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In his landmark bestseller, The Abandonment of the Jews, David Wyman exhaustively detailed America’s failure to help rescue the victims of Nazi genocide. But one man, Peter Bergson, led a tirele

Now in paperback, a leading sociologist’s brilliant, revelatory argument that the future of politics, work, immigration, and more can be found in CaliforniaOnce upon a time, any mention of California

Black Fire is the story of Nelson Peery's battle to find a political voice as an African American who comes of political age during the Depression and World War II. Peery shows us an American history

Picking up where Cod left off, an "invaluable" (Financial Times) look at the global crisis of overfishing.Gourmands and health-conscious consumers alike have fallen for fish; last year per capita consumption in the United States hit an all-time high. Packed with nutrients and naturally low in fat, fish is the last animal we can still eat in good conscience.Or can we?In this vivid, eye-opening bookfirst published in the UK to wide acclaim and now extensively revised for an American audienceenvironmental journalist Charles Clover argues that our passion for fish is unsustainable. Seventy-five percent of the world's fish stocks are now fully exploited or overfished; the most popular varieties risk extinction within the next few decades.Clover trawls the globe for answers, from Tokyo's sumptuous fish market to the heart of New England's fishing industry. He joins hardy sailors on high-tech boats, interviews top chefs whose menu selections can influence the fate of entire species, and exami

The first paperback edition of a myth-breaking book on media, from one of today's most reputable and insightful media historian/critics. Winner of Harvard's Goldsmith Book Prize, Rich Media, Poor Democracy challenges the assumption that a society drenched in commercial information "choices" is a democratic one. Robert McChesney, whom Marc Crispin Miller calls "the greatest of our media historians," argues that the major beneficiaries of the so-called Information Age are wealthy investors, advertisers, and a handful of enormous media, computer, and telecommunications corporations. This concentrated corporate control, McChesney maintains, is disastrous for any notion of participatory democracy. Combining unprecedented detail on current events with historical sweep, in a book Noam Chomsky calls a "rich and penetrating study," McChesney chronicles the waves of media mergers and acquisitions in the late 1990s. He reviews the corrupt and secretive enactment of public policies surrounding the

Thompson galvanized audiences in New York and in England with his unique blend of historical analysis and literary acuity as he examined the turbulent 1790s through the work of Wordsworth, Coleridge,

A sharp and eye-opening argument that impeachment is an essential American institution."I guess these are yours. Impeach Eisenhower. Impeach Nixon. Impeach Lyndon Johnson. Impeach Ronald Reagan."Annie

Since 1945, the innovative approaches of a group of French scholars have profoundly altered the study of classical antiquity. Drawing on work in anthropology, religion, psychology, philology, and the

Eric Hobsbawm has been widely acclaimed as one of the greatest living historians. Called "a lyrical, pungent, and provocative memoir" by Publishers Weekly, Interesting Times offers a personal tour th

A celebrated analysis of inequality's impact on human health.Praised by The Lancet, which called it a "lucid account that .deserves to be read by everybody interested in the politics of health," and

An antidote to the "Hanoi Jane" myth, the first account of the celebrated actress's antiwar activism.Jane Fonda is important because she is a celebrity, and unimportant because she is a celebrity. She

The definitive biography of the radical feminist from one of America’s leading biographers―essential reading for our #MeToo era“You may think you know Dworkin, and there may indeed be things that you

To Move a Mountain is an inspirational account of how a group of Appalachian men and women, politicized by the disaster of local plant closings, became unlikely activists in the Tennessee statehouse a

Over 100 classics of American investigative journalism, from Tom Paine to Bob Woodward. In collecting the kind of reportage that all too rarely appears in this age of media triviality and corporate co

A philosophical mystery novel populated with artists, criminals, and drug addicts, Lines of Fate is one of the most extraordinary novels to emerge from the last years of the Soviet Union. Written at t