The New Press: 370 books
On Language
Chomsky's Classic Works: Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The two most popular titles by the noted linguist and critic in one volume—an ideal introduction to his work.
On Language features some of Noam Chomsky’s most informal and highly accessible work. In Part I, Language and Responsibility, Chomsky presents a fascinating self-portrait of his...
by Gabriel Kolko
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Another Century of War? is a candid and critical look at America’s new wars” by a brilliant and provocative analyst of its old ones. Gabriel Kolko’s masterly studies of conflict have redefined our views of modern warfare and its effects; in this urgent and timely treatise, he turns his attention...
Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam
Or, How Not to Learn from the Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Essays by Christian G. Appy, Andrew J. Bacevich, John Prados, and others offer “history at its best, meaning, at its most useful.” —Howard Zinn
From the launch of the “Shock and Awe” invasion in March 2003 through President George W. Bush’s declaration of “Mission Accomplished”...
The Indispensable Zinn
The Essential Writings of the "People's Historian"
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
A “well-chosen anthology of the radical historian’s prodigious output,” from A People’s History of the United States and lesser known sources (Kirkus Reviews).
When Howard Zinn died in early 2010, millions of Americans mourned the loss of one of the nation’s foremost intellectual...
The First American Revolution
Before Lexington and Concord
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
The original rebels: “Brings into clear focus events and identities of ordinary people who should share the historic limelight with the Founding Fathers.” —Publishers Weekly
According to the traditional telling, the American Revolution began with “the shot heard ’round the world.”...
Let's Get Free
A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Drawing on his personal fascinating story as a prosecutor, a defendant, and an observer of the legal process, Paul Butler offers a sharp and engaging critique of our criminal justice system. He argues against discriminatory drug laws and excessive police power and shows how our policy of mass incarceration...
Madison's Music
On Reading the First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
“A detailed history of the transformation of First Amendment law” from one of the nation’s foremost civil liberties lawyers (The New York Times).
Are you sitting down? It turns out that everything you learned about the First Amendment is wrong. For too long, we’ve been treating small,...
Global Muckraking
100 Years of Investigative Journalism from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Crusading journalists from Sinclair Lewis to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have played a central role in American politics: checking abuses of power, revealing corporate misdeeds, and exposing government corruption. Muckraking journalism is part and parcel of American democracy. But how many people...
Uncle Swami
South Asians in America Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Within hours of the attacks on the World Trade Center, misdirected assaults on Sikhs and other South Asians flared on streets across the nation, serving as harbingers of a more suspicious, less discerning, and increasingly fearful world view that would drastically change ideas of belonging and acceptance...
Democracy in the Dark
The Seduction of Government Secrecy
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
“A timely and provocative book exploring the origins of the national security state and the urgent challenge of reining it in” (The Washington Post**).**
From Dick Cheney’s man-sized safe to the National Security Agency’s massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured...
The Spirit of '74
How the American Revolution Began
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
How ordinary people went from resistance to revolution: “[A] concise, lively narrative . . . the authors expertly build tension.” —Publishers Weekly
Americans know about the Boston Tea Party and “the shot heard ’round the world,” but sixteen months divided these two iconic events,...
The Betrayal of Work
How Low-wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans And Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Following its publication in hardcover, the critically acclaimed Betrayal of Work became one of the most influential policy books about economic life in America; it was discussed in the pages of Newsweek, Business Week, Fortune, the Washington Post, Newsday, and USA Today, as well as in public policy...
A War Like No Other
The Constitution in a Time of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2004
“A scholarly and cautionary collection of essays focusing on what [Fiss] views as the post-9/11 debasements of key provisions of the Constitution” (Kirkus Reviews).
A leading legal scholar for more than thirty years, Owen Fiss’s focus was civil procedure and equal protection. But when...
Chasing Gideon
The Elusive Quest for Poor People's Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
The Washington Post reporter delivers a groundbreaking investigation into the nation’s crisis of indigent defense—“a hugely important book” (New York Law Journal).
A Nieman Report’s Top Ten Investigative Journalism Books of 2013
First published to mark the fiftieth anniversary...