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A Top Cop's Expose of the Dark Side of American Policing
By Norm Stamper
"Stamper has written a tremendously important book, pulling no punches as he takes a searing look at law enforcement as it is - and as it should be.... Shocking, heartbreaking, hilarious and illuminating, Breaking Rank will attract both cops and 'civilians.' I loved it." --Ann Rule
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An Insider's View of the CIA
By Melissa Boyle Mahle
Melissa Boyle Mahle was a CIA covert operative in the Middle East from 1988 to 2002, one of a handful of women agents who spoke Arabic, and the top-ranked female Arabist in the agency. This is her revealing take on the CIA from the inside. |
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Stories of Survival
By Jen Marlowe, Aisha Bain and Adam Shapiro
In November 2004, three independent filmmakers traveled to eastern Chad and crept across the border into Darfur. Improvising as they went, they spoke with dozens of Darfurians, learning about their history, hopes, and fears, and the resilience and tragedy of their everyday lives.
Darfur Diaries was selected as a "Book of Conscience" by the American Booksellers Association and the Genocide Prevention Project to help commemorate April 2009 as Genocide Prevention Month. |
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A Memoir of Love, Sex, and the Mystery of the Violin
By Norma Barzman
The End of Romance is a riveting memoir set against the backdrop of the rise of the Red Brigades and the resurgence of fascism in Italy.
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A True Story of Idealism and Madness in American Politics
By Phil Campbell
Zioncheck for President tells the true story of Grant Cogswell, Seattle poet, punk rock fan, anarchist, and grassroots activist who ran for city council in 2001. Unfolding in parallel is the tale of US representative Marion Anthony Zioncheck, a legendary boozer and forgotten lefty radical from the 1930s.
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A Memoir of Disenchantment with the Cuban Revolution
By Jorge Edwards
In 1970 Jorge Edwards was dispatched by socialist Chilean President Salvador Allende to break the diplomatic blockade that had sealed Cuba for over a decade. His arrival coincided with the turning point of the Revolution, when Castro began to repress the very intellectuals he once courted.
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By Raffaele La Capria
Long a cult travel guide/memoir for Italians, Capri and no Longer Capri, now translated, is available to a wider audience.
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A Memoir
By Ring Lardner, Jr.
In this lively memoir, Ring Lardner, Jr recalls his strange existence as a contract screenwriter in the vanished age of the studio system--an existence made stranger by membership in the Hollywood branch of the American Communist Party.
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By Ved Mehta
One of the literary world's most versatile and surprising writers (and famously private about his personal life) tells a hair-raising story of four beautiful women who drove him to extremes of hope and despair.
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The Adventures of an Actor in Hollywood, Paris, and Rome
By Mickey Knox
To a small group of afficianados, Mickey Knox was the genius behind the unforgettable English dialogue in the cult classic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. But for years, living in semi-exile in Italy, this hardboiled actor was known as the unofficial "Mayor of Rome." |
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Inside a Season of Change
By Jocelyn Lieu
This "shrapnel" of narratives explores the unforeseen consequences of that warm September morning, when an act of unprecedented violence collided with one woman's day-to-day life as a mother and a writer. Jocelyn Lieu did not lose a loved one in the Twin Towers, but her writing achieves the rare feat of articulating the communal grief that was felt in the wake of 9/11--not only in New York City, but throughout the country and the world. |
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My Crash Course in International Diplomacy
By Michael Soussan
In 1997, Michael Soussan accepted his dream job at the United Nations Oil-for-Food program, the largest humanitarian operation in the organization's history. On March 8, 2004, in a Wall Street Journal editorial, he became the first insider to call for "an independent investigation" of the UN's dealings with Saddam Hussein. Backstabbing for Beginners is at once the darkly comic tale of one man's political coming of age, and a stinging indictment of the hypocrisy that prevailed at the heart of the world's most idealistic institution.
The Wall Street Journal listed Backstabbing for Beginners as one of the 12 best books of 2008. |
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The Story of an Arab Woman
By Wadad Makdisi Cortas
Wadad Makdisi Cortas takes us on an unforgettable journey through the Middle East over the past century in her haunting memoir. Written with eloquence, compassion and fierce intelligence, A World I Loved is both an elegy to Lebanon and its people, and the story of one woman's journey from hope to sorrow as she bears painful witness to the undoing of her beloved country by sectarian and religious divisions. |
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My Father's Enchanted Period
By Ved Mehta
A work of extraordinary intensity and candor, The Red Letters is the poignant story of Ved Mehta's discovery of his father's love affair with a married woman in the 1930s. Mehta's voyage into the past is both revealing and painful, as the son finds out that the father's affair, a brief episode in a loving marriage of 61 years, had a devastating effect on his mother as well as his own life. An exquisitely written story that unveils universal truths through its compelling reconstruction of the author's family history, The Red Letters is the 11th and final book in Ved Mehta's acclaimed Continents of Exile autobiographical series. |
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February 11 - April 13 | Across the United States
Get your copy of El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City signed by Nation Books author John Ross, who is traveling across the United States on a mammoth book tour spanning three months and 20 cities. Click here to see if he's coming to a city near you.
February 11 - May 14
Photo Exhibit by Eugene Richards
(Gage Gallery, Roosevelt University, 18 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL)
Institute Fellow and award-winning photographer Eugene Richards is showing his work, A Procession of Them, at Roosevelt University's Gage Gallery from February 11 through May 14. The exhibit features troubling black-and-white images of mentally ill and mentally disabled patients who are warehoused in deplorable conditions in psychiatric institutions around the world.
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March 20 - 21
Gabriel Thompson on C-SPAN's Book TV
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Watch Gabriel Thompson, Nation Books author of Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs Most Americans Won't Do on C-SPAN's Book TV on March 20-21.
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March 27
| 3:30 pm
Investigative Reporting/FOIA for Feminists panel
(Hive 55, 55 Broad Street, New York)
Join Investigative Fund Editor Esther Kaplan as she discusses investigative reporting with fellow panelists Lindsay Beyerstein, Heather Haddon and Deepa Fernandes (who is also an IFUND reporter).
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April 8
| 7 pm
A World Without Nuclear Weapons: Obama's Vision, Our Mission
(New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street, New York City)
Join our panel of leading experts—Jonathan Schell, Daniel Ellsberg and Kennette Benedict—in a wide-ranging and incisive conversation moderated by Phil Donahue on the ongoing international struggle for the containment and eventual reduction of the nuclear threat, and how President Obama and the U.S. Senate can be pushed to fulfill the promise of a world without nuclear weapons. This important public conversation is occurring in the run-up to the UN’s regular review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that will take place on May 1, 2010.
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