Bold Type Books imprint: 172 books
Collusion
How Central Bankers Rigged the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In this searing exposé, former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order.
Central banks and international institutions like the IMF have overstepped their traditional...
Uprising
How Scott Walker Betrayed Wisconsin and Inspired a New Politics of Protest
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
On February 11, 2011, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced he would strip collective bargaining rights from public employees and teachers. In response, people rose up in mass protest, and Wisconsin became a reference point for a renewal of labor militancy and radical politics. These protests...
EcoMind
Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
In EcoMind, Frances Moore Lappé-a giant of the environmental movement-confronts accepted wisdom of environmentalism. Drawing on the latest research from anthropology to neuroscience and her own field experience, she argues that the biggest challenge to human survival isn't our fossil fuel dependency,...
Fearless
The Amazing Underdog Story of Leicester City, the Greatest Miracle in Sports History
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
The odds of the Foxes winning the Premier League at the start of the season were the same as the Yeti or the Loch Ness Monster being proven to exist, Christmas being the warmest day of the year in England or Barack Obama playing cricket for England after he left the Oval Office.” —ESPN
On...
Kill the Messenger
How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Soon to be a major motion picture!
Kill the Messenger tells the story of the tragic death of Gary Webb, the controversial newspaper reporter who committed suicide in December 2004. Webb is the former San Jose Mercury News reporter whose 1996 "Dark Alliance" series on the so-called...
Asking for a Friend
Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A delightful history of Americans' obsession with advice--from Poor Richard to Dr. Spock to Miss Manners
Americans, for all our talk of pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, obsessively seek advice on matters large and small. Perhaps precisely because we believe in bettering ourselves and...
by Gregory Claeys
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
A new biography of Karl Marx, tracing the life of this titanic figure and the legacy of his work
Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in history. He died quietly in 1883 and a mere eleven mourners attended his funeral, but a year later he was being hailed...
And the Weak Suffer What They Must?
Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
A #1 Sunday Times bestseller [UK]
A titanic battle is being waged for Europe's integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality, authoritarianism, and malice, promoting inequality and austerity. The whole world has a stake in a victory for rationality,...
Blood, Class and Empire
The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America's "special relationship" with Britain. But as events have shown, especially in the wake of 9/11, the political and cultural ties between America and Britain have grown stronger. Blood, Class and Empire...
The Man Who Sold the World
Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Since Ronald Reagan left office-and particularly after his death-his shadow has loomed large over American politics: Republicans and many Democrats have waxed nostalgic, extolling the Republican tradition he embodied, the optimism he espoused, and his abilities as a communicator.
This carefully...
How to Kill a City
Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A journey to the front lines of the battle for the future of American cities, uncovering the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification--and the lives that are altered in the process.
The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the...
Reckoning at Eagle Creek
The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us to the dark amphitheatre ruins of his family's nearly 200-year-old hillside homestead that has been strip-mined on the edge of the first federally recognized Wilderness Site in southern Illinois. In doing so, he not only comes to grips with his own denied backwoods...
Jumping at Shadows
The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Why is an unarmed young black woman who knocks on a stranger's front door to ask for help after her car breaks down perceived to be so threatening that he shoots her dead? Why do we fear infrequent acts of terrorism more far more common acts of violence? Why does a disease like Ebola, which killed...
We're Still Here Ya Bastards
How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is one of the darkest chapters in American history. The storm caused unprecedented destruction, and a toxic combination of government neglect and socioeconomic inequality turned a crisis into a tragedy. But among the rubble, there is hope.
We're Still Here...