Catastrophic Care
How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It
Written by David Goldhill

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-96154-9 (0-307-96154-0)

A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.
In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a... Read more >

The New Hate
A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right
Written by Arthur Goldwag

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-74251-3 (0-307-74251-2)

From the author of -Isms and -Ologies and Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies, here is a deeply researched, fascinating history of the role that organized hatred has played in American politics. The New Hate takes readers on a surprising, often shocking, sometimes bizarrely amusing tour through the swamps of nativism, racism... Read more >

The New Hate
A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right
Written by Arthur Goldwag

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-37969-6 (0-307-37969-8)

From “Birthers” who claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States to counter-jihadists who believe that the Constitution is in imminent danger of being replaced with Sharia law, conspiratorial beliefs have become an increasingly common feature of our public discourse. In this deeply researched, fascinating exploration of the... Read more >

1861
The Civil War Awakening
Written by Adam Goodheart

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3219-8 (1-4000-3219-9)

A New York Times Notable Book
An epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields, 1861 is Adam Goodheart’s account of how the Civil War began and a second American revolution unfolded, setting Abraham Lincoln on the path to greatness and millions of slaves on the road to freedom. In this gripping... Read more >

1861
The Civil War Awakening
Written by Adam Goodheart

Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4015-5 (1-4000-4015-9)

As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of our defining national drama, 1861 presents a gripping and original account of how the Civil War began.

1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American revolution unfolded, inspiring a new generation to... Read more >

Growing Up Absurd
Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
Written by Paul Goodman
Afterword by Susan Sontag
Foreword by Casey Nelson Blake

Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-581-1 (1-59017-581-6)

Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist... Read more >

Citizens of Nowhere
From Refugee Camp to Canadian Campus
Written by Debi Goodwin

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor Canada
On Sale: June 21, 2011
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-66723-4 (0-385-66723-X)

An inspiring story of courage, adaptation and determinaton — a year in the life of 11 refugee students entering universities across Canada.

"Most journalists have stories they never forget. This is mine."

When Debi Goodwin travelled to the Dadaab Refugee Camp in 2007 to shoot a documentary on young Somali refugees soon coming... Read more >

Cobra II
The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
Written by Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor

Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 27, 2007
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7539-3 (1-4000-7539-4)

Written by the chief military correspondent of the New York Times and a prominent retired Marine general, this is the definitive account of the invasion of Iraq.

A stunning work of investigative journalism, Cobra II describes in riveting detail how the American rush to Baghdad provided the opportunity for the virulent insurgency... Read more >

Common Sense Government
Works Better and Costs Less
Written by Al Gore

Format: Trade Paperback, 348 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: October 17, 1995
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77132-6 (0-679-77132-8)

Introduction by Philip K. Howard. The federal government is ailing and needs a cure. The cure lies in embracing a principle long known to the American people, but little recognized by Washington--until now: common sense. In this pathbreaking report, Vice President Gore, at the request of President Clinton, charts a fundamental... Read more >

the immigrant suite
hey xenophobe! who you calling foreigner?
Written by Hattie Gossett

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-778-7 (1-58322-778-4)

Writing from the upper west side of Manhattan, where Harlem intersects with waves of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Korea, Cambodia, Ivory Coast, India, Native America, and from all over the globe, hattie gossett vividly invokes her neighborhood experience. With wit and candor, she questions why so many... Read more >

The Big Squeeze
Tough Times for the American Worker
Written by Steven Greenhouse

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9652-7 (1-4000-9652-9)

Why, in the world's most affluent nation, are so many corporations squeezing their employees dry? In this fresh, carefully researched book, New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse explores the economic, political, and social trends that are transforming America's workplaces, including the decline of the social contract that created the world's largest... Read more >

Great American Hypocrites
Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics
Written by Glenn Greenwald

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-40866-2 (0-307-40866-3)

According to Glenn Greenwald, ever since the cowboy image of Ronald Reagan was sold to Americans, the Republican Party has used the same John Wayne imagery to support its candidates and take elections. We all know how they govern, but the right-wing propaganda machine is very adept at hijacking debate and... Read more >

A Tragic Legacy
How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency
Written by Glenn Greenwald

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-35428-0 (0-307-35428-8)

The first true character study of a lost president and his disastrous legacy

In this fascinating, timely book, Glenn Greenwald examines the Bush presidency and its long-term effect on the nation, charting the rise and steep fall of the current administration, dissecting the rhetoric, and revealing the faulty ideals upon which George... Read more >

Nation of Secrets
The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life
Written by Ted Gup

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7978-0 (1-4000-7978-0)

At work, at the doctor’s office, on campus, in your car, your right to know has been replaced by someone else’s right to keep a secret.

U.S. judges allow businesses to make secret settlement agreements that keep products with life-threatening defects on the market. Intelligence agencies use an ever-widening array of classification... Read more >

Defining a Nation
Our America and the Source of Its Strength
Edited by David Halberstam

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: May 16, 2006
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-7922-5909-1 (0-7922-5909-2)

"The freer we are … the stronger we are," writes David Halberstam in this probing compilation of original essays which distill the essence of America, an evergreen subject rendered even more timely by recent world events that highlight cultural clashes and prompt us not just to reconsider foreign attitudes and aspirations... Read more >

Going Up the River
Travels in a Prison Nation
Written by Joseph T. Hallinan

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6844-6 (0-8129-6844-1)

The American prison system has grown tenfold in thirty years, while crime rates have been relatively flat: 2 million people are behind bars on any given day, more prisoners than in any other country in the world — half a million more than in Communist China, and the largest prison expansion... Read more >

Storm over Iraq
Air Power and the Gulf War
Written by Richard Hallion

Format: Trade Paperback, 386 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: March 17, 1997
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-56098-723-9 (1-56098-723-5)

An incisive account of the Persian Gulf War, Storm Over Iraq shows how the success of Operation Desert Storm was the product of two decades of profound changes in the American approach to defense, military doctrine, and combat operations. The first detailed analysis of why the Gulf War could be fought... Read more >

The Radical Center
The Future of American Politics
Written by Ted Halstead and Michael Lind

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72029-8 (0-385-72029-7)

Record numbers of Americans describe themselves as “independents” and reject the conventional agendas of Left and Right. In this widely acclaimed book, Ted Halstead and Michael Lind explain why today’s ideologies and institutions are so ill-suited to the Information Age, and offer a groundbreaking blueprint for updating all sectors of America... Read more >

The Federalist Papers

Written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay

Format: Paperback, 624 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: January 1, 1982
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-553-21340-9 (0-553-21340-7)

Introduction by Garry Wills. Contains the complete, 18th-century text of The Federalist, along with James Madison’s never-before-published marginal notations. It also includes the complete Constitution, an outline of the argument, a quick-reference index and bibliography.

Introduction * An Outline of the Argument * A Note on the Text * The Federalist *... Read more >

The Mind of War
John Boyd and American Security
Written by Grant Hammond

Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: August 17, 2004
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-178-5 (1-58834-178-X)

The ideas of US Air Force Colonel John Boyd have transformed American military policy and practice. A first-rate fighter pilot and a self-taught scholar, he wrote the first manual on jet aerial combat; spearheaded the design of both of the Air Force’s premier fighters, the F-15 and the F-16; and shaped... Read more >

Between War and Peace
Lessons from Afghanistan to Iraq
Written by Victor Hanson

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7273-3 (0-8129-7273-2)

In his acclaimed collection An Autumn of War, the scholar and military historian Victor Davis Hanson expressed powerful and provocative views of September 11 and the ensuing war in Afghanistan. Now, in Between War and Peace, a collection of challenging new essays, he examines the world’s ongoing war on terrorism, from... Read more >

Epic Rivalry
The Inside Story of the Soviet and American Space Race
Written by Von Hardesty and Gene Eisman
Foreword by Sergei Khrushchev

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0119-6 (1-4262-0119-2)

When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon in 1969, they personified an almost unimaginable feat—the incredibly complex task of sending humans safely to another celestial body. This extraordinary odyssey, which grew from the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, was galvanized... Read more >

Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854-1911

Written by Malvina Shanklin Harlan
Afterword by Linda Przybyszewski
Foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6744-9 (0-8129-6744-5)

Like Abigail Adams, Malvina Shanklin Harlan witnessed—and gently influenced—national history from the unique perspective of a political leader’s wife. Her husband, Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833–1911), played a central role in some of the most significant civil rights decisions of his era, including his lone dissenting opinion in Plessy... Read more >

The Survivor
Bill Clinton in the White House
Written by John F. Harris

Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-76084-6 (0-375-76084-9)

The definitive account of one of the most accomplished, controversial, and polarizing figures in American history

Bill Clinton is the most arresting leader of his generation. He transformed American politics, and his eight years as president spawned arguments that continue to resonate. For all that has been written about this singular personality–including... Read more >

The Overloaded Liberal
Shopping, Investing, Parenting, and Other Daily Dilemmas in an Age of Political Activism
Written by Fran Hawthorne

Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0129-5 (0-8070-0129-5)

Selected as a 2011 University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries
•Rated S — Special Interest

Today’s shoppers don’t just consume; we investigate and categorize the impact of our decisions on climate change, animals, our health, our political views, geopolitical relationships, working conditions, and more. Yet when we actually try to... Read more >