The New Press imprint: 359 books
Deeper Learning
How Eight Innovative Public Schools Are Transforming Education in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Solid sales track of HC edition: over 5,000 copies now sold
New foreword by a high-profile education advocate: Russlynn Ali served as the assistant secretary of civil rights at the DOE under Obama, was the founding director of The Education Trust-West, and currently runs XQ, a high school innovation...
Start Here
A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Publishing into the Peak of the National Conversation: There is consensus that mass incarceration must end; very few books provide a practical roadmap for reform and this book couldn’t be more timely.
National Expert: Greg Berman is a go-to authority on practical reforms in the criminal justice...
Pushout
The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Strong sales track with solid potential to be matched or exceeded in paperback: The hardcover edition has sold 13,652, with 20,000 copies in print. Educators especially are hungry for the paperback. The New Press has a successful paperback track for books on race, inequality, and education (Other...
Bad News
How America's Business Press Missed the Story of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Leading scholars and journalists assess the media’s failure to see the financial crisis coming. “A sort of All the President’s Men for our time” (Kirkus Reviews).
Where was the business press in the weeks and months leading up to the deepest financial crisis since the Great Depression?...
Black Moses
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Award-winning author: Mabanckou won the 2015 French Voices Grand Prize and was a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize.
International voice: Mabanckou is regarded as Francophone Africa's leading novelist. He is a professor at UCLA and has commented in the U.S. press on issues...
Sundown Towns
A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Sales of S&S paperback edition: The New Press has taken paperback rights back from S&S, who sold over fifteen thousand copies.
New Preface: Updates the conversation in light of the Trump presidency and the re-remembering of slavery and the civil war that the national reckoning with...
Wolf Whistle Politics
The New Misogyny in America Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Early out the gate: Publishing in May 2017, this will be among the early post-election books to hit the market.
Big name contributors: A who’s who of contemporary femists, including Jill Lepore, Katha Pollitt, Liza Featherstone, Kirsten West-Savali, Rebecca Solnit, Emily Nussbaum, Gail Collins,...
The Lexicon of Labor
More Than 500 Key Terms, Biographical Sketches, and Historical Insights Concerning Labor in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
A thoroughly updated edition of the clever, fun-to-read compilation of union language and lore. “Worth reading aloud while walking the picket line.” —The Seattle Times
First published in 1998, The Lexicon of Labor found a large and appreciative following among readers who were grateful...
by Erik Loomis
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Platform: Loomis blogs at the hugely popular site Lawyers, Guns, and Money, with 550,000 unique visitors for over one million pageviews a month, where his ongoing series “This Day in Labor History” (the basis for this book) won the 2011 Cliopatria Award from the History News Network
Media...
The Know-It-Alls
The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The debut of a well-known and respected New York Times journalist: Noam Cohen has appeared on Talk of the Nation, MSNBC, and numerous commercial and public radio stations in conjunction with his work on technology for the New York Times. He appeared in the documentary "Page One."
Former...
Other People's Children
Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award and *Choice Magazine’*s Outstanding Academic book award, and voted one of Teacher Magazine’s great books,” Other People’s Children has sold over 150,000 copies since its original hardcover publication. This anniversary...
by Michelle Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama...
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
“Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself.”
—Howard Zinn
A new edition of the national bestseller and American Book Award...
Hard Times
An Illustrated Oral History of the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
First published in 1970, Studs Terkel’s bestselling Hard Times has been called a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit” (Saturday Review) and an invaluable record” (The New York Times). With his trademark grace and compassion, Terkel evokes a mosaic of memories from those who were...