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How Race Survived US History

by David R. Roediger

An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labor

32 posts
The Hollywood Kid

by Óscar Martínez and Juan José Martínez

The compelling story of the life and death of a Salvadoran gangster
Carlos Slim

by Diego Osorno

Can one of the richest men in the world be a good person?
Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property

by Steve Fraser

Steve Fraser is the preeminent historian of America as a capitalist civilization

Outsider in the White House

by Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders’s political autobiography

32 posts
Empire of Borders

by Todd Miller

The United States is outsourcing its border patrol abroad—and essentially expanding its borders in the process

7 posts
American Breakdown

by David Bromwich

How Trump got to the Oval Office—and how both parties and the mainstream media are keeping him there

5 posts
The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

by Nancy Fraser

Neoliberalism is fracturing, but what will emerge in its wake?

5 posts

The Groundings with My Brothers

by Walter Rodney

A remarkable book on the international operations of racism and the global meaning of Black Power

11 posts
Civilization

by Régis Debray

American civilization’s dominance over Europe—and what to do about it

2 posts
Our History Is the Future

by Nick Estes

How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life”

8 posts
Socialist Strategy and Electoral Politics

Edited by Verso Books

A timely, free ebook about the fight for working-class power

6 posts

Money

by Michel Aglietta

The major French economist offers a new theory of money

6 posts
A Massacre in Mexico

by Anabel Hernández

The definitive account of the disappearance of forty-three Mexican students

2 posts
Latinx

by Ed Morales

The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics

10 posts
City of Segregation

by Andrea Gibbons

A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los Angeles

3 posts

The End of Policing

by Alex S. Vitale

The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself

17 posts
The Other

by Ryszard Kapuściński

The master of literary reportage reflects on the West’s encounters with the non-European

2 posts
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

by Mike Davis

A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.’s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiracies

17 posts
Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class

by Mike Davis

A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United States

17 posts

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