Books on Anthologies

Letters from Young Activists

Today's Rebels Speak Out

By Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin , Kenyon Farrow and Bernardine Dohrn

In letters addressed to their parents, to past generations, to each other, to the youth of tomorrow and to their future selves, a bold new generation of activists--aged 10 to 31--articulate their vision for the world.

Nothing Sacred

Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror

By Betsy Reed and Katha Pollitt

Long before the White House took notice of the Taliban's brutal treatment of Afghan women, feminists were sounding an alarm about the rise of religious fundamentalism throughout the world and its deadly consequences for women. Yet women's voices have been conspicuously absent from the debate over the new war on terror. Nothing Sacred breaks this silence.

These United States

Original Essays by Leading American Writers on the State of their State Within the Union

By John Leonard

"[John Leonard] has edited a wonderful array of writers who have produced for Nation Books a reminder of just how much we need our maverick voices. " --Bill Moyers

American Rebels

By Jack Newfield

In this anthology of original essays, leading American writers discuss individuals who reconciled authentic patriotism with original artistic creation, unpopular opinion, and real moral principles.

Burning All Illusions

Writings from The Nation on Race

By Paula Giddings

Infused with the moral passion and urgency that the subject demands, this collection includes some of the best writing on race and civil rights from 1865 to the present.

Left in the Dark

Film Reviews and Essays, 1988-2001

By Stuart Klawans

In 2007, The Nation's Stuart Klawans won a National Magazine Award for his sharp and revelatory film writing. This selection of reviews and essays from The Nation--as well as the New York Times, The Village Voice, Film Comment and other journals--spotlights some of his best work.

A Just Response

The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy and September 11, 2001

By Katrina vanden Heuvel and Jonathan Schell

In a series of thoughtful, informed and provocative essays written after September 11, some of the most respected figures on the progressive left analyzed the causes and consequences of the terrorist attacks, articulating a vision of what a just response to terrorism might look like.

Genocide of the Mind

New Native American Writing

By MariJo Moore and Vine Deloria Jr.

Introduced by Vine Deloria Jr., author of the bestselling Custer Died for Your Sins, this collection compiles writing from over twenty-five different Indian Nations, vividly illustrating their struggle to survive in contemporary America.

Mission Unaccomplished

Tomdispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts & Dissenters

By Tom Engelhardt

Unnatural Disaster

The Nation on Hurricane Katrina

By Betsy Reed

In the months that followed Hurricane Katrina, The Nation published a series of articles and editorials documenting the gross negligence of the Bush administration, the failures of neoliberalism, and the heroic effort of community organizers and ordinary citizens to put New Orleans back together again.

Crimes of War: Iraq

By Richard Falk, Irene Gendzier and Robert Jay Lifton

From the same editorial team whose 1971 Crimes of War became one of the definitive Vietnam-era accounts of American war crimes comes this penetrating inquiry into the legal, historical, and psychological dimensions of the war in Iraq.

Altered States of America

Outlaws and Icons, Hitmakers and Hitmen

By Richard Stratton

Richard Stratton's years as an international marijuana smuggler, his eight-year stint in the federal prison system, and subsequent ascendance to acclaimed author and filmmaker give his journalism a unique credibility. Altered States of America is a riveting collection of his work.

The Best of The Nation

Selections From the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture

"[This anthology] is like a cocktail party thrown by the Merry Pranksters of the intellectual left." --St. Petersburg Times

Cinema Nation

The Best Writing on Film From The Nation, 1913-2000

By Carl Bromley and Stuart Klawans

Brushes With History

Writings on Art from The Nation 1865-2001

By Peter G. Meyer and Arthur C. Danto

The Zapatista Reader

A Literary Anthology

By Tom Hayden

Deserter from Death

Dispatches from Western Europe 1950-2000

By Daniel Singer

From his early reporting for The Economist to his final years as The Nation's celebrated European correspondent, Daniel Singer covered the momentous events of his time with "intellectual and moral clarity," as George Steiner put it. Deserter from Death collects Singer's writings from the Algerian crisis in the late fifties, through the world-shaking events of May '68, to the post-Reagan, post-Thatcher era.

In Democracy's Shadow

The Secret World of National Security

By Marcus G. Raskin and A. Carl LeVan

This collection of groundbreaking essays by historians, lawyers, anthropologists and public scholars shows how the "National Security State" has shaped our government for at least a century. 9/11 and its aftermath invigorated the twin demons of American interventionism overseas and intolerance at home, but the editors of this book claim that these developments, though profound, are not radical departures.

Love, Poverty, and War:

Journeys and Essays

By Christopher Hitchens

A contrarian collection of essays and reports by America's leading polemicist, this book takes its title from an antique saying: life is incomplete unless love, poverty and war have been experienced. In his introduction, Hitchens, one of the most controversial intellectuals of our day, reflects on how he has been touched by those discrepant states.

The Jonathan Schell Reader

On the United States at War, the Long Crisis of the American Republic, and the Fate of the Earth

By Jonathan Schell

Correspondent, commentator and political thinker, Jonathan Schell has selected the best of almost four decades of his work and woven it together into a coherent narrative about our fallen yet incontestably inspiring world. Selections are drawn from his bestselling book The Fate of the Earth, his famed reports in The New Yorker, Harper's and Newsday, among many other publications.

Sovereign Bones

New Native American Writing

By Eric Gansworth

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