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All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
Mikhail Zygar · Public Affairs
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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"I read this book in one night, truly a page-turner. It leaves a profoundly scary impression: [Putin's court is the] real House of Cards." - Lev Lurie, writer and historianAll the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented... |
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Ronald Reagan: New Deal Republican
Henry Olsen · Broadside Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Preface by Jon MeachamIn this sure to be controversial book in the vein of The Forgotten Man, a political analyst argues that conservative icon Ronald Reagan was not an enemy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, but his true heir and the popular program's ultimate savior.Conventional... |
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Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times
Carolina De Robertis · Vintage
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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Radical Hope is a collection of letters - to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged - written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical... |
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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
CHINA MIEVILLE · Verso
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed fantasy author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside downThe renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Miéville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides... |
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Optimism over Despair: On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change
NOAM CHOMSKY · Haymarket Books
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback
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This volume offers readers a concise and accessible introduction to the ideas of Noam Chomsky, described by the New York Times as "arguably the most important intellectual alive."In these recent, wide-ranging interviews, conducted for Truthout by C. J. Polychroniou, Chomsky discusses... |
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Ctrl Z: The Right to Be Forgotten
Meg Leta Jones · New York University Press
Pages: 267
Format: Print book
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This is going on your permanent record is a threat that has never held more weight than it does in the Internet Age, when information lasts indefinitely. The ability to make good on that threat is as democratized as posting a Tweet or making blog. Data about us is created, shared, collected,... |
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Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination
Herb Boyd · Amistad
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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The author of Baldwin's Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit - a blend of memoir, love letter, history, and clear-eyed reportage that explores the city's past, present, and future and its significance to the African American legacy... |
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Kingdoms in the Air: Dispatches from the Far Away
Bob Shacochis · Grove Press
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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"Shacochis has extended his knowledge and imagination into places most of us have never ventured." - Washington PostBest known for his sweeping international and political fiction narratives, including The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, which won the Dayton Peace Prize and was finalist... |
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Richard Nixon: The Life
John A Farrell · Doubleday
Pages: 752
Format: Print book
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Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, and lively on the page, this is the Nixon we've been waiting for. Richard Nixon opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic... |
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
MASHA GESSEN · Riverhead Books
Pages: 515
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONThe essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most... |
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