Publicaffairs: 825 books
American Overdose
The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic--devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusions
The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed,...
Dreams of a Great Small Nation
The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The pages of history recall scarcely any parallel episode at once so romantic in character and so extensive in scale.” -Winston S. Churchill
In 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by the ruinous cost in blood and treasure...
Little Red
Three Passionate Lives through the Sixties and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
In the early 1960s, a remarkable crop of students graduated from a small New York City school renowned for progressive pedagogy and left-wing politics: Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School. These young people entered college at the peak of the transformative era we now call The...
The Compatriots
The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with the mother country--be it antagonistic or far too chummy.
The history of Russian espionage is soaked in blood, from a spontaneous pistol shot...
Exit the Colonel
The Hidden History of the Libyan Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
In Exit the Colonel, Ethan Chorin, a longtime Middle East scholar and one of the first American diplomats posted to Libya after the lifting of international sanctions, goes well beyond recent reporting on the Arab Spring to link the Libyan uprising to a flawed reform process, egregious human rights...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
Since delivering his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama has been hailed as the clear savior of not only the Democratic party, but of the integrity of American politics. Despite the fact that he burst onto the national scene seemingly overnight, his name recognition...
Not for the Faint of Heart
Lessons in Courage, Power, and Persistence
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Distinguished diplomat Ambassador Wendy Sherman brings readers inside the negotiating room to show how to put diplomatic values like courage, power, and persistence to work in their own lives.
Few people have sat across from the Iranians and the North Koreans at the negotiating table. Wendy...
Seven Days Of Possibilities
One Teacher, 24 Kids, and the Music That Changed Their Lives Forever
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Johanna Grussner arrived in New York City starry-eyed. She was a young Finnish jazz singer looking for the big time. But it was hard to find steady gigs. Propelled by pluck, determination, and a smidgen of desperation, she obtained a job teaching music at P.S. 86, a public school in the Bronx. At...
Cult of the Dead Cow
How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our privacy, our freedom -- even democracy itself
Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest, most respected, and most famous American hacking group of all time. Though until now it has remained mostly...
The Empty Throne
America's Abdication of Global Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
American diplomacy is in shambles, but beneath the daily chaos is an erosion of the postwar order that is even more dangerous.
America emerged from the catastrophe of World War II convinced that global engagement and leadership were essential to prevent another global conflict and further economic...
How to Get Rid of a President
History's Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
A vivid political history of the schemes, plots, maneuvers, and conspiracies that have attempted--successfully and not--to remove unwanted presidents
To limit executive power, the founding fathers created fixed presidential terms of four years, giving voters regular opportunities to remove...
Reckless
Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Henry Kissinger's role in the Vietnam War prolonged the American tragedy and doomed the government of South Vietnam
The American war in Vietnam was concluded in 1973 after eight years of fighting, bloodshed, and loss. Yet the terms of the truce that ended the war were effectively identical...
Unnatural Selection
Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
A Slate Best Book of 2011
A Discover Magazine Best Book of 2011
Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years,...
Beyond Choice
Reproductive Freedom In The 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Thirty years after Roe v. Wade, the argument between "pro-choicers" and "pro-lifers" has reached stalemate. Pro-choice arguments haven't persuaded a comfortable majority that legal abortion is vital to our society, nor addressed our moral qualms. Younger people are less and less...