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SPRING 2022
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Contents
BY TITLE BY AUTHOR
37 Words 5 Bell, Janet Dewart 4
Demolition Agenda 24 Boschert, Sherry 5
Except for Palestine 16 Carbado, Devon W. 7
Going Big 10–11 Conniff, Ruth 22–23
Holding Together 12 Easton, Matt 15
Hollywood in China 17 Flowers, Catherine Coleman 6
Inside U.S.A. 2 Gunther, John 2
Milked 22–23 Herman, Sarah Mei 20–21
No More Police 18–19 Hill, Marc Lamont 16
Poison Ivy 25 The House Impeachment Managers 3
Prosecution of an Insurrection 3 Jamail, Dahr 13
Race, Rights, and Redemption 4 Kaba, Mariame 18–19
Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues 26 Kuttner, Robert 10–11
Slaves for Peanuts 14 Lewis, Jori 14
Solace 20–21 Mandery, Evan 25
Still Doing Life 8–9 McGarity, Thomas O. 24
Truth Has a Power of Its Own 27 Morris, Monique W. 26
Unreasonable 7 Plitnick, Mitchell 16
Waste 6 Raman, Sushma 12
We Are the Middle of Forever 13 Risse, Mathias 12
We Have Tired of Violence 15 Ritchie, Andrea J. 18–19
Rushworth, Stan 13
Shattuck, John 12
Southerland, Vincent M. 4
Suarez, Ray 27
Toews, Barb 8–9
Zehr, Howard 8–9
Zhu, Ying 17
Zinn, Howard 27
BACKLIST 28
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 29–31
FOREIGN RIGHTS 32
Inside U.S.A.
JOHN GUNTHER
WITH A FOREWORD BY ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER JR.
P A P E R BA CK N EWLY AVAI LABLE, A SEVENTY-FIF TH AN N IVE RSARY E DITIO N O F J O H N GU N TH E R’ S
CL A S S IC— AN D TIMELESS—PORTRAI T OF AM ERI C A
Praise for Inside U.S.A.: [Gunther] was a reporter—probably the best America ever had.
When I was writing Master of the He came, he saw, he wrote.
Senate, I had [Inside U.S.A.] on —ROBERT GOTTLIEB, THE NEW YORK TIMES
my desk next to my typewriter,
and whenever I needed to check John Gunther’s Inside series were among the most popular books of reportage of the
on someone or something, all 1930s and 1940s. For Inside U.S.A., his magnum opus, Gunther set out from California
I had to do was open it up.
and visited every state in the country, offering frank, lucid, and humorous observa-
—ROBERT CARO
tions along the way in what legendary editor, and publisher, Robert Gottlieb, writing
[V]ivid and acute. . . . an aston- in the New York Times, calls Gunther’s “fluent, personal, casual, snappy” voice.
ishing tour de force. It presents
Gunther’s insights on race, labor, the impact of massive New Deal public works
a shrewd, fast-moving, sparkling
panorama of the United States at projects, rural life, urbanization, and much more yield fascinating insight into life
this historic moment of apparent in a postwar America that had vaulted into the status of the world’s preeminent
triumph. superpower. Here we are introduced to quintessential American characters such
—ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER JR., THE ATLANTIC as three-time New Jersey governor A. Harry Moore, who opposes Social Security
A Whitmanesque snapshot. on the basis that “it takes romance out of old age.” Readers also encounter a series
—MIKE DAVIS, IN CITY OF QUARTZ of “eye-opening drinks” in Montana and learn that “Los Angeles is Iowa with palms.”
It is still, all these years later, a book that is hard to put down.
Now back in stock
This seventy-fifth-anniversary edition of Inside U.S.A. provides an invaluable
Paperback, 978-1-56584-358-5 picture of America as it was and is both a delight to read and filled with insights that
E-book, 978-1-62097-737-8
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American History
John Gunther (1901–1970) was an American journalist and the author of many books,
including the acclaimed Inside Asia, Inside Latin America, Inside Europe, Inside U.S.A.,
and Death Be Not Proud.
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Prosecution of an
Insurrection
The Complete Trial Transcript of the Second
Impeachment of Donald Trump
THE HOUSE IMPEACHMENT MANAGERS
P A P E R BA CK OR IGINAL THE COM PLETE RI VETI N G TRAN SC RIP T O F TH E H ISTO RIC C ASE AGAIN ST TH E
P R E S I DEN T FOR IG NI TI NG THE JANUARY 6 SI EG E O F TH E C AP ITO L
If that’s not ground for conviction, if that’s not a high crime
and misdemeanor against the republic in the United States of
America, then nothing is.
—REP. JAMIE RASKIN, FEBRUARY 13, 2021
“Stop the steal.” “The inciter in chief.” “The January exception.” “Fight like hell.”
Presidential Misconduct:
“The Framers’ worst nightmare.” “Our President wants us here.” “Is this America?” From George Washington to Today
“President Trump may not know a lot about the framers, but they certainly knew a lot James M. Banner, Jr.
Hardcover, $29.99, 978-1-620-975-497
about him.”
The second impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump, following the norm-
shattering attempt by his followers to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, seared
a new lexicon into our collective consciousness and marked a watershed moment in
American history. The case, presented to the Senate by Impeachment Managers from
the House, marked a bravura performance by members of Congress who were them-
selves the targets of the rioters incited by the President only days earlier. The Ferguson Report: Department of Justice
Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department
Including the full text of the arguments made over four days by the nine House United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights
Division
Representatives led by Representative Jamie Raskin, as well as the full text of Paperback, $10.00, 978-1-620-971-604
Trump’s defense—as well as charts and graphs entered as evidence and stills from
the videos presented—Prosecution of an Insurrection preserves for posterity an epi- Recently published
sode that ranks with the McCarthy hearings, Watergate, and the Iran/Contra investi- Paperback, 978-1-62097-715-6
Ebook, 978-1-62097-723-1
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Current Affairs & Politics
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Race, Rights, and
Redemption
The Derrick Bell Lectures on the Law
and Critical Race Theory
EDITED BY JANET DEWART BELL AND
VINCENT M. SOUTHERLAND
NO W I N PA PER BACK LEADI NG LEGAL LI GHTS WE IGH IN O N KEY ISSU ES O F RAC E AN D TH E L AW —
CO L L E CTED IN H ON O R OF ONE OF THE ORI GI NATO RS O F C RITIC AL RAC E TH EO RY
Contributors include: Penetrating essays on race and social stratification within
policing and the law, in honor of pioneering scholar Derrick Bell.
Michelle Alexander —KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW)
Derrick Bell
Paul Butler
Devon Carbado When Derrick Bell, one of the originators of critical race theory, turned sixty-five,
Richard Delgado his wife founded a lecture series with leading scholars, including leading critical
Annette Gordon-Reed race theorists, many of them Bell’s former students. Now these lectures, given over
Lani Guinier the course of twenty-five years, are collected for the first time in a volume Library
Ian Haney López Journal calls “potent” and Kirkus, in a starred review, says “powerfully acknowledge
Kenneth W. Mack
the persistence of structural racism.”
Mari Matsuda
Theodore M. Shaw “To what extent does equal protection protect?” asks Ian Haney López in a
Kendall Thomas penetrating analysis of the gaps that remain in our civil rights legal codes. Sherrilyn
Patricia J. Williams Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, describes
And more . . . the hypersegregation of our cities and the limits of the law’s ability to change deep-
Recently published seated attitudes about race. Patricia J. Williams explores the legacy of slavery in the
law’s current constructions of sanity. Anita Allen discusses competing privacy and
Paperback, 978-1-62097-734-7
Ebook, 978-1-62097-735-4 accountability interests in the lives of African American celebrities. Chuck Lawrence
$22.99 / $29.99 CAN interrogates the judicial backlash against affirmative action. And Michelle Alexander
6” x 9”, 400 pages
Race/Law describes what caused her to break ranks with the civil rights community and take up
(Hardcover edition: 978-1-62097-620-3
Hardcover title: Carving Out a Humanity; the cause of those our legal system has labeled unworthy.
Race, Rights, and Redemption) Race, Rights, and Redemption (which was originally published in hardcover under
the title Carving Out a Humanity) gathers some of our country’s brightest progressive
legal stars in a volume that illuminates facets of the law that have continued to per-
petuate racial inequality and to confound our nation at the start of a new millennium.
Janet Dewart Bell is a social justice activist, public affairs professor, and the founder
of the Derrick Bell Lecture series at the New York University School of Law, and the
author of Lighting the Fires of Freedom (The New Press). She lives in New York City.
Vincent M. Southerland is an assistant professor of clinical law and co-faculty director
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of the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at NYU Law. He lives in New York City.
37 Words
Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination
SHERRY BOSCHERT
A SW EEPIN G H IS T ORY OF THE FED ERAL LEGI SLA TIO N TH AT P RO H IB ITS SE X DISC RIMIN ATIO N IN
E D U CA TION , PUBLISHED ON THE FI FTI ETH ANNIVERSARY O F TITL E IX
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be I have often lamented that there
excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be is no complete and accurate his-
subjected to discrimination under any education program or tory of Title IX, the most impor-
activity receiving federal financial assistance. tant law for U.S. women since
women obtained the right to
—TITLE IX’S FIRST THIRTY-SEVEN WORDS
vote. By telling the stories of key
characters across the history of
By prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded education, the 1972 legislation Title IX to the present, 37 Words
popularly known as Title IX profoundly changed the lives of women and girls in the fills that void, and will help a
United States, accelerating a movement for equal education in classrooms, on sports broad audience of readers under-
fields, and in all of campus life.
stand how they, too, play impor-
tant roles in the future of Title IX
37 Words is the story of Title IX. Filled with rich characters—from Bernice Resnick
and gender equity in education.
Sandler, an early organizer for the law, to her trans grandchild—the story of Title IX is —BERNICE SANDLER, “GODMOTHER” OF TITLE IX
a legislative and legal drama with conflicts over regulations and challenges to the law.
It’s also a human story about women denied opportunities, students struggling for an March
education free from sexual harassment, and activists defying sexist discrimination. Hardcover, 978-1-62097-583-1
Ebook, 978-1-62097-729-3
These intersecting narratives of women seeking an education, playing sports, and $29.99 / $38.99 CAN
wanting protection from sexual harassment and assault map gains and setbacks for 6” x 9”, 384 pages
Education
feminism in the last fifty years and show how some women benefit more than others.
Award-winning journalist Sherry Boschert beautifully explores the gripping history of
Title IX through the gutsy people behind it.
In the tradition of the acclaimed documentary She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,
37 Words offers a crucial playbook for anyone who wants to understand how we got
here and who is horrified by current attacks on women’s rights.
Sherry Boschert is an award-winning journalist and the author of Plug-in Hybrids:
The Cars That Will Recharge America. Among her many honors, she received a Distin-
guished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for her efforts to
promote equity within the news industry. She lives in New Hampshire.
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Waste
One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
CATHERINE COLEMAN FLOWERS
WITH A FOREWORD BY BRYAN STEVENSON
AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR
NO W I N PA PER BACK THE M ACARTHUR GRANT–WIN N IN G E N VIRO N ME N TAL J U STIC E AC TIVIST’ S
R I V E TIN G MEMOIR O F A LI FE FI GHTI NG FOR A C L EAN E R F U TU RE F O R AME RIC A’ S MO ST VU L N E RAB L E
W I T H A N EW A FT ER WORD FROM THE AUTHOR
[Flowers] brings an invigorating To Flowers, the neglect of the sanitation problem in Lowndes
sense of purpose to the page. County is as obvious an environmental injustice as the
—THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
contamination of drinking water in Flint, Michigan.
A gripping, eye-opening story —THE NEW YORKER
about the lack of access to basic
sanitation in parts of the United 2020 MacArthur “genius” Catherine Coleman Flowers grew up in Lowndes County,
States. Alabama, a place that’s been called “Bloody Lowndes” because of its violent, racist
—SMITHSONIAN
history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it’s Ground Zero for
A useful primer on why Amer- a new movement that is also Flowers’s life’s work—a fight to ensure human dignity
ica’s treatment of raw sewage through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people,
doesn’t pass the smell test.
especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste
—KIRKUS REVIEWS
from their toilets and, as a consequence, live amid filth.
March Flowers calls this America’s dirty secret. In this “powerful and moving book”
Paperback, 978-1-62097-713-2 (Booklist), she tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that
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5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 224 pages Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native
Social Science
(Hardcover edition: 978-1-62097-608-1) American reservations in the West.
In this inspiring story of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student
civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevenson’s Equal
Justice Initiative. Flowers shows how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ig-
nore as climate change brings sewage to more backyards, and not just those of poor
minorities.
Catherine Coleman Flowers is the founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and
Environmental Justice, and since 2008 has been the rural development manager
at the Race and Poverty Initiative of the Equal Justice Initiative. In 2020 Flowers
was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She lives in Montgomery, Alabama. Bryan
Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative and
the author of the acclaimed bestseller Just Mercy.
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Unreasonable
Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment
DEVON W. CARBADO
HO W U N R EA S ON ABLE SEARCH AND SEI ZURES HAVE SH O RTE N E D TH E DISTAN C E B ETW E E N L IF E AN D
D E A T H F OR BLA CK P EOPLE STOPPED BY THE PO L IC E, B Y TH E L E ADIN G C RITIC AL RAC E STU DIES
SCH O LA R
The Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Fourth Amendment Praise for Devon Carbado and
over the past five decades has allocated enormous power to Mitu Golani’s Acting White?:
police officers—the power to surveil, the power to racially After reading this irreverent,
profile, the power to stop-and-frisk, and the power to kill. witty, and jargon-free book, you
—DEVON W. CARBADO, FROM UNREASONABLE will not be able to think about
race in the same way.
—KIMBERLÉ CRENSHAW, PROFESSOR OF LAW,
The summer of 2020 will be remembered as an unprecedented, watershed moment
COLUMBIA AND UCLA
in the struggle for racial equality. Published on the second anniversary of the global
An essential book on the incred-
protests over the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Unreasonable is
ible complexities of defining race.
a groundbreaking investigation of the role that the law—and the U.S. Constitution—
—CHOICE
play in the epidemic of police violence against Black people.
Brilliant, eloquent, and acces-
In this crucially timely book, celebrated legal scholar Devon W. Carbado explains
sible.
how the Fourth Amendment became ground zero for regulating police conduct—
—BEVERLY GUY-SHEFTALL, SPELMAN COLLEGE
more important than Miranda warnings, the right to counsel, and equal protection
and due process. Fourth Amendment law determines when and how the police can
A brilliant analysis of how race
is experienced: in the workplace,
make arrests, and it determines the precarious line between stopping Black people
in the university, on TV, and in
and killing Black people. racial profiling.
A leading light in the critical race studies movement, Carbado looks at how that —HOWARD WINANT, UC SANTA BARBARA
text, in the last four decades, has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to protect
March
police officers, not African Americans; how it sanctions search and seizure as well as
profiling; and how it has become, ultimately, an amendment of life and death. Hardcover, 978-1-62097-424-7
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Accessible, radical, and essential reading, Unreasonable sheds light on a rarely $27.99 / $36.99 CAN
5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 288 pages
understood dimension of today’s most pressing issue. Legal
Devon W. Carbado is the Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law at UCLA
School of Law. He is co-author of Acting White? Rethinking Race in “Post-Racial”
America, as well as numerous articles and edited volumes. He lives in Los Angeles.
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Still Doing Life
22 Lifers, 25 Years Later
HOWARD ZEHR AND BARB TOEWS
S I D E - BY - S IDE, T IME-LAPSE PHOTOS AND I NTERV IEWS, SE P ARATED B Y TW E N TY -F IVE Y E ARS, O F
P E O P LE S ER VIN G LIFE SENTENCES I N PRI SON, B Y TH E B E STSEL L IN G AU TH O R O F TH E L ITTL E B O O K
O F J U ST ICE
Life without parole is a death sentence without an execution • 1 in 7 people in U.S. prisons is
date. serving a life sentence.
—AARON FOX (LIFER) • More than two-thirds of those
serving life sentences are peo-
In 1996, Howard Zehr, a criminal justice activist and photographer, published Doing ple of color.
Life, a book of photo portraits of individuals serving life sentences without the pos- • Women serving life without
sibility of parole at a prison in Pennsylvania. Twenty-five years later, Zehr revisited parole increased 43% over the
many of the same individuals and photographed them in the same poses. In Still Doing last decade.
Life, Zehr and co-author Barb Toews present the two photos of each individual side The modern history of restor-
by side, along with interviews conducted at the two different photo sessions, creat- ative justice in the West begins
ing a deeply disturbing tableaux of people who literally have not moved for the past with Howard Zehr.
—HARVARD MAGAZINE, AUGUST 2021
quarter century.
In the tradition of other compelling photo books including Milton Rogovin’s March
Triptychs and Nicholas Nixon’s The Brown Sisters, Still Doing Life offers a riveting
Hardcover 978-1-62097-648-7
longitudinal look at a group of people over an extended period of time—in this case Ebook, 978-1-62097-721-7
with devastating implications for the American criminal justice system. Each night in $29.99 / $38.99 CAN
7 5⁄8” x 9 3⁄8”, 208 pages with 49 b&w photos
the United States, more than 200,000 men and women incarcerated in state and fed- Criminal Justice/Law
eral prisons will go to sleep facing the reality that they may die without ever returning
home. There could be no more compelling argument to stop this inhumane practice
than the photos and interviews in this book.
Howard Zehr is a distinguished professor of restorative justice at Eastern Menno-
nite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. He is the author of the best-
selling The Little Book of Restorative Justice and Doing Life, among other titles.
Barb Toews is associate professor of criminal justice at University of Washington,
Tacoma. She is author of The Little Book of Restorative Justice for People in Prison and
co-author, with Howard Zehr, of Critical Issues in Restorative Justice. She is the editor
of the Little Books in Restorative Justice series. She lives in Tacoma, Washington.
WWW.THENEWPRESS.COM 9“Against all odds, Joe Biden resolved to go big. And there is something breathtaking, after several decades of Democratic presidents distancing themselves from big government or progressive taxation or economic regulation, to witness a Democratic president resolving to reclaim a lost legacy.” —FROM GOING BIG
Going Big
FDR, Biden, and a New New Deal
ROBERT KUTTNER
WITH A FOREWORD BY JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ
W I T H HIS TOR Y AN D THE EXTRAORDI NARY PARALL E L S B ETW E E N B IDEN AN D F DR AS H IS GU IDE, TH E
V E T E RAN POLITICAL ANALYST D I AGNOSES WHA T’ S AT STAKE F O R AME RIC A IN 20 22 AN D B E Y O N D
It is something of a miracle that democracy held just enough to Praise for Robert Kuttner’s The
elect Joe Biden, and that Biden has discovered his inner FDR. Stakes:
To fully understand the risks and opportunities of this fraught With a mastery of the com-
moment, we need to take a deeper look at the past. plexities of American politics; its
—FROM GOING BIG class, race, and gender dynamics;
and recent research on effective
Joe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. After four de- strategies, Kuttner offers a bril-
liant guide to a struggling Demo-
cades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is
cratic Party. If you’re concerned
offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril as Republicans, increasingly the about democracy, read this book.
national minority, try to destroy democracy in order to cling to power. It is the best of —ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD, AUTHOR OF
STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND
times and the worst of times.
In Going Big, bestselling author and political journalist Robert Kuttner assesses Praise for Robert Kuttner’s
the promise and peril of this critical juncture. Debtor’s Prison:
Biden, like FDR in his time, faces multiple challenges. Roosevelt had to make ter- Kuttner’s thesis is girded to a
rible compromises with racist legislators to win enactment of his program. Biden, historical narrative that yields
to achieve the necessary governing coalition, needs to achieve durable multiracial a coherent, readable and highly
coalitions. Roosevelt had to conquer fascism in Europe; Biden must defeat it at home. impassioned book.
—THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
And after four decades of neoliberal policy disasters reflecting Wall Street’s political
influence, Biden needs to go beyond what even FDR achieved, to restore a democratic April
economy of broad possibility.
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-727-9
From a writer with an unparalleled understanding of the history and politics that E-book, 978-1-62097-728-6
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have made this moment possible, this book is the essential guide, for 2022 and be- 5 1⁄4” x 7 1⁄2”, 192 pages
yond, to what is at stake for Joe Biden, for America, and for our democracy. Current Affairs & Politics
Robert Kuttner is cofounder and coeditor of the American Prospect and the Eco-
nomic Policy Institute and former columnist for both Business Week and the Boston
Globe. He holds the Ida and Meyer Kirstein Chair at Brandeis University and lives in
Boston. Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics, is university professor at
Columbia University and chief economist at the Roosevelt Institute. He lives in New
York City. WWW.THENEWPRESS.COM 11Holding Together
Why Our Rights Are Under Siege and How
to Reclaim Them for Everyone
JOHN SHATTUCK, SUSHMA RAMAN, AND MATHIAS RISSE
A B O L D N EW AS S ES SMENT OF THE MULTI PRONG ED ATTAC K O N AMERIC AN RIGH TS, AN D H O W TO
P U SH BACK , F R OM EXPERTS AT THE FLETCHER SC H O O L AT TU F TS AN D TH E C ARR C EN TE R AT
H A R V AR D
With chapters on: The government has a responsibility to protect rights and the
civic education people have a responsibility to respect them . . . a majority of
disability rights Americans believe that neither the government nor the people
equal access are exercising their responsibilities.
gun rights —FROM HOLDING TOGETHER
immigration
LGBTQ+ rights Americans are bound together not by blood ties but by the promise of rights—rights
money in politics
for everyone. An overwhelming majority of Americans agree that rights are essential
privacy
racial equality to their freedom, and that rights today are severely threatened. The promise of rights
religious freedom has been reimagined at pivotal moments in American history—from the Revolution to
reproductive rights the Civil Rights Movement. Can today become a similar time of transformation?
voting rights Holding Together is a major account of the threats to rights in the United States
in the twenty-first century, and the new opportunity to address them. Drawing on a
April
series of town hall meetings of representative groups of citizens across the country
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-714-9
E-book, 978-1-62097-724-8 discussing their concerns over rights, new national opinion polls from all demo-
$29.99 / $38.99 CAN graphic groups and political perspectives conducted in 2020 and 2021, and extensive
6” x 9”, 448 pages
Current Affairs & Politics research, Holding Together is a road map for an American rights revival.
In fifteen accessible chapters dealing with voting rights, freedom of speech, crimi-
nal justice, gun rights, LGBTQ+ rights, disability rights, religious freedom, privacy,
immigration and more, three renowned thought-leaders—including former assistant
secretary of state John Shattuck, Sushma Raman, and Mathias Risse—present a
comprehensive account of the current state of rights in America, along with concrete
recommendations to policymakers and citizens for reimagining them.
John Shattuck is Professor of Practice at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,
Tufts University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sushma Raman is the execu-
tive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. She
lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mathias Risse is Berthold Beitz Professor in Hu-
man Rights, Global Affairs, and Philosophy and the director of the Carr Center for Hu-
12 WWW.THENEWPRESS.COM man Rights Policy at Harvard University. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.We Are the Middle
of Forever
Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island
on the Changing Earth
DAHR JAMAIL AND STAN RUSHWORTH
A P O WER F UL, IN T IMATE COLLECTI ON OF CONVERSATIO N S W ITH IN DIGEN O U S AME RIC AN S O N TH E
CL I M ATE CR IS IS A N D THE EARTH’S FUTURE
Mankind has a chance to change the direction of this Includes interviews with:
movement, do a roundabout turn, and move in the direction of Gregg Castro (Salinan/Ohlone)
peace, harmony, and respect for land and life. The time is right Terri Delahanty (Cree)
now. Later will be too late. Natalie Diaz (Mojave/
—HOPI ELDER THOMAS BANYACYA, FROM THE INTRODUCTION Akimel O’Otham)
Tahnee Henningsen (Konkow
Although for a great many people the impact of human behavior on the Earth— Maidu)
Edgar Ibarra (Chicano, Yoeme,
countless species becoming extinct, pandemics claiming millions of lives, a climate
Tarahumara)
crisis causing worldwide social and environmental upheaval—was not apparent until Lyla June Johnston (Diné/
recently, this is not the case for all people or cultures. For the Indigenous people of Navajo, Tsétsêhéstâhese/
the world, radical alteration of the planet, and of life itself, is a story that is many gen- Cheyenne)
erations long. They have had to adapt, to persevere, to be courageous and resource- Ilarion Merculieff (Unangan)
ful in the face of genocide and destruction, and their experience has given them a
Steven Pratt (Amah Mutsun)
Raquel Ramirez (Ho-Chunk,
unique understanding of civilizational devastation.
Ojibwe, Lenca)
An innovative work of research and reportage, We Are the Middle of Forever Shannon Rivers (Akimel
places Indigenous voices where they belong: at the center of conversations about O’Otham)
today’s environmental crisis. The book draws on interviews with people from many Fawn Sharp (Quinault)
different North American Indigenous cultures and communities, generations, and Alexii Sigona (Amah Mutsun)
Dr. Kyle Whyte (Potawatomi)
geographic regions, who share their knowledge and experience, their questions, their
observations, and, importantly, their dreams of maintaining the best relationship pos- April
sible to all of life. A welcome antidote to the despair arising from the climate crisis,
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-669-2
We Are the Middle of Forever brings to the forefront the perspectives of those who E-book, 978-1-62097-719-4
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have long been attuned to climate change and will be an indispensable aid to those 6” x 9”, 384 pages
looking for new and different ideas and responses to the challenges we face. Environment/Native American
Dahr Jamail is the author of Beyond the Green Zone and The End of Ice (The New
Press). He has won the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism and the Izzy Award. He
lives in Washington State. Stan Rushworth is a teacher of Native American literature
and the author of Sam Woods, Going to Water, and Diaspora’s Children.
WWW.THENEWPRESS.COM 13Slaves for Peanuts
A Story of Colonialism, Conquest, and the
Crop that Revived Slavery in Africa
JORI LEWIS
A ST U N N IN G WOR K OF POPULAR HI STORY—THE STO RY O F H O W A SIN GL E C RO P TRAN SF O RME D TH E
HI ST OR Y OF S LAVERY
An investigation not only of Af- Lewis’s work fuses powerful storytelling and authoritative
rican slavery’s past and ongoing historical research, and she is adept at framing local events
entanglements with what we eat against a global backdrop.
and how it is grown, but how this —THE WHITING AWARD COMMITTEE ON SLAVES FOR PEANUTS
particular form of slavery sup-
ported industrialization in the
West . . . will be a formidable ad- Americans consume over 1.5 billion pounds of peanut products every year. But few
dition to the historical literature of us know the peanut’s tumultuous history, or its intimate connection to slavery and
and yield a detailed and enlight- freedom.
ened story of what it has meant Lyrical and powerful, Slaves for Peanuts deftly weaves together the natural and
to raise crops on this planet.
human history of a crop that transformed the lives of millions. Author Jori Lewis, who
—FROM THE WHITING FOUNDATION CITATION
received a prestigious Whiting Foundation Award for this book, reveals how demand
for peanut oil in Europe ensured that slavery in Africa would persist well into the
twentieth century, long after the European powers had officially banned it in the ter-
ritories they controlled.
Delving deep into West African and European archives, Lewis recreates a world
on the coast of Africa that is breathtakingly real and unlike anything modern readers
have experienced. Slaves for Peanuts is told through the eyes of a set of richly de-
Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for tailed characters—from an African-born French missionary harboring fugitive slaves,
Land and Power in Liberia
Gregg Mitman to the leader of a Wolof state navigating the politics of French imperialism—who chal-
Hardcover, $27.99, 978-1-62097-377-6
lenge our most basic assumptions of the motives and people who supported human
April bondage.
At a time when Americans are grappling with the enduring consequences of
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-156-7
E-book, 978-1-62097-157-4 slavery, here is a new and revealing chapter in its global history.
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6” x 9”, 352 pages
History Jori Lewis is an independent journalist who has reported for media outlets including
PRI’s The World, Discover Magazine, and Aeon. Lewis was a contributing reporter to
the George Polk Award–winning series Early Signs. She lives in Dakar, Senegal. This is
her first book.
14 WWW.THENEWPRESS.COMWe Have Tired of Violence
A True Story of Murder, Memory, and
the Fight for Justice in Indonesia
MATT EASTON
A C HI LLIN G WOR K OF TRUE CRI M E ABOUT THE S H O C KIN G MIDAIR MU RDER O F A H U MAN RIGH TS
A C T I V IS T AN D A POLI TI CAL CRI SI S I N THE WORL D’ S F O U RTH MO ST P O P U L O U S N ATIO N
The truth about who killed Munir is the only antidote to Munir was in a class by himself,
Indonesia’s poisoned justice system. he had an electric intelligence
—THE NEW YORK TIMES and an encyclopedic memory. In
meetings, he was able to draw on
a kaleidoscope of detailed fact
On a warm Indonesian night in September 2004, Munir Said Thalib said goodbye to and sharp analytical insight to
his wife and a carload of friends at Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Jakarta. He was bound present a clear image of what
for a year in the Netherlands to pursue a master’s degree in international law and needed to be done.
human rights. But Munir never reached Amsterdam alive. Before his plane touched —HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
down, the thirty-eight-year-old—one of the leading human rights activists of his gen- Munir was a unique voice and
eration—was dead in his seat in the fourth row of the plane. Indonesia owes him a debt of
Munir’s award-winning work investigating the killings and abductions that oc- gratitude for all he has done for
curred under the former president Suharto had made him many enemies in high human rights in our country. The
least we can do is ensure that
places. Undeterred, Munir’s wife, Suci, and his close friend Usman Hamid launched
his murder is not forgotten and
their own investigation. They would soon uncover a conspiracy involving spies, a mys- that the real killers are brought
terious co-pilot, threats of black magic, and deadly poison. to justice.
Drawing on interviews with the key actors, firsthand courtroom observation, —AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
interrogation records, confidential State Department cables, and Indonesian intel-
May
ligence documents, this book uncovers for the first time the dramatic murder plot
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-381-3
and the titanic struggle to bring the perpetrators of Munir’s death to justice. Just as E-book, 978-1-62097-382-0
Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing did for Northern Ireland, this book tells the story $26.99 / $35.99 CAN
5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 288 pages
of a crime that is also the story of a remarkable country coming to terms with a ter- Current Affairs & Politics
rible legacy.
Matt Easton is a former director of the Human Rights Defenders Program at Human
Rights First and has worked and lived in Indonesia, Timor-Leste, India, and Zimbabwe.
He lives in New York and this is his first book.
WWW.THENEWPRESS.COM 15Except for Palestine
The Limits of Progressive Politics
MARC LAMONT HILL AND MITCHELL PLITNICK
NO W I N PA PER BACK A BOLD CALL FOR THE AM E RIC AN L E F T TO E XTEN D TH EIR P O L ITIC S TO TH E
I SS U ES OF IS R A EL- P ALESTI NE
This clear and courageous book is A thoughtful and incisive analysis of how progressive
a clarion call for moral integrity commitments to racial and social justice are undermined by the
and political consistency. “Palestinian exception” . . . timely and vital.
—CORNEL WEST, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
—CONGRESSWOMAN RASHIDA TLAIB
A simple, radical, and deeply im-
portant argument, which anyone In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator
who cherishes justice should not Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how one-sided
ignore.
and unwaveringly pro-Israel policies reflect the truth-bending grip of authoritarian-
—PETER BEINART, AUTHOR OF THE CRISIS OF
ZIONISM ism on both Israel and the United States. Except for Palestine argues that progres-
A sweeping exposé of the single sives and liberals who oppose regressive policies on immigration, racial justice,
most brazen double standard gender equality, LGBTQ rights, and other issues must extend these core principles
in U.S. foreign policy. This book to the oppression of Palestinians. In doing so, the authors take seriously the political
should be read by all liberals concerns and well-being of both Israelis and Palestinians, demonstrating the extent
and progressives who have been
to which U.S. policy has made peace harder to attain. They also unravel the conflation
shamed, intimidated, and hood-
of advocacy for Palestinian rights with anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel.
winked into silence on Palestin-
ian rights. Hill and Plitnick provide a timely and essential intervention by examining multiple
—ANDREW ROSS, AUTHOR OF STONE MEN: dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conversation, including Israel’s growing disdain
THE PALESTINIANS WHO BUILT ISRAEL
for democracy, the effects of occupation on Palestine, the siege of Gaza, diminishing
May American funding for Palestinian relief, and the campaign to stigmatize any critique
of Israeli occupation. Except for Palestine is a searing polemic and a cri de coeur for
Paperback, 978-1-62097-725-5
Ebook, 978-1-62097-593-0 elected officials, activists, and everyday citizens alike to align their beliefs and politics
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5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 240 pages with their values.
Current Affairs & Politics
(Hardcover edition: 978-1-62097-592-3)
Marc Lamont Hill is an award-winning journalist and the Steve Charles Professor of
Media, Cities, and Solutions at Temple University. He is the author of multiple books,
including the New York Times bestselling Nobody. He lives in Philadelphia. Mitchell
Plitnick is the president of ReThinking Foreign Policy and a frequent writer on the
Middle East and U.S. foreign policy. He is the former vice president at the Foundation
for Middle East Peace, director of the U.S. Office of B’Tselem, and co-director of Jew-
16 WWW.THENEWPRESS.COM ish Voice for Peace. He lives in Maryland.Hollywood in China
Behind the Scenes of the World’s Largest Movie Market
YING ZHU
T HE I N S IDE S TOR Y O F THE U.S.-CHI NESE SUPER P O W E R C O N F L IC T P L AY IN G O U T B EH IN D TH E SC EN ES
O F T O DA Y ’ S MOV IE I NDUSTRY, FROM THE LEADI N G ME DIA SC H O L AR
The Chinese market is so big that it changes the calculus for Praise for Ying Zhu’s Two Billion
which films make money and hence, going forward, which films Eyes:
get made in the first place. Would Hollywood speak Chinese, Ying’s cogent analysis and pen-
literarily and figuratively? etrating insight are invaluable for
—FROM THE INTRODUCTION anyone trying to understand the
political and social reality of the
In the last decade, China has become the world’s largest movie market. Formerly world’s most populous country.
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
objects of exotic fascination in the golden age of Hollywood, today the Chinese are a
make-or-break audience for Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters. And movies are now Opens a fascinating window onto
an essential part of China’s global “soft power” strategy: a Chinese real estate tycoon the emergence of a Chinese pub-
lic sphere.
(who until recently was the major shareholder of the AMC theater chain) is building
—FREDRIC JAMESON, PROFESSOR OF LITERATURE,
the world’s largest film production facility. Behind the curtains, as this brilliant new DUKE UNIVERSITY
book reveals, movies have become one of the biggest areas of competition between
A fascinating look at the news-
the world’s two remaining superpowers. entertainment-propaganda com-
Will Hollywood be eclipsed by a Chinese Huallywood? No author is better posi- bine that plays a central role in
tioned to untangle this question than Ying Zhu, a leading expert on Chinese film and how China understands itself.
media. Hollywood in China unravels the fascinating, century-long relationship be- I learned a lot about China, and
about the news business, from
tween Hollywood and China for the first time.
this book.
Blending cultural history, business, and international relations, Hollywood in —JAMES FALLOWS, AUTHOR OF CHINA AIRBORNE
China offers an inside look at the intense business and political maneuvering that is
shaping the movies and the U.S.-China relationships itself—revealing a headlines- June
grabbing conflict that is playing out not only on the high seas, but on the silver Hardcover, 978-1-62097-218-2
E-book, 978-1-62097-219-9
screen. $29.99 / $ 38.99 CAN
6” x 9”, 480 pages
Business
Ying Zhu is a professor of media culture at the City University of New York, College
of Staten Island. She is the author of Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central
Television (The New Press) and seven other books. She resides in New York and Hong
Kong.
WWW.THENEWPRESS.COM 17No More Police
A Case for Abolition
MARIAME KABA AND ANDREA J. RITCHIE
T HE A U T H OR IT AT IVE PRI M ER ON POLI CE ABOLI T IO N B Y TW O C E L E B RATED, VE TERAN MO VEMEN T
L E A D ER S
One of the world’s most prominent advocates, organizers and Praise for Mariame Kaba’s We Do
political educators of the [abolitionist] framework. This ’til They Free Us:
—NBC NEWS.COM ON MARIAME KABA Mariame Kaba’s clarity, firm-
but-gentle guidance, embracing
In this provocative call to action, New York Times bestselling author Mariame Kaba spirit, deep creativity, and love of
and fellow abolitionist Andrea J. Ritchie detail why we should get rid of police and laughter, demonstrate how aboli-
tion is, indeed, presence.
how we can create true community safety in their stead. They explore the many ways
—RUTH WILSON GILMORE, AUTHOR OF CHANGE
police fail to prevent or solve crime, instead causing harm themselves; demands to EVERYTHING
defund the police, a key strategy advanced by modern police abolitionists; and the
For those of us who are eager to
many failures of contemporary police reforms. Kaba and Ritchie are themselves bring about a world where Black
personally engaged in movements to end police, prison, and gender-based violence, lives matter, this is required
and it is from this perch that they illuminate the lessons of the past two decades— reading.
—OPAL TOMETI, CO-FOUNDER OF
organizing toward a world without policing. #BLACKLIVESMATTER AND FOUNDER DIASPORA
Centering survivors of state, interpersonal, and community-based violence, and RISING
highlighting uprisings, hyperlocal campaigns, and community-based projects, No Praise for Andrea J. Ritchie’s
More Police makes a compelling case for a world where the tools required to prevent, Invisible No More:
interrupt, and transform conditions fueling violence in all its forms are plenty. Part
Ritchie’s focused study and call
activist handbook, part movement history, No More Police calls on us to turn away to action is an essential work.
from systems that perpetrate violence in the name of ending it, toward a world where —BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW)
violence is the exception and safe, abundant, and thriving communities are the rule.
Clear, urgent prose.
—KIRKUS REVIEWS
Mariame Kaba is known as one of the leading prison and police abolitionists of our
time. She is the founder and director of Project NIA and the co-founder of Interrupt- June
ing Criminalization, with Andrea J. Ritchie. She is the author of the New York Times Paperback, 978-1-62097-732-3
E-book, 978-1-62097-730-9
bestselling We Do This ’Til We Free Us and lives in New York City. Andrea J. Ritchie Hardcover, 978-1-62097-678-4 ($25.99)
co-founded the Interrupting Criminalization initiative with Mariame Kaba and the $16.99 / $22.99 CAN
5 1⁄4” x 7 1⁄2”, 240 pages
COVID19 Policing Project with Derecka Purnell. She has been a Senior Soros Justice Criminal Justice/Law
fellow and was a co-editor of Color of Violence and the author of Invisible No More:
Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. She lives in Brooklyn.
WWW.THENEWPRESS.COM 19LGBTQ Life Around the World A GROUNDBREAKING PHOTOBOOK SERIES FROM THE NEW PRESS
Solace
Portraits of Queer Youth in China
SARAH MEI HERMAN
A N I L LUMIN AT IN G P ORTRAI T OF YOUNG LGBTQ P E O P L E IN C H IN A, TH E L ATE ST ADDITIO N TO TH E
A C C L AIMED PH OTOBOOK SERI ES CELEBRATI NG L GB TQ C O MMU N ITIES ARO U N D TH E WO RL D
People have become less and less afraid to show who they are.
I don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel yet, but we’ve been
in the dark for so long that we know you’ve got to make yourself
glow, otherwise there’s even less light.
—WEI XIAOGANG, FILMMAKER AND ACTIVIST
Same-sex relationships have been an accepted part of Chinese culture for centuries. Edges of the Rainbow: LGBTQ Japan
Michel Delsol and Haruku Shinozaki
It was only in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, under the influence of the Paperback, $21.95, 978-1-62097-289-2
West, that homophobia became more prevalent; and under Mao, homosexuality was
criminalized. By the turn of the last millennium, same-sex relationships were once
again legal, and by 2001, homosexuality had been declassified as a mental disorder.
Polling suggests that the younger generation embraces sexual diversity and LGBTQ
rights. But the stigma against queer people still remains. Recent reports from China
have noted government attempts to clamp down on LGBTQ media and events, and
Delhi: Communities of Belonging
numerous citizens are still being sent to conversion therapy by family members. Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh
Paperback, $21.95, 978-1-62097-265-6
Photographer Sarah Mei Herman first started photographing young queer
people and their personal relationships during an artist residency in Xiamen in Fujian June
Province on China’s southeastern coast. As she explored what drew these people
Paperback, 978-1-62097-632-6
together, she herself built up close friendships with her subjects and, even after her E-book, 978-1-62097-633-3
$21.99 / $28.99 CAN
residency had ended, returned to Xiamen to photograph them, capturing the way
8” x 10”, 192 pages
they have changed over the course of a number of years. Photography/LGBTQ Studies
The sixteenth entry in The New Press’s worldwide LGBTQ photobook series,
Solace is a stunning collection of full-color photos in a beautiful, affordable volume.
It provides a portrait of young people navigating the ambiguities of friendship and
sexuality as they enter adulthood and grapple with what it means to be queer in
modern-day China.
Sarah Mei Herman is a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London. Her work has
been shown internationally at the National Portrait Gallery in London and Le Château
d’Eau in Toulouse, among other locations. She is based in Amsterdam. WWW.THENEWPRESS.COM 21Milked
Dairy Farms and the Mexican Workers at
the Heart of an American Crisis
RUTH CONNIFF
of the
Winner
nd Ida
Studs a ard
Aw
Terkel
A C O MPELLIN G POR TRAYAL BY THE VETERAN JO U RN AL IST O F TH E L IVES O F F ARMIN G C O MMU N ITIE S
O N E I TH ER S IDE OF THE U.S.-MEXI CO BORD ER A N D TH E SU RP RISIN G C O N N E C TIO N S B ETW E E N TH E M
Conniff brings her skills and insights to a particularly urgent Praise for Ruth Conniff:
project: moving beyond the polarizing politics of our current The beauty of her idea is that
era, and taking a deeper look at how people who have been it illuminates the connections
pitted against each other can forge bonds of understanding. of two seemingly very different
—E.J. DIONNE JR., COLUMNIST, THE WASHINGTON POST worlds that are connected in
more ways than the public real-
In the Midwest, Mexican workers have become critically important to the survival of izes, and even more than that,
shows the real-life complexities
rural areas and small towns—and to the individual farmers who rely on their work—
and contradictions of these rela-
with undocumented immigrants, mostly from Mexico, accounting for an estimated tionships that are lost in the heat
80 percent of employees on the dairy farms of western Wisconsin. of modern political rhetoric.
In Milked, former editor-in-chief of The Progressive Ruth Conniff introduces us to —DAVID MARANISS, THE WASHINGTON POST
the migrants who worked on these dairy farms, their employers, among them white The striking thing about Ruth
voters who helped elect Donald Trump to office in 2016, and the surprising friend- Conniff is her ability to communi-
ships that have formed between these two groups of people. These stories offer a cate in such engaging and power-
rich and fascinating account of how two crises—the record-breaking rate of farm ful ways on multiple platforms.
bankruptcies in the Upper Midwest, and the contentious politics around immigration—
She is an exceptional writer, an
able public speaker and a devas-
are changing the landscape of rural America.
tatingly effective commentator.
A unique and fascinating exploration of rural farming communities, Milked sheds —JOHN NICHOLS
a light on seismic shifts in policy on both sides of the border over recent decades,
connecting issues of labor, immigration, race, food, economics, and U.S.-Mexico rela- July
tions and revealing how two seemingly disparate groups of people have come to rely Hardcover, 978-1-62097-637-1
E-book, 978-1-62097-720-0
on each other, how they are subject to the same global economic forces, and how, ul- $25.99 / $33.99 CAN
timately, the bridges of understanding that they have built can lead us toward a more 5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 224 pages
Current Affairs & Politics
constructive politics and a better world.
Ruth Conniff is the editor-at-large of the Wisconsin Examiner, a former editor-in-
chief of The Progressive magazine, and a regular panelist on CNN’s Capital Gang. She
has appeared on Good Morning America, C-SPAN, and NPR and has been a frequent
guest on All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and this is
her first book. WWW.THENEWPRESS.COM 23Demolition Agenda
How Trump Tried to Dismantle American Government,
and What Biden Needs to Do to Save It
THOMAS O. MCGARITY
THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S EFFORTS TO DESTROY OUR
GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS BY THE MAN RALPH NADER SAYS “WRITES AUTHORITATIVELY AND WITH
REVEALING DETAIL ABOUT IMPORTANT TOPICS THAT FEW OTHERS COVER”
Praise for Thomas O. McGarity’s I would say 70 percent of regulations can go.
previous books: —DONALD TRUMP, OCTOBER 2016
Freedom to Harm:
Koch Industries spent $3.1 million in the first three months of the Trump administra-
A Choice Outstanding Academic
Title tion, largely to ensure confirmation of Scott Pruitt as head of the EPA. By July 2018,
more than sixteen federal inquiries were pending into Pruitt’s mismanagement and
A well-written, well-reasoned
corruption. But Pruitt was just the first in a long line of industry-friendly, incompe-
book that should be read by
every consumer rights lawyer, tent, and destructive agency heads put in place by the Trump administration in its
as well as people involved in effort to dismantle the federal government’s protective edifice.
consumer advocacy and public- Remember Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, who, among other misdeeds
interest organizations. before he faced eighteen separate federal inquiries and was fired, made a deal with
—TRIAL
Halliburton to build a brewery on land that he owned in Montana? Or how about
Bending Science: Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who rescinded requirements that high-hazard
Chock-full of ideas and insights. trains install special braking systems, weakened standards for storing natural gas,
—TEXAS LAW JOURNAL and lengthened the hours that truck drivers could be on the road without a break,
even as she failed for two years to divest her interest in a road materials manufac-
Sophisticated Sabotage:
turer? And then there were Rick Perry, Betsy DeVos, Sonny Perdue, Andrew Puzder,
Regulation should express Richard Cordray . . . the list goes on.
society’s values and meet
In an original and compelling argument, Thomas O. McGarity shows how adding
public goals. Sophisticated
Sabotage . . . make[s] an enor- populists to the Republican’s traditional base of free market ideologues and estab-
mous contribution to these de- lishment Republicans allowed Trump to come dangerously close to achieving his goal
bates. of demolishing the programs that Congress put in place over the course of many
—REP. HENRY WAXMAN decades to protect consumers, workers, communities, children, and the environment.
Finally, McGarity offers a blueprint for rebuilding the protective edifice and restoring
July
the power of the American government to offer all Americans better lives.
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-639-5
Ebook, 978-1-62097-640-1
$26.99 / $35.99 CAN Thomas O. McGarity is the William Powers Jr. and Kim L. Heilbrun Chair in Tort Law
5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 288 pages
Current Affairs & Politics at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, and the past president of the Cen-
ter for Progressive Reform. He is the author of Freedom to Harm and The Preemption
24 WWW.THENEWPRESS.COM
War, among other books. He lives in Austin, Texas.Poison Ivy
How Elite Colleges Divide Us
EVAN MANDERY
A N E Y E- OPEN IN G LOOK AT HOW AM ERI CA’S ELI T E C O L L E GES AN D SU B U RB S H EL P KE E P TH E RIC H
R I C H— MA K IN G IT H ARD ER THAN EVER TO FI GHT TH E IN EQ U AL ITY DIVIDIN G U S TO DAY
The true story of American social mobility is stagnation.
—FROM THE INTRODUCTION
The front-page news and the trials that followed Operation Varsity Blues were just
the tip of the iceberg. Poison Ivy tells the bigger, seedier story of how elite colleges
create paths to admission available only to the wealthy, despite rhetoric to the con-
trary. Mandery reveals how tacit agreements between exclusive “Ivy-plus” schools Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges
in the New Economy
and white affluent suburbs create widespread de facto segregation. And as a college Tressie McMillan Cottom
Paperback, $18.99, 978-1-62097-438-4
degree continues to be the surest route to upward mobility, the inequality bred in
our broken higher education system is now a principal driver of skyrocketing income
inequality everywhere.
Mandery—a professor at a public college that serves low- and middle-income
students—contrasts the lip service paid to “opportunity” by so many elite colleges
and universities with schools that actually walk the walk. Weaving in shocking data
and captivating interviews with students and administrators alike, Poison Ivy synthe-
sizes fascinating insider information on everything from how students are evaluated, The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich
and Divide America
unfair tax breaks, and questionable fundraising practices to suburban rituals, testing, Anthony P. Carnevale, Peter Schmidt,
tutoring, tuition schemes, and more. This bold, provocative indictment of America’s and Jeff Strohl
Hardcover, $27.99, 978-1-62097-486-5
elite colleges shows us what’s at stake in a faulty system, and what will be possible if
we muster the collective will to transform it. August
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-695-1
Evan Mandery, a Peabody and Emmy Award winner, is a professor at the City Univer- E-book, 978-1-62097-722-4
$25.99 / $33.99 CAN
sity of New York and the author of six books. He has written for the New York Times 5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 256 pages
Current Affairs / Education
and Politico, and has appeared on The Today Show, CNN, and NPR’s Fresh Air. His
journey as a Harvard alum, publicly challenging legacy admissions at elite schools, led
him to write this book.
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