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The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary
Melissa Murray - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Paperback
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Timed to the start of the first trial in March 2024, this essential volume collects the four unprecedented indictments against Donald Trump and features extensive commentary by NYU law professors and MSNBC contributors Melissa Murray and Andrew Weissmann.In the long span of American history,... |
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The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians
Carlos Lozada - Simon & Schuster Audio Format: Hardcover
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning opinion columnist at The New York Times explores how people in power reveal themselves through their books and writings and, in so doing, illuminates the personal, political, and cultural conflicts driving Washington and the nation. As a long-time book critic... |
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The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor
Hamilton Nolan - Hachette Books Format: Hardcover
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A timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in our society and politics, from acclaimed labor reporter Hamilton Nolan. Inequality is America's biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have to fix it. Organized... |
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Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
Patrick Joyce - Scribner Format: Hardcover
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A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time.. "What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to history, its essential hidden support." For over the past century and a half,... |
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White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
Tom Schaller - Random House Format: Hardcover
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A searing portrait and damning takedown of America's proudest citizens - who are also the least likely to defend its core principles
White rural voters hold the greatest electoral sway of any demographic group in the United States, yet rural communities suffer from poor healthcare... |
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Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
Ruha Benjamin - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future.A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn't strangle the life... |
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If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America
Vicki Sokolik - Spiegel & Grau Format: Hardcover
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A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth - told through the inspiring stories of a woman on the frontlines and the kids themselves.They hide in plain sight. They survive on free school breakfasts and lunches, join school sports teams in order to shower, sleep on friends'... |
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Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation
Kyle Edward Williams - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of how efforts to hold big business accountable changed American capitalism.Recent controversies around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing and "woke capital" evoke an old idea: the Progressive Era vision of a socially responsible corporation.... |
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Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration
Harold Holzer - Dutton Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln's grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War.. In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States,... |
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Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
Jake Johnston - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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Haiti's state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise and not a single elected leader holds office, refugees desperately set out on boats to reach the US and Latin America, and the economy... |
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