Backlist

Meltdown

How Greed and Corruption Shattered our Financial System and How We Can Recover

By Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Gods that Failed

How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future

By Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson

The Man Who Sold the World

Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America

By William Kleinknecht

"'The Man Who Sold the World' is the most concise and well-thought-out argument against Reagan."
Read the entire Truthdig review

The Man Who Pushed America To War

The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi

By Aram Roston

Halliburton's Army

How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War

By Pratap Chatterjee

Watch Pratap Chatterjee discuss Halliburton's Army on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman.

A World I Loved

The Story of an Arab Woman

By Wadad Makdisi Cortas

The Silence and the Scorpion

The Coup Against Chávez and the Making of Modern Venezuela

By Brian A. Nelson

"The events of the April 2002 Venezuelan coup to oust President Hugo Chávez are brought to light here in unparalleled investigative reporting by Nelson...
His fascinating and harrowing account is part documentary, part eyewitness to history, yet always riveting...
At times reading like fiction, his enjoyable text is the definitive account of Chávez's ouster and return, devoid of loyal or opposition rhetoric...
Highly recommended."
—Library Journal

Collateral Damage (paperback)

America's War Against Iraqi Civilians

By Laila Al-Arian and Chris Hedges

In this devastating exposé, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges and journalist Laila Al-Arian reveal the terrifying reality of daily civilian life in Iraq at the hands of U.S. troops. Collateral Damage is based on hundreds of hours of interviews with combat veterans who explain the tactics and operations that have turned many Iraqis against the U.S. military.

Before the Storm

Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

By Rick Perlstein

"One of the most stylish, riveting achievements in narrative history to appear."
—Mark Greif, The Village Voice

Mirrors

Stories of Almost Everyone

By Eduardo Galeano

Order the book here.

Gangs in Garden City

How Immigration, Segregation, and Youth Violence are Changing America’s Suburbs

By Sarah Garland

Republican Gomorrah

Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party

By Max Blumenthal

Click here to see details of his book tour. Blumenthal's book is #15 on the New York Times bestseller list.

Stripping Bare the Body

Politics Violence War

By Mark Danner

Stripping Bare the Body is a book of stories telling how politics–and its handmaidens: violence and war–is practiced in the brutal worlds of Iraq, the Balkans, Haiti, the "black sites" and Washington, D.C. It shows at close hand how terrorism works and how war looks and smells and feels. As a newly installed Haitian president told Mark Danner, then on assignment for The New Yorker in riot-torn Port-au-Prince, "Violence strips bare a society's body, the better to place the stethoscope and track the life beneath the skin."

"With this vivid and deeply disturbing book, Mark Danner affirms his standing as our preeminent guide to the world's broken places, littered with the detritus of American carelessness and delusions."
–Andrew J. Bacevich, author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism

China Safari

On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa

By Serge Michel, Michel Beuret and Paolo Woods

China Safari tells the amazing—and largely unknown—story of the rise of China's economic empire in Africa and how it will change the 21st century and eclipse the role of the West in Africa. China is now Africa’s second largest business partner with trade now at more than $100 billion a year, and growing; it seems destined to succeed where the West has failed. But is China starting to repeat the imperial arrogance of earlier colonial powers? The authors try to answer this question, unearthing the extraordinary human stories underlying China's new ventures in Africa.

Belching Out the Devil

Global Adventures with Coca-Cola

By Mark Thomas

Empire of Illusion

The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

By Chris Hedges

Listen to the podcast of Hedges' October 7 talk here.

Wandering Souls

Journeys With The Dead And The Living In Viet Nam

By Wayne Karlin

Wandering Souls was listed in the New York Post's Required Reading column.

Travel as a Political Act

By Rick Steves

Travel connects people with people. It helps us fit more comfortably and compatibly into a shrinking world. And it inspires creative new solutions to persistent problems facing our nation. We can't understand our world without experiencing it. Travel as a Political Act helps us take that first step. In his new book, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves explains how to travel more thoughtfully—to any destination. He shares a series of field reports from Europe, Central America, Asia and the Middle East to show how his travels have shaped his politics and broadened his perspective.

El Monstruo

Dread and Redemption in Mexico City

By John Ross

"Monstrously entertaining and tenderhearted."
"...a brave, stirring love letter, cautionary tale and travelogue."
—Kirkus Reviews (STARRED REVIEW)

A Heartbeat and a Guitar

Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears

By Antonino D'Ambrosio

A Heartbeat and a Guitar tells of the collaboration of two distinct yet connected musicians–iconoclast Johnny Cash and little known folk artist Peter LaFarge–and the album they created, Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian. It also tells of the unique personal, political and cultural struggles that informed this album–especially the fight for Native people's rights–one that has influenced scores of musicians and activists. In this inimitable account, A Heartbeat and a Guitar strays out of the recording studio and into the presidential campaigns, government halls, Indian reservations, picket lines, bohemian cafes, university campuses, factory lines, civil rights marches, fish-ins and anti-war protests.

Working In The Shadows

A Year of Doing the Jobs Americans Won't Do

By Gabriel Thompson

What is it like to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. Combining personal narrative with investigative reporting, Thompson shines a bright light on the underside of the American economy, exposing harsh working conditions, union busting and lax government enforcement—while telling the stories of workers, undocumented immigrants and desperate U.S. citizens alike, forced to live with chronic back pain in the pursuit of $8 an hour.

Watch Thompson on C-SPAN's Book TV on March 20-21.

Soccernomics

Why England Loses, Why Germany And Brazil Win, And Why The U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey—And Even Iraq—Are Destined To Become The Kings Of The World's Most Popular Sport

By Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski

"A brainteaser of a book for any beach-bound soccer fan."
—Bloomberg News' 50 Favorite Business Books

Soccernomics was featured in a major article in The New York Times about England's prospects in the World Cup.