The New Press: 370 books
by Stephen Pimpare
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
In this compulsively readable social history, political scientist Stephen Pimpare vividly describes poverty from the perspective of poor and welfare-reliant Americans from the big city to the rural countryside. He focuses on how the poor have created community, secured shelter, and found food and...
North Korea
Another Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Depicted as an insular and forbidding police state with an “insane” dictator at its helm, North Korea—charter member of Bush’s “Axis of Evil”—is a country the U.S. loves to hate. Now the CIA says it possesses nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, as well as long-range missiles capable...
A People's History of the American Revolution
How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
“The best single-volume history of the Revolution I have read.” —Howard Zinn
Upon its initial publication, Ray Raphael’s magisterial A People’s History of the American Revolution was hailed by NPR’s Fresh Air as “relentlessly aggressive and unsentimental.” With impeccable skill,...
Say It Plain
A Century of Great African American Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
A moving portrait of how black Americans have spoken out against injustice—with speeches by Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, and more.
In “full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul”, this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the...
The Radical Reader
A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Radicalism is as American as apple pie. One can scarcely imagine what American society would look like without the abolitionists, feminists, socialists, union organizers, civil-rights workers, gay and lesbian activists, and environmentalists who have fought stubbornly to breathe life into the promises...
by John McHugo
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This “brilliant and erudite” history by the award-winning Arabist provides vital context for understanding the contemporary Middle East (Patrick Seale, author of Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East).
From Algeria and Libya to Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, the Arab world commands Western...
Constitutional Myths
What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Americans on both sides of the aisle love to reference the Constitution as the ultimate source of truth. But which truth? What did the framers really have in mind? In a book that author R.B. Bernstein calls essential reading,” acclaimed historian Ray Raphael places the Constitution in its historical...
Lessons from the Heartland
A Turbulent Half-Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
“Miner’s story of Milwaukee is filled with memorable characters . . . explores with consummate skill the dynamics of race, politics, and schools in our time.” —Mike Rose, author of The Mind at Work
Weaving together the racially fraught history of public education in Milwaukee and the...
Slavery and Public History
The Tough Stuff of American Memory
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
“A fascinating collection of essays” by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery (Booklist Online).
In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America’s history of slavery is depicted in books,...
The Queen's Caprice
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Seven short stories by the Prix Goncourt winner—“the most distinctive voice of his generation . . . master magician of the contemporary French novel” (The Washington Post).
France’s preeminent fiction writer, Jean Echenoz is celebrated for his ability to craft stories with such precision...
Ex Mex
From Migrants to Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
From the massive nationwide rally in support of immigrant rights in May 2006 to protests against the increasingly frequent immigration raids across the country, the public debate on immigration reform has largely centered on Mexican immigrants. Yet, in the United States, we rarely hear the Mexican...
Living "Illegal"
The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A myth-busting account of the tragedies, trials, and successes of undocumented immigration in the United States.
For decades now, America’s polarizing debate over immigration revolved around a set of one-dimensional characters and unchallenged stereotypes. The resulting policies—from the...
The Egyptians
A Radical History of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
The award-winning journalist and longtime Cairo resident delivers a “meticulous, passionate study” of the ongoing battle for contemporary Egypt (The Guardian).
On January, 25, 2011, a revolution began in Egypt that succeeded in ousting the country’s longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak. In...
Moyers on America
A Journalist and His Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The Peabody Award–winning journalist shares stories and insights into our country and the crises we face in an “eloquent selection of . . . commentaries” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Millions of Americans have invited Bill Moyers into their homes over the years. With television...