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Politics/History/Current Events

  • Martha A. Ackelsberg — Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women (Indiana University Press, 1991)
  • Peter Ackerman and Jack Duvall — A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict (St. Martin's Press, 2000)

  • Terry K. Aladjem - The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

  • Greg Anrig - The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing (Wiley, 2007)

  • Beacon Press
    • Daniel D. Luria and Joel Rogers — Metro Futures: Economic Solutions for the Cities and Their Suburbs (1999
  • Karen Cerulo - Never Saw it Coming:  Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the Worst (University of Chicago Press, 2006)

  • Jeff Chester - Digital Destiny:  New Media and the Future of Democracy (The New Press, 2008; paperback, 2008)

  • Penny Coleman -  Flashback:  Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide, and the Lessons of War (Beacon Press, 2006)
  • Common Courage Press
    • Greg Bates — Ralph's Revolt:  Why Nader's Call to Rebellion Makes Sense (2004)
    • Steve Brouwer — Robbing Us Blind: The Return of the Bush Gang and the Mugging of America (2003)
    • Larry Everest — Oil, Power and Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda (2003)
    • Mike Gray — The Death Game: Capital Punishment and the Luck of the Draw (2003)
    • Yosef Grodzinsky — In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Struggle Between Jews and Zionists in the Aftermath of World War II (2004)
    • Richard Lord — American Nightmare: Predatory Lending and the Foreclosure of the American Dream (2004)
    • Michael K. Smith and Matt Wuerker — The Madness of King George: The Ingenious Insanity of Our Most "Misunderestimated" President (2003)
  • Anne-christine D'Adesky — Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global Aids (Verso 2004)
  • Demos
    • Sasha Abramsky - Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House (The New Press, 2006)
    •  David Callahan - The Moral Center:  How We Can Reclaim Our Country from Die-Hard Extremists, Rouge Corporations, Hollywood Hacks and Pretend  Patriots (Harcourt, 2006)
    • Tamara Draut - Strapped:  Why America’s 20- and 30- Somethings Can’t Get Ahead (Doubleday, 2006)
    • James Lardner and David Smith, eds. - Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences (The New Press,  2005)
    • Nomi Prins -  Jacked: How ""Conservatives"" Are Picking Your Pocket (Whether You Voted For Them or Not) (PoliPointPress (2006)
    • Spencer Overton - Stealing Democracy:  The New Politics of Voter Suppression (W.W. Norton & Co., 2006)
    • Deborah Stone - The Samaritan’s Dilemma:  Should Government Help Your Neighbor? (Nation Books, 2008)
  • Maureen Dezell — Irish America Coming Into Clover: The Evolution of a People and a Culture (Doubleday, 2001)

  • Paul V. Dutton - Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France  (Cornell University Press, 2007)

  • Gordon Fellman — Rambo and the Dalai Lama: The Compulsion to Win and Its Threat to Human Survival (SUNY Press, 1998)
  • E. Marla Felcher — It's No Accident: How Corporations Sell Dangerous Baby Products (Common Courage Press, 2000)
  • The Feminist Press —
    • The W Effect:  Bush's War on Women edited by Laura Flanders (2004)
  • William F Fisher and Thomas Ponniah — Another World is Possible: Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum (Palgrave-Macmillian, 2003)
  • Laura Flanders — Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004)
  • James Fraser — A History of Hope: When Americans Have Dared to Dream of a Better Future (Palgrave-Macmillian, 2002)
  • Irene Gendzier — Notes from the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945-1958 (Columbia University Press, 1997)

  • Joe Gerson - Nuclear Terrorism: U.S. Use and Threatened Use of Nuclear Weapons 1945-2005 (Pluto Press, 2007)

  • Marvin Gettleman and Stuart Schaar — The Middle East and Islamic World Reader (Grove Press, 2003)
  • Amy Goodman with David Goodman — The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them (Hyperion, 2004)
  • David Goodman — Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa (University of California Press, 1999)
  • James Green — Taking History to Heart: The Power of Past in Building Social Movements (University of Massachusetts Press, 2000)
  • Richard Grinker — In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin M. Turnbull (St. Martin's Press, 2000)
  • Victor Grossman — Crossing the River: A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War, and Life in East Germany (UMass Press, 2003)
  • Guilford Press
    • James Aune — Selling the Free Market: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness (2001)
    • Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons — Right Wing Populism in America (2000)
    • Carl Boggs — The End of Politics: Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere (2000)
    • Sara Diamond — Not By Politics Alone: The Enduring Influence of the Christian Right (1998)
    • Chris Hables Gray — Postmodern War (1997)
    • Stephen Franklin — Three Strikes: Labor's Heartland Losses and What they Mean for Working Americans (2001)
    • Bennett Harrison — Lean and Mean: Why Large Corporations Will Continue to Dominate the Global Economy (1998)
  • Jean Hardisty — Mobilizing Resentment: Conservative Resurgence from the John Birch Society to the Promise Keepers (Beacon Press, 1999)
  • Haymarket Books
    • Elizabeth Laird — A Little Piece of Land (2006)
    • Dahr Jamail -  Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq (2007)
  • Steve Hendricks -The Unquiet Grave:  The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006)
  • Robin Hirsch — Last Dance at the Hotel Kempinski: Creating a Life in the Shadow of History (University Press of New England, 1995)
  • Peter Jan Honisgberg — Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir (University of California Press, 2000)

  • Bernie Horn -  Framing the Future:  How Progressive Values Can Win Elections and Influence People (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007)

  • Gerald Horne — Black & Brown:  African-Americans & the Mexican Revolution, 1910-20 (NYU Press, 2005)
  • _____ - Final Victim of the Blacklist:  The Life of John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten  (Univeristy of California Press, 2006)
  • _____ — Race War!: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire (NYU Press, 2004)

  • Ismael Hossein-zadeh  - The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism (Palgrave-Macmillan 2007)

  • Interfaith Worker Justice - Wage Theft in America: America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid — And What We Can Do About It by Kim Bobo of (The New Press, 2008)

  • Invisible Cities Press
    • S. Allen Counter — North Pole Legacy: Black, White and Eskimo (2001)
    • Matthew Henson — A Negro Explorer at the North Pole: The Autobiography of Matthew Henson (2001)
    • Peter Larson and Kristin Donnan — Rex Appeal The Amazing Story of Sue, the Dinosaur That Changed Science, the Law, and My Life (2002)
    • Marcia and Thomas Mitchell — The Spy Who Seduced America: Lies and Betrayal in the Heat of the Cold War: The Judith Coplon Story (2002)
  • Si Kahn and Elizabeth Minnich - The Fox in the Henhouse:  How Priviatization Threatens Democracy (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc, 2005)
  • Jerome P. Kassirer, M.D — On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health (Oxford University Press, 2004)
  • Michael Katz — The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State (Metropolitan Books, 2002)
  • Pagan Kennedy — Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth Century Congo (Viking, 2002)
  • Jean Kilbourne — Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel (Simon & Schuster, 2000)
  • Koa Books
    • Ann Wright and Susan Dixon - Dissent:  Government Insiders Speak Out to End the War In Iraq… and Why We Never Hear About It (2007)
    • Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, edited by Maxine Hong Kingston (2007)

  • Marnia Lazreg - Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad  (Princeton University Press, 2008)

  • Jerry Lembcke — CNN's Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam's Last Great Myth (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003)
  • ____ The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam (NYU Press, 1998, radio campaign in 2003)

  • Jana K.  Lipman - Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution (University of California Press, 2008)

  • Literary Ventures Fund   

    • The Big Eddy Club:  The Stocking Stranglings and Southern Justice by David Rose (The New Press, 2007)

  • Dr. Bernard Lown - Prescription for Survival: A Doctor’s Journey to End Nuclear Madness (Berrett-Koehler, 2008)

  • Liam Mahony and Luis Enrique Eguren — Unarmed Bodyguards: International Accompaniment for the Protection of Human Rights (Kumarian Press, 1997)
  • John McDonough — Experiencing Politics: A Legislator's Stories of Government and Health Care (University of California Press, 2000)
  • Media Education Foundation — Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire  (a film, 2003)
  • Seymour Melman — After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy (Knopf, 2001)
  • Monthly Review Press
    • Mimi Abramovitz — Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States (2001)
    • Eric Thomas Chester — Rag-Tags, Scum, Riff-Raff, and Commie: The U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965-66 (2001)
    • Robert McChesney — The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the 21st Century (2004)
    • Daniel Singer — Whose Millennium? Theirs or Ours (1999)
    • George Winslow — Capital Crimes (1999)
  • The New Press
      • Anthony Arnove – Iraq:  The Logic of Withdrawal (2006)
      • Tod Ensign - America’s Military Today: The Challenge of Militarism (2004)
      • Daphna Golan-Agnon - Next Year in Jerusalem: Everyday Life in a Divided Land (2005)
      • Helen Caldicott - Nuclear Power is Not the Answer (2006)
      • Pierce O’Donnell - In Time of War: Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America (2005)
  • New Society Publishers
    • Mary-Wynne Ashford - Enough Bloodshed:101 Solutions to Violence, Terror and War (2006)
    • Elizabeth Boardman – Taking a Stand:  A Guide to Peace Teams and Accompaniment Projects (2005)
    • Robert S. Bullard & Glenn S. Johnson — Just Transportation: Dismantling Race & Class Barriers to Mobility (1998)
    • Richard Hofrichter, ed. — Toxic Struggles: The Theory and Practice of Environmental Justice (1993)
    • William Thomas — Scorched Earth: The Military's Assault on the Environment (1995)
    • Neva Welton and Linda Wolf — Global Uprising: Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century (2001)
  • Nuclear Policy Research Institute
    • Helen Caldicott and Craig Eisendrath - War in Heaven (The New Press, 2007)

    • Orbis Books

      • James Douglass - JFK and the Unspeakable:  Why He Died & Why it Matters (2008)
  • Caroline Paul  -  East Wind, Rain:  A Novel (William Morrow, 2006)
  • John Phillips — Giant Killers: The Team and the Law that Help Whistle-blowers Recover American's Stolen Billions by Henry Scammell (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004)
  • Murray Polner and Jim O'Grady — Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Phillip Berrigan (BasicBooks, 1997)
  • PoliPointPress
    • William Rivers Pitt - House of Ill Repute:  Reflections on War, Lies, and America’s Ravaged Reputation (2007)
    • Norman Solomon  - Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State  (2007)
  • Pluto Press
    • Brewster Kneen — Invisible Giant: Cargill and its Transnational Strategies (1995)
  • William Quigley — Ending Poverty as We Know It: A Constitutional Right to a Job at a Living Wage (Temple University Press, 2003)
  • Joseph Romm - Hell and High Water:  Global Warming – the Solution and the Politics – and What We Should Do (Wm Morrow, 2006)
  • Fred Rose — Coalitions Across the Class Divide: Lessons from Labor, Peace and Environmental Movements (University of California Press, 1999)

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

  • Jerry Lembcke — CNN's Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam's Last Great Myth (2003)
  • Susan Sered — Sick & Out of Luck:  Uninsured in America (University of California Press, 2004)
  • Seven Stories
    • The Contenders: Hillary, John, Al, Dennis, Barack, et al. by Laura Flanders, Richard Goldstein, Dean Kuipers, James Ridgeway, Eli Sanders and Dan Savage (2007)
  • Randy Shaw — Reclaiming America: Nike, Clean Air, and the New National Activism (University of California Press, 1999)
  • Shoemaker & Hoard
    • Michael Downing - Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time (2005)
  • Holly Sklar — Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies That Work (The Ms. Foundation for Women, 2001)
  • Steerforth Press
    • Hope Hale Davis — Great Day Coming: A memoir of the 1930s (1994)
  • Syracuse University Press
    • Mary Susannah Robbins, ed. — Against the Vietnam War: Writings by Activists (1999)
  • Teachers College Press
    • Joel Westheimer, ed. - Pledging Allegiance: The Politics of Patriotism in America’s Schools (2007)
  • Patricia Thomas — Big Shot: Passion, Politics, and the Struggle for the AIDS Vaccine (PublicAffairs, 2001)
  • Twayne/Simon & Schuster Macmillan
    • Richard Stacewicz — Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1997)
  • Larry Tye — The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays & the Birth of Public Relations (Crown, 1998, paperback, 2002)
  • ____ — Rising From the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Birth of the Black Middle Class (Henry Holt and Company, 2004)
  • United for a Fair Economy
    • Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality & Insecurity (The New Press, 2000)
    • William H. Gates, Sr. and Chuck Collins — Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes (Beacon Press, 2004)
  • University of Massachusetts Press
    • Kevin Bowen and Bruce Weigl, eds. — Writing Between the Lines: An Anthology on War and Its Social Consequences (1997)
  • Signe Waller — Love and Revolution: A Political Memoir (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002)
  • Elise Young — Keepers of the History: Women and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Teachers College Press, 1992)
  • Stephen Zunes — Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism (Common Courage Press, 2002)

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