Reagan's War
The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism
Written by Peter Schweizer

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 21, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72228-5 (0-385-72228-1)

A meticulously researched and penetrating analysis of the Cold War, and the man who ended it. Peter Schweizer delves into the origins of Ronald Reagan’s vision of America, and documents his consistent, aggressive belief in confronting the Soviet Union diplomatically, economically, and militarily.

Ronald Reagan is often dismissed as an “amiable dunce,”... Read more >

Development as Freedom

Written by Amartya Sen

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 15, 2000
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72027-4 (0-385-72027-0)

Development as Freedom is a general exposition of the economic ideas and analyses of Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Science. This brilliant and indispensable treatise compellingly analyzes the nature of contemporary economic development from the perspective of human freedom.

Freedom, Sen persuasively argues, is at once... Read more >

Eight Pieces of Empire
A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
Written by Lawrence Scott Sheets

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-39582-5 (0-307-39582-0)

A two-decade journey, panoramic in scope yet intimate in detail, through the hopes, sorrows, and conflagrations of an unraveled empire and the people living in it.

Not with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute address on Christmas Day 1991: this is how the Soviet Union met its end. Lawrence Scott Sheets... Read more >

The New York Review Abroad
Fifty Years of International Reportage
Edited by Robert B. Silvers
Introduction by Ian Buruma

Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publisher: New York Review Books
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-1-59017-631-3 (1-59017-631-6)

For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world’s most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-eight of the most riveting of these pieces but includes... Read more >

The Utility of Force
The Art of War in the Modern World
Written by Rupert Smith

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27811-1 (0-307-27811-5)

From a highly decorated general, a brilliant new way of understanding war and its role in the twenty-first century.

Drawing on his vast experience as a commander during the first Gulf War, and in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Northern Ireland, General Rupert Smith gives us a probing analysis of modern war. He demonstrates... Read more >

Sarge
The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver
Written by Scott Stossel

Format: Hardcover, 704 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: May 17, 2004
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 978-1-58834-127-3 (1-58834-127-5)

Working for four presidents over six decades, R. Sargent “Sarge” Shriver founded the Peace Corps, launched the War on Poverty, created Head Start and Legal Services for the Poor, started the Special Olympics, and served as ambassador to France. Yet from the moment he married Joseph P. Kennedy’s daughter Eunice in... Read more >

The Russia Hand
A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy
Written by Strobe Talbott

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6846-0 (0-8129-6846-8)

During the past ten years, few issues have mattered more to America’s vital interests or to the shape of the twenty-first century than Russia’s fate. To cheer the fall of a bankrupt totalitarian regime is one thing; to build on its ruins a stable democratic state is quite another. The challenge... Read more >

To Hanoi and Back
The U.S. Air Force and North Vietnam, 1966-1973
Written by Wayne Thompson
Foreword by Richard P. Hallion

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-283-6 (1-58834-283-2)

After nearly eighteen months of the largely unsuccessful bombing campaign called Operation Rolling Thunder, the US Air Force began to look for ways to overcome technological, geographical, and political challenges in North Vietnam and use limited air power more effectively. In 1972 the two Linebacker campaigns joined with other air operations... Read more >

Preachers of Hate
Islam and the War on America
Written by Kenneth R. Timmerman

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: November 23, 2004
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5373-5 (1-4000-5373-0)

In Preachers of Hate, author and journalist Kenneth Timmerman examines an ancient hatred that, he contends, has developed into a new, more threatening, and more expansive form. This new hatred, or “new” anti-Semitism, targets not only Jews, but Americans specifically, and Western values, lifestyle, and freedoms in general.

Timmerman explores the... Read more >

Air Commando One
Heinie Aderholt and America's Secret Air Wars
Written by Warren A. Trest

Format: Hardcover, 322 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: April 17, 2000
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-56098-807-6 (1-56098-807-X)

Air-dropping agents deep behind enemy lines in clandestine night missions during the Korean War, commanding secret flights into Tibet in 1960 to support the anticommunist guerilla uprising, participating in plans for the 1962 Bay of Pigs invasion–even before the escalation of the Vietnam War, Brigadier General Harry C. “Heinie” Aderholt worked... Read more >

Overcoming Speechlessness
A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel
Written by Alice Walker

Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-917-0 (1-58322-917-5)

In 2006, Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group working to end the Iraq War, Walker traveled to Palestine/Israel three years later to view the devastation on the... Read more >

The WTO
Five Years of Reasons to Resist Corporate Globalization
Written by Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza
Introduction by Ralph Nader

Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: December 7, 1999
Price: $5.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-035-1 (1-58322-035-6)

In this groundbreaking pamphlet, directors of Ralph Nader’s Public Citizen group examine the first five years of the World Trade Organization’s track record, demonstrating how the WTO aims to create a new global economic system that increases corporate profit with little regard for social and ecological impacts, or democratically enacted law... Read more >

Why We Fought
Forging American Obligations in World War II
Written by Robert B. Westbrook

Format: Trade Paperback, 166 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-295-9 (1-58834-295-6)

Why We Fought is a timely and provocative analysis that examines why Americans really chose to sacrifice and commit themselves to World War II. Unlike other depictions of the patriotic “greatest generation,” Westbrook argues that, strictly speaking, Americans in World War II were not instructed to fight, work, or die for... Read more >

Infidels
A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam
Written by Andrew Wheatcroft

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7239-9 (0-8129-7239-2)

Here is the first panoptic history of the long struggle between the Christian West and Islam.

In this dazzlingly written, acutely nuanced account, Andrew Wheatcroft tracks a deep fault line of animosity between civilizations. He begins with a stunning account of the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, then turns to the main... Read more >

Scorched Earth
Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam
Written by Fred A. Wilcox
Introduction by Noam Chomsky

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-138-0 (1-60980-138-5)

Scorched Earth is the first book to chronicle the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people and their environment, where, even today, more than 3 million people–including 500,000 children–are sick and dying from birth defects, cancer, and other illnesses that can be directly traced to Agent Orange/dioxin exposure. Weaving first-person... Read more >

Waiting for an Army to Die
The Tragedy of Agent Orange
Written by Fred A. Wilcox

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-136-6 (1-60980-136-9)

“I died in Vietnam, but I didn’t even know it,” said a young Vietnam vet on the Today Show one morning in 1978, shocking viewers across the country. Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange–the first book ever written on the effects of Agent Orange–tells this young... Read more >

Spy
The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America
Written by David Wise

Format: Trade Paperback, 344 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75894-2 (0-375-75894-1)

Spy tells, for the first time, the full, authoritative story of how FBI agent Robert Hanssen, code name grayday, spied for Russia for twenty-two years in what has been called the “worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history”–and how he was finally caught in an incredible gambit by U.S. intelligence.

David Wise, the... Read more >

Hitler and the Holocaust

Written by Robert S. Wistrich

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 5, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6863-7 (0-8129-6863-8)

Hitler and the Holocaust is the product of a lifetime’s work by one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism and modern Jewry.

Robert S. Wistrich begins by reckoning with Europe’s long history of violence against the Jews, and how that tradition manifested itself in Germany and Austria... Read more >

Call Sign Rustic
The Secret Air War over Cambodia, 1970-1973
Written by Richard Wood

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-284-3 (1-58834-284-0)

President Richard Nixon could not keep American ground troops in Cambodia beyond June 1970 without authorization from Congress, which was not forthcoming. Not wanting to desert the anti-communist Lon Nol regime, he ordered top-secret, round-the-clock air support over Cambodia, and the Rustics were born.

Author Richard Wood flew as one of the... Read more >

China's Great Leap
The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights
Edited by Minky Worden
Photographed by Ladir Van Lohuizen
Introduction by Nicholas Kristof

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-843-2 (1-58322-843-8)

With contributions from some of the most well respected and experienced Chinese writers, journalists, and organizers, China’s Great Leap examines the People’s Republic of China as its government and 1.3 billion people prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games.

When Beijing first sought the Games, China was still recovering from the upheavals... Read more >

The Unfinished Revolution
Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights
Edited by Minky Worden
Introduction by Christiane Amanpour

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-387-2 (1-60980-387-6)

Ending abuses of women and girls could change the game for human rights worldwide. This book sets out how and why we should make women’s lives matter.

Writers from around the world tackle some of the toughest questions about improving the lives of women, and explain why we need fresh approaches in... Read more >

Embracing the Infidel
Stories of Muslim Migrants on the Journey West
Written by Behzad Yaghmaian

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: October 31, 2006
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38294-5 (0-553-38294-2)

“Like Günter Walraff and other practitioners of the dying craft of investigative journalism, Yaghmaian has given a voice to people whose tales have not been told before. In doing so, he has written one of the essential documents of our times and shown once again what journalism can do when it... Read more >

The Kremlin's Nuclear Sword
The Rise and Fall of Russia's Strategic Nuclear Forces 1945-2000
Written by Steven J. Zaloga

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: February 17, 2002
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-58834-007-8 (1-58834-007-4)

The prevailing Western view of Russia’s Cold War strategic nuclear weapons policy is that it resulted from a two-part interplay between the leaders of the Communist Party and the military. Steven J. Zaloga has found that a third contributor–the Russian defense industry–also played a vital role.

Drawing from elusive Russian source material... Read more >

My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes
Uncensored Iranian Voices
Edited by Lila Azam Zanganeh

Format: Trade Paperback, 152 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: April 1, 2006
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0463-0 (0-8070-0463-4)

“My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes aims to corrode fixed ideas and turns cultural and political clichés on their heads . . . Iranians themselves live in a complex and schizophrenic reality, at a surreal crossroads between political Islam and satellite television, massive national oil revenues, and... Read more >

The Hidden History of 9/11

Edited by Paul Zarembka

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-825-8 (1-58322-825-X)

How much insider trading occurred in the days leading up to 9-11? How compromised is the evidence against alleged hijackers? Why were there no military interceptions? To what extent does the testimony of more than five hundred firefighters differ from official reports of what happened at the World Trade Center buildings... Read more >