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BY TITLE 10 Excellent Reasons to Think Twice About Meat Al’ America Asian Americans in the Twenty-first Century Big History Bombing Civilians Catholic ≠ the Vatican Challenging China Classroom Conversations Coming of Age in the 21st Century Communication Revolution Evangelical ≠ Republican . . . Or Democrat Fakers Fuller’s Earth Getting Ghost The Herb Kohl Reader Home Fronts The Infernal Machine Kill Khalid Law Lit Less Safe, Less Free The Long Road to Baghdad Nobel Lectures P.S. A People’s History of Poverty in America A People’s History of Sports in the United States The Pyramid Radical Acts See You in Court Submersion Journalism Touch and Go Unjust Deserts The Use of Explosive Ideas in Education Viral Spiral War Is Beautiful Welcome to the Aquarium The Wrong Guys

BY AUTHOR Alperovitz, Gar Bergmann, Luke Bollier, David Brameld, Theodore Brenneman, Richard J. Brown, Cynthia Stokes Carr, Matthew Cole, David Curiel, Jonathan Daly, Lew Diamond, Julie Duberman, Martin Foley, Michael S. Frosch, Mary Gardner, Lloyd C.

32 26–27 11 8 41 17 10 15 14 30 16 35 28 34 42 9 18 36–37 39 40 19 12 21 24 13 2–3 4 38 5 20 25 28 33 6–7 29 22–23

25 34 33 28 28 8 18 40 26–27 25 29 4 9 14 19

Geoghegan, Thomas Harper, Lisa Sharon Hom, Sharon Kohl, Herbert Lee, Joanne Faung Jean Leo, Richard Lobel, Jules Maliszewski, Paul Mankell, Henning McChesney, Robert W. McGeough, Paul Miletta, Alexandra Miletta, Maureen Moby Mosher, Stacy Neugass, James O’Malley, Brendan P. Pimpare, Stephen Rosenbaum, Thane Ruether, Rosemary Radford Tanaka, Yuki Terkel, Studs Wasik, Bill Wells, Tom Young, Marilyn B. Zirin, Dave

38 16 10 42 11 22–23 40 35 2–3 30 36–37 15 15 32 10 6–7 9 24 39 17 41 20–21 5 22–23 41 13

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The Pyramid And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries HENNING MANKELL TRANSLATED FROM THE SWEDISH BY EBBA SEGERBERG WITH LAURIE THOMPSON

T H E M I S S I N G P I E C E O F T H E I N T E R N A T I O N A L L Y B E S T S E L L I N G K U R T W A L L A N D E R M Y S T E R Y S E R I ES : THE STORY OF WALLANDER’S BEGINNINGS, TOLD IN FIVE GRIPPING SHORT MYSTERIES

What happened to Wallander before the series began? . . . Several years ago, right when I was done with the fifth book, Sidetracked , I realized that I had started to write stories in my head that took place long before the start of the series. —FROM HENNING MANKELL’S FOREWORD

Mankell is that unusual thing: a European thriller writer whose work holds up as literature and who has broken out as an international phenomenon. —THE NEW YORK TIMES

At last, a key addition to the Kurt Wallander mystery series: the book of short mysteries that takes us back to the beginning. Here we meet Wallander the twentyone-year-old patrolman on his first criminal investigation, Wallander the young father facing an unexpected danger on Christmas Eve, Wallander on the brink of middle age solving a case of poisoning, the newly separated Wallander investigating the murder of a local photographer, and Wallander the veteran detective discovering unexpected connections between a downed mystery plane and the assassina-

Kurt Wallander remains one of the most impressive and credible creations of crime fiction today. —THE GUARDIAN

A master of atmosphere and suspense. —THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW

tion of a pair of spinster sisters. Over the course of these five mysteries, he comes into his own as a murder detective, defined by his simultaneously methodical and

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instinctive work, and is increasingly haunted from witnessing the worst aspects of an atomized society. Written from the unique perspective of an author looking back upon his own creation to discover his origins, these mysteries are vintage Mankell. Essential reading for all Wallander fans, The Pyramid is also a wonderful showcase for Mankell’s powers as a writer “whose works transcend their chosen genre to become thrilling and moral literature” (Michael Ondaatje).

The Eye of the Leopard Henning Mankell Hardcover, $26.95, 978–1–59558–077–1

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Henning Mankell is Sweden’s bestselling author worldwide. His novels have been translated into thirty-seven languages with more than 30 million copies in print. The winner of many prizes, he divides his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he has worked as a director at Teatro Avenida since 1985. Ebba Segerberg has translated four of Henning Mankell’s novels. She teaches

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Radical Acts

Submersion Journalism

Collected Political Plays

Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper’s Magazine

MARTIN DUBERMAN WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

EDITED BY

BILL WASIK

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROGER D. HODGE

P A P E RBA CK OR IGINAL FOUR I NSPI RI NG, BOLD P O L ITIC AL P L AY S TH AT B RIN G H ISTO RY A L I V E A S T H EAT ER , FROM THE BANCROFT PRI Z E– W IN N IN G H ISTO RIAN , C U L TU RAL C RITIC , A N D P UBLIC IN T ELLECTUAL

F I F T E E N S P A R K L I N G W O R K S O F I N S I D E - O U T R E P O R T A G E — HARPER’S O W N H O U S E B R A N D O F “ S U B M E R S I O N JO U R N A L I S M ” — A N U N A P O L O G E T I C A L L Y A G G R E S S I V E A P P R O A C H T O REPORTING IN AN AGE OF LIES

Praise for In White America :

A dazzling intellectual immersion. . . . Consistently challenging, even demanding, Harper’s power is in its ability to cause sometimes subtle, sometimes seismic shifts in a reader’s world view.

It is theater in the best sense, moving, funny, humane, genuine, and best of all, unflaggingly provocative.

Martin Duberman occupies a singularly important place in American culture. —CATHARINE R. STIMPSON, DEAN AND UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, NYU

Best known for his acclaimed biographies of Paul Robeson and Lincoln Kirstein

—NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD CITATION FOR GENERAL EXCELLENCE, 2006

—JOHN SIMON

and his provocative books about the gay rights movement, Martin Duberman

A poignant chronicle . . .

has also had a long-standing involvement with the theater that began early in

Over the past several years, Harper’s Magazine has fostered an exciting brand of

—TIME

his career, when his drama criticism appeared in the Partisan Review and Harper’s,

journalism, participatory, sometimes even undercover, in approach. The magazine’s

Praise for Visions of Kerouac :

and continued with his own radical, adventurous, and deeply moving plays.

correspondents have infiltrated the Republican machine, from its lowliest canvass-

Succeeds in capturing honestly and powerfully a fascinating moment in this country’s literary and social history. —NEW YORK Also Available:

Paul Robeson: A Biography Martin Duberman Paperback, $25.95, 978–1–56584–941–9

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This volume includes four plays: In White America, about the black struggle for

ing operation to its corporate and evangelical elite, and they have posed as shady

freedom and human rights, which became a smash hit and was named the 1963

clients for sleazy blue-chip lobbying firms. They have shot machine guns, lounged in

Best Off-Broadway production of the year; Mother Earth, which brings to vivid life

Vegas brothels, and peered into secret tunnels in Mexicali. They have terrorized art

Emma Goldman, one of the twentieth century’s most famous revolutionaries;

museums and touched off worldwide fads.

Posing Naked, the heartbreaking story of Smith College professor Newton Arvin,

Submersion Journalism collects the best of this reportage—by celebrated

With articles by: Charles Bowden Adam Davidson Barbara Ehrenreich Steve Featherstone Kristoffer A. Garin Gary Greenberg Jay Kirk Willem Marx Morgan Meis Jeff Sharlet Jake Silverstein Ken Silverstein Wells Tower William T. Vollmann Bill Wasik

the most prominent (closeted) gay literary critic of his day; and Visions of Kerouac,

authors (William T. Vollmann, Barbara Ehrenreich) and fresh new voices (Wells

which captures the beat era—from Kerouac’s ambition-filled early years, criss-

Tower, Jake Silverstein) alike—in a book that serves not just as a collection of strik-

crossing the country with pals like Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, to the

ing stories but also as a proclamation in favor of truth-telling instead of managed

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later years of isolation and alcoholism. This paperback edition makes these four

“news” and PR spin. The book is a defense of the radically first-person dispatch,

politically charged plays available to a new generation.

filed from exactly those points of view where a reporter is not supposed to be.

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Martin Duberman is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Lehman College

Bill Wasik is a senior editor at Harper’s Magazine and the author of the forth-

and the Graduate School of the City University of New York and was the founder

coming My Crowd: Experiments in Viral Culture. Roger D. Hodge is the editor of

and first director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate

Harper’s Magazine. They both live in New York.

School. He has authored over twenty books, including James Russell Lowell, finalist for the National Book Award; Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community; Paul Robeson; Stonewall; the memoir Cures: A Gay Man’s Odyssey; and, most recently, The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein. He lives in New York City.

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War Is Beautiful An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War A LONG-LOST MEMOIR

JAMES NEUGASS EDITED BY PETER N. CARROLL AND PETER GLAZER

T H E N E W L Y D I S C O V E R E D JO U R N A L O F A N A W A R D - W I N N I N G P O E T ’ S E X P E R I E N C E O N T H E F R O N T L I N E S A S A M E M B E R O F T H E A B R A H A M L I N C O L N B R I G A D E — ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT FOR THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR One of the best memoirs I’ve read by an American volunteer— beautifully written, detailed, savvy, funny, and wrenching.

From “Es La Guerra”

—PETER GLAZER, BOARD MEMBER, ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE ARCHIVE

Of the bomb-wings that fell In the hospital courtyard, we made candlesticks; It was cold at night, colder Than steel of our surgeon’s instruments. [. . .]

In 1937, James Neugass, a poet and novelist praised in the New York Times, joined 2,800 other passionate young Americans who traveled to Spain as part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade—an unlikely mix of artists, journalists, industrial workers, and intellectuals united in their desire to combat European fascism.

BY JAMES NEUGASS

Although rumors persisted over the years that Neugass had written a memoir, the manuscript of War Is Beautiful, a nuanced and deeply poetic chronicle of his service as an ambulance driver, did not come to light for sixty years, until a book-

We had moved that night, To a new place, just as close to the lines.

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radical critic and editor Max Eastman. The memoir combines fast-paced accounts of darting onto battlefields to pick up the wounded with elegiac renderings of days spent “on alert” in an ever-changing series of sharply observed Spanish towns, enduring that most difficult of wartime activities: waiting. Published now for the first time, War Is Beautiful is poised to take its place alongside works by Erich Maria Remarque, Irène Némirovsky, Wilfred Owen, and George Orwell as a transcendent contemporaneous rendering of wartime life. It includes some of Neugass’s own photos taken while in Spain.

A Moment of War: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War Lauri Lee Paperback, $11.95, 978-1-56584-173-4

Born in New Orleans, James Neugass attended Yale, Harvard, and Oxford and worked as a book reviewer, shoe salesman, social worker, and fencing coach before shipping off to Spain. His novel Rain of Ashes was accepted for publication shortly before his death in 1949 of a heart attack in the Sheridan Square subway station. Peter N. Carroll is the board chair of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives and

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the author of The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Peter Glazer is an associate professor of theater, dance, and performance studies at UC Berkeley and a member of ALBA’s Board. Both live in the San Francisco Bay Area. THE NEW PRESS 1-800-233-4830 WWW.THENEWPRESS.COM

Big History

Home Fronts

From the Big Bang to the Present

A Wartime America Reader

CYNTHIA STOKES BROWN

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N O W I N PAPER BA CK JARED DI AMOND M EETS ST E P H EN H AWKIN G IN TH E F IRST P O P U L AR B O O K I N A N IN N OVA TIV E NEW FI ELD THAT SEEKS TO F IT H U MAN H ISTO RY IN TO TH E H ISTO RY O F TH E U N I V ER S E, BY A N AM ERI CAN BOOK AWARD WI N N ER Brown has an interesting story to tell, especially since it’s not the one most of us learned in high school. —KIRKUS

Cynthia Brown gives us a global history, one which provides the kind of historical knowledge that all students should bring to their understanding of current happenings.

MICHAEL S. FOLEY AND BRENDAN P. O’MALLEY

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL AN ILLUMINATING DOCUMENTARY HISTORY THAT REVEALS THE EFFECTS OF U.S. MILITARY VENTURES OVERSEAS ON MORE THAN A CENTURY OF AMERICAN LIFE AT HOME

Brown’s writing lucidly knits each topic into a vast historical mosaic. This exciting saga crosses space and time to illustrate how humans, born of stardust, were shaped—and how they in turn shaped the world we know today.

Who are the heroes that fight your war? Mothers who have no say. But my duty’s done so for God’s sake leave one! And don’t take my darling boy away.

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

—ANTIWAR SONG CIRCA 1916

Includes the words of:

An epic book that Kirkus called “world history on a grand scale,” Big History begins

The United States has been at war for seventy of the past one hundred years. And

when the universe is no more than the size of an atom and ends with a twenty-first-

even as American soldiers have fought overseas, war has profoundly influenced

century planet inhabited by 6.1 billion people. It’s a story that takes in prehistoric

almost every aspect of American society on the home front—as this startling collec-

geology, human evolution, the agrarian age, the Black Death, the voyages of

tion of wartime letters, song lyrics, poems, editorial cartoons, newspaper articles,

Columbus, the industrial revolution, and global warming. Along the way historian

leaflets, and government documents (from the Spanish-American War and World

—HERBERT KOHL

Cynthia Stokes Brown considers topics as varied as cell formation, population

War I to the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, and the war in Iraq) reveals.

Big History weaves together the stories of the universe, the earth, and humanity—and does so with intelligence, simplicity, and great elegance.

growth, global disparities, and illiteracy, creating a stunning synthesis of the

—DAVID CHRISTIAN, PROFESSOR OF WORLD HISTORY, SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY

historical and scientific knowledge of humanity and the earth we inhabit.

Big History represents a new kind of history, one that skillfully interweaves historical knowledge and cutting-edge science. In an age when scientific advances permit us to grasp the history of mankind in the context of its ecological impact on the planet, Brown’s lucid, accessible narrative is the first popularization of this innovative new field of study, as thrilling as it is ambitious.

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Home Fronts offers a vivid cross-section of American intellectual, political, and cultural life in wartime over the past century. Here are brief excerpts—set into historical context with concise introductions—from the most important work by intellectual luminaries, political activists, poets, songwriters, and presidents. Across the rich variety of social commentary, political critique, and artistic expression—which covers the full spectrum from pro-war to peacenik—Home

Fronts brings into sharp focus the startling continuities and revealing contrasts between past and present wartime experiences. A major historical resource,

Cynthia Stokes Brown is a retired professor of education at Dominican University

Home Fronts will also be an important intellectual tool for anyone contemplating

of California. She has written history and biography, including the American Book

the impact of war in our own time.

Award –winning Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement, Connecting with the Past, and Refusing Racism. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Michael S. Foley is an assistant professor of history at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island and the author of Confronting the War Machine.

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Brendan P. O’Malley is currently a PhD student in history at the CUNY Graduate

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Center and teaches U.S. and world history at Brooklyn College. They both live in Brooklyn, New York.

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William Jennings Bryan Emma Goldman Eugene V. Debs W.E.B. Du Bois Charles Lindbergh David Dellinger Ring Lardner Jr. John Steinbeck Dwight Macdonald Thomas Merton John Hope Franklin Muhammad Ali Noam Chomsky Daniel Berrigan Herbert Marcuse Marvin Gaye J. Anthony Lukas Richard Nixon Denise Levertov The Dead Kennedys Sydney Schanberg George Packer Christopher Hitchens Charles Simic and many others

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Challenging China Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change EDITED BY

SHARON HOM AND STACY MOSHER

PUBLISHED IN CONJUNCTION WITH HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA

Asian Americans in the Twenty-first Century Oral Histories of First- to Fourth-Generation Americans from China, Japan, India, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Laos JOANN FAUNG JEAN LEE

N O W I N PAPER BA CK A FASCI NATI NG PORTRAI T O F C O N TEMP O RARY L IF E IN SIDE C H IN A, W RITTEN B Y D I SS IDEN T S , A CTI VI STS, AND JOURNALI STS—IN TIME F O R TH E H ISTO RIC 20 0 8 O L Y MP IC S, W H E N T H E WOR LD’ S EYES WI LL BE ON CHI NA

A F O L L O W - U P T O T H E 1 9 9 2 B E S T S E L L I N G C L A S S I C ASIAN AMERICANS — W I T H A L L - N E W INTERVIEWS THAT BRILLIANTLY ILLUMINATE THE VIBRANT, EVER-CHANGING COMMUNITIES OF ASIAN AMERICA

A forceful and timely corrective. . . . Often fascinating and eloquent, these analyses, reports, testimonials, and poems paint a vivid portrait of the challenges facing China and the world as its nearly 1.4 billion citizens increasingly lay claim to basic human rights.

Everybody thinks I’m crazy. They think a Japanese country singer can never make it in the U.S. But I followed my dreams.

Anyone who would understand life in modern China needs Challenging China. . . . The unique struggles of the everyday Chinese person, both urban and rural, are documented here as nowhere else.

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

The collective term “Asian American” comprises more than twenty distinct nation-

—THE MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW

Mixing powerful personal stories with sobering analysis, this revealing book encom-

A diverse, compelling look at contemporary life in China as American companies flock to its promising market. —BOOKLIST

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alities and ethnic groups, and today there are more than 12 million Asian Pacific Interest in China has never been greater, but the voices of the Chinese themselves

Americans living in the United States. In this all-new collection of fascinating

often escape notice. Here, finally, is a book that reverses the trend by giving us a

interviews with students, lawyers, engineers, politicians, stay-at-home moms, and

rare and important portrait of contemporary life within China—“written with style,

activists, Joann Faung Jean Lee again draws upon her great skill and sensitivity

honesty, and expertise born of intimate and often painful experience” (Ian Buruma).

as a journalist to reveal a rich mosaic of Asian American identities. a landmark legal case that changed the way America understands the internment

on religion. Featuring some of the first-ever eyewitness accounts from Chinese dis-

of Japanese Americans during World War II; Ruby Chow remembers how she used

sidents and their families—including testimony by the relatives of the imprisoned

her position as a beloved restaurateur to launch a successful campaign for county

and the executed and descriptions of life in exile—Challenging China offers rare

councilwoman in Seattle, Washington; and Daniel Jung speaks of the complexities

glimpses of the country’s ongoing political turmoil, as well as hope in the rising

of African American and Korean relations in Los Angeles, where his father owned

collective resistance. By turns moving, illuminating, and outraged, Challenging

a liquor store when Daniel was a teenager in the 1990s.

afford to ignore.

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thoughts about Asian American identities, immigration, family, relationships, and

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educational and professional achievement.

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founded by Chinese scientists and scholars to promote universally recognized

Joann Faung Jean Lee is currently a professor and the chair of the communication

human rights in the People’s Republic of China. Sharon Hom is the executive

department at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. She has taught

director of HRIC. Stacy Mosher was HRIC’s communications director and editor

at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and was formerly

of HRIC’s journal, China Rights Forum, from 2002 to 2007.

a broadcast journalist for CNN. She lives in Northvale, New Jersey.

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East to America: Korean American Life Stories Elaine H. Kim and Eui-Young Yu Paperback, $16.95, 978–1–56584–399–8

Candid and compelling, the interviews reveal intimate and often conflicting

Human Rights in China (HRIC) is an international nongovernmental organization September

Asian Americans: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam, and Cambodia Joann Faung Jean Lee Paperback, $16.95, 978-1-56584-023-2

We hear a range of voices: Dale Minami recounts his historic involvement in

passes a broad range of social issues, from underage prostitution to the crackdown

China is a revealing portrait of a country whose internal politics we can no longer A Floating City of Peasants: The Great Migration in Contemporary China Floris-Jan van Luyn Hardcover, $35, 978-1-59558-138-9

—HANK SASAKI, COUNTRY AND WESTERN SINGER/SONGWRITER, INTERVIEWED IN ASIAN AMERICANS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

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Nobel Lectures From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2006

A People’s History of Sports in the United States 250 Years of Politics, Protest, the People, and Play DAVE ZIRIN

N O W I N PA PER BACK TWENTY-ONE OF THE WORL D’ S GRE ATE ST W RITE RS O F F E R A “L I B E R A TIN G MES S AGE ABOUT THE POWER OF L AN GU AGE” ( BLOOMSBURY REVIEW )

Includes the following laureates: Orhan Pamuk Harold Pinter Elfriede Jelinek J.M. Coetzee Imre Kertész V.S. Naipaul Gao Xingjian Günter Grass José Saramago Dario Fo Wislawa Szymborska Seamus Heaney Kenzaburo Oe Toni Morrison Derek Walcott Nadine Gordimer Octavio Paz Camilo José Cela Naguib Mahfouz Joseph Brodsky Wole Soyinka September Paperback, 978–1–59558–409–0 $16.95 / $18.95 CAN 5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄4”, 304 pages Literature / Anthology Translation Rights: Melbourne University Press Available in the U.S. and Canada only (Hardcover edition : 978–1–59558–201–0)

FROM THE AUTHOR ROBERT LIPSYTE CALLS “THE BEST YOUNG SPORTSWRITER IN AMERICA,” A ROLLICKING, REBELLIOUS, MYTH-BUSTING HISTORY OF SPORTS IN AMERICA THAT PUTS POLITICS IN THE RING WITH POP CULTURE

This book urges you to read and put pen to paper, or at least finger to keyboard. Flattered by the attentions of Stockholm, forced to explain themselves, these honorees make writing sound philosophical and seductive.

If there was an award for “Most Valuable Sportswriter,” I would vote for Dave Zirin. His writing combines vivid narrative, good humor, impressive knowledge of the game, and a keen awareness of the connection between sports and the world outside.

—NEW YORK POST

—HOWARD ZINN

From the political to the aesthetic, Nobel Lectures collects the words of a

In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog

quarter century of literature laureates, offering a glimpse into the inspirations,

“The Edge of Sports” is read each week by thousands of people across the country,

motivations, and passionately held beliefs of some of the greatest minds in the

Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sporting char-

world of literature.

acters and dramatic contests and what amounts to an alternative history of the

Literature laureates from England, China, France, Austria, South Africa, Egypt,

United States as seen through the games its people played. Through Zirin’s eyes,

Hungary, Trinidad, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Ireland, Japan, Saint Lucia,

sports are never mere games, but a reflection of—and a spur toward—the political

Mexico, Spain, Russia, Nigeria, Turkey, and the former Soviet Union offer their med-

conflicts that shape American society.

Praise for Dave Zirin: Perhaps the best young sportswriter in the United States today. Zirin is the only person my fifteen-year-old, basketballloving daughter reads on TheNation.com. —KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL, EDITOR OF THE NATION

You have to read Dave Zirin to believe him, and if you read him, you will believe him. —JACK MCCALLUM, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED

global affairs, geography and colonialism, and cultural change in a collection where

Fleetwood Walker brandished a revolver to keep racist fans at bay, then took his

Dave Zirin’s writing is the opening shot in the battle to reclaim sports.

“the force of their political opinions is what truly distinguishes them” (New York ).

regular place in the lineup. In the midst of the Depression, when almost no black

—JIM BOUTON, AUTHOR OF BALL FOUR

itations on imagination and the process of writing along with keen discussions of

From Harold Pinter’s passionate lecture on the nature of truth in art and politics to J.M. Coetzee’s allegorical journey through the mysteries of the creative process, from Toni Morrison’s essay on the link between language and oppression to Orhan

Half a century before Jackie Robinson was born, the black ballplayer Moses

athletes were allowed on the U.S. Olympic team, athletes held a Counter Olympics where a third of the participants were African American.

A People’s History of Sports in the United States is replete with surprises for

Pamuk’s tender memories of the influence of his father, each of the pieces—

seasoned sports fans, while anyone interested in history will be amazed by the

whether the laureate writes poetry, drama, or prose—is a testament to the power of

connections Zirin draws between politics and pop flies. As Jeff Chang, author of

literature to touch us and, every so often, to change the world.

Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, puts it, “After you read him, you’ll never see sports the

Zirin has an amazing talent for covering the sports and politics beat. Ranging like a great shortstop, he scoops up everything! —MATT ROTHSCHILD

same way again.”

The Nobel Prize is an international award instituted by the Swedish scientist Alfred

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Nobel through his will and administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm,

Dave Zirin is the author of three books, including What’s My Name Fool! and

Sweden. First awarded in 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature celebrates the work of

Welcome to the Terrordome. He writes the popular weekly online sports column

a writer whose contribution to literature consistently transcends national bound-

“The Edge of Sports” (edgeofsports.com) and is a regular contributor to SI.com,

aries to connect with the human condition.

The Nation, SLAM, and the Los Angeles Times. He lives in Takoma Park, Maryland.

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Coming of Age in the 21st Century Growing Up in America Today

Classroom Conversations A Collection of Classics for Parents and Teachers A MOTHER/DAUGHTER TEAM OF EXPERT EDUCATORS SHARE THEIR FAVORITE ESSAYS IN EDUCATION

EDITED BY

MARY FROSCH EDITED BY

P A P E RBA CK OR IGINAL A FOLLOW-UP TO THE CR ITIC AL L Y AC C L AIMED AN D B E STSEL L IN G M U L T ICULT UR AL CO LLECTI ON OF STORI ES ABOU T GRO W IN G U P IN AMERIC A—WITH N E W S E L E CT ION S FOR A NEW CENTURY All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable, and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence. Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall—that of our consciousness—between the world and ourselves. Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology Edited by Faith Adiele and Mary Frosch Paperback, $16.95, 978–1–59558–080–1

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In Classroom Conversations, two generations of educators—a mother and

Following in the footsteps of the highly successful Coming of Age in America

tices in education, and who continue to influence teachers today. Nineteen essays

and Coming of Age Around the World, this new anthology of fiction and memoir

by educators from Dewey to Delpit offer parents and new educators an education

explores coming of age in the new millennium.

degree in a nutshell. The Milettas frame these touchstone texts with commentary explaining why these writers resonate for them, sharing not only the personal

Junot Diaz, Louise Erdrich, Seth Kantner, and ZZ Packer explore the trials and

meanings they have derived from the selections but why these writings have

tribulations of growing up in our increasingly fragmented world. Issues of identity,

endured in the field over time. Brief biographies set each author in context for

sexuality, solitude, and conflict are beautifully presented through the voices of writ-

the lay reader.

ers of all ages and ethnicities, from Lan Samantha Chang tackling absent or dead

appreciate and find value in the wisdom distilled here. Classroom Conversations

“Mrs. Turner’s Lawn Jockeys.”

will help experienced teachers find renewed meaning in these seminal essays and

Cynthia Ballenger Patricia Carini Lisa Delpit John Dewey Eleanor Duckworth Maxine Greene Gloria Ladson-Billings Peggy Macintosh Sonia Nieto Vivian Gussin Paley Sylvia Ashton Warner among others Also Available:

will help younger teachers discover just how important the work they do can be.

al context, this collection is a stunning literary tribute to a new generation of global

For parents, the book will inform and enrich their understanding of their children’s

citizens that provides a distinctively American sense of hope.

educational experience.

Mary Frosch is the editor of Coming of Age in America and co-editor of Coming

Maureen Miletta is professor emerita at Hofstra University. She has taught

of Age Around the World (both available from The New Press). She teaches at the

elementary school in Great Neck, New York, where she currently lives, and is the

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Spence School in Manhattan and divides her time between New York City and Santa

author of A Multiage Classroom: Choice and Possibility. Alexandra Miletta is an

Monica, California.

assistant professor at the City College of New York and lives in Manhattan. She

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As educational fads and jargon come and go, parents and teachers alike will

parents in “The Eve of the Spirit Festival” to Emily Rabateau addressing race in With a preface and introductions to each piece by Mary Frosch providing cultur-

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SUSAN THISTLETHWAITE

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To let the religious right define evangelical . . . wipes out the memory of real people who lived and fought for just causes and just social policies because of their faith. . . . I refuse to let the religious right confiscate my heritage.

In a truly just world, Rosemary Radford Ruether would be Pope.

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the biblical concepts of shalom and the kingdom of God, as well as from historical

teachings and ascetic values, while promoting healthy sexual ethics and egalitarian

predecessors such as William Wilberforce, Sojourner Truth, and John Perkins.

communities that welcome women, gays, and lesbians into full equality in the

Harper offers a powerful indictment of the religious right, of its role in hijacking

explains Ruether’s pioneering leadership in progressive Christianity and her unwa-

that is racist and sexist to the core—of its abandonment of the gospel. She shows

vering commitment to ecological responsibility and human rights.

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A groundbreaking Catholic feminist, Rosemary Radford Ruether is the author of

public speaker. She is a featured blogger at FaithfulDemocrats and lives in New

the seminal work Sexism and God-Talk, has written over thirty books, and is an out-

York City. Reverend John M. Perkins has worked extensively on advancing the

spoken activist and distinguished scholar. She lives in Claremont, California. The

principles of Christian community development and racial reconciliation. He lives

Reverend Doctor Susan Thistlethwaite is President of the Chicago Theological

in Jackson, MS.

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A pioneering book. . . . Ruether’s prophetic razor’s edge is finely honed, her prose robust.

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[Ruether] has constructed a full-fledged feminist theology— the first within a Christian context.

—CHRISTIAN CENTURY

evangelical passion and dividing Christians against each other, and—in an agenda

become a new moral voice for the nation.

Praise for Ruether’s Sexism and God-Talk :

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ward agendas of the previous and current pope.

political shift, the agents of change driving it, and, in interviews with leaders across

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The Infernal Machine A History of Terrorism MATTHEW CARR

The Long Road to Baghdad A History of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East, from the Vietnam War to the Present LLOYD C. GARDNER

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THE RENOWNED DIPLOMATIC HISTORIAN LOOKS BACK AT THE IDEAS, POLICIES, AND DECISIONS THAT LED FROM VIETNAM TO THE IRAQ WAR AND TO AMERICA’S DISASTROUS NEW ROLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

The best written and most comprehensive history of terrorism we have.

Matthew Carr has written a brilliant book. The Infernal Machine brims with insight. Here, finally, we are able to see modern terrorism in its proper context.

What will stand out one day is not George W. Bush’s uniqueness but the continuum from the Carter Doctrine of 1979 to “Shock and Awe” in 2003.

—CHALMERS JOHNSON, AUTHOR OF THE BLOWBACK TRILOGY

—ANDREW J. BACEVICH, AUTHOR OF THE NEW AMERICAN MILITARISM: HOW AMERICANS ARE SEDUCED BY WAR

—FROM THE LONG ROAD TO BAGHDAD

Matthew Carr has assembled a rich narrative, enlivened by pen portraits, real and fictional.

Today, political violence has become the scourge of our world and terrorism is rou-

the nation’s premier diplomatic historians excavates the deep historical roots of the

—THE GLOBE AND MAIL

tinely described as a uniquely modern evil. Yet however unprecedented in scope the

U.S. misadventure in Iraq. Lloyd Gardner’s sweeping and authoritative narrative

Carr makes about as much sense of terrorism, in its historic and current permutations, as any author is likely to do.

new terrorist organizations might appear, Matthew Carr argues in this definitive his-

places the Iraq War in the context of U.S. foreign policy since Vietnam, casting the

tory of terrorism that they are merely offshoots of a spectacular bombing in 1881:

conflict as a chapter in a much broader story—in sharp contrast to the host of

the assassination of Tsar Nicholas II by terrorists . . . or were they freedom fighters?

recent accounts, which focus almost exclusively on the decisions (and deceptions)

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In this stunning new narrative of the road to America’s “new longest war,” one of

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renewed attempts to project American power into the “arc of crisis” (with Iran at its

France, Algeria, Ireland, Russia, Japan, and the United States.

center), and, in the aftermath of the Cold War, the efforts of two Bush administra-

and cultural differences. Carr demonstrates again and again that the true impact

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Spanning over a century of world history, The Infernal Machine reveals

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in the months leading up to the invasion.

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stunning similarities in societies’ responses to terrorism despite profound political

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region. Far more disturbing than a reckless adventure inspired by conservative ideo-

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logues or a simple conspiracy to secure oil (though both ingredients were present

acts of political violence. This “encyclopedic and diagnostic . . . primer for our fright-

in powerful doses), Gardner’s account explains the Iraq War as the necessary

ening times” (Edmonton Journal ) allows us to see our current predicament against

outcome of a half-century of doomed U.S. policies. The Long Road to Baghdad

a background of striking historical parallels.

is essential reading, with sobering implications for a positive resolution of the

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Lloyd C. Gardner is Research Professor of History at Rutgers University and the

My Father’s House. Carr lives in Derbyshire, England.

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Touch and Go

P.S.

A Memoir

Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening

STUDS TERKEL

N O W I N PAPER BA CK THE EXTRAORDI NARY, WI D E L Y P RAISE D MEMO IR—“ A MASTERP IEC E AB O U T A L I F E WH ICH ITS ELF I S A SORT OF MASTERPI E C E” (O L IVER SAC KS)

A fitting portrait of a legendary talent who seeks truth with compassion, intelligence, moxie and panache.

The master storyteller tells his own story, as no one else can, irresistibly. —GARRY WILLS

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL THE PULITZER PRIZE–WINNING ORAL HISTORIAN AND NONAGENARIAN M A K E S A S E L E C T I O N O F H I S F A V O R I T E U N P U B L I S H E D W R I T I N G S , B R O A D C A S T S , A N D I N T E R V I E WS

Anyone who has heard Studs Terkel’s voice, never mind met him, knows the vitality of this man, the liveliness, the humor, and the largeness of spirit. —ROBERT COLES, PULITZER PRIZE–WINNING AUTHOR OF CHILDREN OF CRISIS

Praise for Studs Terkel: Studs Terkel is more than a writer, he is a national resource.

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Chosen as a best book of the year in 2007 by the Chicago Tribune, Publishers

Curious, generous, fraternal, and respectful, with a Whitmanesque yawp. —HARPER’S MAGAZINE

Engaging, entertaining, and evocative of a big-hearted American liberalism we don’t hear much about anymore. —LOS ANGELES TIMES

Bitter and sweet, sexy and morally uplifting, intimate and historically significant. —VICTOR NAVASKY

Millions of Studs Terkel fans have come to know the prizewinning oral historian

personal point of view, by one who has helped make it” (Kirkus).

through his landmark books—“The Good War”, Hard Times, Working, Will the Circle

Studs Terkel is an American treasure.

Be Unbroken?, and many others. Few people realize, however, that much of Studs’s

—CORNEL WEST

Terkel takes us through his childhood and into his early experiences—as a law student during the Depression, as a young theatergoer, and eventually as an actor

best work was not collected into these thematic volumes and has, in fact, never

himself on both radio and the stage—offering a brilliant and often hilarious portrait

been published. P.S. brings together these significant and deeply enjoyable writings

of Chicago in the 1920s and ’30s. Describing his beginnings as a disc jockey after

for the first time.

World War II, his involvement with progressive politics during the McCarthy era, and

The pieces in P.S. reflect Studs’s wide-ranging interests and travels, as well as

later his career as an interviewer and oral historian, Touch and Go is a testament to

his abiding connection to his hometown, Chicago. Here we have a fascinating con-

Terkel’s “generosity of spirit, sense of social justice and commitment to capture on

versation with James Baldwin, possibly Studs’s finest interview with an author;

his ever present tape recorder the voices of those who otherwise would not be

pieces on the colorful history and culture of Chicago; vivid portraits of Studs’s

heard” (The New York Times Book Review). It is a brilliant lifetime achievement

heroes and cohorts (including an insightful and still timely interview with songwriter

from the man the Washington Post has called “the most distinguished oral

Yip Harburg, known for his “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime”); and the transcript of

historian of our time.”

Studs’s famous broadcast on the Depression, the very moving essence of what was

By now, the man requires an adjective of his own— Terkelesque. —MARGARET ATWOOD Also Available:

to become Hard Times.

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—JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH

Weekly, and Playboy, Studs Terkel’s memoir Touch and Go is “history from a highly

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

A fitting postscript to a lifetime of listening, P.S. is a truly Terkelesque display of Studs’s extraordinary range of talent and the amazing people he found to talk to.

The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century Studs Terkel Paperback, $16.95, 978–1–59558–177–8

(all available from The New Press). He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Presidential National Humanities Medal and the National Book

Born in 1912, Studs Terkel is the bestselling author of twelve books of oral history,

Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives

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

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in Chicago.

most recently, his memoir Touch and Go (all available from The New Press). He is

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the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Presidential National Humanities Medal and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Chicago.

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The Wrong Guys Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four TOM WELLS AND RICHARD LEO

A COMPULSIVELY READABLE TRUE-CRIME TALE, WITH A DAMNING ARGUMENT ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DEATH PENALTY AND FALSE CONFESSIONS, BASED O N A N I N N O C E N C E P R O JE C T C A S E

Danial Williams

Joseph Dick

It’s time for Virginia’s governor to do something about the Norfolk Four. . . . [This is] one of the most disturbing potential miscarriages of justice the commonwealth has seen in a long time. —THE WASHINGTON POST, EDITORIAL, DECEMBER 1, 2006

On July 8, 1997, nineteen-year-old sailor Billy Bosko returned to his home in Norfolk, Virginia, from a naval cruise to find his wife on the floor of their bedroom, raped and stabbed to death. In this gripping story of justice gone awry, four innocent men separately confess to the heinous crime that none of them actually committed. Though the real

Even in the upside-down world of wrongful convictions, [this] case . . . is in a class of its own. —THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE

This case has been featured in: • ABC News Nightline’s “Crime and Punishment” Series • The Washington Post • Time • The Learning Channel’s Medical Detectives Also Available:

perpetrator has since been convicted, three of the four remain in prison today, attesting to the powerful role confessions—even false ones—play in our criminal justice system, where they typically trump fact, reason, and common sense. Writer Tom Wells and law professor Richard Leo masterfully interweave a narrative covering the unfolding of the case with an exploration of topics ranging from coercive interrogation, police perjury (“testilying”), and prosecutorial politics to the role of the death penalty in criminal law. With a clemency campaign for the three wrongly imprisoned men still ongoing,

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an associate professor of law at the University of San Francisco. He lives in San Francisco. Wells and Leo spent six years closely following the case and Derek Tice

Eric Wilson

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A People’s History of Poverty in America STEPHEN PIMPARE

Unjust Deserts How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance GAR ALPEROVITZ AND LEW DALY

A NEW PRESS PEOPLE’S HISTORY HOWARD ZINN, SERIES EDITOR

A SW EEPIN G , R EVELATORY HI STORY OF POVERTY IN AME RIC A F RO M TH E N IN E TEEN TH C E N TU RY T O T ODA Y , TOLD T HROUGH THE EYES AND EXPE RIEN C E S O F TH E P O O R TH E MSE L VES

WHY MOST OF THE WEALTH THAT IS EARNED COMES IN THE FORM OF A “FREE LUNCH”— AND WHY, LOGICALLY, WE MUST GIVE MOST OF IT BACK TO SOCIETY AS A RESULT

Great reading. . . . A People’s History of Poverty and Welfare in America talks back to topdown, elite-dominated histories of social welfare policy. . . . Read now what the oppressed had to say then, so you can be a part of the effort to create policies in the future.

When you live in a shelter, other people control your life. They tell you when you may come in and when you must go out. They tell you when you can take your shower and when you can wash your clothing.

—SANFORD SCHRAM, BRYN MAWR COLLEGE

describes poverty from the perspective of poor and welfare-reliant Americans

Warren Buffett is worth nearly $50 billion. Does he “deserve” all this money?

A must read for anyone interested in learning the real story of poverty, social welfare policy, and social change.

from the big city to the rural countryside. He focuses on how the poor have created

Buffett himself will tell you that “society is responsible for a very significant

community, secured shelter, and found food and illuminates their battles for dignity

percentage of what I’ve earned.”

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—FROM A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF POVERTY AND WELFARE IN AMERICA

The inherited wealth created by our forebears ultimately belongs to all of us and to the future. Alperovitz and Daly give modern Americans a key to understanding how we can create the society of justice and equality that earlier generations sought.

In this compulsively readable social history, a brilliant new addition to The New

—WILLIAM GREIDER, AUTHOR OF THE SOUL OF CAPITALISM: OPENING PATHS TO A MORAL ECONOMY

Press’s acclaimed People’s History series, political scientist Stephen Pimpare vividly

and respect. Through prodigious archival research and lucid analysis, Pimpare details the

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—SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY

[E]minently practical ideas that promise a truly democratic society.

Unjust Deserts offers an entirely new approach to the wealth question. In a lively synthesis of modern economic, technological, and cultural research, Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly demonstrate that up to 90 percent (and perhaps

not, from the scorn and disapproval of those who would help them. In the rich and

more) of current economic output derives not from individual ingenuity, effort,

often surprising historical testimonies he has collected from the poor in America,

or investment but from our collective inheritance of scientific and technological

Pimpare overturns any simple conclusions about how the poor see themselves or

knowledge: an inheritance we all receive as a “free lunch.”

Be prepared for a mind-opening experience. —THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY

Alperovitz and Daly then pursue the implications of this research, persuasively

aware that charity comes with a price. It is that price that Pimpare eloquently ques-

arguing that there is no reason any one person should be entitled to that inheri-

tions in this book, reminding us through powerful anecdotes, some heart-wrenching

tance. Recognizing the true dimensions of our unearned inheritance leads inevitably

and some surprisingly humorous, that poverty is not simply a moral failure.

to a new and powerful moral case for wealth redistribution—and to a series of prac-

[C]areful, well-researched, and practical alternatives progressives have been seeking. —JULIET SCHOR, AUTHOR OF THE OVERSPENT AMERICAN

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tical policies to achieve it in an era when the disparities have become untenable.

Stephen Pimpare is the author of The New Victorians: Poverty, Politics, and Propaganda in Two Gilded Ages (The New Press). He teaches American politics and

Gar Alperovitz is the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the

social welfare policy at Yeshiva College and the Wurzweiler School of Social Work.

University of Maryland. His previous books include The Decision to Use the Atomic

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Must reading for those who believe that economics should be at the service of human values.

—HOWARD ZINN, AUTHOR OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

ways in which charity and aid for the poor have been inseparable, more often than

what it feels like to be poor—and he shows clearly that the poor are all too often

Praise for the work of Gar Alperovitz:

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Bomb and America Beyond Capitalism. He lives in Washington, D.C. Lew Daly is a

senior fellow at De ¯mos and the author of God and the Welfare State. He lives in New York City.

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Al’ America Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots JONATHAN CURIEL

FROM SURF MUSIC TO THE ICE CREAM CONE—A LIVELY AND EYE-OPENING LOOK AT THE LITTLE KNOWN INFLUENCE OF ARAB AND ISLAMIC CULTURE ON AMERICA, BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE JO U R N A L I S T

In 1960, a Pittsburgh couple hosting a visiting Muslim student from Pakistan took him to what they assumed was an Islamic mosque—but it turned out to be the headquarters of the Shriners’ Pittsburgh chapter. —FROM AL’ AMERICA

Four out of ten Americans say they dislike Muslims, according to a Gallup poll. “Muslims,” a blogger wrote on the Web site Free Republic, “don’t belong in America.” In a lively, funny, and revealing riposte to these sentiments, journalist Jonathan Curiel offers a fascinating tour through the little-known Islamic past, and present, of American culture. From highbrow to pop, from lighthearted to profound, Al’ America reveals the Islamic and Arab influences before our eyes, under our noses, and ringing in our ears. Curiel demonstrates that many of America’s most celebrated places— including the Alamo in San Antonio, the French Quarter of New Orleans, and the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina—retain vestiges of Arab and Islamic culture.

The rich and surprising tapestry of Arab and Islamic influence on America, including:

architecture : from the World Trade Center to the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina music : from the blues to surf music and the Doors philosophy and poetry : from the Transcendentalists and Henry James to Khalil Gibran and Rumi the food we eat : from the ice cream cone to coffee pop culture : from P.T. Barnum to the Shriners and Star Wars

Likewise, some of America’s most recognizable music—the Delta Blues, the surf sounds of Dick Dale, the rock and psychedelia of Jim Morrison and the Doors— is indebted to Arab music. And some of America’s leading historical figures, from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elvis Presley, relied on Arab or Muslim culture

Features interviews with leading musicians, artists, historians, ethnomusicologists, and scholars of Islam

for intellectual sustenance. Part travelogue, part cultural history, Al’ America confirms a continuous pattern November

of give-and-take between America and the Arab-Muslim world.

Jonathan Curiel, longtime staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, has reported on Arab and Muslim issues here and abroad. His journalism on Arabs and Muslims has been honored by Columbia University and he has taught as a

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Fulbright scholar at Pakistan’s Punjab University. He lives in San Francisco.

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Shriners on Parade at Virginia Beach

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CL A S S ICS IN PR OGRESSI VE EDUCATI ON—A SER IES E DITED B Y H ERB E RT KO H L

Fuller’s Earth A Day with Buckminster Fuller and the Kids

Welcome to the Aquarium A Year in the Lives of Children

RICHARD J. BRENNEMAN WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY HERBERT KOHL

JULIE DIAMOND Toward the end of his life, the visionary American philosopher, inventor, architect,

WITH A FOREWORD BY JULES FEIFFER

mathematician, and poet Buckminster Fuller was asked to explain to a group of children his vision of how the universe works. The book that resulted from this encounter is not only the most straightforward exposition available of Bucky’s radical worldview but also perhaps the most lovable and personal portrait ever produced of the man who has been called “the planet’s friendly genius.” Fuller, who wrote more than thirty books, coined and popularized terms December

such as “spaceship earth” and “synergetics,” and helped develop numerous

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design and architecture inventions, explains step-by-step the mysteries of the universe, with interruptions by the kids any time they could not follow him. A brilliant portrait of a dynamic teacher, Fuller’s Earth will be an inspiration

TOLD THROUGH THE OBSERVANT AND WISE EYES OF A VETERAN KINDERGARTEN TEACHER, A LYRICAL LOOK AT THE HIDDEN STRUCTURES OF LIFE IN AN URBAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASSROOM

to progressive educators today.

Richard J. Brenneman, an award-winning journalist, is a father of four. He lives in California, where he writes for the Berkeley Daily Planet.

This is a rare and special pleasure to read—capturing as it does why it is that some of us can never get enough of teaching in a way that ought to be able to reach even those who’ve never considered being teachers. —DEBORAH MEIER

The Use of Explosive Ideas in Education

The loss of veteran teachers with their deep knowledge of children, the successes and failures of different teaching models, and the constraints and possibilities of educational institutions affect schools everywhere. In Welcome to the Aquarium

Culture, Class, and Evolution

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY HERBERT KOHL

—RUTH S. CHARNEY, CO-FOUNDER OF NORTHEAST FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN AND AUTHOR OF TEACHING CHILDREN TO CARE

veteran educator Julie Diamond spells out what an experienced teacher knows Also Available:

and shows the magic a veteran teacher works in a classroom.

THEODORE BRAMELD

Diamond’s book is an extraordinary resource for parents and teachers at all stages—a salute to the profession, a critical reminder of how it’s supposed to be. It is honest and masterful, engrossing and unique. And it is utterly real.

Tracking the progress of one prototypical collection of kindergarteners as they become a class with a distinct personality of its own, Diamond guides us through the myriad details of classroom life: the organization, curriculum, and relationships

One of the leading educational philosophers of the twentieth century, Theodore Brameld helped pioneer the idea that education can be used to transform society for the better. He believed that schools should help the individual not only to develop socially but to learn how to be responsible citizens as well. In this classic work, first published in 1965, Brameld presents three “explosive December Paperback, 978–1–59558–421–2 $17.95 / £11.99 / $19.95 CAN 5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄4”, 272 pages Education Translation Rights: University of Pittsburgh Press

ideas” that should be at the very center of the school curriculum: culture, class, and evolution. With wars waged today over bilingual education, lack of resources in

that create a unique class culture—a culture that, she eloquently argues, can represent the reality of our social ideals and values. For parents as well as new and even experienced teachers, Diamond lays out the logic behind the routines and rituals children need to thrive. Like Tracy Kidder’s

Among Schoolchildren, Welcome to the Aquarium offers a lyrical look at the hidden structures of life in an elementary school classroom, but from the perspective of an expert insider and educator.

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poor school districts, and the teaching of evolution in schools, Brameld’s book is once again a timely exploration of how to foster democratic principles through education and how schools can be a driving force for both social and political change.

The Case for Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World Susan Linn Hardcover, $24.95, 978–1–56584–970–9

A graduate of Swarthmore and Bank Street College of Education, Julie Diamond taught for over twenty-five years, first in Georgia, and then in a day care center and

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in private and public schools in New York City, where she lives. She has taught at Theodore Brameld (1904–1987) was Professor of Educational Philosophy at Boston University. Herbert Kohl is the National Book Award–winning author of more than forty books. He lives in Point Arena, California.

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Communication Revolution Critical Junctures and the Future of Media ROBERT W. MCCHESNEY

N O W I N PAPER BA CK A CONTROVERSI AL CRI TI Q U E O F ME DIA STU DIE S F RO M TH E WRITE R M A R K CR IS PIN MILL ER CALLS “ THE GREATEST O F O U R MEDIA H ISTO RIAN S”

Robert McChesney is the conscience of the media in America.

A call to action . . . [McChesney] inspires citizens who might otherwise assume there’s no way to oppose the lobbying muscle of the media and telecom behemoths.

—CHARLES LEWIS, FOUNDER OF THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY

—ASSOCIATED PRESS

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In Communication Revolution—both a sharp and cogent analysis of the history of media studies and a clarion call for citizen participation—Robert McChesney argues that with the Internet and wireless technology set to overtake traditional media, we have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to build a more egalitarian communication system. He brilliantly shows how communication scholarship has failed to rise to the challenge of conceiving what this system might look like, leaving it to the bur-

Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times Robert W. McChesney Paperback, $18.95, 978–1–56584–634–0

geoning media reform movement (in which he has been a key player) to fill the vision vacuum. Bringing both his authoritative analysis and unparalleled historical knowledge to bear on an urgent issue of our time, McChesney challenges us to transform the way we think about media. As Noam Chomsky has said, “Robert McChesney’s work has been of extraordinary importance. . . . It should be read with care and concern by people who care about freedom and basic rights.”

Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism Robert W. McChesney and Ben Scott Paperback, $19.95, 978–1–56584–855–9

Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of several books on the media, including the award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy, and a co-editor (with Ben Scott) of Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of

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Radical Media Criticism (both available from The New Press). He lives in Urbana,

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Illinois.

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10 Excellent Reasons to Think Twice About Meat EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own DAVID BOLLIER

MOBY

P A P E RBA CK OR IGINAL AN I RRESI STI BLE GUI D E TO TH E MEAT Y O U E AT B Y TH E W O RL D’ S MO ST F U N A N D FA MOUS V EGA N

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Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

Where’s the beef? In the news, that’s where. More than ever before, meat is making

A STUNNING NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THE EMERGENCE OF ELECTRONIC “FREE CULTURE,” FROM OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE AND CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES TO REMIXES AND W E B 2 . 0 — I N T H E T R A D I T I O N O F L A W R E N C E L E S S I G ’ S FREE CULTURE A world organized around centralized control, strict intellectual property rights, and hierarchies of credentialed experts is under siege. A radically different order of society based on open access, decentralized creativity, collaborative intelligence, and cheap and easy sharing is ascendant.

Praise for the work of David Bollier: Hilarious and appalling. —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)

Jaw-dropping stories.

—FROM VIRAL SPIRAL

—CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

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industrial livestock farming is the cause of 20 percent of all greenhouse emissions.

From free and open-source software, Creative Commons licenses, Wikipedia, remix

It’s no wonder that vegetarianism has moved from the fringes to the mainstream

music and video mashups, peer production, open science, open education, and open

as evidence accumulates in favor of the many benefits of meatlessness.

business, the world of digital media has spawned a new “sharing economy” that

But 10 Excellent Reasons to Think Twice About Meat is not just for vegetarians, it’s for everyone who wants to make informed choices about the food they con-

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increasingly competes with entrenched media giants.

—PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

Reporting from the heart of this “free culture” movement, journalist and

sume. Multi-platinum musician Moby, one of the world’s most famous vegans,

activist David Bollier provides the first comprehensive history of the attempt by

brings together ten of the country’s leading foodies, doctors, policy makers,

a global brigade of techies, lawyers, artists, musicians, scientists, businesspeople,

business leaders, and activists to create a smart, concise guide to what you should

innovators, and geeks of all stripes to create a digital republic committed to free-

Provocative. . . . Bollier raises issues that almost nobody wants to talk about anymore. If he’s not always right, he’s always on target.

know before you eat meat. Combining hard-hitting facts with a light touch, each

dom and innovation. Viral Spiral —the term Bollier coins to describe the almost-

chapter is studded with quotes from famous vegetarians, fun facts, and other

magical process by which Internet users can come together to build online com-

—NEWSWEEK

irresistible food for thought.

mons and tools—brilliantly interweaves the disparate strands of this eclectic move-

[Bollier] get[s] at . . . the fundamental, primary political issue that can be the underlying value for regenerating progressive politics in our country, and that value is the common good versus private greed.

For the millions of Americans who are questioning the meat in their diets, this is the fun, accessible guide to setting down the sirloin and reaching for the tofu.

ment. The story describes major technological developments and pivotal legal struggles, as well as fascinating profiles of hacker Richard Stallman, copyright scholar Lawrence Lessig, and other colorful figures.

Moby is one of the world’s most critically acclaimed and commercially successful musicians. Known for his political and social activism, he has been a vegan for

A milestone in reporting on the Internet by one of our leading media critics,

Viral Spiral is for anyone seeking to take the full measure of the new digital era.

—JIM HIGHTOWER, TEXAS OBSERVER

more than fifteen years. He is the co-founder of Teany, as well as a nationally distributed line of beverages and a bestselling cookbook by the same name.

David Bollier is a journalist, activist, and public policy analyst as well as editor of

He lives in New York City.

onthecommons.org and cofounder of Public Knowledge. Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center, Bollier is the author of numerous highly praised books, including Brand Name Bullies and Control Culture and Silent Theft. He lives in Amherst, MA.

A thought-provoking cautionary tale of where our cultural heritage is rapidly headed, if unchecked.

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Getting Ghost

Fakers

Two Young Lives and the Struggle for the Soul of Detroit

Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders

LUKE BERGMANN

PAUL MALISZEWSKI

A N I NT IMAT E A N D REVEALI NG LOOK AT THE LI VES O F TW O Y O U N G B L AC K DRU G DE AL ERS IN D E T R OIT , A N D A BRACI NG AND ORI GI NAL ANAL Y SIS O F TH E F O RC ES TH AT SH AP E TH E IR W O RL D, B Y A R IS IN G Y OUN G SCHOLAR

We see into these people’s lives; the reader feels their hopes, their fears, their joys, and their tragedies. Dr. Bergmann writes with incredible fluency—whether capturing dialogue from the streets or dissecting complicated sociological theory . . . this work will have a tremendous impact. —PAUL FINE, MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF FELLOWS Also Available:

This sensitive and brave book takes readers into the tragedy of deindustrialization and ethnic discrimination in America to reveal the lives of those trapped in the illegal drug economy. Bergmann forces us to face the contradictions of drugs, discrimination, and poverty in our heartland.

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From James Frey and his fake memories of drug-addled dissolution to Stephen

Oscar Hartzell and the longrunning Drake’s fortune scam

Glass and his fake dispatches from the fringes of politics to the author formerly known as JT LeRoy and his fake rural tough talk, we are beset by real-seeming

facing profoundly uncertain futures, living difficult lives in which chaos is always

fiction masquerading as truth. We are living in the era of the fake.

houses and desolate vacant lots of one of Detroit’s most notorious neighborhoods.

Fakers is a fascinating exploration of the varieties of faking, from its historical roots in satire and con artistry to its current boom. Paul Maliszewski journeys into the heart of our fake world, telling tales of the New York Sun’s 1835 moon hoax, the

the complex contradictions of Detroit’s status as a “chocolate city,” proudly and

invented poet Ern Malley (the inspiration for Peter Carey’s novel My Life as a Fake),

uniquely claimed by its predominantly black residents, where African Americans

and Maliszewski’s own satiric letters to the editor of the Business Journal of central

firmly hold municipal power but also suffer the legacy of lost manufacturing jobs

New York (written, unbeknownst to the editor, while he worked there as a reporter).

and white flight. For young men like Dude and Rodney who strive to find ways

Through these stories, he explains why fakers almost always find believers and

toward “legal” jobs and straight lives, “getting ghost” is a rich metaphor—for

often flourish.

leaving a scene, for quitting the trade, and for their own mortality.

Jayson Blair’s faked New York Times stories, about Jessica Lynch and much else Early American con artists

Bergmann befriended Dude Freeman and Rodney Phelps—both petty drug dealers around the corner. Bergmann would end up living three years among the abandoned

The essays in Fakers explore:

—FROM FAKERS

When doing research inside Detroit’s downtown juvenile detention facility, Luke

Since 1997, the author has been on the trail of fakers and believers, asking

A tour de force of original analysis and powerful storytelling reminiscent of

the tricksters why they dissembled and the believers why they were ever fooled.

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s bestselling Random Family and Sudhir Venkatesh’s Off the

Fakers tells us much about what we believe and want, why we trust, and why we

Books, Getting Ghost paints an unforgettable portrait of two young men and of the

still get duped.

Internet hoaxes about man-eating bears Han van Meegeren’s forged Vermeers Clifford Irving’s fake autobiography of Howard Hughes Michael Chabon’s fictionalized version of his early years Binjamin Wilkomirski’s fabricated Holocaust memoir In-depth interviews with three fakers: journalist Michael Finkel, painter Sandow Birk, and performance artist Joey Skaggs

troubled city they call home.

Paul Maliszewski has published his fiction and essays in Bookforum, Harper’s,

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Luke Bergmann is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley,

Granta, and the Paris Review, and his stories have twice received a Pushcart Prize.

School of Public Health and an associate research scientist at the Prevention

Fakers is his first book. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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Research Center in Berkeley. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Fakers are believed—and, at least for a time, celebrated— because they each promise us, screen-gazing and experiencestarved, something real and authentic, a view, however fleeting, of a great thing rarely glimpsed.

—PHILIPPE BOURGOIS, AUTHOR OF IN SEARCH OF RESPECT

In telling their stories and those of their families, Bergmann brilliantly explores

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FOR ANYONE WHO HAS EVER LIED—OR BEEN LIED TO—TRUE-LIFE TALES ABOUT FAKING, FROM CLIFFORD IRVING TO STEPHEN GLASS, BY AN AWARD-WINNING WRITER

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Kill Khalid The Failed Mossad Assassination Attempt on Hamas Leader Khalid Mishal and Its Unforeseen Consequences PAUL MCGEOUGH

A LEADING INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT RECONSTRUCTS THE PIVOTAL MOMENT IN THE R I S E O F H A M A S — A P A G E - T U R N I N G N A R R A T I V E R E M I N I S C E N T O F THE DAY OF THE JACKAL

[It was] all very James Bond. One country needs the antidote held by another, to treat an illness it doesn’t understand. The clock’s ticking . . . so the king calls the White House.

Praise for Paul McGeough’s Manhattan to Baghdad :

—ROBERT MALLEY, FORMER SENIOR CLINTON ADMINISTRATION ADVISER

This is a serious book by a serious journalist, a man with his heart in the right place.

Little public notice was taken of a 1997 attempt on the life of the Hamas leader

—PHILLIP KNIGHTLEY, AUTHOR OF THE FIRST CASUALTY

Khalid Mishal by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency—even though the audacious hit took place in broad daylight in the streets of Amman, and even though the bungled poisoning immediately set into motion a flurry of international diplomacy, culminating in the direct intervention of then–U.S. President Bill Clinton.

Authoritative, compassionate and informative—as well as being a ripping good yarn. —BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER

A series of tense, high-level negotiations saved Mishal’s life, as the Israelis reluctantly handed over the antidote. But Hamas was saved as well. With his new lease on life, Khalid Mishal became—and remains—the architect of the Hamas organization’s phenomenal ascendancy in the intervening decade. Mishal orches-

Powerful . . . in the tradition of war correspondent Martha Gellhorn. —THE AGE (MELBOURNE)

trated the deadly bombings on targets in Israel and, from his bunker in exile in the Syrian capital of Damascus, continues to pull in donations and support from the Islamic world while directing Hamas’s vital social welfare programs. In a headlong narrative—with high-speed car chases, negotiated prisoner

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exchanges, and an international scandal that threatened to destabilize the entire region—acclaimed reporter Paul McGeough uses unprecedented, extensive interviews with Khalid Mishal himself and the key players in Amman, Jerusalem, and Washington to tell the definitive, inside story of the rise of Hamas.

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Australian Journalist of the Year and in 2002 was awarded the Johns Hopkins University–based SAIS Novartis Prize for excellence in international journalism. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Khalid Mishal in his Damascus office

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See You in Court

Law Lit

How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation

From Atticus Finch to The Practice

THOMAS GEOGHEGAN

EDITED BY

N O W I N PAPER BA CK A CHICAGO TRIBUNE FAVO RITE B O O K O F 20 0 7 —A B O L D N E W ARGU MEN T T H A T CON S ER V AT IVE POLI CY HAS LED TO AMERIC A’ S L AWSU IT C U L TU RE , F RO M TH E N ATIO N AL B O O K CR IT ICS CIR CLE AWARD FI NALI ST A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of 2007 Entertaining . . . breezy. . . . The essential charm of Geoghegan’s writing is his honest, self-deprecatory style. —THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY

THANE ROSENBAUM

NOW IN PAPERBACK THE COLLECTION OF FICTION AND POETRY THAT CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY CALLED “A BRILLIANT COMPENDIUM OF WRITING ABOUT THE LAW, BY ONE OF THE COOLEST, HIPPEST, AND SMARTEST LEGAL BRAINS IN THE BUSINESS”

Charming. . . . Ambitious . . . eminently readable.

Law Lit is legit.

—ADAM LIPTAK, THE NEW YORK TIMES

—LOS ANGELES TIMES

While just about everyone agrees that we’ve become a lawsuit nation, is it really

In Law Lit , acclaimed novelist and law professor Thane Rosenbaum delves into

class actions by a coterie of private trial lawyers whose enormous settlements

our cultural obsession with the law, exploring how the legal system has historically

and, in Karl Rove’s words, “junk lawsuits” that are subverting democracy? Thomas

captivated the imagination of artists and the attention of readers—from Oedipus

Geoghegan, whom Time called “a modern-day Quixote of the legal profession,”

Rex to today’s courtroom thrillers.

Good fun . . . [Geoghegan’s] a sharp thinker. . . . See You in Court makes a good case that deregulation has damaged the justice system in many ways.

thinks not.

—CHICAGO READER

In this impassioned rebuttal to Philip K. Howard’s The Death of Common Sense,

This handsome volume, which TV anchor Jack Ford called “marvelously entertaining and enlightening,” collects the iconic and the unexpected, each piece

Contains indelible and often delectable depictions of the high drama of lawyering and the impact of the law. —FLOYD ABRAMS, LEADING FIRST AMENDMENT LAWYER

Why has it taken till 2007 for such a sampling to appear? —NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL

Geoghegan deftly shows how conservatives’ dismantling of America’s postwar

reminding us of the passion for justice, the struggle to do right, and the belief in

legal system opened the floodgates of litigation. Most often people sue, he argues,

the power of language that lie at the heart of the law. Were you inspired by Atticus

[Rosenbaum] brings the imagination of a fiction writer to the project.

because of what they have lost—contract rights, pensions, health insurance, decent

Finch’s closing remarks in To Kill a Mockingbird ? Read them here, along with

—LOS ANGELES TIMES

medical care, and strong unions. Without these methods of preempting and resolv-

Portia’s poetic maneuverings in The Merchant of Venice, the famously heated

ing disputes, Americans who face injury, bankruptcy, discrimination, or injustice

cross-examination from A Few Good Men, and Bob Dylan’s controversial protest

are left with no recourse but the lawsuit.

song “Hurricane.”

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With dozens of selections, including fiction, essays, and even film scripts,

Law Lit is a dazzling collection that transcends place and time, from ancient Greece and foggy London to the narrow streets of Prague and the spectacle of

Thomas Geoghegan is a practicing attorney and the author of several books,

an Alabama courthouse, offering an enlightening look at how lives can be laid

including Which Side Are You On?, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics

bare before the bench.

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Circle Award and received a special citation from the PEN/Martha Albrand Award judges. Geoghegan contributes regularly to the American Prospect and lives

Thane Rosenbaum is an essayist, a Fordham University law professor, and an

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in Chicago.

award-winning novelist. His writing appears frequently in the New York Times,

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the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. His book The Myth of Moral

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Rosenbaum directs the Forum on Law, Culture, & Society at Fordham Law School and lives in New York City.

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Less Safe, Less Free

Bombing Civilians

Why America Is Losing the War on Terror

A Twentieth-century History

DAVID COLE AND JULES LOBEL

EDITED BY

N O W I N PAPER BA CK WI NNER OF THE FI RST ROY C . P AL ME R C IVIL L IB ERTIES P RIZE , TH E B O O K Z B I G N IEW BR Z EZIN SKI CALLS “ A TI MELY AND U N SP ARIN G E XP O SU RE O F TH E DISASTRO U S CO NS EQUEN CES OF THE ‘WAR ON TERROR’ D EMAGO GY O F TH E B U SH ADMIN ISTRATIO N ” One of the most important critiques to be put forward so far from the civil libertarians, [Cole and Lobel] offer unsparing criticism, muster their arguments with skill and artistry, and most importantly they offer constructive criticism of the current Bush administration model. —HARPER’S

Highly recommended . . . clear, incisive, and informative. —LIBRARY JOURNAL

A resounding argument contra administration policy, more effectively stated than Alan Dershowitz’s recent Preemption.

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[Cole and Lobel] argue eloquently and forcefully that preventive war makes flawed foreign policy. —PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE

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A GROUNDBREAKING HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING, FROM THE 1920s TO THE PRESENT WAR IN IRAQ

You press a button and death flies down. One second, the bomb is hanging harmlessly in your racks, completely under your control. The next it is hurtling down through the air and nothing in your power can revoke what you have done. —CHARLES LINDBERGH

In this brilliantly conceived critique, two of the country’s leading constitutional scholars argue that the Bush administration’s preemptive approach to domestic

With contributions from scholars from Japan, the United States, and Europe,

and international security has not only compromised our character but has in

Bombing Civilians examines a crucial question: why did military planning in the early

fact made us more vulnerable to future terrorist attacks.

twentieth century shift its focus from bombing military targets to bombing civilians?

In a groundbreaking analysis of efforts employed in the name of protecting its

in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon, Bombing Civilians analyzes in detail the

registration of Arab and Muslim men, and preventive war—law professors David

history of indiscriminate bombing, examining the fundamental questions of how this

Cole and Jules Lobel expose the government’s abysmal record of failed prosecu-

theory justifying mass killing originated and why it was employed as a compelling

tions and empty successes. The authors argue that these results, when coupled

military strategy for decades, both before and since the bombing of Hiroshima and

with the resentment such coercive tactics have engendered throughout the world,

Nagasaki. The book includes major new arguments, such as Japanese historian

have left us less safe than we would be had we employed a more sensible and less

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa’s bold claim that it was the Soviet invasion rather than the

controversial preventive strategy. The book concludes by proposing an alternative

atomic bombs that compelled the Japanese to surrender in the Pacific War.

Already standard reading for those who question the idea that “war” is the

With contributions from: Tony Coady Helen Durham Tsuyoshi Hasegawa Tetsuo Maeda Tim McCormack Robert Moeller Mark Selden Ron Schafer Michael Sherry

From the British bombing of Iraq in the early 1920s to the most recent conflicts

citizens—preventive detention, coercive interrogation, pretextual prosecutions,

preventive strategy to guide us into the future.

—KIRKUS

If [terrorists] do attack again, I hope we will have the likes of David Cole and Jules Lobel to help us think through our response.

MARILYN B. YOUNG AND YUKI TANAKA

Combining historical and contemporary analysis, Bombing Civilians makes an

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important argument about international law and the morality of war.

appropriate response to terrorism, Less Safe, Less Free offers an eloquent and original argument for a return to the rule of law.

Marilyn B. Young is a professor of history at New York University. She has been a

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Guggenheim Fellow and is the author of numerous books, including The Vietnam David Cole is a professor of law at Georgetown University, the legal affairs

Wars, 1945–1990, and co-editor of Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam (The New

correspondent for The Nation, and the author, most recently, of the American

Press). She lives in New York City. Yuki Tanaka is Research Professor at Hiroshima

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Book Award–winning Enemy Aliens. He lives in Washington, D.C. Jules Lobel is

Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University. Since the mid-1980s he has been

a professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh, a constitutional lawyer, and an

concentrating his research on war crimes and is the author of several books,

expert on emergency powers and the laws governing war. He lives in Pittsburgh,

including Japan’s Comfort Women and Hidden Horrors.

Pennsylvania.

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The Herb Kohl Reader

Index of Authors and Titles

Awakening the Heart of Teaching HERBERT KOHL

10 Excellent Reasons to Think Twice About Meat

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM AYERS Al’ America Alperovitz, Gar

Asian Americans in the Twenty-first Century

Kill Khalid

Law Lit

26–27 25 11

Lee, Joanne Faung Jean Leo, Richard

Bergmann, Luke

Big History

P A P E RBA CK OR IGINAL THE BEST WRI TI NG FROM A L IF ETIME IN TH E TRE N C H ES AN D AT T H E TY PEWR IT ER , FROM THE RENOWNED AND M U C H -B EL O VE D N ATIO N AL B O O K A W A R D– WIN N IN G ED UCATOR

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Bollier, David

Bombing Civilians

Less Safe, Less Free

Lobel, Jules

The Long Road to Baghdad

Maliszewski, Paul

Brenneman, Richard J.

Mankell, Henning

2–3

Brown, Cynthia Stokes

McChesney, Robert W. McGeough, Paul

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Carr, Matthew

Miletta, Alexandra

[Herb Kohl’s writing] brings out all the sweetness, passion, and . . . mischief-making humor of an infinitely vulnerable and honest human being who has made it his vocation to peddle hope in the face of despair.

Catholic ≠ the Vatican

Miletta, Maureen

Challenging China

Moby

Classroom Conversations

Mosher, Stacy

—JONATHAN KOZOL

Coming of Age in the 21st Century

Neugass, James

Communication Revolution

Nobel Lectures

O’Malley, Brendan P.

—LISA DELPIT, THE NEW YORK TIMES

“educators who write.” With Marion Wright Edelman, Mike Rose, Lisa Delpit, and

Daly, Lew

Herb Kohl renders teaching as a moral craft and expresses a refreshing idealism about the possibilities of the classroom.

Vivian Paley among his fans, Kohl is “one of only a handful of writers,” as William

Diamond, Julie

Ayers says in his introduction, “to have had a serious impact on the practice of

Duberman, Martin

For almost fifty years, Herb Kohl’s work has been a vibrant moral and political force for good teaching.

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Brameld, Theodore

Kohl has created his own brand of teaching. . . . [He is] a remarkable teacher who discovered in his first teaching assignment that in education he could keep playing with toys, didn’t have to stop learning, and could use what he knew in the service of others.

—MIKE ROSE, AUTHOR OF POSSIBLE LIVES: THE PROMISE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AMERICA

36–37

Kohl, Herbert

In more than forty books on subjects ranging from social justice to mathematics,

Cole, David

Curiel, Jonathan

education over the past four decades.” Now, for the first time, readers can find including practical as well as theoretical writings.

P.S. A People’s History of Poverty in America

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A People’s History of Sports in the Evangelical ≠ Republican . . . Or Democrat

Selections come from Kohl’s classic 36 Children, his National Book Award–

United States

Pimpare, Stephen

The Pyramid

winning The View from the Oak (co-authored with his wife Judy), and all his best-

Fakers

known and beloved books. The Herb Kohl Reader is destined to become a major

Foley, Michael S.

new resource for old fans and a new generation of teachers and parents.

Frosch, Mary

Rosenbaum, Thane

Fuller’s Earth

Ruether, Rosemary Radford

—NORM FRUCHTER, NEW YORK INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND SOCIAL POLICY

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morality to parenthood, Herb Kohl has earned a place as one of our foremost

collected in one place key essays and excerpts spanning the whole of Kohl’s career,

2–3

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Radical Acts

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A recipient of the National Book Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award,

Herb Kohl awakens the heart of teaching.

Herbert Kohl was a founder and the first director of the Teachers & Writers

Gardner, Lloyd C.

See You in Court

Collaborative in New York City. He lives in Point Arena, California. William Ayers

Geoghegan, Thomas

Submersion Journalism

is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and

Getting Ghost

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Harper, Lisa Sharon

Terkel, Studs

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The Herb Kohl Reader

Touch and Go

Hom, Sharon

Home Fronts

—WILLIAM AYERS

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a co-editor of City Kids, City Schools (The New Press).

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The Infernal Machine

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Unjust Deserts

The Use of Explosive Ideas in Education

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