Anchor imprint: 1481 books
They Knew They Were Right
The Rise of the Neocons
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
From its origins in 1930s Marxism to its unprecedented influence on George W. Bush's administration, neoconservatism has become one of the most powerful, reviled, and misunderstood intellectual movements in American history. But who are the neocons, and how did this obscure group of government officials,...
American Scoundrel
The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Hero, adulterer, bon vivant, murderer and rogue, Dan Sickles led the kind of existence that was indeed stranger than fiction. Throughout his life he exhibited the kind of exuberant charm and lack of scruple that wins friends, seduces women, and gets people killed. In American Scoundrel Thomas Keneally,...
by Anita Hill
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Twent-six years before the #metoo movement, Anita Hill sparked a national conversation about sexual harassment in the workplace when she testified against Clarence Thomas.
After her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill ceased to be a private citizen and became a...
by Yu Hua
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
From one of China’s most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in English: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply illuminate the country’s meteoric economic and social transformation.
Framed...
Discos and Democracy
China in the Throes of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
In this arresting chronicle of one tumultuous year in China's love-hate relationship with the West, Orville Schell brings us a revealing analysis of the Chinese reform movement.
by Ayelet Waldman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A spellbinding new novel of contraband masterpieces, tragic love, and the unexpected legacies of forgotten crimes, Ayelet Waldman’s Love and Treasure weaves a tale around the fascinating, true history of the Hungarian Gold Train in the Second World War.
In 1945 on the outskirts of Salzburg,...
World on Fire
How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2004
The reigning consensus holds that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this revelatory investigation of the true impact of globalization, Yale Law School professor...
The Age of Austerity
How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
One of our most prescient political observers provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years—and how we might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from these ideological and economic battles.
In a matter...
The Storyteller's Daughter
One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Imagine that a jewel-like garden overlooking Kabul is your ancestral home. Imagine a kitchen made fragrant with saffron strands and cardamom pods simmering in an authentic pilau. Now remember that you were born in London, your family in exile, and that you have never seen Afghanistan in peacetime.
These...
by Naguib Mahfouz
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand...
The Radical Center
The Future of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2002
Record numbers of Americans describe themselves as “independents” and reject the conventional agendas of Left and Right. In this widely acclaimed book, Ted Halstead and Michael Lind explain why today’s ideologies and institutions are so ill-suited to the Information Age, and offer a groundbreaking...
Lies, Incorporated
The World of Post-Truth Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
A stunning investigation of the history of organized misinformation in politics.
In today’s post-truth political landscape, there is a carefully concealed but ever-growing industry of organized misinformation that exists to create and disseminate lies in the service of political agendas....
Two Girls Down
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
"I'm always looking for a good thriller, and this just was perfect."--Nancy Pearl, NPR's Morning Edition
“Opening this book is like arming a bomb--the suspense is relentless and the payoff is spectacular. Lead character Alice Vega is sensational--I want to see lots more of her.”--Lee Child
"Sensational."...
Gangbusters
How a Street Tough, Elite Homicide Unit Took Down New York's Most Dangerous Gang
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
An elite homicide investigation unit takes on one of the most savage and destructive gangs in New York City history in this gritty true-crime narrative.
The investigation into the late-night murder of a college student on the West Side Highway leads to the Wild Cowboys, a group of young men...