Publicaffairs: 825 books
Imperial America
Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Gore Vidal has been described as the last noble defender" of the American republic. In Imperial America, Vidal steals the thunder of a right wing America-those who have camouflaged their extremist rhetoric in the Old Glory and the Red, White, and Blue-by demonstrating that those whose protest...
The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century
A Social Justice Hall of Fame
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women's suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas for granted- because the radical ideas of one generation are often...
El Monstruo
Dread and Redemption in Mexico City
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
John Ross has been living in the old colonial quarter of Mexico City for the last three decades, a rebel journalist covering Mexico and the region from the bottom up. He is filled with a gnawing sense that his beloved Mexico City's days as the most gargantuan, chaotic, crime-ridden, toxically contaminated...
Dollarocracy
How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy.
Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades...
The Violence of Peace
America's Wars in the Age of Obama
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
"The man who many considered the peace candidate in the last election was transformed into a war president," writes bestselling author and leading academic Stephen l. Carter in The Violence of Peace, his new book decoding what President Barack Obama's views on war mean for America and its...
To Protect and Serve
How to Fix America's Police
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
American policing is in crisis. The last decade witnessed a vast increase in police aggression, misconduct, and militarization, along with a corresponding reduction in transparency and accountability. Nowhere is this more noticeable and painful than in African American and other ethnic minority communities....
The Honored Society
A Portrait of Italy's Most Powerful Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
In the early hours of an August 2007 morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg, Germany; in less than five minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both the victims and the assassins were members of the 'Ndrangheta crime organization. Calabria's Mafia...
Lords of Secrecy
The National Security Elite and America's Stealth Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Forty years ago, a majority of Americans were highly engaged in issues of war and peace. Whether to go to war or keep out of conflicts was a vital question at the heart of the country's vibrant, if fractious, democracy. But American political consciousness has drifted. In the last decade, America...
Goliath
Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of the Palestinians deepens.
Beginning...
by Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com and the Washington Post
Three years ago, Pulitzer Prizewinner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to take a look at the sacrifice zones, those areas in America that have been offered up for exploitation in...
Crude Awakening
Money, Mavericks, and Mayhem in Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Crude Awakening is the rollicking story of politics in America’s last frontier and oil province—Alaska, the nation’s most wild and mysterious state, where politics and oil blurred on the day wildcatters struck it big in 1968. Living in a northern Never Land, where oil companies and the federal...
Meltdown
How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2009
America’s economy is in meltdown. Banks have failed, foreclosures are sweeping the housing market, and stocks have suffered their worst losses since the Great Depression. Faced with a complex and spiraling crisis, the government has poured billions of taxpayer cash into a bailout with no end in...
Wag the Dog
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Once upon a time there was a mean, dying GOP chairman who had a brilliant scheme to assure that his man would retain the office of president of the United States of America. And the only man who could pull off this elaborate plan was a celebrated Hollywood director. Add to the mix a left-coast gumshoe...
by Walter Mosley
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
In his late teens and early twenties, Walter Mosley was addicted to alcohol and cigarettes. Drawing from this intimate knowledge of addiction and recovery, Mosley explores the deviances of contemporary America and describes a society in thrall to its own consumption. Although Americans live in the...