Supergods
What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
Written by Grant Morrison

Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: July 19, 2011
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6912-5 (1-4000-6912-2)

From one of the most acclaimed and profound writers in the world of comics comes a thrilling and provocative exploration of humankind’s great modern myth: the superhero

The first superhero comic ever published, Action Comics no. 1 in 1938, introduced the world to something both unprecedented and timeless: Superman, a caped god... Read more >

Moyers on Democracy

Written by Bill Moyers

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38773-8 (0-307-38773-9)

People know Bill Moyers from his many years of path-breaking journalism on television. But he is also one of America's most sought-after public speakers. In this collection of speeches, Moyers celebrates the promise of American democracy and offers a passionate defense of its principles of fairness and justice. Moyers on Democracy... Read more >

Dak To
America's Sky Soldiers in South Vietnam's Central Highlands
Written by Edward Murphy

Format: Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Presidio Press
On Sale: July 31, 2007
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-89141-910-5 (0-89141-910-1)

From their very first engagement with the North Vietnamese Army, when a whole company of paratroopers was nearly wiped out, to the savage, climactic battle for Hill 875, here is a riveting, hard-hitting account of how the Sky Soldiers plunged into some of Southeast Asia's most forbidding terrain, against a professional... Read more >

Showdown at Gucci Gulch

Written by Alan Murray
Introduction by Jeffrey Birnbaum

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 12, 1988
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-75811-4 (0-394-75811-0)

The Tax Reform Act of 1986 was the single most sweeping change in the history of America's income tax. It was also the best political and economic story of its time. Here, two Wall Street Journal reporters provide the first complete picture of how this tax revolution went from an improbable... Read more >

A Turn in the South

Written by V.S. Naipaul

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 19, 1990
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72488-9 (0-679-72488-5)

Naipaul's first book about the United States provides a revealing, disturbing look at the American South -- a part of the world that remains a world unto itself.

"Astute and penetrating...brings new understanding of the subject."--C. Vann Woodward, The New York Times Book Review


"No American writer could achieve this kind... Read more >

10 Years That Shook the World
A Timeline of Events from 2001
Written by Loretta Napoleoni

Format: eBook
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-412-1 (1-60980-412-0)

To purchase a copy of this ebook, please see the “buy” links on the right-hand side.

September 11, 2001, is considered the main event, but the changes of the decade go far beyond the menace of terrorism and the war on terror. The technological revolution, the wide use of the Internet, and... Read more >

Terrorism and the Economy
How the War on Terror is Bankrupting the World
Written by Loretta Napoleoni

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-895-1 (1-58322-895-0)

Economist and best-selling author Loretta Napoleoni traces the link between the finances of the war on terror and the global economic crisis, finding connections from Dubai to London to Las Vegas that politicians and the media have at best ignored. In launching military and propaganda wars in the Middle East, America... Read more >

Barack Obama For Beginners, Updated Edition
An Essential Guide
Written by Bob Neer
Illustrated by Joe Lee

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: For Beginners
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-934389-44-7 (1-934389-44-7)

Barack Obama For Beginners: An Essential Guide is the most concise and reliable short biography available on the 44th President of the United States – from his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, education at Columbia and Harvard, work as a community organizer, writer, teacher, lawyer, and politician in Illinois, to his... Read more >

Trudeau Transformed
The Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965
Written by Max Nemni and Monique Nemni

Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
On Sale: October 17, 2011
Price: $32.99
ISBN: 978-0-7710-5125-8 (0-7710-5125-5)

This groundbreaking biography continues the story begun in Young Trudeau, taking Canada’s legendary Prime Minister from his pro-fascist youth all the way to his entry into federal politics as a crusading Liberal democrat.

When he went to Harvard in 1944, Pierre Trudeau was twenty-five, a recent graduate of the University Of Montreal... Read more >

Von Braun
Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War
Written by Michael Neufeld

Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38937-4 (0-307-38937-5)

Michael J. Neufeld, curator and space historian at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, delivers a brilliantly nuanced biography of Wernher von Braun.

Chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and one of the fathers of the U.S. space program, Wernher von Braun is a source of consistent fascination. Glorified... Read more >

Up Against the Wall Motherf**er
A Memoir of the '60s, with Notes for Next Time
Written by Osha Neumann

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-849-4 (1-58322-849-7)

They called themselves the Motherfuckers; others called them a “street gang with an analysis.” Osha Neumann’s thoughtful, funny, and honest account of his part in ‘60s counterculture is also an unflinching look at what all that rebellion of the past means today. The fast moving story follows the establishment of the... Read more >

The Huey P. Newton Reader

Written by Huey P Newton
Edited by David Hilliard and Donald Weise
Foreword by Fredrika Newton

Format: Trade Paperback, 366 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: May 7, 2002
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-467-0 (1-58322-467-X)

The first comprehensive collection of writings by the Black Panther Party founder and revolutionary icon of the black liberation era, The Huey P. Newton Reader combines now-classic texts ranging in topic from the formation of the Black Panthers, African Americans and armed self-defense, Eldridge Cleaver’s controversial expulsion from the Party, FBI... Read more >

Eisenhower
The White House Years
Written by Jim Newton

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2813-7 (0-7679-2813-X)

Newly discovered and declassified documents make for a surprising and revealing portrait of the president we thought we knew.

America’s thirty-fourth president was belittled by his critics as the babysitter-in-chief. This new look reveals how wrong they were. Dwight Eisenhower was bequeathed the atomic bomb and refused to use it. He ground... Read more >

Eisenhower
The White House Years
Written by Jim Newton

Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-52353-0 (0-385-52353-X)

If you think of our thirty-fourth president as little more than the babysitter-in-chief during the prosperous fifties, think again. Dwight Eisenhower was bequeathed an atomic bomb and was the first American president not to use it. He ground down Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism until both became, as he said, “McCarthywasm.” He... Read more >

Going After Cacciato

Written by Tim O'Brien

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: September 1, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0442-1 (0-7679-0442-7)

Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, the now classic novel of Vietnam, Going After Cacciato captures the peculiar blend of horror and hallucinatory comedy that marked the war. Reality and fantasy merge in O’Brien’s fictional account of one private’s sudden decision to lay down his rifle and begin a quixotic... Read more >

Out of Order
Stories from the History of the Supreme Court
Written by Sandra Day O'Connor

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-9392-9 (0-8129-9392-6)

“I called this book Out of Order because it reflects my goal, which is to share a different side of the Supreme Court. Most people know the Court only as it exists between bangs of the gavel, when the Court comes to order to hear arguments or give opinions. But the... Read more >

The Vietnam Reader
The Definitive Collection of Fiction and Nonfiction on the War
Edited by Stewart O'Nan

Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 20, 1998
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49118-1 (0-385-49118-2)

The Vietnam Reader is a selection of the finest and best-known art from the American war in Vietnam, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, film, still photos, and popular song lyrics. All the strongest work is here, from mainstream bestsellers to radical poetry, from Tim O'Brien to Marvin Gaye. Also included are... Read more >

Senator Mansfield
The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat
Written by Don Oberdorfer

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: October 17, 2003
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-58834-166-2 (1-58834-166-6)

A biography of one of the most powerful and dignified men ever to come to DC–Senator Mike Mansfield.

Mike Mansfield’s career as the longest serving majority leader is finally given its due in this extraordinary biography. In many respects, Mansfield’s dignity and decorum represent the high-water mark of the US Senate: he... Read more >

The Deep Dark
Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine
Written by Gregg Olsen

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-23877-1 (0-307-23877-6)

For nearly a century, Kellogg, Idaho, was home to America’s richest silver mine, Sunshine Mine. Mining there, as everywhere, was not an easy life, but regardless of the risk, there was something about being underground, the lure of hitting a deep vein of silver. The promise of good money and the... Read more >

Teaching with Voices of a People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove
Written by Gayle Olson-Raymer

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-1-58322-934-7 (1-58322-934-5)

Voices of a People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove is a symphony of our nation’s original voices, an embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent wherein our nation’s true spirit of defiance and resilience lies.

In this teaching guide, Gayle Olson-Raymer provides insight into... Read more >

Storming Caesar's Palace
How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
Written by Annelise Orleck

Format: Trade Paperback, 376 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: July 1, 2006
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-5031-6 (0-8070-5031-8)

In Storming Caesars Palace, historian Annelise Orleck tells the compelling story of how a group of welfare mothers built one of this country’s most successful antipoverty programs. Declaring “We can do it and do it better,” these women proved that poor mothers are the real experts on poverty. In 1972 they... Read more >

Billionaires & Ballot Bandits
How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps
Written by Greg Palast
Illustrated by Ted Rall
Introduction by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-478-7 (1-60980-478-3)

A close presidential election in November could well come down to contested states or even districts--an election decided by vote theft? Based on Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s investigative reporting for Rolling Stone and BBC television, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps... Read more >

The Vanishing Voter
Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty
Written by Thomas E. Patterson

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71379-8 (0-375-71379-4)

The disputed presidential election of 2000 highlighted a range of flaws in the American voting system, from ballot procedures to alleged voter intimidation to questions about the fairness of the Electoral College. But as Harvard University political scientist Thomas E. Patterson shows, one problem dwarfs all of these, a predicament that... Read more >

When Harlem Nearly Killed King
The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Written by Hugh Pearson

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-614-8 (1-58322-614-1)

When Harlem Nearly Killed King spins the tale of a little-known episode in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. how, in 1958, King was stabbed by a deranged black woman in Harlem, and then saved by Harlem Hospital’s most acclaimed African-American surgeon, using a little known and difficult procedure.

Pearson... Read more >

Jack
A Life Like No Other
Written by Geoffrey Perret

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-76125-6 (0-375-76125-X)

Jack is both the first comprehensive one-volume biography of JFK and the first account of his life based on the extensive documentary record that has finally become available, including personal diaries, taped conversations from the White House, recently declassified government documents, extensive family correspondence, and crucial interviews sealed for nearly forty... Read more >