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Essential Reading for the 2024 U.S. Election

Browse a selection of Verso books covering this election's most pressing issues.

Verso Books 4 November 2024

Essential Reading for the 2024 U.S. Election

Election season may be coming to a close, but the issues will remain. See below for a selection of Verso books covering the major issues that voters are concerned with most. 

The Economy

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Palestine

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Housing

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Immigration

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Abortion

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Transgender Rights

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Climate Change

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Healthcare

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  • The Palestine Laboratory

    The Palestine Laboratory

    by Antony Loewenstein

    Winner of the 2023 Walkley non fiction journalism prizeFinalist for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights WritingIsrael's military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as ...
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  • The Killing of Gaza

    The Killing of Gaza

    by Gideon Levy

    Translated by David B. Green

    Gideon Levy is one of the most respected critics of Israel's apartheid policies against the Palestinian people. He is the outspoken award-winning journalist who has been writing on the conflict for...

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  • Urban Warfare

    Urban Warfare

    by Raquel Rolnik

    Introduction by David Harvey

    Translated by Gabriel Hirschhorn

    In Urban Warfare, Rolnik charts how the financialisation of housing has become a global crisis, as models of home ownership, originating in the US and UK, are being exported around the world. Thes...
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  • The Dispossessed

    The Dispossessed

    by John Washington

    Arnovis couldn’t stay in El Salvador. If he didn’t leave, a local gangster promised that his family would dress in mourning, that he would wake up with flies in his mouth. “It was like a bomb explo...
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  • We Built the Wall

    We Built the Wall

    by Eileen Truax

    Translated by Diane Stockwell

    For decades, the American political asylum process has been used to punish enemies and reward friends of the US government. Refugees from Cuba can walk through an open door. People fleeing Eastern ...
  • All-American Nativism

    All-American Nativism

    by Daniel Denvir

    It is often said that with the election of Donald Trump nativism was raised from the dead. After all, here was a president who organized his campaign around a rhetoric of unvarnished racism and xen...
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