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Contents BY TITLE

Mankell, Henning

Blue Covenant The Case for Make Believe The Devil in Dover Ex Mex Examined Life Founders Front Lines God Needs No Passport Grand Illusion Italian Shoes Judaism Does Not Equal Israel Let’s Get Free Lift Every Voice On Empire The One That Got Away Prison Profiteers Sacred Matters Secret Identities Studs Terkel’s Working Wage Theft in America Waiting to Land Wartime Writings The World of Mexican Migrants

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Raphael, Ray

Shen, Parry

Sullivan, Patricia

Taylor, Astra

Wicomb, Zoë

Wright, Paul

8 2–3 5 12–13 26–27 25 21 22 17 6–7 18–19 9 11 30 28

Amato, Theresa

Barlow, Maude

16 9

Buhle, Paul

18–19

Butler, Paul

12–13

Castañeda, Jorge G. Chow, Keith

29 6–7

Duberman, Martin

Duras, Marguerite

Ellis, Marc H.

Greene, Alexis

Hellman, Judith Adler

Herivel, Tara

Hobsbawm, Eric

Laderman, Gary

Lauro, Shirley

Lebo, Lauri

Levitt, Peggy Linn, Susan Ma, Jerry

18–19 15 6–7 26–27

Yang, Jeff

6–7

BACKLIST

31–34

INDEX

35–36

BY AUTHOR

Bobo, Kim

2–3

Pekar, Harvey

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FOREIGN RIGHTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Italian Shoes A Novel HENNING MANKELL TRANSLATED FROM THE SWEDISH BY LAURIE THOMPSON

FROM THE BESTSELLING CREATOR OF KURT WALLANDER, THE INTIMATE, INVOLVING STORY OF AN AGING MAN’S UNEXPECTED REDEMPTION AFTER YEARS OF ISOLATION

Mankell is in the great tradition of those whose works transcend their chosen genre to become thrilling and moral literature.

Praise for Mankell’s novels:

—MICHAEL ONDAATJE

Profoundly political, deeply moral. —ST. PETERSBURG TIMES

Masterful.

—CHICAGO TRIBUNE

From the prizewinning “master of atmosphere” (Boston Globe) comes the surpris-

Powerful.

ing and affecting story of a man well past middle age who suddenly finds himself on

Atmospheric and chilling.

the threshold of renewal.

—THE OBSERVER (LONDON)

Living on a tiny island entirely surrounded by ice during the long winter months, Fredrik Welin is so lost to the world that he cuts a hole in the ice every morning and lowers himself into the freezing water to remind himself that he is alive. Haunted by memories of the terrible mistake that drove him to this island and away from a

—THE GUARDIAN

Beautiful, heartbreaking, yet ultimately hopeful. —BOOKLIST Excellent.

—THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

successful career as a surgeon, he lives in a stasis so complete an anthill grows

Achieves a stark power.

undisturbed in his living room.

—ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

Compelling.

When an unexpected visitor alters his life completely, thus begins an eccentric, elegiac journey—one that shows Mankell at the very height of

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)

his powers as a novelist. A deeply human tale of loss and redemption, Italian Shoes is a testament to the

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unpredictability of life, which breeds hope even in the face of tragedy.

Henning Mankell is Sweden’s single most-read author around the world. His novels, which include the bestselling Kurt Wallander mysteries, have been translated into thirty-seven languages with more than 30 million copies in print worldwide. He has

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received the German Tolerance Prize and the Macallan Golden Dagger and has been a three-time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Mystery/Thriller Book Prize. He divides his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he works as the director of Teatro Avenida. Laurie Thompson has translated more than forty Swedish books, including thirteen by Henning Mankell. He lives in Wales. THE NEW PRESS 1-800-233-4830 WWW.THENEWPRESS.COM

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Praise for the “Does Not Equal” Series At last! The deeply progressive base of our religious traditions comes alive in this stunning and important series. Religion is being taken out of the dark ages and gives us light to lead our lives. A must-read for people of faith and those who care about our world today. —KATHLEEN KENNEDY TOWNSEND, AUTHOR OF FAILING AMERICA’S FAITHFUL AND FORMER LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND

Progressive religious people everywhere will welcome this new series of books. It features some of the most impressive religious leaders in America who speak clearly and powerfully to the major issues facing all of us today. —REVEREND DOCTOR JOSEPH C. HOUGH JR., PRESIDENT, UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, NEW YORK

Kudos to The New Press for mining the progressive roots of all religious traditions. —NEW CATHOLIC TIMES

Praise for Catholic Does Not Equal the Vatican Radford Ruether will have her . . . audience cheering and perhaps inspired to work anew for the church she envisions—one that is multicultural, admittedly fallible, free from sexism, democratic and committed to the poor and oppressed. —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Rosemary Radford Ruether captures the essence of Catholicism as it is understood and lived by Catholics today. At times funny and more often sad, it is always wise in casting light where the hierarchy would not want us to see. —JON O’BRIEN, PRESIDENT, CATHOLICS FOR CHOICE

Praise for Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican . . . Or Democrat There is a Great Awakening among a new generation of young evangelicals. . . . This book will inform you, inspire you, and invite you to join a new spiritual movement for justice. —JIM WALLIS, PRESIDENT OF SOJOURNERS AND AUTHOR OF THE GREAT AWAKENING AND THE SOUL OF POLITICS

Lisa Sharon Harper’s prophetic voice is a salutary development for the evangelical community and the larger American society. Don’t miss it! —CORNEL WEST, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

The title Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican . . . or Democrat will be a shock to some, news to others, and obvious to still others. But the content of this well- and warmly written book will educate and enrich just about everybody. —BRIAN MCLAREN, AUTHOR AND SPEAKER, BRIANMCLAREN.NET

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Judaism Does Not Equal Israel The Rebirth of the Jewish Prophetic MARC H. ELLIS

A PROFOUND AND PROVOCATIVE CHALLENGE TO UNQUESTIONED JEWISH SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL AND ITS POLICIES FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED JEWISH THINKER MARC H. ELLIS— THE LATEST VOLUME IN THE ACCLAIMED DOES NOT EQUAL SERIES When one community’s redemption means the suffering of another, it cannot be redemption for either. —FROM JUDAISM DOES NOT EQUAL ISRAEL

In this poignant, powerful volume, the influential Jewish thinker and critic Marc H. Ellis takes on the hard moral questions about Jewish support for the state of Israel. Reviewing the historical record of the past sixty years and envisioning the prospects for a just and lasting peace, Ellis makes an unyielding case—based on the most cherished Jewish values—that the present policies of the Israeli state cannot

Praise for Marc H. Ellis: We will all be the poorer if Ellis’s voice is not heeded, but how wonderfully enriched if it is. —ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU

A brilliant writer, a deeply thoughtful and courageous mind.

reasonably be defended. The future not only of Judaism but of Israel itself, he

—EDWARD SAID

argues, hinges on a fundamental shift in Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians

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and on a completely new direction in the peace process. At a time when critics of Israeli policies are silenced with the charge of antiSemitism, Ellis offers a prophetic Jewish alternative to the blind acceptance of Zionism, demonstrating “great courage, integrity, and insight,” according to Noam Chomsky. Sure to be the subject of fervent debate, Judaism Does Not Equal Israel marks a major effort by a leading American Jewish thinker to make the case that condemning current Israeli policies is fully consonant with being a good Jew.

Marc H. Ellis is a leading authority on contemporary Judaism and is widely recognized as one of the most influential Jewish thinkers of his generation. A University Professor of American and Jewish Studies and the founding director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor University, he is the author of fifteen books and has written articles published in the International Herald Tribune, Christian Century,

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Secret Identities The Asian American Superhero Anthology JEFF YANG, PARRY SHEN, KEITH CHOW, JERRY MA

EDITED BY AND

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A GROUNDBREAKING GRAPHIC COLLECTION THAT EXPLORES ASIAN AMERICAN CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND HISTORY THROUGH ALL-NEW SUPERHERO COMICS

What if we told you a tale about a quiet, unassuming guy with black hair and thick glasses; an immigrant, who’s done his best to fit into a world that isn’t his? Many Asian Americans fit that bill. But so does Clark Kent, better known to the world as Superman. —THE EDITORS OF SECRET IDENTITIES

Appealing to both comics fans and Asian Americans seeking to claim their place in American culture, Secret Identities makes brilliant use of the conventions of the superhero comic book to expose the real face of the Asian American experience. This groundbreaking graphic anthology brings together leading Asian American creators in the comics industry—including Gene Yang (National Book Award finalist for American Born Chinese), Bernard Chang (Wonder Woman), Greg Pak (The Hulk), and Christine Norrie (Black Canary Wedding Special )—to craft original graphical short stories set in a compelling “shadow history” of our country: from the building

Stories in Secret Identities include: “The Hibakusha”: the children and grandchildren of the survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bombing experience strange side effects “Peril”: the son of an unjustly accused Chinese American scientist must use his father’s inventions to clear his father’s name “Driving Steel”: a revealing look at the hidden story behind the legend of John Henry, steel-drivin’ man

of the railroads to the Japanese American internment, the Vietnam airlift, the murder of Vincent Chin, and the incarceration of Dr. Wen Ho Lee. Entertaining and enlightening, Secret Identities offers whiz-bang action, searing satire, and thoughtful commentary from a community too often overlooked by the cultural mainstream, while showcasing a vivid cross-section of the talents whose

“9066”: a Nisei superhero finds himself facing internment during WWII, despite his powers and status as a crusader for justice

imagination and creativity is driving the contemporary comics renaissance.

Jeff Yang was the founder of the pioneering Asian American periodical aMagazine. The author of three books and the biweekly column “Asian Pop” for the San Francisco Chronicle, he lives in Brooklyn, New York. Parry Shen, best known for

his lead role in the movie Better Luck Tomorrow, lives in Southern California.

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Keith Chow, an educator and comics journalist, lives in Maryland. Jerry Ma, the founder of the indie comics studio Epic Proportions, lives in New York City. THE NEW PRESS 1-800-233-4830 WWW.THENEWPRESS.COM

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God Needs No Passport Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape PEGGY LEVITT

NOW IN PAPERBACK A MAJOR EXAMINATION OF THE AMERICAN IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE, REVEALING HOW RECENT IMMIGRANTS ARE TRANSFORMING RELIGION IN AMERICA AND AROUND THE GLOBE A crucial look at the extraordinarily complex issue of migration in the world today.

Levitt brings a fresh perspective, one that suggests the current debates are out of sync with reality. The true picture, it turns out, is both unsettling and encouraging.

—JORGE G. CASTAÑEDA, AUTHOR OF EX MEX AND UTOPIA UNARMED

—THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

Levitt takes the trouble to listen to immigrants themselves. . . . The book is timely in countering one-dimensional views of both religion and immigration. —GEORGE RUPP, PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE

Levitt puts a human face on the globalization of religion. A wise and indispensable guide to understanding twenty-firstcentury American society. —MARY C. WATER, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Not since the era of Ellis Island have so many immigrants arrived on America’s shores. As in the past, native-born Americans continue to expect immigrants to assimilate; however, in an era of cheap international travel and the Internet, immigrants themselves are now able to keep one foot in their countries of origin, thereby confusing old assumptions about pluralism and American identity. And increasingly it is global religious institutions that enable immigrants to participate in two cultures at once—whether via religious services beamed in by satellite or through an expanding network of global religious organizations. These multicultural religious immigrants, sociologist Peggy Levitt argues in this pathbreaking account, are changing the face of religious diversity in the United States, helping to make American religion just as global as U.S. corporations. In a book with stunning implications for today’s immigration debates—where commentators routinely refer to a “clash of civilizations”—Levitt shows that the new realities of religion and migration are subtly challenging the very definition of what it means

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to be an American. Filled with impressive original research and charts and statistics that “give an excellent overall view of the results of her thorough on-site research” (Library Journal ), God Needs No Passport reveals that American values are no longer just made in the U.S.A. but around the globe.

Peggy Levitt is an associate professor and the chair of the department of sociology at Wellesley College. A co-director of the Transnational Studies Initiative at Harvard University, she is the author of The Transnational Villagers and a co-editor, with Mary Waters, of The Changing Face of Home. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

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Wage Theft in America Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid—And What We Can Do About It KIM BOBO

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL THE SHOCKING, INSIDIOUS WAY EMPLOYERS CHEAT THEIR WORKERS, WITH A BLUEPRINT FOR CHANGING POLICY, FROM THE NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZER Anka’s first job was with the quintessential sweatshop employer. He stole wages. He stole workers’ health. He stole people’s dignity. And the way our laws are structured and enforced make it almost assured that no one will ever catch up with this employer. —FROM WAGE THEFT IN AMERICA

In what has been described as “the crime wave no one talks about,” billions of dollars worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers in the United States every

The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans Beth Shulman Paperback, $16.95, 978-1-59558-000-9

year—a grand theft that exceeds every other larceny category on record annually. Between two and three million workers are paid less than the legal minimum wage. More than three million are misclassified by their employers as independent contractors when they are really employees, allowing employers to shirk their share of payroll taxes and illegally deny workers overtime pay. Even the Economic Policy Foundation, a business-funded think tank, estimated that companies annually steal $19 billion in unpaid overtime. Nationally recognized labor activist Kim Bobo’s Wage Theft in America is an

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incisive handbook for activists, organizers, workers, and concerned citizens on how to prevent the flagrant exploitation of America’s working people. Bobo offers a sweeping analysis of the crisis, citing hard-hitting statistics and heartbreaking firstperson accounts of exploitation at the hands of employers. She then offers concrete solutions, with special attention to what a new presidential administration can

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do to address one of the gravest issues facing workers in the twenty-first century.

Kim Bobo is the founder and executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice and a columnist for Religion Dispatches (www.religiondispatches.org). She is the author of Lives Matter: A Handbook for Christian Organizing and the co-author (with Jackie

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The Devil in Dover An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America LAURI LEBO

NOW IN PAPERBACK IN THE TRADITION OF H.L. MENCKEN, A GIFTED REPORTER’S “UNAPOLOGETIC INDICTMENT OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN, FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANITY, AND AMERICAN JOURNALISM’S INSISTENCE ON OBJECTIVITY IN THE FACE OF CLEAR UNTRUTHS” ( COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW ) A brilliant account of the “intelligent design” case in Dover . . . by a first-rate journalist. —HOWARD ZINN

Both fascinating and moving. . . [Lebo] thoughtfully probes one of America’s most divisive cultural conflicts—and the responsibilities journalists have when covering such a controversial story. —RELIGION DISPATCHES

Engaging and richly textured . . . a compelling narrative.

Both gritty and brilliant. . . . Lebo courageously exhibits the highest standards in intellectual honesty and journalistic ethos. —DAILY KOS

Local newspaper reporter Lauri Lebo was handed the story of a lifetime when the Dover (Pennsylvania) School Board adopted a measure to require its ninth-grade biology students to learn about intelligent design. In a case that recalled the famed 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial and made international headlines, eleven parents sued the school board. When the case wound up in federal court before a George W. Bush–appointed judge, Lebo had a front-row seat. Destined to become required reading for a generation of journalists, scientists, and science teachers, as well as for anyone concerned about the separation of church and state, The Devil in Dover is Lebo’s widely praised account of a perfect storm of religious intolerance, First Amendment violations, and an assault on

—THE PATRIOT NEWS (HARRISBURG)

American science education. Lebo skillfully probes the compelling background of

[Lebo] took care with both the politics and the science of the Dover case.

the case, introducing us to the plaintiffs, the defendants, the lawyers, and a parade

—CARL ZIMMER, SCIENCE JOURNALIST

of witnesses, along with Judge John E. Jones, who would eventually condemn the school board’s decision as one of “breathtaking inanity.” With the antievolution battle having moved to the state level—and the recent passage of state legislation that protects the right of schools to teach alternatives to evolution—the story will continue to be relevant for years to come.

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Lauri Lebo has been a journalist for twenty years. As part of an investigative reporting team, she helped solve two civil rights–era murders. As the York Daily Record’s education reporter, she covered the intelligent design trial from its earliest

beginnings at local school board meetings. The Devil in Dover was the first Studs and Ida Terkel Author Fund book. The winner of numerous state and national awards, Lebo lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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Waiting to Land A (Mostly) Political Memoir, 1985–2008 MARTIN DUBERMAN

FROM THE CELEBRATED ACTIVIST, RADICAL THINKER, AND HISTORIAN, A FASCINATING POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE MID-1980S TO THE PRESENT—PART PERSONAL MEMOIR, PART SOCIAL ANALYSIS A deeply moral and reflective man who has engaged the greatest struggles of our times with an unflinching nerve, a wise heart, and a brilliant intellect. —JONATHAN KOZOL

Although best known for his acclaimed biographies, historian Martin Duberman is also a renowned memoirist who has plumbed his own life for truths that have meaning for us all. In the bestselling Cures, he carried his story up to 1970, focusing on his fear that homosexuality was pathological and on his desperate search for a therapeutic cure. Duberman’s second autobiographical book, Midlife Queer, centered on the 1970s, by which time he’d thrown off his earlier doubts and become fully engaged in the worlds of gay politics and culture.

Waiting to Land takes Duberman’s story up to the present day. As his public engagement deepens, Duberman finds himself increasingly at odds with the mounting assimilationism of the mainstream gay movement—and with the left itself, which Duberman has come to believe is smugly oblivious to the realities of gay

Praise for Martin Duberman: Martin Duberman is known for his unique combination of talents—as a distinguished historian, a talented writer, and an impassioned advocate of the rights of gays and other beleaguered members of the human community. —HOWARD ZINN

A source of insight and guidance and connectedness for an American left troubled by the divides of class, race, and identity politics. —FRANCES FOX PIVEN Also Available

life. Disaffection leads him to till crucial new ground, including the founding of the groundbreaking Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) and serving as an original board member of Queers for Economic Justice. Interweaving diary entries with letters and with reflections written in 2008,

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and deeply important window into an extraordinary life.

Martin Duberman is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the City University of New York and the author of over twenty books, including The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein, one of two finalists for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in biography.

In 2008 Duberman received the American Historical Association’s lifetime

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Let’s Get Free How Ordinary Citizens Can Take Back American Justice PAUL BUTLER

A SMART, PROVOCATIVE, AND IMPASSIONED CRITIQUE OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, FROM A FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR

I am still a prosecutor at heart. I like justice and fair play. This book is about how to get those back. My main concern is you—the law-abiding person. I want to keep you safe and free. —FROM LET’S GET FREE

Once in a while a book challenges our basic assumptions about the way things work. Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who gave up his corporate law salary to fight the good fight—until one day he was arrested on

• There are 2.4 million people in prison in the United States, which has the highest incarceration rate in the world. • Approximately 55% of inmates in federal prison, and 20% of inmates in state prison, are locked up for nonviolent drug offenses.

the street and charged with a crime he didn’t commit. At the courthouse Butler stood alongside the people he’d spent his days sending to prison. This stint on the other side of the law confirmed his sense that the system was not working—not making the streets safer, nor helping the people he’d hoped, as a prosecutor, to protect.

Let’s Get Free gives an insider’s view of the lock-’em-up culture that makes every American worse off. We’ve reached the tipping point—so many people are in prison, especially for nonviolent drug offenses, that incarceration now causes more crime than it prevents. Butler offers innovative methods for citizens to resist complicity and stand up for their rights. He introduces the concept of jury nullification— voting “not guilty” on principle—as a powerful way to protest unfair laws. Butler’s

• In 2001 the average federal drug-distribution sentence was 72 months, more than double the average federal manslaughter sentence of 34 months. • Almost 75% of people incarcerated for drug offenses are African American, although blacks constitute only 13% of drug users nationwide.

groundbreaking “hip hop theory of justice” reveals a profound analysis of crime and punishment found in popular culture. Let’s Get Free offers a positive new vision of justice and legal reform.

A former federal prosecutor, Paul Butler provides legal commentary for CNN,

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NPR, and the Fox News Network. He has been featured on 60 Minutes and profiled in the Washington Post. He has written for the Post, the Boston Globe, and the Los Angeles Times and is a law professor at George Washington University in

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Grand Illusion The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny THERESA AMATO WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RALPH NADER

A SMART, PROVOCATIVE, AND WONDERFULLY ENTERTAINING ANALYSIS OF OUR STIFLING TWO-PARTY SYSTEM AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THIRD-PARTY AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES— FROM RALPH NADER’S CAMPAIGN MANAGER Until you have run, as I did, outside the two major parties, it is impossible to imagine the injustices of the two-partytilted electoral process. Theresa Amato masterfully exposes the horrors faced by third-party and Independent candidates seeking the chance to compete and provide political choices for the American voter. —JOHN ANDERSON, FORMER INDEPENDENT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AND CHAIR OF THE CENTER FOR VOTING AND DEMOCRACY

Theresa Amato takes the biggest swing—not a jab, but a roundhouse punch—at America’s corrupt electoral system. —PHIL DONAHUE

As the national campaign manager for Ralph Nader’s historic runs for president in 2000 and 2004, Theresa Amato had a rare ringside role in two of the most hotly contested presidential elections this country has seen. In Grand Illusion, she gives us a witty, thoughtful critique of the American electoral system, as well as a powerful argument for opening up the contest as if people and their daily lives mattered. While making the case for specific reforms in the United States’ arcane system of ballot access laws, complex federal regulations, and partisan control of elections, Amato also offers a spirited history of how third-party and Independent candidates have kept important issues on the table in elections past and contribute to our

Theresa Amato has written the best book about ballot access ever. . . . This book is of the most supreme importance. —RICHARD WINGER, PUBLISHER OF BALLOT ACCESS NEWS

country’s political life. Even the most fervent Nader critics will think twice about Nader’s role in 2000, thanks to Amato’s trenchant factual analysis. Looking beyond the Nader story to campaigns waged by challengers John Anderson, Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, and others, Amato shows how limiting ourselves to two candidates deprives our country of a robust political life, strips would-be contenders of their free speech and association rights, and cheats voters out of meaningful political choices.

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The only woman to have managed two high-profile American presidential campaigns outside the two major parties, Theresa Amato was the national presidential campaign manager and in-house counsel for Ralph Nader in both 2000 and 2004. A graduate of Harvard University and NYU School of Law, she is the founder of the Citizen Advocacy Center in suburban Chicago, a mother, and a practicing lawyer. Amato lives in Oak Park, Illinois.

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Founders The People Who Brought You a Nation RAY RAPHAEL

AN IMMENSELY READABLE MAJOR NEW HISTORY OF AMERICA’S FOUNDING, WITH UNPRECEDENTED BREADTH AND INCLUSIVENESS, FROM A MASTER STORYTELLER

Dramatize, personalize, localize—this is the way Ray Raphael has brilliantly explored the American Revolution. Readers will devour this stirring account. —GARY B. NASH, AUTHOR OF THE UNKNOWN AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Praise for Raphael’s books: Ray Raphael has probably altered the way in which future historians will see events. His narrative is a tour de force.

We know them well: Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, and Madison.

—SUNDAY TIMES (LONDON)

They were the Founders, an intimate coterie of daring, brilliant men to whom we credit our nation’s birth. But the new nation also owed its existence to the “body

Fascinating and scrupulously researched.

of the people,” an entire generation of American patriots who pushed for independ-

—THE SEATTLE TIMES

ence, fought a war, and set the United States on its course.

An authoritative commentary.

Placing these “other” Founders side by side with the traditional cast, celebrated author Ray Raphael follows the careers of seven vivid characters—some notable,

—THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (LONDON)

the beginnings of unrest in 1761 through the passage of the Bill of Rights thirty

Impressive in both its sweep and its attention to the particular.

years later.

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

some lowly—to anchor a sweeping new history of the entire Founding Era, from

Raphael follows the lives of both George Washington and a private soldier

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in his army. America’s richest merchant, who rescued the nation from bankruptcy, goes head-to-head with a peripatetic revolutionary who incited rebellion in seven states. Rounding out the company is a richly nuanced cast, including Mercy Otis Warren—the most politically engaged woman of the time—a common village blacksmith, and a conservative slave owner, together with his abolitionist son. The culmination of extensive research into the history and meaning of our nation’s origins, Founders returns us to the dynamic roots of American patriotism.

Ray Raphael has taught at a one-room public high school, Humboldt State University, and The College of the Redwoods. His twelve books include Founding Myths, A People’s History of the American Revolution, and The First American Revolution, all three available from The New Press. He lives in Redway, California.

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Blue Covenant The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water MAUDE BARLOW

NOW IN PAPERBACK FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED ENVIRONMENTALIST, AN “ENGAGING, EYE-OPENING ACCOUNT” ( THE INDYPENDENT ) OF THE GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR WATER JUSTICE, IN THE TRADITION OF RACHEL CARSON’S SILENT SPRING Sounds the water alarm with conviction and authority.

You will not turn on the tap in the same way after reading this book.

—KIRKUS

—ROBERT REDFORD

This book proves that water deserves another destiny.

In a book hailed by Publishers Weekly as a “passionate plea for access to water

—EDUARDO GALEANO

activism,” Blue Covenant addresses an environmental crisis that—together with

Blue Covenant will inspire civil society movements around the world.

global warming—poses one of the gravest threats to our survival. How did the world’s most vital resource become imperiled? And what must we do to pull back from the brink? In “stark and nearly devastating prose” (Booklist ),

—VANDANA SHIVA

world-renowned activist and bestselling author Maude Barlow—who is featured in

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the acclaimed documentary Flow—discusses the state of the world’s water. Barlow examines how water companies are reaping vast profits from declining supplies, and how ordinary people from around the world have banded together to reclaim the public’s right to clean water, creating a grassroots global water justice movement. While tracing the history of international battles for the right to water, she documents the life-and-death stakes involved in the fight and lays out the actions that we as global citizens must take to secure a water-just world for all.

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As people around the world turn their attention to the effects of climate change, Blue Covenant is a timely and important reminder for us to take heed of the global water crisis’s impact on humans and the natural world.

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A recipient of Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award (the “Alternative Nobel”) and a

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Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship, Maude Barlow is the head of the Council of Canadians, Canada’s largest public advocacy organization, and the founder of the Blue Planet Project. She is on the board of Food and Water Watch and the International Forum on Globalization. The author or co-author of sixteen books— including Blue Gold (The New Press), which has been published in over fifty countries—she resides in Ottawa, Ontario.

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Sacred Matters Celebrity Worship, Sexual Ecstasies, the Living Dead, and Other Signs of Religious Life in the United States GARY LADERMAN

A FASCINATING LOOK AT THE WAYS RELIGION IS UBIQUITOUS EVEN IN THE MOST UNLIKELY (AND SECULAR) INSTITUTIONS, FROM THE SUPER BOWL TO PORNOGRAPHY, BY ONE OF OUR NATION’S LEADING RELIGIOUS SCHOLARS Religion in America is a robust, dynamic, shape-shifting force, free-floating and unhinged from conventional anchors—like specific texts such as the Koran or particular institutions like the church—cut loose in the cultural sea of rock stars and casinos, virtual memorials and Prozac. —FROM SACRED MATTERS

Praise for the work of Gary Laderman: Comprehensive, intelligent, and deeply insightful. —THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

gious life in America today. Arguing that genuinely religious practices and experi-

Laderman’s work is indispensable for understanding the impact of the Civil War on ideas of death.

ences can be found in the unlikeliest of places—in science laboratories, in movie

—JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY

theaters and concert halls, at the Super Bowl, in Americans’ obsession with pre-

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Sacred Matters makes the powerful case that we must take the broad view of reli-

scription drugs and in their pursuit of pornography—religion scholar Gary Laderman shows us that there is much more to American religion than what first meets the monotheistic eye. When devoted fans make a pilgrimage to Graceland because of their love for Elvis, Laderman argues, their behavior doesn’t just seem religious, it is religious—enacting a well-known ritual pattern toward saints in the history of Christianity. In a dramatic reframing of the sacred and secular, Laderman depicts an American cultural landscape blooming with sacred icons, popular devotions, and

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deep-rooted mythologies. Sacred Matters makes a powerful and illuminating case that religion is everywhere—and that we have barely begun to reckon with its hold on our cultural life.

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Gary Laderman, Professor of American Religious History and Cultures at Emory

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Studs Terkel’s Working A Graphic Adaptation ADAPTED BY HARVEY EDITED BY PAUL

PEKAR AND BUHLE

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL COMICS IMPRESARIO HARVEY PEKAR BRINGS TO VIVID LIFE TERKEL’S BESTSELLING MASTERPIECE, WITH COMICS BY AMERICA’S LEADING ILLUSTRATORS

Mr. Pekar has . . . proven that comics can address the ambiguities of daily living, that like the finest fiction, they can hold a mirror up to life.

List of contributors:

—THE NEW YORK TIMES

In the thirty-five years since Pulitzer Prize–winner Studs Terkel’s Working first documented American workers’ hopes and dreams, that “deep penetration of American thought and feeling” (Los Angeles Times) has sold over a million copies, captivating readers with accounts of how their fellow citizens make a living. A masterpiece of words, Working is now adapted into comic-book form by Harvey Pekar, the blue-collar antihero of his American Book Award–winning comics series American Splendor. Brilliantly scripting and arranging Terkel’s interviews, Pekar collaborates with established comics veterans and some of the comic underground’s brightest new talent, selected by editor Paul Buhle. Readers will find a visual palette of influences from Mexican, African American, superhero, and

Pablo Callejo Gary Dumm Danny Fingeroth Peter Gullerud Ryan Inzana Sabrina Jones Peter Kuper Terry LaBan Dylan Miner Pat Moriarity Emily Nemens Joan Reilly Sharon Rudahl Nick Thorkelson Anne Timmons Lance Tooks Also Available

feminist art, each piece an electric melding of artist and subject. This is a book that will both delight Terkel fans and introduce his work to a whole new audience.

Harvey Pekar is a comic-book writer and author of the autobiographical American Splendor series, which was adapted into an Academy Award–nominated film. Pekar

is also a prolific jazz and book critic. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Paul Buhle is a senior lecturer at Brown University and an editor of several books of comic art, including Wobblies!, A Dangerous Woman, Students for a Democratic Society,

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and A People’s History of American Empire. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Born in 1912, Studs Terkel is the bestselling author of twelve books of oral history,

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including Working, Hard Times, the Pulitzer Prize–winning “The Good War”, and his

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memoir Touch and Go (all available from The New Press).

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Front Lines Political Plays by American Women EDITED BY ALEXIS

GREENE AND SHIRLEY LAURO

WITH A PREFACE BY SHIRLEY LAURO AND AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEXIS GREENE

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL FROM THE COUNTRY’S LEADING FEMALE PLAYWRIGHTS, SEVEN BRILLIANT PLAYS ON THE HOT-BUTTON ISSUES OF OUR TIME

With plays by: Jessica Blank Cindy Cooper Quiara Alegría Hudes Shirley Lauro Emily Mann Nilaja Sun Paula Vogel Also Available

Ever since this country came into being, women have waged battles for rights in the pages of their plays, and on the stages where those plays were performed. —FROM THE PREFACE BY SHIRLEY LAURO

Front Lines is a pathbreaking collection of the most important, critically acclaimed plays written by the country’s leading contemporary female playwrights. Including seven full scripts and accompanying materials, Front Lines provides both major examples of the playwright’s craft and an essential introduction to the politically inspired work of female dramatists of the twenty-first century. Here is Jessica Blank’s widely heralded The Exonerated (written with Erik Jensen), based on interviews with American prisoners incarcerated for crimes they did not commit. Also included is Nilaja Sun’s outstanding No Child . . . , winner of the Outer Critics Circle’s 2007 John Gassner Award for Best New Play—a funny,

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stirring one-woman show centering on an inner-city teacher’s success at involving her rebellious students in their own education by putting on a play. Rounding out the collection are Emily Mann’s Mrs. Packard, Paula Vogel’s Hot ’n’ Throbbing, Shirley Lauro’s Clarence Darrow’s Last Trial, Quiara Alegría Hudes’s Eliot:

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A Soldier’s Fugue, and Cindy Cooper’s Words of Choice.

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With a preface by distinguished playwright Shirley Lauro and an introduction by theater critic Alexis Greene, Front Lines also includes short biographies of the playwrights and a production photo of each play.

Alexis Greene’s books include Women Who Write Plays: 23 Interviews with American Dramatists and, with Julie Taymor, The Lion King: Pride Rock on Broadway. Shirley Lauro’s plays include the Tony-nominated drama Open Admissions and the widely acclaimed A Piece of My Heart. Both live and write

in New York City.

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The One That Got Away Short Stories ZOË WICOMB

A BEAUTIFULLY WROUGHT SET OF INTERCONNECTED SHORT STORIES THAT J.M. COETZEE SAYS “COMBINE THE COOLLY INTERROGATIVE GAZE OF THE OUTSIDER WITH AN INSIDER’S INTIMATE WARMTH” An extraordinary writer . . . seductive, brilliant, and precious, her talent glitters. —TONI MORRISON

The appearance of Zoë Wicomb’s first set of short stories, You Can’t Get Lost in

Capetown, precipitated the founding of a fan club that has come to include Toni Morrison, J.M. Coetzee, Bharati Mukherjee, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and writers at the New York Times, the London Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, and the Christian Science Monitor. Now, after two novels, Wicomb returns to the genre that first brought her international acclaim. Set mostly in Capetown and Glasgow, Wicomb’s new collection of short stories straddles dual worlds. An array of characters drawn with extraordinary acuity inhabits a complexly interconnected, twenty-first-century universe. The fourteen stories in this collection explore a range of human relationships: marriage, friendship, family ties, and relations with those who serve us. Wicomb’s fluid, shifting

Praise for Zoë Wicomb: Delectable . . . Wicomb’s prose is as delightful and satisfying . . . as watching the sun set over the Atlantic Ocean. —THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

Wicomb deserves a wide American audience. —THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

A sophisticated storyteller who combines the open-endedness of contemporary fiction with the force of autobiography. —BHARATI MUKHERJEE, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Also Available

technique questions conventional certainties and makes for exhilarating reading, full of ironic twists, ambiguities, and moments of startling insight. Long awaited, The One That Got Away showcases this established, awardwinning author at the height of her powers.

Zoë Wicomb was born in South Africa and now lives in Glasgow. She is currently a professor in the department of English studies at Strathclyde University, Glasgow, and Visiting Professor Extraordinaire at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. In addition to two collections of short stories, she has published two novels, David’s Story and Playing in the Light (The New Press).

Playing in the Light: A Novel Zoë Wicomb Paperback, $14.95, 978-1-59558-221-8

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Prison Profiteers Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration EDITED BY

TARA HERIVEL AND PAUL WRIGHT

NOW IN PAPERBACK AN EYE-OPENING AND TROUBLING LOOK AT THE VAST NETWORK OF CORPORATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS THAT TURN A PROFIT BY KEEPING 2.4 MILLION AMERICANS IMPRISONED Lucid, eye-opening. —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

No country in history has ever handed over so many inmates to private corporations. This book looks at the consequences. —ERIC SCHLOSSER, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FAST FOOD NATION

Impressive. . . . A thoughtful, comprehensive and accessible analysis of the money trail behind the prison-industrial complex. —BLACKCOMMENTATOR.COM Also Available

Indispensable reading . . . an easy and accessible read— and a necessary one. —SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE

In Prison Profiteers, co-editors Tara Herivel and Paul Wright “follow the money to an astonishing constellation of prison administrators and politicians working in collusion with private parties to maximize profits” (Publishers Weekly). From investment banks, guard unions, and the makers of Taser stun guns to health care providers, telephone companies, and the U.S. military (which relies heavily on prison labor), this network of perversely motivated interests has turned the imprisonment of one out of every 135 Americans into a lucrative business. Called “an essential read for anyone who wants to understand what’s gone wrong with criminal justice in the United States” by ACLU National Prison Project director Elizabeth Alexander, this incisive and deftly researched volume shows how billions of tax dollars designated for the public good end up lining the pockets of those private enterprises dedicated to keeping prisons packed. “An important analysis of a troubling social trend” (Booklist ) that is sure to inform and outrage any concerned citizen, Prison Profiteers reframes the conversation by exposing those who stand to profit from the imprisonment of millions of Americans.

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Tara Herivel is a public defender in Portland, Oregon, and a co-editor of Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America’s Poor. Paul Wright is the founder and editor

of Prison Legal News, a co-editor of Prison Nation and The Celling of America, June

and the winner of the National Lawyers Guild Arthur Kinoy Award. He lives in

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Brattleboro, Vermont.

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Examined Life Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ASTRA

TAYLOR

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL EIGHT RENOWNED THINKERS TAKE PHILOSOPHY TO THE STREETS IN INTERVIEWS DRAWN FROM A 2008 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PREMIERE

Only thoughts that come from walking have any value. —NIETZSCHE

Examined Life boldly takes philosophy out of the dark corners of the academy and into the streets, reminding us that great ideas are born through profound engagement with the hustle and bustle of everyday life, not in isolation from it.

K. Anthony Appiah

Judith Butler

Michael Hardt

Martha Nussbaum

Avital Ronell

Peter Singer

Cornel West

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A companion to Astra Taylor’s documentary film, the book features interviews with eight iconoclastic and influential philosophers, conducted while on the move through places that hold special resonance for them and their ideas. Peter Singer’s thoughts on the ethics of consumption are amplified against the backdrop of Fifth Avenue’s posh boutiques. Michael Hardt ponders the nature of revolution while surrounded by symbols of wealth and leisure. Judith Butler and a friend stroll through San Francisco’s Mission District questioning our culture’s fixation on individualism. And while driving through Manhattan, Cornel West—perhaps America’s best-known public intellectual—compares philosophy to jazz and blues, reminding us how intense and invigorating the life of the mind can be. Offering exclusive moments with great thinkers in fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life reveals philosophy’s power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place within it.

Astra Taylor directed Z˘iz˘ek!, which was chosen as one of the top ten documentaries of 2007 by Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian and rated a “must see” by the Chicago Reader. She holds an MA in liberal studies from the New School for Social

Research and has taught at the University of Georgia and the State University of

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New York, New Paltz. Her writing has appeared in Adbusters, The Nation, and

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Salon. She lives in New York.

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The Case for Make Believe Saving Play in a Commercialized World SUSAN LINN

NOW IN PAPERBACK FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CONSUMING KIDS, A CLARION CALL FOR RESCUING CREATIVE PLAY FROM THE GRIPS OF COMMERCIALISM

[A] welcome addition to such books as D.W. Winnicott’s Playing and Reality, Bruno Bettleheim’s The Uses of Enchantment, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow. —LIBRARY JOURNAL

Linn brings invaluable expertise to this well-organized and straightforward exploration of a neglected subject. —BOOKLIST Also Available

A wonderful look at how playing can heal children, how in “pretend-worlds” they can find their truest selves. [Linn’s] fierce advocacy for kids is on every page of this terrific book. —THE BOSTON GLOBE

In The Case for Make Believe, Harvard child psychologist Susan Linn tells the alarming story of childhood under siege in a commercialized and technology-saturated world. Although play is essential to human development and children are born with an innate capacity for make believe, Linn argues that, in modern-day America, nurturing creative play is not only countercultural—it threatens corporate profits. A book with immediate relevance for parents and educators alike, The Case

for Make Believe helps readers understand how crucial child’s play is—and what parents and educators can do to protect it. At the heart of the book are stories of children at home, in school, and at a therapist’s office playing about real-life issues from entering kindergarten to a sibling’s death, expressing feelings they can’t express directly, and making meaning of an often confusing world. In an era when toys come from television and media companies sell videos as brain-builders for babies, Linn lays out the inextricable links between play,

Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood Susan Linn Hardcover, $32.00, 978-1-56584-783-5

creativity, and health, showing us how and why to preserve the space for make believe that children need to lead fulfilling and meaningful lives.

Susan Linn, author of Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood (The July

New Press), is a psychologist at Judge Baker Children’s Center and Harvard Medical

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School in Boston. An award-winning ventriloquist internationally recognized for her

pioneering work using puppet therapy with children, she was mentored by the late Fred Rogers.

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On Empire America, War, and Global Supremacy ERIC HOBSBAWM

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL THE MASTERFUL ASSESSMENT OF OUR TROUBLED PRESENT BY “THE BEST-KNOWN LIVING HISTORIAN IN THE WORLD” ( THE TIMES, LONDON)

As close to essential reading as the times allow.

Praise for Eric Hobsbawm:

—THE NEW YORK OBSERVER

The popular people’s historian who has influenced our understanding of the previous three centuries like no other.

“A small volume for igniting big discussions” (Booklist ), the renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm’s On Empire is a major new intellectual resource for anyone seeking

—THE BOSTON GLOBE

to understand America’s fate in the new millennium.

prospects for peace in a world that has witnessed uninterrupted military conflict

The fact is that no other living historian of whatever political affiliation has the intellectual firepower—the range and depth of knowledge, the analytical skill.

since 1914.

—NIALL FERGUSON, THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

In four brief chapters encompassing a century of world history, Hobsbawm engages the key questions of our era with his characteristic wit, precision, and historical breadth of knowledge. A startling image of danger and instability emerges as On Empire sketches the tangled relationship between globalization, war, and the

It is against this somber backdrop that Hobsbawm offers his views about why America will never achieve the dominance of past empires—despite the overwhelming preponderance of U.S. military power in the world. And in a powerful series of historical observations about the war in Iraq, Hobsbawm dismantles every major assumption underlying American military strategy, demonstrating the utter futility of U.S. hopes for “victory” in the Middle East. “Good grounds for heated discussion about America’s role in the world”

No historian can match his overwhelming command of fact and source. . . . Hobsbawm’s gift for startling, often seductive generalizations from his material has only grown. —NEAL ASCHERSON, THE INDEPENDENT

(Kirkus Reviews), On Empire is a brilliant new intellectual volley from “our July

greatest living historian” (The New York Review of Books).

Eric Hobsbawm is a fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has taught at the University of London, the College de France, MIT, Cornell, and the Graduate Faculty of The New School for Social

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Lift Every Voice The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement PATRICIA SULLIVAN

A MAGNIFICENT HISTORY OF THE NATION’S PREMIER CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION, PUBLISHED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE NAACP CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

A remarkable achievement. The heroes and heroines are all there, the pace is fast, and the level of emotion is truly high. Dr. Sullivan has achieved for the NAACP centennial and for all of us an exciting account of its life. —JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN, DUKE UNIVERSITY

Ten years in the making, Lift Every Voice is the first major history of America’s oldest civil rights organization and destined to be a classic in the field. Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) got

At long last, the nation’s most important civil rights organization has the grand, sweeping history it deserves. Lift Every Voice is an engrossing, enlightening, absolutely essential book—a triumph. —KEVIN BOYLE, AUTHOR OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD–WINNING ARC OF JUSTICE Also Available

its start as an elite organization dominated by white reformers at a time when segregation had triumphed in the South and the color line was tightening its hold in the North. By the end of World War I, the NAACP had become a mass-black membership organization reaching from Boston to Los Angeles and into the Mississippi Delta; after World War II, it had become synonymous with the freedom movement itself. Historian Patricia Sullivan unearths the little-known early decades of the NAACP’s activism, telling startling stories of personal bravery, legal brilliance, and political maneuvering by the likes of W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Walter

White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP Kenneth Robert Janken Hardcover, $29.95, 978-1-56584-773-6

White, Charles Houston, Ella Baker, Thurgood Marshall, and Roy Wilkins. The book then moves into the critical postwar era, when, with a string of legal victories culminating in Brown v. Board, the NAACP knocked out the legal underpinnings of the segregation system and set the stage for the final assault on Jim Crow. An epic narrative of struggle against injustice, Lift Every Voice lays a new foundation for understanding the modern civil rights movement.

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Patricia Sullivan teaches history at the University of South Carolina and is a fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. Her books include Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era and Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years. Flag flying above Fifth Avenue, New York City, ca. 1938

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The World of Mexican Migrants The Rock and the Hard Place JUDITH ADLER HELLMAN

NOW IN PAPERBACK AN EYE-OPENING, IMMENSELY READABLE LOOK AT THE LIVES OF MEXICAN MIGRANTS, BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING MEXICAN LIVES

Praise for the work of Judith Adler Hellman: Hellman evokes the sights, sounds, and smells of her subject.

A sympathetic, wide-ranging portrait of the lives of Mexicans on both sides of the border. . . . Hellman removes the shrillness from the border debate to show what the crossers do and why. —KIRKUS

—THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Widely praised as a splendid addition to the literature on the great wave of

Gives us a vivid ground-level view of the experiences of Mexican migrants as they maneuver to survive.

post–1970 immigration from Mexico—as a result of which an estimated 6 million

—FRANCES FOX PIVEN, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR, THE GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY

undocumented Mexican migrants now live in the United States—The World of

Mexican Migrants, by acclaimed author Judith Adler Hellman, takes us into the lives of those who, no longer able to eke out even a modest living in their homeland, have traveled north to find jobs. Hellman takes us deep into the sending communities in Mexico, where we wit-

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ness the conditions that lead Mexicans to risk their lives crossing the border and meet those who live on Mexico’s largest source of foreign income, remittances from family members al Norte. We hear astonishing border crossing tales—including one man’s journey riding suspended from the undercarriage of a train. In New York and Los Angeles, construction workers, restaurant staff, street vendors, and deliverymen share their survival strategies—the ways in which they work, send money

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home, find housing, learn English, send their children to school, and avoid detection. Drawing upon five years of in-depth interviews, Hellman offers a humanizing perspective and “essential window” (Booklist ) into the lives and struggles of Mexican migrants living in the United States.

August Paperback, 978-1-59558-448-9 $17.95 / £10.99 / $20.95 CAN 5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄4”, 288 pages Sociology (Hardcover edition: 978-1-56584-838-2)

Judith Adler Hellman is a professor of social and political science at York University in Canada. The author of three previous books— Mexican Lives (The New Press), Mexico in Crisis, and Journeys Among Women—she has done fieldwork in Mexico since the late 1960s. Born and raised in New York City, she lives in Toronto, Canada.

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Ex Mex From Migrants to Immigrants JORGE G. CASTAÑEDA

NOW IN PAPERBACK A “TIMELY CONSIDERATION” ( PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ) OF THE CRUCIAL, CONTROVERSIAL, AND COMPLEX ISSUES SURROUNDING MEXICAN IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES, BY MEXICO’S FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER A trenchant . . . analysis of the recent congressional debacle over immigration reform. —THE WASHINGTON POST

From the massive nationwide rally in support of immigrant rights in May 2006 to

A straightforward, useful guide to the two countries’ complex and sometimes surprising history of labor exchange. —BUSINESSWEEK

(Booklist ), former Mexican foreign minister and eminent scholar Jorge G. Castañeda

Castañeda removes the shrillness from the immigration debate. His calming argument merits an audience, especially among the fence-builders in Congress.

describes just who makes up the newest generation of immigrants from Mexico,

—KIRKUS

why they have chosen to live in the United States, where they work, and what they

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protests against the increasingly frequent immigration raids across the country, the public debate on immigration reform has largely centered on Mexican immigrants. Yet, in the United States, we rarely hear the Mexican perspective on the issue. In “portraits that defy American stereotypes of who is a Mexican immigrant”

ultimately hope to achieve. Drawing on his wide-ranging experience, Casteñeda examines the century-long historical background behind the labor exchange between Mexico and the United States, while offering an insider’s account of the official conversations and secret negotiations between the two countries in recent years. Both authoritative and timely, Ex Mex is essential reading for all who want to Perpetuating Power: How Mexican Presidents Were Chosen Jorge G. Castaneda Paperback, $16.95, 978-1-56584-708-8

make sense of the the complex issue of immigration.

Jorge G. Castañeda is the author of several books, including Perpetuating Power, The Mexican Shock (both available from The New Press), and Utopia Unarmed.

Having served as Mexico’s foreign minister from 2000 to 2003, he is currently

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Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American Studies at New York

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University. He divides his time between Mexico City and New York City.

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Wartime Writings 1943–1949 MARGUERITE DURAS TRANSLATED BY LINDA COVERDALE

NOW IN PAPERBACK FROM ONE OF FRANCE’S MOST CELEBRATED LITERARY FIGURES, THE CAPTIVATING WORLD WAR II NOTEBOOKS WITH THE REMARKABLE STORIES BEHIND HER INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERS Unfettered access to one of the great literary minds of our time.

A marvel and a treasure.

—SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Preposterous, self-obsessed, eloquent, unstoppable, Duras left her mark on French letters, theater, and cinema.

Duras’ fans will recognize and thrill to her unique voice as it develops—feverish, sometimes feral, yet pitilessly unsentimental. —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

—LE MONDE

—EDMUND WHITE, THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

A “fierce and lyrical writer of conscience” (Booklist ), Marguerite Duras kept hidden in a closet in her country home in France four small notebooks filled with writings from the war years. Published here in their entirety for the first time, these remark-

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able wartime writings include slices of autobiography and feature the first versions of Duras’ most famous works, the true stories behind the international bestsellers

The Lover, The War, and several other classics. Critics have hailed Wartime Writings as “among the most arresting [pages] she ever wrote” (The New York Review of Books). In them, Duras chronicles the poignant circumstances of her childhood in colonial Vietnam, her experiences The War: A Memoir Marguerite Duras Paperback, $14.95, 978-1-56584-221-2

with the French Resistance during the war, and the conflicted and exhilarating time of the Liberation and the early postwar years. Throughout, Duras paints an unflinching portrait of this troubled and formative period for France. Allowing readers to fully and intimately explore the life of one of the most

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celebrated artists of the twentieth century, Wartime Writings gives new meaning

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to Duras’ previous work and adds to her intricate life story.

Marguerite Duras (1914 –1996) was one of France’s most important literary figures. She is the author of such acclaimed novels as The Lover, The Ravishing of Lol Stein, and The Sailor from Gibraltar, as well as the screenplay for Hiroshima, Mon Amour. Linda Coverdale is an award-winning translator whose most recent translation for The New Press was Tanguy Viel’s novel Beyond Suspicion. She lives in New York City.

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Education

Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships Anne T. Henderson, Karen L. Mapp, Vivian R. Johnson, and Don Davies

Classroom Conversations: A Collection of Classics for Parents and Teachers Edited by Alexandra Miletta and Maureen Miletta

Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School Edited by Mica Pollock

PB, $24.95, 978–1–59558–157–0, 336 pages

PB, $24.95, 978–1–59558–054–2, 416 pages

Education A mother/daughter team of expert educators share their favorite essays in education

Education Leading experts offer concrete strategies for dealing with race in schools

Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students Kathleen Cushman

Fires in the Middle School Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers Kathleen Cushman and Laura Rogers

Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom Lisa Delpit

PB, $16.95, 978–1–56584–996–9, 224 pages

HC, $24.95, 978–1–59558–111–2, 240 pages

PB, $17.95, 978–1–59558–074–0, 256 pages

Education Now in paperback, an invaluable guide to teaching teenagers, featuring the uncensored advice of the students themselves

Education The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling Fires in the Bathroom offers practical advice from middle school students to their teachers

Education An updated paperback edition of the MacArthur Fellow’s classic revolutionary analysis of the role of race in the classroom

She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott Herbert Kohl

The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom Edited by Lisa Delpit and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy

Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers Daniel Moulthrop, Nínive Clements Calegari, and Dave Eggers

PB, $25, 978–1–56584–888–7, 352 pages Education A practical, hands-on guide to helping schools and families work better together

PB, $17.95, 978–1–56584–350–5, 256 pages

PB, $16.95, 978–1–59558–128–0, 384 pages

PB, $14.95, 978–1–59558–127–3, 144 pages African American Studies/Education How the story of Rosa Parks has been distorted into a false national myth, misinforming generations of schoolchildren

Education The author of Other People’s Children joins with other experts to examine the relationship between language and power in the classroom

Education The bestselling call to action for improving the lives of public school teachers—and improving our classrooms along the way

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History

Bitterly Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War David Williams

Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present Cynthia Stokes Brown

HC, $27.95, 978–1–59558–108–2, 320 pages

PB, $17.95, 978–1–59558–414–4, 304 pages

History/Civil War From the author of the celebrated A People’s History of the Civil War, a new myth-busting account of the Confederacy’s collapse from within

History Now in paperback, the first popular book in an innovative new field that seeks to fit human history into the history of the universe

History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History Dana Lindaman and Kyle Ward

Japan at War: An Oral History Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook

Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel Richard H. Minear PB, $19.95, 978–1–56584–704–0, 272 pages

PB, $17.95, 978–1–56584–039–3, 496 pages

PB, $17.95, 978–1–59558–082–5, 432 pages History An eye-opening compilation showing how very different U.S. history looks when viewed by the rest of the world

A People’s History of the United States: Abridged Teaching Edition Howard Zinn PB, $17.95, 978–1–56584–826–9, 640 pages

History The bestselling collection of little-known World War II political cartoons by the creator of The Cat in the Hat

The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the Present Lloyd C. Gardner HC, $27.95, 978–1–59558–075–7, 320 pages

History/Asian Studies A timely reissue of a “deeply moving book” (Studs Terkel) portraying the Japanese experience during World War II in all its complexity

A People’s History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play Dave Zirin

History The long view—reaching back to Vietnam—of the ideas, policies, and decisions that led to the Iraq War

Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches Edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith PB, $16.95, 978–1–59558–126–6, 288 pages

HC, $26.95, 978–1–59558–100–6, 320 pages History An abridged classroom edition of Howard Zinn’s bestselling history of the United States, with teaching materials to accompany each chapter

U.S. History From the author Robert Lipsyte calls “the best young sportswriter in America,” a rollicking, rebellious, mythbusting history of sports in America that puts politics in the ring with pop culture

African American Studies Now in paperback, a century of riveting public speeches by leading African American orators

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Inequality/Economics/Labor

10 Excellent Reasons Not to Hate Taxes Edited by Stephanie Greenwood PB, $13.95, 978–1–59558–161–7, 160 pages

The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop Nina Luttinger and Gregory Dicum PB, $16.95, 978–1–59558–060–3, 256 pages

Economics/Current Affairs A short, snappy guide that counters the anti-tax, anti-government rhetoric that permeates our culture

Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel with United for a Fair Economy and Class Action PB, $18.95, 978–1–59558–015–3, 272 pages Economics A revised and updated edition of the activist guide to closing the gap between the rich and everyone else in America

Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences Edited by James Lardner and David A. Smith

The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide Meizhu Lui, Bárbara Robles, Rose Brewer, and Rebecca Adamson PB, $19.95, 978–1–59558–004–7, 336 pages

Business Revised and updated, a compact guide to the beverage that keeps us running

Economics An eye-opening field guide to the wealth gap

Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America Jonathan Teller-Elsberg, Nancy Folbre, and James Heintz

From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States Priscilla Murolo and A.B. Chitty with illustrations by Joe Sacco{OK?}

PB, $16.95, 978–1–59558–048–1, 256 pages

PB, $17.95, 978–1–56584–776–7, 384 pages

Economics An updated and revised edition of the twenty-first-century handbook to the myths and realities of the U.S. economy

History/Sociology An engrossing history of American labor for a new generation

Social Stratification in the United States: The American Profile Poster Stephen J. Rose

Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein

PB/Poster, $25, 978–1–59558–155–6, 56 pages

PB, $21.95, 978–1–59558–021–4, 368 pages

Sociology An update of the classic book-and-poster set on American comparative wealth

Business/Economics An indispensable introduction to the company that will define the twenty-first-century economy

PB, $16.95, 978–1–59558–175–4, 336 pages Economics Leading American scholars and activists explore the question our leaders have been working overtime to ignore

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Literature/Studs Terkel

A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology Edited by Robert Coles and Randy Testa PB, $19.95, 978–1–56584–849–8, 352 pages Anthology/Medicine A stirring collection of literature on all aspects of the medical profession, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the “Children of Crisis” series

Literature from the “Axis of Evil”: Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Other Enemy Nations Edited by Words Without Borders

Minding the Store: Great Writing About Business, from Tolstoy to Now Edited by Robert Coles and Albert LaFarge HC, $25.95, 978–1–59558–355–0, 320 pages

PB, $16.95, 978–1–59558–205–8, 320 pages Literature/Anthology Short stories and fiction excerpts from Iran, Iraq, Syria, North Korea, Cuba, Sudan, and other nations the Bush administration would rather we didn’t know about

Literature Entertaining and illuminating literary selections that explore the ethical quandaries of the workplace, collected by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Moral Lives of Children

And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey Studs Terkel

Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Century Studs Terkel

PB, $16.95, 978–1–59558–118–1, 336 pages

PB, $16.95, 978–1–59558–172–3, 496 pages

Music A remarkable collection of interviews with legendary musicians from the past century by America’s foremost oral historian

Memoir A new paperback edition of the New York Times bestselling oral history of the twentieth century as told by those who lived through it

“The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II Studs Terkel

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression Studs Terkel

Touch and Go: A Memoir Stud Terkel

PB, $16.95, 978–1–56584–343–1, 608 pages

PB, $16.95, 978–1–56584–656–2, 480 pages

Military History/World War II A trade paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book

History Studs Terkel’s classic history of the Great Depresssion

Shakespeare’s Kitchen: Stories Lore Segal PB, $14.95, 978–1–59558–346–8, 240 pages Fiction Now in paperback, the “marvelously original” (BOMB) Pulitzer finalist{OK?} from the acclaimed author of Other People’s Houses and Her First American

PB, $17.95, 978–1–59558–411–3, 288 pages Memoir The extraordinary, widely praised memoir from “the most distinguished oral historian of our time” (The Washington Post)

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Index of Authors and Titles

10 Excellent Reasons Not to Hate Taxes

Adamson, Rebecca Amato, Theresa And They All Sang

33 14 34

Barlow, Maude Beyond the Bake Sale Big History Bitterly Divided Blue Covenant Bobo, Kim Brewer, Rose Brown, Cynthia Stokes Buhle, Paul Butler, Paul Calegari, Nínive Clements The Case for Make Believe Castañeda, Jorge G. Chitty, A.B. Chow, Keith Classroom Conversations The Coffee Book Coles, Robert Collins, Chuck The Color of Wealth Coming of Age Cook, Haruko Taya Cook, Theodore F. Cushman, Kathleen Davies, Don Delpit, Lisa The Devil in Dover Dicum, Gregory Dowdy, Joanne Kilgour Dr. Seuss Goes to War Duberman, Martin Duras, Marguerite

Economic Apartheid in America Eggers, Dave Ellis, Catherine Ellis, Marc H. Everyday Antiracism Ex Mex Examined Life Field Guide to the U.S. Economy Fires in the Bathroom Fires in the Middle School Bathroom

16 31 32 32 16 9 33 32 18–19 12–13 31 24 29 33 6–7 31 33 34 33 33 34 32 32 31 31 31 10 33 31 32 11 30 33 31 32 4–5 31 29 23 33 31 31

Folbre, Nancy Founders From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend Front Lines

33 15 33 20

Gardner, Lloyd C. God Needs No Passport “The Good War” Grand Illusion Greene, Alexis Greenwood, Stephanie

32 8 34 14 20 33

Hard Times Heintz, James Hellman, Judith Adler Henderson, Anne T. Herivel, Tara History Lessons Hobsbawm, Eric

34 33 28 31 22 32 25

Inequality Matters Italian Shoes

33 2–3

Japan at War Johnson, Vivian R. Judaism Does Not Equal Israel

32 31 4–5

Kohl, Herbert Laderman, Gary LaFarge, Albert Lardner, James Lauro, Shirley Lebo, Lauri Let’s Get Free Levitt, Peggy Lichtenstein, Nelson A Life in Medicine Lift Every Voice Lindaman, Dana Linn, Susan Literature from the “Axis of Evil” The Long Road to Baghdad Lui, Meizhu Luttinger, Nina Ma, Jerry Mankell, Henning Mapp, Karen L. Miletta, Alexandra Miletta, Maureen Minding the Store

31 17 34 33 20 10 12–13 8 33 34 26–27 32 24 34 32 33 33 6–7 2–3 31 31 31 34

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Minear, Richard H. Moulthrop, Daniel Murolo, Priscilla

32 31 33

On Empire The One That Got Away Other People’s Children

25 21 31

Pekar, Harvey A People’s History of Sports in the United States A People’s History of the United States Pollock, Mica Prison Profiteers Raphael, Ray Robles, Bárbara Rogers, Laura Rose, Stephen J.

Sacred Matters Say It Plain Secret Identities Segal, Lore Shakespeare’s Kitchen Shen, Parry She Would Not Be Moved The Skin That We Speak Smith, David A.

18–19 32 32 31 22 15 33 31 33 17 32 6–7 34 34 6–7 31 31 33

Smith, Stephen Drury Social Stratification in the United States Studs Terkel’s Working Sullivan, Patricia

32 33 18–19 26–27

Taylor, Astra Teachers Have It Easy Teller-Elsberg, Jonathan Terkel, Studs Testa, Randy Touch and Go

23 31 33 34 34 34

Wage Theft in America Waiting to Land Wal-Mart Ward, Kyle Wartime Writings Wicomb, Zoë Williams, David Words Without Borders The World of Mexican Migrants Wright, Paul

9 11 33 32 30 21 32 34 28 22

Yang, Jeff Yeskel, Felice

6–7 33

Zinn, Howard Zirin, Dave

32 32

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41 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

LISA ADAMS

JOHN MORNING

Literary Agent

Trustee

The Garamond Agency

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

ELLEN ADLER Publisher The New Press TOM BLANTON Director National Security Archive

FRANCES FOX PIVEN, EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD CHAIR Professor of Political Science, CUNY; Former President, American Sociological Association NORMAN REDLICH Professor of Law Emeritus and

SARAH BURNES Literary Agent The Gernert Company BARBARA EHRENREICH Author and Columnist ANTONIA GRUMBACH Partner Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler SHIRLEY HUNE Associate Dean,

Former Dean, NYU Law School; Former Counsel, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz ANDRĂ&#x2030; SCHIFFRIN Founding Director The New Press ANTHONY M. SCHULTE, TREASURER Former Executive Vice President Random House THEODORE M. SHAW

Graduate Division, UCLA

Professor of Professional

Former President, Association

Practice, Columbia Law School;

for Asian American Studies

Former President, NAACP LDF, Inc.

AZIZ HUQ

DIANE WACHTELL

Deputy Director of the

Executive Director

Justice Program

The New Press

The Brennan Center for Justice JANE ISAY, CHAIR Former Editor-in-Chief Harcourt ETHEL KLEIN President EDK Associates, Inc.

TINA C. WEINER Publishing Director Yale University Press WOODWARD A. WICKHAM, VICE-CHAIR Former Vice President The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation COUNSEL:

PETER KWONG Chair, Asian American Studies Department, Hunter College

EDWARD J. DAVIS Partner Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

The New Press was established in 1990 as a not-for-profit alternative to the large, commercial publishing houses currently dominating the book publishing industry. The New Press operates in the public interest rather than for private gain, and is committed to publishing, in innovative ways, works of educational, cultural, and community value that are often deemed insufficiently profitable. The New Press is affiliated with the Technical, Office and Professional (TOP) Union, Local 2110 UAW, AFL-CIO.