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Summer/Karl Ove Knausgaard
Big Game/Mark Leibovich
Fashion Climbing/Bill Cunningham
They Fought Alone/Charles Glass
American Prison/Shane Bauer
The Poison Squad/Deborah Blum
The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino/Michael Sokolove
Reagan/Bob Spitz
The Invisible Emperor/Mark Braude
Capitalism in America/Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge
Of Love & War/Lynsey Addario
The Last Pass/Gary Pomerantz
The Indispensables/Anthony Tommasini
The War Before the War/Andrew Delbanco
Che/Jon Lee Anderson
SU M M E R
K ARL OVE KNAUSGA ARD
isbn: 9780399563393
price: $30.00
on sale: 8/21/2018
SU M M E R
K ARL OVE KNAUSGA ARD
The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s masterful and
intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated
with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer
2 June—It is completely dark out now. It is twenty-three than in the previous three volumes, he mines with
minutes to midnight and you have already slept for four hours. new depth his difficult memories of his childhood
What you will dream of tonight, no one will ever know. Even if and fraught relationship with his own father.
you were to remember it when you wake up, you wouldn’t have Documenting his family’s life in rural Sweden and
a language in which to communicate it to us, nor do I think reflecting on a characteristically eclectic array of
that you quite understand what dreams are, I think that is still subjects—mosquitoes, barbeques, cynicism, and
undefined for you, that your thoughts haven’t grasped it yet, and skin, to name just a few—he braids the various
that it therefore lies within that strange zone where it neither threads of the previous volumes into a moving
exists nor doesn’t exist. conclusion.
At his most voluminous since My Struggle,
The conclusion to one of the most extraordinary his epic sensational series, Knausgaard writes
and original literary projects in recent years, for his daughter, striving to make ready and
Summer once again intersperses short vividly give meaning to a world at once indifferent and
descriptive essays with emotionally-raw diary achingly beautiful. In his hands, the overwhelming
entries addressed directly to Knausgaard’s newborn joys and insoluble pains of family and parenthood
daughter. Writing more expansively and, if it is come alive with uncommon feeling.
possible, even more intimately and unguardedly
K A R L OV E K N AU S G A A R D’s first novel, Out of the World, was the first ever
debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics’ Prize and his second, A Time to Every
Purpose Under Heaven, was widely acclaimed. A Death in the Family, the first of the
© Sam Barker
My Struggle cycle of novels, was awarded the prestigious Brage Award. The My
Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece wherever it appears.
B IG G A M E
M ARK LEIBOVICH
isbn: 9780399185427
price: $28.00
on sale: 9/04/2018
B IG G A M E
M ARK LEIBOVICH
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Town, an
equally merciless probing of America’s biggest cultural force, pro
football, at a moment of peak success and high anxiety.
Like millions of Americans, Mark Leibovich has spent come to be seen as “peak football”—the high point of
more of his life than he’d care to admit tuned into pro the sport’s economic success and cultural dominance,
football. Being a lifelong New England Patriots fan meant but also the moment when it all began to turn. From
growing up with a steady diet of lovable loserdom. That the owners meeting to the NFL draft to the sidelines
is until the Tom Brady/Bill Belichick era made the Pats of crucial games, he takes in the show, at the elbow of
the most ruthlessly efficient sports dynasty of the 21st everyone from Brady to Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to
century, its organization the most polarizing in the NFL, the NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell, who is cordially
and its fans the most irritating in all of Pigskin America. hated by even casual football fans to an extent that is
Leibovich kept his obsession relatively private, in the almost weird. It is an era of explosive revenue growth, as
meantime making a nice career for himself covering deluxe new stadiums spring up all over the country, but
that other playground for rich and overgrown children, also one of creeping existential fear. Football was never
American politics. Still, every now and then Leibovich thought to be easy on the body—players joke darkly that
would reach out to Tom Brady to gauge his willingness the NFL stands for “not for long” for good reason. But as
to subject himself to a profile in the New York Times the impact of concussions on brains became has become
Magazine. He figured that the chances of Brady agreeing the inescapable ear-ring in the background, it became
to this were a Hail Mary at best, but Leibovich kept trying, increasingly difficult to enjoy the simple glory of football
at least to indulge his fan-boy within. To his surprise, without the buzz-kill of its obvious toll.
Brady returned the call, in the summer of 2014. He agreed And that was before Donald Trump. In 2016, Mark
to let Mark spend time with him through the coming Leibovich’s day job caught up with him, and the NFL
season, which proved to be a fateful one for all parties. It slammed headlong into America’s culture wars. Big
included another epic Patriots Super Bowl win and, yes, Game is a journey through an epic storm, Through it all,
a scandal involving Brady—Deflategate—whose grip on Leibovich always keeps one eye cocked on Tom Brady and
sports media was as profound as its true significance was his beloved Patriots, through to the end of the 2017-1018
ridiculous. season. Pro football, this hilarious and enthralling book
So began a four-year odyssey that has taken Mark proves, may not be the sport America needs, but it is most
Leibovich deeper inside the NFL than anyone has gone definitely the sport we deserve.
before. Ultimately, this is a chronicle of what may
© Ralph Alswang Photography
M A R K L E I B OV I C H is The New York Times Magazine’s chief national correspondent, based in
Washington, D.C. He is the author of #1 New York Times-bestselling book This Town and Citizens of
the Green Room. Leibovich lives with his family in Washington, D.C.
FA S H I O N C L I M B I N G
BILL CUNNINGHAM
isbn: 9780525558705
price: $27.00
on sale: 9/04/2018
FA S H I O N C L I M B I N G
BILL CUNNINGHAM
The untold stor y of a New York City legend’s education in creativity and style
For Bill Cunningham, New York City was the land designing under his family’s name would have
of freedom, glamour, and, above all, style. Growing been a disgrace to his parents—Bill became one
up in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston, secretly of the era’s most outlandish and celebrated hat
trying on his sister’s dresses and spending his designers, catering to movie stars, heiresses, and
evenings after school in the city’s chicest boutiques, artists alike. Bill’s mission was to bring happiness
Bill dreamed of a life dedicated to fashion. But his to the world by making women an inspiration to
desires were a source of shame for his family, and themselves and everyone who saw them. These
after dropping out of Harvard, he had to fight were halcyon days when fashion was all he ate and
them tooth-and-nail to pursue his love. drank. When he was broke and hungry he’d stroll
When he arrived in New York, he revelled past the store windows on Fifth Avenue and feed
in people-watching. He spent his nights at opera himself on beautiful things.
openings and gate-crashing extravagant balls, Fashion Climbing is the story of a young man
where he would take note of the styles, new and striving to be the person he was born to be: a true
old, watching how the gowns moved, how the original. But although he was one of the city’s
jewels hung, how the hair laid on each head. This most recognized and treasured figures, Bill was also
was his education, and the birth of the democractic one of its most guarded. Written with his infectious
and exuberant taste that he came to be famous for joy and one-of-a-kind voice, this memoir was
as a photographer for The New York Times. After polished, neatly typewritten, and safely stored
two style mavens—the women who eventually away in his lifetime. He held off on sharing it—and
gave Jackie Kennedy her famous pink Chanel himself—until his passing. Between these covers,
suit—took Bill under their wing, his creativity is an education in style, an effervescent tale of a
thrived and he made a name for himself as a bohemian world as it once was, and a final gift to
designer. Taking on the alias William J.—because the readers of one of New York’s great characters.
Iconic New York Times photographer BILL CUNNINGHAM was the creative
force behind the columns On the Street and Evening Hours. Cunningham
dropped out of Harvard and moved to New York City at 19, eventually starting
his own hat design business under the name “William J.” His designs were
featured in Vogue, The New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, and Jet. While covering
fashion for publications including Women’s Wear Daily and The Chicago Tribune,
he took up photography, which led to him becoming a regular contributor
© Anthony Mack
to the Times in the late 70s. Cunningham was the subject of the documentary
“Bill Cunningham, New York.” His contributions to New York City were
recognized in 2009 when he was designated a “living landmark.”
T H E Y FOUGH T A LON E
CHARLES GL ASS
isbn: 9781594206177
price: $28.00
on sale:9/11/2018T H E Y FOUGH T A LON E
CHARLES GL ASS
From the bestselling author of Americans in Paris and
The Deserters, the untold story of Britain’s Special Operations Executive,
one of World War II’s most important secret fighting forces
As far as the public knew, Britain’s Special Opera- at Gestapo headquarters and forced labor camps.
tions Executive did not exist. After the defeat of the Feats of boldness and bravado were many, but ap-
French Army, Prime Minister Winston Churchill palling scandals, including George’s supposed tor-
created the top-secret espionage operation to “set ture and execution of Nazis prisoners, and John’s
Europe ablaze,” and the SOE remained below the alleged collaboration with his German captors,
radar until the end of World War II. The agents in- overshadowed them all. At the war’s end, Brit-
filtrated Nazi-occupied France, parachuting behind ain, France, and the United States awarded both
enemy lines and hiding in plain sight, quietly but brothers medals for heroism, and George would
forcefully recruiting, training, and arming the become one of only three among thousands of
local French résistants willing to aid in sabotage SOE operatives to achieve the rank of colonel. Yet,
of the German war machine. The SOE would not their battle honors did little to allay post-war al-
only change the course of the war, but the very legations against them, and when they returned to
nature of combat itself. Of the many brave men England, their government accused both brothers
and women conscripted, two Anglo-American of war crimes.
recruits, the Starr brothers, stood out to become Here, for the first time, is the story of one of the
legendary figures to the guerillas, assassins, and last secret organizations of World War II, and of two
saboteurs they led. brothers whose ordeals during and after the war
While both brothers were sent across the challenged the accepted myths of Britain’s wartime
channel to organize against the Germans, their resistance in occupied France. Written with com-
fates in war could hardly have been more differ- plete and unrivaled access to only recently declas-
ent. Captain George Starr commanded networks sified documents from Britain’s SOE, family letters,
of résistants in southwest France, cutting German diaries, and court records, along with interviews
communications, destroying weapons factories, from surviving wartime Resistance fighters, They
and delaying the arrival of Nazi troops to Nor- Fought Alone is a real-life thriller. Renowned jour-
mandy by seventeen days after D-Day. Younger nalist and war correspondent Charles Glass exposes
brother Lieutenant John Starr laid groundwork for a dramatic tale of spies, sabotage, and the daring
resistance in the Burgundy countryside until he men and women who risked everything to change
was betrayed, captured, tortured and imprisoned the course of World War II.
CHARLES GLASS was the Chief Middle East Correspondent for ABC News from
1983 to 1993 and has covered wars in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. His
writings appear in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of
© George Glass
Books, The Independent, and The Spectator. He is the author of Tribes with Flags, The Tribes
Triumphant, Money for Old Rope, The Northern Front, and Americans in Paris: Life and Death.A M E R IC A N PR I S O N
SHANE BAUER
isbn: 9780735223585
price: $28.00
on sale: 9/18/2018A M E R IC A N PR I S O N
SHANE BAUER
A harrowing and groundbreaking account of going
undercover as a guard in a private prison in Louisiana,
springing from the extraordinar y National Magazine Award-
winning Mother Jones cover stor y that shocked a nation
In 2015, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny.
work as an entry-level prison guard at a private Private prisons are not incentivized to tend to the
prison in Winn, Louisiana. He used his real name, health of their inmates, or to feed them well, or
and although it was apparent to all who could use to attract and retain a highly-trained prison staff.
Google that he was an award-winning investigative The rampant dysfunction of the prison guards
journalist with a history of immersive inside is at times a close second to the dysfunction of
stories, no meaningful background check was done the prisons. To his shame, Bauer finds himself
on him. 120 days later, after the prison cottoned becoming crueler and more aggressive the longer
to what he was up to, he was summarily fired. he works in the prison, and he is far from alone.
His Mother Jones cover story exploded in summer Prison is a brutalizing experience for all involved.
2016; it became that magazine’s most read story in Woven into the narrative is a ground-breaking
history. In response, the Obama administration history of the private prison system in America,
announced that federal prisoners would no longer from its origins in the aftermath of the Civil War.
be housed in private prisons. Hillary Clinton Private prisons sprang up in the South as part of
announced her full support. One of the first moves a systemic effort to keep the African-American
President Trump made was to reverse that order; labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery. The
no industry’s stock price has been more positively echoes of these shameful origins are still with us
affected by Trump’s victory thanthe private prison in the management of today’s largest companies.
sector. A powerful indictment of the private
In American Prison, Shane Bauer tells the full, prison system, and of the phenomenon of mass
horrific story of his own experiences, and those incarceration that drives it, American Prison is a
of the prisoners and other guards around him, in powerful human document about the true face of
the private prison system, a sector that has been justice in America.
SHANE BAUER is a senior reporter for Mother Jones and a recipient of the National
Magazine Award for Best Reporting. His writing has appeared in The Nation, Salon, The Los
Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the Christian Science Monitor. He’s received
the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism, the John Jay Award for Criminal Justice
Reporting, and the Media for a Just Society Award. Bauer is the co-author, along with
© Mia Nakano
Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal, of a memoir, A Sliver of Light, which details his time
spent as a prisoner in Iran.T H E P O I S O N S Q UA D
DEBOR AH BLUM
isbn: 9781594205149
price:
on sale: 9/25/2018T H E P O I S O N S Q UA D
DEBOR AH BLUM
From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling
author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true stor y of how food
was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the
inimitable Dr. Har vey Washington Wiley, who fought for change
By the end of nineteenth century, food was even conducting shocking human tests on groups
dangerous. Lethal, even. “Milk” might contain of young men who came to be known as, “The
formaldehyde, most often used to embalm corpses. Poison Squad.”
Decaying meat was preserved with both salicylic Over the next thirty years, a titanic struggle
acid, a pharmaceutical chemical, and borax, a took place, with the courageous and fascinating
compound first identified as a cleaning product. Dr. Wiley campaigning indefatigably for food safety
This was not by accident; food manufacturers and consumer protection. Together with a gallant
had rushed to embrace the rise of industrial cast, including the muckraking reporter Upton
chemistry, and were knowingly selling harmful Sinclair, whose fiction revealed the horrific truth
products. Unchecked by government regulation, about the Chicago stockyards; Fannie Farmer, then
basic safety, or even labelling requirements, they the most famous cookbook author in the country;
put profit before the health of their customers. and Henry J. Heinz, one of the few food producers
By some estimates, in New York City alone, who actively advocated for pure food, Dr. Wiley
thousands of children were killed by “embalmed changed history. When the landmark 1906 Food
milk” every year. Citizens—activists, journalists, and Drug Act was finally passed, it was known
scientists, and women’s groups—began agitating across the land, as “Dr. Wiley’s Law.”
for change. But even as protective measures were Blum brings to life this timeless and hugely
enacted in Europe, American corporations blocked satisfying “David and Goliath” tale with righteous
even modest regulations. Then, in 1883, Dr. Harvey verve and style, driving home the moral imperative
Washington Wiley, a chemistry professor from of confronting corporate greed and government
Purdue University, was named chief chemist of corruption with a bracing clarity, which speaks
the agriculture department, and the agency began resoundingly to the enormous social and political
methodically investigating food and drink fraud, challenges we face today.
DEBORAH BLUM is director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT. In 1992,
she won the Pulitzer Prize for a series on primate research, which she turned into a book,
The Monkey Wars. Her other books include The Poisoner’s Handbook, Ghost Hunters , Love at Goon
Park, and Sex on the Brain. She has written for publications including The New York Times,
© Mark Bennington
Wired, Time, Discover, Mother Jones, The Guardian and The Boston Globe. Blum is a past president
of the National Association of Science Writers, a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, and a lifetime associate of the National Academy of Sciences.T H E L A ST T E M P T A T I O N
O F R IC K PI T I N O
M I CH A EL S O KO LOVE
isbn: 9780399563270
price: $28.00
on sale: 9/25/2018T H E L A ST T E M P T A T I O N
O F R IC K PI T I N O
M I CH A EL S O KO LOVE
From acclaimed New York Times Magazine author
Michael Sokolove, the astonishing inside story of the epic
corruption scandal that has rocked the NCAA and exposed
the rot and hypocrisy at the heart of big-time college sports.
In late August 2017, the University of Louisville athletic the context of the much wider problem, the farce of
director, who drew an annual compensation package of amateurism in bigtime college sports. In a world in which
over $5 million from the commonwealth of Kentucky, even assistant coaches can make high-six and seven-
one of the poorest states in the nation, threw a lavish figure salaries, as long as they keep the “elite” athletes
party to celebrate an extension of his school’s sponsorship coming in, shoe deals can reach into the nine figures,
deal with Adidas: $160 million for another 10 years. The and everyone is getting rich but the players, can it be
invitees were city’s gentry—horse breeders, bourbon surprising that unscrupulous parties would pay athletes,
distillers, partners at big law firms, the state’s governor, creating in effect a black market in young men, a veritable
Matt Bevin, and its most powerful politician, Senate underground railroad of talent?
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. One month later, But a few bad apples are one thing. In The Last
the FBI revealed that it had reached the endgame of Temptation of Rick Pitino, Michael Sokolove shows an
a sprawling investigation of large-scale corruption elaborate, systematic machine, involving millions of
involving Adidas, Louisville and a host of other colleges, dollars in illicit payments and connecting at least one of
in which large payments were laundered from Adidas the largest apparel companies in the world with schools
through a network of coaches and fixers to athletes and across the country. The Louisville-Adidas scandal has
their families to induce them to go to Adidas-branded revealed a web of conspiracy whose scope has shaken
college programs. In short order, Hall of Fame basketball big-time college sports to its core, delivering a devastating
coach Rick Pitino (salary: $8 million) and athletic director blow to the fantasy of amateurism, of “scholar athletes.”
Tom Jurich were fired, and fear and trembling swept A Shakespearean drama of greed and desperation
through the world of bigtime college athletics. Because involving some of the biggest characters in the arena
there is another shoe, as it were, and it will fall. of sports, The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino will be the
In The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino , Michael Sokolove definitive chronicle of this scandal and its broader echoes.
lifts the rug on the Louisville scandal and places it in
M I C H A E L S O K O L OV E is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine,
© Michael Williamson
as well as the author of four previous books, Drama High, The Ticket Out, Hustle, and
Warrior Girls.R E AG A N
BOB SPITZ
isbn: 9781594205316
price: $35.00
10/02/2018R E AG A N
BOB SPITZ
From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a full
and rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what
made Ronald Reagan both so beloved and so transformational.
More than five years in the making, based on hundreds successful run as California governor, and ultimately, of
of interviews and access to previously unavailable course, his iconic presidency, filled with storm and stress
documents, and infused with irresistible storytelling but climaxing with his peace talks with the Soviet Union
charm, Bob Spitz’s Reagan stands fair to be the first truly that would serve as his greatest legacy. It is filled with
post-partisan biography of our 40th President, and thus a fresh assessments and shrewd judgments, and doesn’t
balm for our own bitterly divided times. flinch from a full reckoning with the man’s strengths and
It is the quintessential American triumph, brought limitations. This is no hagiography: Reagan was never a
to life with cinematic vividness: a young man is born brilliant student, of anything, and his disinterest in hard-
into poverty and raised in a series of flyspeck towns in nosed political scheming, while admirable, meant that
the Midwest by a pious mother and a reckless, alcoholic, this side of things was left to the other people in his orbit,
largely absent father. Severely near-sighted, the boy lives not least his wife Nancy; sometimes this delegation could
in his own world, a world of the popular books of the lead to chaos, and worse. But what emerges as a powerful
day, and finds his first brush with popularity, even fame, signal through all the noise is an honest inherent
as a young lifeguard. Thanks to his first great love, he sweetness, a gentleness of nature and willingness to see
imagines a way out, and makes the extraordinary leap the good in people and in this country, that proved to be
to go to college, a modest school by national standards, a tonic for America in his time, and still is in ours. It was
but an audacious presumption in the context of his famously said that FDR had a first-rate disposition and a
family’s station. From there, the path is only very dimly second-rate intellect. Perhaps it is no accident that only
lit, but it leads him, thanks to his great charm and greater FDR had as high a public approval rating leaving office
luck, to a solid career as a radio sportscaster, and then, as Reagan did, or that in the years since Reagan has been
astonishingly, fatefully, to Hollywood. And the rest, as closing in on FDR on rankings of Presidential greatness.
they say, is history. Written with love and irony, which in a great biography
Bob Spitz’s Reagan is an absorbing, richly detailed, is arguably the same thing, Bob Spitz’s masterpiece will
even revelatory chronicle of the full arc of Ronald give no comfort to partisans at either extreme; for the
Reagan’s epic life—giving full weight to the Hollywood rest of us, it is cause for celebration.
years, his transition to politics and rocky but ultimately
BOB SPITZ is a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post,
Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Life. In his career as a music-business figure, he has represented the
careers of everyone from the Partridge Family to Bruce Springsteen and Elton John. He is the
© Elena Seibert
author of seven books, including The Beatles, his definitive bestselling biography of the phenomenal
supergroup; Barefoot in Babylon, the eye-opening documentary of the Woodstock Music Festival;
and Dearie, his bestselling biography of Julia Child.T H E I N V I SI B L E E M PE RO R
M A RK B R AU D E
isbn: 9780735222601
price: $28.00
10/9/2018T H E I N V I SI B L E E M PE RO R
M A RK B R AU D E
Part forensic investigation, part dramatic jailbreak adventure,
Mark Braude’s The Invisible Emperor is a gripping narrative
history of Napoleon Bonaparte’s ten-month exile on the
Mediterranean island of Elba.
In 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated. Having escape, offering sharp new insight into one of
overseen an empire spanning half the European the less well-known moments in Napoleon’s life,
continent and governed the lives of some seventy as well as portraying a terrific cast of secondary
million people, he suddenly found himself exiled characters, including his official British minder on
to Elba. This was his punishment, and would have Elba, Neil Campbell, a tragically noble character
been the end of him, if Europe’s rulers had had who, having let “Boney” get free, ends in disgrace.
their way. Naturally, the man who ten years earlier This is a surprising new perspective on one of
had pronounced himself the Emperor of France history’s most consequential figures, which both
would not stand for that. In no time, Napoleon subverts and celebrates his customary myth. By
imposed his preternatural charisma and historic putting this sliver of Napoleon’s life under the
ambition on both his captors and the very island microscope, Braude depicts him both in all his
itself, plotting his return to France and to power. glory and in hubris: vanquished, fallible, and,
Merely ten months later, with just of over a yet, irrepressible. Indeed this is not just a riveting
thousand supporters, he sailed to France, marched story and highly original biographical study, but
on Paris, and easily retook the Tuileries Palace. Not also an interrogation of the very idea of both
long after that, tens of thousands people would die exile and return, a timeless examination of how
fighting both for and against him at Waterloo. preposterous, quixotic, and grandiose ideas can
Braude dramatizes in granular detail and with suddenly leap from the imagination and into
novelistic relish this enthralling and improbable reality.
MARK BRAUDE writes for The Globe and Mail, The Los Angeles Times, New Republic,
and The Daily Beast. His first book, Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and
© Laura Marie Braude
Spectacle was published 2016. He is the recipient of a 2017 Public Scholar Grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities. He has been a lecturer and postdoctoral
research fellow at Stanford University, and lives in Vancouver with his wife.C A PI T A L I S M I N A M E R IC A
A L A N G R E E N S PA N & A D R I A N W O O L D R I D G E
isbn: 9780735222441
price: $35.00
on sale: 10/16/2018C A PI T A L I S M I N A M E R IC A
A L A N G R E E N S PA N & A D R I A N W O O L D R I D G E
From the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economist
writer and historian, the full, epic story of America’s evolution from a
small patchwork of threadbare colonies to the most powerful engine of
wealth and innovation the world has ever seen.
From even the start of his fabled career, Alan Greenspan mood swings in its openness to global trade and its
was duly famous for his deep understanding of even the impact. But to read Capitalism in America is above all to
most arcane corners of the American economy, and be stirred deeply by the extraordinary productive energies
his restless curiosity to know even more. To the extent unleashed by millions of ordinary Americans that have
possible, he has made a science of understanding how the driven this country to unprecedented heights of power
US economy works almost as a living organism—how and prosperity.
it grows and changes, surges and stalls. He has made a At heart, the authors argue, America’s genius
particular study of the question of productivity growth, has been its unique tolerance for the effects of creative
at the heart of which is the riddle of innovation. Where destruction, the ceaseless churn of the old giving way to
does innovation come from, and how does it spread the new, driven by new people and new ideas. Often messy
through a society? And why do some eras see the fruits and painful, creative destruction has also lifted almost all
of innovation spread more democratically, and others, Americans to standards of living unimaginable to even
including our own, see the opposite? the wealthiest citizens of the world a few generations
In Capitalism in America, Greenspan distills a lifetime past. A sense of justice and human decency demands
of grappling with these questions into a thrilling and that those who bear the brunt of the pain of change be
profound master reckoning with the decisive drivers protected, but America has always accepted more pain
of the US economy over the course of its history. In for more gain, and its vaunted rise cannot otherwise be
partnership with the celebrated Economist journalist understood, or its challenges faced, without recognizing
and historian Adrian Wooldridge, he unfolds a tale this legacy. For now, in our time, productivity growth has
involving vast landscapes, titanic figures, triumphant stalled again, stirring up the populist furies. There’s no
breakthroughs, enlightenment ideals as well as terrible better moment to apply the lessons of history to the most
moral failings. Every crucial debate is here—from the pressing question we face, that of whether the United
role of slavery in the antebellum Southern economy to States will preserve its preeminence, or see its leadership
the real impact of FDR’s New Deal to America’s violent pass to other, inevitably less democratic powers.
ALAN GREENSPAN was born in 1926 and reared in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New
York City. After studying the clarinet at Juilliard and working as a professional musician, he earned
his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in economics from New York University. From 1974 to 1977, he served as
chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ford. In 1987, President Reagan appointed
him chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, a position he held until his retirement in 2006. He is the
author of The New York Times bestsellers The Map and the Territory and The Age of Turbulence.
ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE is The Economist’s political editor and writes the Bagehot column. With John Micklethwait
he is the author of six previous books: The Fourth Revolution, The Witch Doctors, A Future Perfect, The Company, The Right
Nation, and God is Back.O F L OV E & WA R
LY N S E Y A D D A R I O
isbn: 9780525560029
price: $40.00
on sale: 10/23/2018O F L OV E & WA R
LY N S E Y A D D A R I O
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and New York Times
bestselling author, a stunning and personally curated selection of
her work across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa
Lynsey Addario has captured audiences with her of sub-Saharan Africa, and the daily reality of
disarming and compelling photographs and her women in the Middle East, as well as much more.
uncanny ability to personalize even the most Featuring revelatory essays from esteemed writers,
remote corners of our world. Here, the Pulitzer such as Dexter Filkins and Suzy Hansen, and public
Prize-winning photojournalist returns with a figures, like Christy Turlington, Of Love & War is an
stunning collection of more than two hundred utterly compelling and singular statement about
of her photographs from across the Middle the world, and all its inescapable chaos and conflict,
East, South Asia, and Africa. In her distinctively from one of the most brilliant and influential
powerful dramatic style, Addario documents life journalists working today in any medium.
in Afghanistan under the Taliban, the stark truth
LY N S E Y A D D A R I O is an American photojournalist whose work appears
regularly in The New York Times, National Geographic, and Time Magazine. She has
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covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Darfur, and the Congo, and has
received numerous awards, including the MacArthur Genius Grant and the Pulitzer
Prize in International Reporting.T H E L A ST PA S S
GARY POMER ANTZ
isbn: 9780735223615
price: $28.00
on sale: 10/23/2018T H E L A ST PA S S
GARY POMER ANTZ
From an acclaimed bestselling historian, a poignant and revelatory
narrative about the greatest dynasty in American professional sports
history, and an intimate story of race, mortality, and regret
About to turn ninety, Bob Cousy, the Hall of Fame escaped to the New York City playgrounds where his
Boston Celtic captain who led the team to its first six creativity as a dribbler and passer made him an urban
championships on an unparalleled run, has much to look legend soon known as the Houdini of the Hardwood. The
back on in peace and contentment. Yet it is heart-rending legend grew at Holy Cross, and then nationally in 1950,
that for Cousy, a widower living alone with memories his first year as a Celtic: he would be an all-star all 13 of
and echoes in a big house in Worcester, MA, the last piece his NBA seasons.
of unfinished business—the last pass he hopes to throw Even as Cousy’s on-court imagination and daring
- is to close the circle with his great partner on those brought new attention to the pro game, the Celtics
Celtic teams, fellow Hall of Famer Bill Russell, now 83. struggled until Coach Red Auerbach landed Russell in
Ironic because these teammates were basketball’s Ruth 1956. He fit in with Cooz beautifully. Russell was a track
and Gehrig, and because Cooz, as everyone called him, star in college with explosive speed and leaping ability;
was famously ahead of his time as an NBA player in terms he could run with Cooz on the break, and became a
of race and civil rights. revolutionary enforcer as a shot blocker and rebounder.
But as the decades passed, Cousy blamed himself The Celtics dynasty was born.
for not having done enough, for not having understood To Boston’s white sportswriters it was Cousy’s team,
the depth of prejudice that Russell faced as an African- not Russell’s. As the civil rights movement took flight,
American star in a city with a fraught history regarding Russell became more publicly involved in it, which
race. Cousy wishes he had defended Russell publicly, and involved some ugly repercussions. The Last Pass situates
that he had told him privately that he had his back. At the Celtics dynasty against the full dramatic canvas of
this late hour, how can he make amends? American life in the 50’s and 60’s, with Cousy and Russell
At the heart of Gary Pomerantz’s wonderful book in the foreground. It is an enthralling portrait of the heart
lies the relationship between these two men. It is Bob of this legendary team that throws open a window onto
Cousy’s last testament, a full reckoning with a complex the wider world at a time of convulsive social change.
and fascinating life. As a sports story alone it has few And it is a book about the legacy of a life: what matters to
parallels: An immigrant ghetto kid whose French parents us in the end, long after the arena lights have been turned
suffered a dysfunctional marriage, the young Cousy off and we are alone with our memories.
G A RY P O M E R A N T Z spent eighteen years as a celebrated daily journalist and sportswriter.
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He has written several books on topics ranging from sports to history to civil rights, beginning
with Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, followed by Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds; WILT, 1962, a
narrative of basketball star Wilt Chamberlain’s legendary 100-point game; The Devil’s Tickets; and
Their Life’s Work, on the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers. Pomerantz has taught reporting at Stanford for
the past ten years.T H E I N D I SPE N S A B L E S
ANTH O NY TOM M ASINI
isbn: 9781594205934
price: $30.00
on sale: 11/6/2018T H E I N D I SPE N S A B L E S
ANTH O NY TOM M ASINI
An investigation of the question of greatness in Western classical
music in which the Chief Classical Music Critic of the New York Times
makes the case for his own canon of composers
In 2011 the New York Times Chief Classical Music Classical music lovers have always cared about
critic Anthony Tommasini wrote a wildly popular greatness; but what does it mean to be canonical
series called “The Top Ten Composers.” Over now? Who gets to say? And do we have enough
the course of a few weeks, Tommasini somewhat perspective on the 20th century to even begin
cheekily engaged his readers to determine the all- assessing it?
time great composers. The Indispensables is Tommasini’s argument
They wrestled with questions of criteria. What for the composers he finds essential and why. To
made the greatest the greatest? Would a composer’s make his case, he draws on elements of biography,
popularity factor in? Should influence matter? historical background, the anxiety of influence,
What about someone whose range was narrow? the composer’s relationships with colleagues, and
Chopin was a staggering genius who wrote almost shifting attitudes toward a composer’s work over
exclusively for the piano. And what do you do with time.
opera? As he argues for his particular pantheon,
Tommasini had hit a nerve, but he’d only just Tommasini also provides a masterclass in what to
begun. Now, he makes the case for his own canon listen for and how to understand what music does
of indispensable composers—and what greatness to us. If Alex Ross’ The Rest Is Noise used music to
really means in classical music. tell a history, Tommasini here is using history to
explain music.
A N T H O N Y TO M M A S I N I is the chief classical music critic for the New York Times.
He graduated from Yale University, and later earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts from
Boston University. He is the author of three books, including a biography of the composer
and critic Virgil Thomson. As a pianist, he recorded two Northeastern Records compact
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discs of music by Thomson, both funded through grants he was awarded by the National
Endowment for the Arts.T H E WA R B E F O R E T H E WA R
ANTHONY DELBANCO
isbn: 9781594204050
price: $28.00
11/06/2018T H E WA R B E F O R E T H E WA R
ANTHONY DELBANCO
A damning account of how the battles over the
status of fugitive slaves, from the Constitution to the
Fugitive Slave Law, drove the nation to Civil War.
In the early nineteenth century, many people question of property. The law pretended that the
were sure that America could not possibly last. It great question of the age was whose responsibility
was too big to be ruled by a central government. it was to return an escaped person to bondage.
Its politics were chaotic. It was held together by By the spring of 1850, as abolitionist voices grew
a piece of paper signed by semi-sovereign states. louder and Southerners grew more insistent about
And it was really two nations—one slave, one free. the return of their human property, the collapse
The War Before the War begins with the of the U.S. appeared inevitable. The three elders
Founders, both to tell the long and hideous story of the Senate—Calhoun, Clay, and Webster—
of slavery and to examine the evolving American began work on a compromise to hold the nation
conscience. Over the first 75 years of our nation’s together. This act of appeasement was meant to be
history, citizens of the North slowly came to a remedy, but it inflamed the minds and hearts of
understand the moral horror of slavery as stories all Americans.
from fugitive slaves, chief among them Frederick Slavery was always the noose around the
Douglass, made that reality inescapable. nation, and the fugitive slave question was the final
Yet for many antebellum Americans the whole tightening that allows us to see the whole history
issue of slavery still came down to a question of law of the country—what brought us to war and what
and order. The law pretended that slavery was a remained after war.
ANDREW DELBANCO is the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies
at Columbia and the author of College, Melville, The Death of Satan, Required Reading, The
Real American Dream, and The Puritan Ordeal, among other books. Professor Delbanco’s
essays appear regularly in The New York Review of Books and other journals. In 2001, he was
named by Time Magazine as “America’s Best Social Critic” and elected to the American
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Academy of Arts and Sciences. President Barack Obama presented Professor Delbanco
with the National Humanities Medal in 2012.CHE
JON LEE ANDERSON
isbn: 9780735221772
price: $35.00
on sale: 11/13/2018CHE
JON LEE ANDERSON
The graphic novel adapation of the groundbreaking
and definitive biography of Che Guevara
Che Guevara’s legend is unmatched in the modern asthmatic to the battlefields of the Cuban
world. Since his assassination in 1967 at the age revolution, from his place of power alongside
of thirty-nine, the Argentine revolutionary has Castro, to his disastrous sojourn in the Congo,
become an internationally recognized icon, and his violent end in Bolivia. Through renowned
as revered as he is controversial. As a Marxist Mexican artist José Hernández’s drawings we feel
ideologue who sought to end global inequality the bullets wing past the head of the young rebel in
by bringing down the American capitalist Cuba, we smell the thick smoke of Castro’s cigars,
empire through armed guerrilla warfare, Che and scrutinize the face of the weary guerrilla as he’s
has few rivals in the Cold War era as an apostle of called “Comandante” for the first time.
revolutionary change. In Che: A Revolutionary Life, With astonishing precision, color, and
Jon Lee Anderson and José Hernández present the drama, Anderson and Hernández’s Che makes
man behind the myth, creating a complex and us a witness to the revolution life and times of
human portrait of this passionate idealist. Che Guevara. Anderson’s meticulous research
Adapted from Jon Lee Anderson’s definitive and unprecedented access and Hernández’s vivid
masterwork, Che vividly transports us from and emotionally gripping artwork resurrect this
young Ernesto’s medical school days as a sensitive mythic figure for a new generation of readers.
JON LEE ANDERSON is the author of The Fall of Baghdad, Guerillas,The Lion’s Grave, and Che Guevara:
A Revolutionary Life. His reporting led to the discovery of Che’s skeletal remains thirty years after their
secret burial in Bolivia. He is a New Yorker staff writer, and has reported frequently from Latin America
and from war zones around the world. Anderson has written profiles of Augusto Pinochet, Fidel Castro,
Hugo Chavez, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He is at work on a book about Fidel Castro and modern Cuba.You can also read
