Bold Type Books imprint: 172 books
Dollarocracy
How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy.
Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades...
To Protect and Serve
How to Fix America's Police
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
American policing is in crisis. The last decade witnessed a vast increase in police aggression, misconduct, and militarization, along with a corresponding reduction in transparency and accountability. Nowhere is this more noticeable and painful than in African American and other ethnic minority communities....
The Honored Society
A Portrait of Italy's Most Powerful Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
In the early hours of an August 2007 morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg, Germany; in less than five minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both the victims and the assassins were members of the 'Ndrangheta crime organization. Calabria's Mafia...
Lords of Secrecy
The National Security Elite and America's Stealth Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Forty years ago, a majority of Americans were highly engaged in issues of war and peace. Whether to go to war or keep out of conflicts was a vital question at the heart of the country's vibrant, if fractious, democracy. But American political consciousness has drifted. In the last decade, America...
by Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com and the Washington Post
Three years ago, Pulitzer Prizewinner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to take a look at the sacrifice zones, those areas in America that have been offered up for exploitation in...
Crude Awakening
Money, Mavericks, and Mayhem in Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Crude Awakening is the rollicking story of politics in America’s last frontier and oil province—Alaska, the nation’s most wild and mysterious state, where politics and oil blurred on the day wildcatters struck it big in 1968. Living in a northern Never Land, where oil companies and the federal...
Meltdown
How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2009
America’s economy is in meltdown. Banks have failed, foreclosures are sweeping the housing market, and stocks have suffered their worst losses since the Great Depression. Faced with a complex and spiraling crisis, the government has poured billions of taxpayer cash into a bailout with no end in...
Wag the Dog
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Once upon a time there was a mean, dying GOP chairman who had a brilliant scheme to assure that his man would retain the office of president of the United States of America. And the only man who could pull off this elaborate plan was a celebrated Hollywood director. Add to the mix a left-coast gumshoe...
by Walter Mosley
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
In his late teens and early twenties, Walter Mosley was addicted to alcohol and cigarettes. Drawing from this intimate knowledge of addiction and recovery, Mosley explores the deviances of contemporary America and describes a society in thrall to its own consumption. Although Americans live in the...
And Hell Followed With Her
Crossing the Dark Side of the American Border
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
It began with a frantic 911 call from a woman in a dusty Arizona border town. A gang claiming to be affiliated with the Border Patrol had shot her husband and daughter. It was initially assumed that the murders were products of border drug wars ravaging the Southwest until the leader of one of the...
Unreal City
Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
An epic struggle over land, water, and power is erupting in the American West and the halls of Washington, DC. It began when a 4,000-square-mile area of Arizona desert called Black Mesa was divided between the Hopi and Navajo tribes. To the outside world, it was a land struggle between two fractious...
The American Way of Poverty
How the Other Half Still Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Selected as A Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review
Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance. It...
After Empire
The Birth of a Multipolar World
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
American corporations have to beg for capital from the cash-rich Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Persian Gulf. By invading Iraq, President George W. Bush grossly undermined American credibility in the international arena and irrevocably weakened Washington's diplomatic clout.
Together, these...
Halliburton's Army
How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Halliburton’s Army is the first book to show, in shocking detail, how Halliburton really does business, in Iraq, and around the world. From its vital role as the logistical backbone of the U.S. occupation in Iraq—without Halliburton there could be no war or occupation—to its role in covering...