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Set the Night on Fire

by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener

A magisterial, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the Sixties

6 posts
The Romance of American Communism

by Vivian Gornick

Writer and critic Vivian Gornick’s long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American life

5 posts
The Dispossessed

by John Washington

The first comprehensive, in-depth book on the Trump administration’s assault on asylum protections

3 posts
Snowden’s Box

by Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge

Gripping behind-the-scenes story of Edward Snowden’s massive leak of US secret surveillance

3 posts

Bigger than Bernie

by Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht

Win or lose, Bernie has reshaped the landscape of American politics. Where does the political revolution go next?

4 posts
Toward Freedom

by Touré F. Reed

In the age of runaway inequality and Black Lives matter, there is an emerging consensus that our society has failed to redress racial disparities. But who is the culprit?

2 posts
Holding aloft the Banner of Ethiopia

by Winston James

Recipient of the Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship

2 posts
Yesterday’s Man

by Branko Marcetic

A deep dive into Joe Biden’s history and the origins of his political values

5 posts

Latinx

by Ed Morales

The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics

11 posts
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

35 posts
The Hollywood Kid

by Óscar Martínez and Juan José Martínez

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

1 post
Carlos Slim

by Diego Osorno

Can one of the richest men in the world be a good person?

2 posts

Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property

by Steve Fraser

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

4 posts
Outsider in the White House

by Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders’s political autobiography

33 posts
Empire of Borders

by Todd Miller

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

10 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

7 posts

The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

by Nancy Fraser

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

12 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

13 posts
Civilization

by Régis Debray

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

3 posts
Our History Is the Future

by Nick Estes

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

18 posts

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