El Monstruo

Dread and Redemption in Mexico City

By John Ross

"Monstrously entertaining and tenderhearted."
"...a brave, stirring love letter, cautionary tale and travelogue."
—Kirkus Reviews (STARRED REVIEW)

The Death and Life of American Journalism

The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again

By Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols

Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is in meltdown. In The Death and Life of American Journalism, Robert W. McChesney, an academic, and John Nichols, a journalist, who together founded the nation's leading media reform network, Free Press, investigate the crisis. They propose a bold strategy for saving journalism that looks back to how the Founding Fathers ensured free press protection with the First Amendment and provided subsidies to the burgeoning print press of the young nation.

"John Nichols and Bob McChesney are the Thomas Paine and Paul Revere of our time. We ignore them at democracy's peril." —Bill Moyers

Watch McChesney and Nichols on C-SPAN's Book TV on March 14-15.

Reckoning at Eagle Creek

The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland

By Jeff Biggers

Set in the ruins of his family's strip-mined homestead in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois, award-winning journalist and cultural historian Jeff Biggers delivers a deeply personal portrait of the largely overlooked human and environmental costs of our nation's dirty energy policy, uncovering a century of regulatory negligence and vividly describing the epic mining wars for union recognition and workplace safety and the devastating consequences of industrial strip-mining. Along the way, Biggers exposes the fallacy that lies at the heart of the Obama administration's controversial pursuit of "clean coal."

After Empire

The Birth of a Multipolar World

By Dilip Hiro

Soccernomics

Why England Loses, Why Germany And Brazil Win, And Why The U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey—And Even Iraq—Are Destined To Become The Kings Of The World's Most Popular Sport

By Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski

A Heartbeat and a Guitar

Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears

By Antonino D'Ambrosio

A Heartbeat and a Guitar tells of the collaboration of two distinct yet connected musicians–iconoclast Johnny Cash and little known folk artist Peter LaFarge–and the album they created, Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian. It also tells of the unique personal, political and cultural struggles that informed this album–especially the fight for Native people's rights–one that has influenced scores of musicians and activists. In this inimitable account, A Heartbeat and a Guitar strays out of the recording studio and into the presidential campaigns, government halls, Indian reservations, picket lines, bohemian cafes, university campuses, factory lines, civil rights marches, fish-ins and anti-war protests.

Stripping Bare the Body

Politics Violence War

By Mark Danner

Stripping Bare the Body is a book of stories telling how politics–and its handmaidens: violence and war–is practiced in the brutal worlds of Iraq, the Balkans, Haiti, the "black sites" and Washington, D.C. It shows at close hand how terrorism works and how war looks and smells and feels. As a newly installed Haitian president told Mark Danner, then on assignment for The New Yorker in riot-torn Port-au-Prince, "Violence strips bare a society's body, the better to place the stethoscope and track the life beneath the skin."

"With this vivid and deeply disturbing book, Mark Danner affirms his standing as our preeminent guide to the world's broken places, littered with the detritus of American carelessness and delusions."
–Andrew J. Bacevich, author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism

Empire of Illusion

The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

By Chris Hedges

Listen to the podcast of Hedges' October 7 talk here.

Republican Gomorrah

Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party

By Max Blumenthal

Click here to see details of his book tour. Blumenthal's book is #15 on the New York Times bestseller list.

Blackwater (paperback)

The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army

By Jeremy Scahill

On September 16, 2007, Blackwater Worldwide mercenaries opened fire in Baghdad's Nisour Square, killing 17 Iraqi civilians, among them women and children. In this fully revised and updated paperback, award-winning investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill reveals the explosive story of the company that has become the new face of the U.S. war machine.

Jeremy Scahill recently won the prestigious 2007 George Polk Book Award.