Ayn Rand and the World She Made

Written by Anne C. Heller

Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-51399-9 (0-385-51399-2)

Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States. The books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the foundation of the Libertarian movement, and... Read more >

The Dead Hand
The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
Written by David Hoffman

Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52437-7 (0-385-52437-4)

This riveting narrative history of the end of the arms race sheds new light on the frightening last chapters of the Cold War and the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today.

During the Cold War, world superpowers amassed nuclear arsenals containing the explosive power... Read more >

Left in Dark Times
A Stand Against the New Barbarism
Written by Bernard-Henri Levy

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7472-0 (0-8129-7472-7)

In this unprecedented critique, Bernard-Henri Lévy revisits his political roots, scrutinizes the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those on the horizon, and argues powerfully for a new political and moral vision for our times. Are human rights Western or universal? Does anti-Semitism have a future, and, if so, what... Read more >

Crude World
The Violent Twilight of Oil
Written by Peter Maass

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4169-5 (1-4000-4169-4)

A stunning and revealing examination of oil’s indelible impact on the countries that produce it and the people who possess it.

Every unhappy oil-producing nation is unhappy in its own way, but all are touched by the “resource curse”—the power of oil to exacerbate existing problems and create new ones. In Crude... Read more >

The Selling of the American Economy
How Foreign Companies Are Remaking the American Dream
Written by Micheline Maynard

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Broadway Business
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52052-2 (0-385-52052-2)

As unemployment rises, the American auto industry crumbles, and more and more jobs continue to be outsourced to India, China, Mexico, and the like, the fate of the American worker has never looked quite so grim. As a result, many Americans, deeply protective of the few jobs that still exist, increasingly... Read more >

Sweet Land of Liberty
The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Written by Thomas J. Sugrue

Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7038-8 (0-8129-7038-1)

Sweet Land of Liberty is Thomas J. Sugrue’s epic account of the abiding quest for racial equality in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South. Sugrue’s panoramic view sweeps from the 1920s to the present–more... Read more >

The Death of Conservatism

Written by Sam Tanenhaus

Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6884-5 (1-4000-6884-3)

Sam Tanenhaus’s essay “Conservatism Is Dead” prompted intense discussion and debate when it was published in The New Republic in the first days of Barack Obama’s presidency. Now Tanenhaus, a leading authority on modern politics, has expanded his argument into a sweeping history of the American conservative movement. For seventy-five years... Read more >

Louis D. Brandeis
A Life
Written by Melvin Urofsky

Format: Hardcover, 976 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-42366-6 (0-375-42366-4)

The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court–a book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit.

Louis Dembitz Brandeis had at least... Read more >