Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens: The Life Story of America's Greatest Reporter.
Harcourt, 1958. Hardcover. 'Complete in One Volume.' Inked name and presentation bookplate on front free endpaper. Jacket chipped along edges. More
Harcourt, 1958. Hardcover. 'Complete in One Volume.' Inked name and presentation bookplate on front free endpaper. Jacket chipped along edges. More
Regent Pr, September 2016. Trade Paperback. What is democracy and where did it come from? Is it a new development or was it always present in human society? And perhaps the most important question: what can we do to preserve and strengthen democracy among the forces that oppose it? In..... More
Crown Currency, March 2024. Hardcover. #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - A "vivid" (Financial Times) rags-to-riches memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the trading floor, a "darkly funny" (Guardian) tale of Citibank's one-time most profitable trader, and why he gave it all up "Darker than [Liar's..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2024. Hardcover. We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom..... More
W. W. Norton, September 2008. Trade Paperback. America has already spent close to a trillion dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but there are hundreds of billions of bills still due--including staggering costs to take care of the thousands of injured veterans, providing them with disability benefits and..... More
Little Brown and Company, November 1989. Paper Back. A collection of newspaper columns from the late 1960s in which Stone turns his attention to the most turbulent period of our recent past. This period included the Vietnam War, the Tet offensive and the US intervention in Cambodia. Clean, sound, without..... More
University Of Chicago Press, 1989-01-15. Trade Paperback. This concise and accessible introduction to Strauss's thought provides, for wider audience, a bridge to his more complex theoretical work. Editor Pangle has gathered five of Strauss's previously unpublished lectures and five hard-to-find published writings and has arranged them so as to demonstrate..... More
Matt Holt, April 2024. First Edition. Hardcover. Discover the inspiring firsthand account of Stephanie Stuckey's rise to CEO upon suddenly acquiring her family's beloved yet struggling brand, which had become a "whatever happened to . . . ?" fading memory for most Americans. Stephanie Stuckey's remarkable journey unfolds in UnStuck..... More
Pyongyang, January 1968. Stapled Pamphlet. 12mo. Thin white card stock cover with two rusty staples. Moderate edgewear. Foxing & dust stains. Two dark stains along spine. [97 pages]. More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2007. Trade Paperback. This casebook explores the common sources of protest and the mechanisms by which unrest became a global phenomenon. It also includes in-depth discussion of how different countries reacted to the protests. The documents reveal common experiences across national boundaries for protesters..... More
Hoover Institute Press:, January 1971. Hardcover. Blue cloth without jacket. 3rd printing. More
Oxford University Press, July 2022. Hardcover. Jihadist rebel groups that take control over a territory, claim authority over its population, and implement radical religious laws have become a rising security issue over the last decade. Generally brutal and authoritarian, the best-known manifestation of this phenomenon is the Islamic State (IS)..... More
Simon & Schuster, February 2024. Hardcover. Instant New York Times Bestseller From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. "Swisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valley...takes..... More
Spiegel & Grau, January 2014. Hardcover. "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "THE WASHINGTON POST, " NPR, AND "KIRKUS REVIEWS" A scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper..... More
Spiegel & Grau, January 2009. Trade Paperback. A REVELATORY AND DARKLY COMIC ADVENTURE THROUGH A NATION ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN--FROM THE HALLS OF CONGRESS TO THE BASES OF BAGHDAD TO THE APOCALYPTIC CHURCHES OF THE HEARTLAND Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi set out to describe the nature of..... More
Random House, April 2007. Hardcover. The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don't know, now with a new section called "On Robustness and Fragility." A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is..... More
Crown, February 2024. Hardcover. You are being surveilled right now. This sweeping exposé reveals how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers to monitor us through the phones we carry and the devices in our home. "A revealing . . . startling . . . timely..... More
Bellevue Literary Press, August 2016. Paper Back. A secular feminist army courageously challenges the Islamic StateIn war-torn northern Syria, a democratic society--based on secularism, ethnic inclusiveness, and gender equality--has won significant victories against the Islamic State, or Daesh, with women on the front lines as fierce warriors and leaders. A...... More
Henry Holt and Co., November 2023. Hardcover. A Wall Street Journal best political book of 2023 A much-needed wake-up call for the Democrats, which reveals how the party has lost sight of its core principles and endangered its political future--from the authors of "one of the most influential political books..... More
Penguin Books, August 2021. Trade Paperback. *Once again a New York Times bestseller! First the original edition, and now the new Final Edition* An essential new edition?revised and updated from cover to cover?of one of the most important books of the last two decades, by Nobel Prize winner Richard H...... More
The October League (Marxist-Leninist), 1977. First Thus. Paper Back. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'}. More
The October League (Marxist-Leninist), 1977. Paper Back. More
Norton, January 1971. Hardcover. 2nd printing in dust jacket. Inscribed to Manuel Maloof, the Chief Executive Officer and Commission Chairman of DeKalb County, Georgia and owner of Manuel's Tavern. Inscribed: 'For Manuel a good Democrat, Ted Lippman.' Includes note, laid in 'Manuel -- Anybody who sells India Pale ale can't..... More
Prickly Paradigm Press, August 2002. Paper Back. Thomas Frank has been sending wake-up calls to just about everyone within reach over the past decade, in venues from The Village Voice to Harper's. His takes on labor politics, advertising, the virtues of the Midwest, and how un-cool you really are have..... More
Routledge, July 1994. Paper Back. Alien Politics retrieves from the writings of Marx an original theory of the state which remains viable and relevant today. Paul Thomas traces the process by which Marx's theory of the state as the instrument of the capitalist ruling class became transformed into communist dogma..... More