Truthout attract large readerships and amass thousands of "likes" within days of posting. His pieces migrate fast, and appear on Huffington Post, Counterpunch, Alternet, and TruthDig—the...
Between Barack and a Hard Place
Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama’s emergence as a political force is taking the race debate to new levels. According to Wise, for many white people, Obama’s rise signifies the end of racism as a pervasive...
Whistleblower at the CIA
An Insiders Account of the Politics of Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
As a former senior CIA analyst and author critiquing the inner workings of the US intelligence community, Melvin A. Goodman brings peerless authority, gravitas, and first-person source material to a subject that is of intense interest to those on all positions of the political spectrum: the failure...
Border Patrol Nation
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
The New York Times recently observed that with the massive influx of undocumented immigrants from Latin America, every town in the US has become a border town, and with it, the whole of the nation is increasingly influenced by the armed authoritarianism of the US Border Patrol, characterized not by...
American Nightmare
Facing the Challenge of Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Henry Giroux’s message and influence have never been stronger. He saw Trump coming and sounded the alarm far in advance. That perspective was presented in his previous book from last year, America at War with Itself, which Robin D.G. Kelley has aptly referred to as a prescient work, as it assessed...
The Meaning of Freedom
And Other Difficult Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Want to Better Understand Socialism? New York Magazine recommends The Meaning of Freedom
What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to ending all forms of oppression that deny people their political, cultural,...
by Howard Zinn
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Howard Zinn's views on social movements, freedom, history, democracy, and our own human potential are educational and transformative. In few places is his voice more clear and accessible than in the dozens of articles he penned for The Progressive magazine from 1980 to 2009, offered together here...
by Howard Zinn
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Howard Zinn's latest collection of writings on the post-9/11 world Beautifully designed, affordable selling price
Dear White America
Letter to a New Minority
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Tim Wise is a force. His relentless touring and blogging have positioned him as one of the top commentators on the ever-changing racial landscape in the US today. A-list media seek him, his events are packed and his sales are strong. His success demonstrates that people of all colors in the US are...
Dying to Live
A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Book will be published on May 1st, 2008, the third anniversary of “A Day Without A Mexican,” the major national immigrant protests. The complex topic of immigration becomes a visceral experience for the reader through the telling of one man’s story, and his ultimate death. Congress will likely...