The Black Book
35th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6848-7 (1-4000-6848-7)

Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her... Read more >

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 >

Lincoln, Life-Size

Written by Philip B. Kunhardt, III, Peter W. Kunhardt and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr.

Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27081-8 (0-307-27081-5)

An essential collection of photographic portraits of Abraham Lincoln, in a striking format, from “the foremost family of Lincoln pictorial scholarship” (Harold Holzer).

This unique and beautiful book captures an overlooked but vital aspect of Lincoln: his face. While he was known as an ugly man, and he even joked about that... Read more >

Why We Hate Us
American Discontent in the New Millennium
Written by Dick Meyer

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-40663-7 (0-307-40663-6)

"Dick Meyer has done the impossible -- he diagnoses the self-loathing, moral confusion and ennui that infect supersized America without hectoring us and badgering us, and without tiresome self-righteousness or smugness. Why We Hate Us takes us on a rollicking, laugh-out-loud ride across the brittle American landscape, and by 'us' I... Read more >

A.D.
New Orleans After the Deluge
Written by Josh Neufeld

Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-37814-9 (0-307-37814-4)

A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge is a masterful portrait of a city under siege. Cartoonist Josh Neufeld depicts seven extraordinary true stories of survival in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina.

Here we meet Denise, a counselor and social worker, and a sixth-generation New Orleanian; “The Doctor,”... Read more >

American Buffalo
In Search of a Lost Icon
Written by Steven Rinella

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52169-7 (0-385-52169-3)

A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination.
 
In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the odds—there’s only a 2 percent chance of drawing the permit, and fewer... Read more >