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Jacobin Series Sale | 60% off all Jacobin Series titles!

Bonus: 60% discount extends to all Verso titles* with purchase of three or more books from the Jacobin Series.

27 February 2024

Jacobin Series Sale | 60% off all Jacobin Series titles!

Discounted titles include the definitive reappraisal of Kissinger's blood-soaked legacy, Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger's analysis of the populist shift seen in contemporary politics, Benjamin Y. Fong's history of drugs in America, and many others!

*60% discount applies to the titles/editions in the Verso Jacobin Series. Add any three books from this series to your cart and the 60% discount will extend to any Verso title site-wide and will be applied at checkout, up to three per order.

Sale ends March 12, 2024 @ 11:59p ET.

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The Good Die Young

Introduction by Greg Grandin

Edited by Rene Rojas, Bhaskar Sunkara and Jonah Walters

If the American foreign policy establishment is a grand citadel, Henry Kissinger is the specter haunting its dusty hallways. For half a century, he was an omnipresent figure in war rooms and at pre...

Yesterday's Man

by Branko Marcetic

Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden exposes the forgotten history of Joe Biden, one of the United States’ longest-serving politicians, and one of its least scrutinized.Over nearly fifty yea...

Quick Fixes

by Benjamin Yen-Yi Fong

This is your nation's history on drugsAmericans are stumbling through a world-historic drug binge. Opiates, amphetamines, benzodiazepines, marijuana, antidepressants, antipsychotics—across the boar...

The Populist Moment

by Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger

After thirty years of retreat, the last decade has witnessed a resurgent left in the United States and Western Europe. This upsurge of anti-establishment candidates was not only left-wing but also ...

Confronting Capitalism

by Vivek Chibber

Why is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic countries? Why is it often difficult for working people to organize arou...

The South

by Adolph L. Reed Jr.

Foreword by Barbara J. Fields

The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but ...

Four Futures

by Peter Frase

“It is easier to imagine the end of the world,” the theorist Fredric Jameson has remarked, “than to imagine the end of capitalism.” Jacobin Editor Peter Frase argues that technological advancements...

The Panthers Can't Save Us Now

by Cedric G. Johnson

In the wake of the mass protests over the police murder of George Floyd, nearly every major consumer brand proclaimed their commitments to antiracism, often with new ad campaigns to match their Twe...

Capital City

by Samuel Stein

Our cities are changing. Global real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined. It makes up 60 percent of the world's assets, and the most powerfu...

Playing the Whore

by Melissa Gira Grant

The sex industry is an endless source of prurient drama for the mainstream media. Recent years have seen a panic over "online red-light districts," which supposedly seduce vulnerable young women ...

Toward Freedom

by Touré Reed

For many progressives, racial identities are the engine of American history, and by extension, contemporary politics. They, in short, want to separate race from class. While policymakers and pundit...

Without Apology

by Jenny Brown

With an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court, and several states with only one abortion clinic, many reproductive rights activists are on the defensive, hoping to hold on to abortion in a fe...

Strike for America

by Micah Uetricht

The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this century—and perhaps for the last forty years—and the strongest challenge to the conservative agenda fo...

Red State Revolt

by Eric Blanc

Thirteen months after Trump allegedly captured the allegiance of “the white working class,” a strike wave—the first in over four decades—rocked the United States. Inspired by the wildcat victory in...

Class War

by Megan Erickson

In an age of austerity, elite corporate education reformers have found new ways to transfer the costs of raising children from the state to individual families. Public schools, tasked with providin...

The ABCs of Socialism

Illustrated by Phil Wrigglesworth

Contributions by Nicole Aschoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Jonah Birch, Vivek Chibber, Danny Katch, Chris Maisano, Nivedita Majumdar, Michael A. McCarthy, Joseph M. Schwartz, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Adaner Usmani and Erik Olin Wright

Edited by Bhaskar Sunkara

The remarkable run of self-proclaimed “democratic socialist” Bernie Sanders for president of the United States has prompted—for the first time in decades and to the shock of many—a national convers...