Books published by PublicAffairs,U.S.

An entertaining and poignant social history of McLean Hospital--temporary home to many of the troubled geniuses of our age--and of the evolution of the treatment of mental illness from the early 19th century to today

George Soros and his foundation, the Open Society Institute, have had a profound impact on philanthropy and social change in over seventy countries. This is their story.

A PublicAffairs Reports Paperback Original America's leading experts on civil liberties sound an alarm about the consequences of the war on terrorism for our freedom at home

George W. Bush calls Karl Rove "boy genius" and "the man with the plan." Insiders call him the man behind the Republican ascendancy. Who is this guy? And what is the plan?

The definitive and rollicking story of one of the best, and one of the wackiest, teams of all time, during one of the most vital eras in baseball

A towering figure of television news recounts his adventures in broadcast journalism, from TV's earliest days through the controversies and challenges that face the news business today.

For many Americans, TV news anchorman Peter Jennings was the voice and face that gave shape and meaning to every day's news. This biography features Jennings' extraordinary rise to the top of his profession, along with getting to know him as a person.

One doctor's raw and riveting memoir, contrasting the headline-grabbing political rhetoric with the contours of her life, and the lives of her patients

Works about Zhou Enlai are heavily censored in China. This work offers a portrait of the real Zhou, a man who lived his life at the heart of Chinese politics for fifty years, who survived both the Long March and the Cultural Revolution - no thanks to ideological or personal purity - but because he was artful, crafty and politically supple.

A gritty, passionate, behind-the-scenes portrait of a year in the life of Thoroughbred racing's working class, by a racetrack insider

Celebrate the holidays with a new collection by America's favorite commentator and best-selling author

A New York Times bestseller on the financial crisis--now updated to address the current economic landscape

The curious life of the secretive billionaire-turned-philanthropist, now substantially updated with a fascinating coda

Documents the voices of men who have been tortured and held in a black hole of indefinite detention in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba without legal recourse for years. This book shows who they are and also allows readers to see that these men are more similar to us than they are different.

A New York Times bestseller on the financial crisis--now updated to address the current economic landscape

A whole new kind of movie tie-in--the first in a series--goes behind the scenes and deeper into the issues and ideas raised by a provocative documentary on the contemporary way of eating

In this newly updated national bestseller, Nobel Peace Prize--winner Muhammad Yunus outlines his vision of a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world.

A new edition--now with a new Afterword--of the honest and hilarious recovery memoir by the famously neurotic comedian and regular guest star of the hit show Curb Your Enthusiasm

This intense, vivid report and call to action from the heart of violent Darfur, by a former Marine working as an unarmed military observer for the African Union, is a powerful memoir of a young man's awakening to conscience and the first extensive on-theground account of the genocide in Sudan.

This lively, fascinating account of the surprisingly raucous journalism of the Revolutionary era--and how it helped to build a nation that has endured--offers new perspective on today's media wars

One of the nation's leading foreign policy thinkers provides an eye-opening look at America's new role in the world, the responsibilities it has undertaken, and the challenges it faces.

Tells what may be on the agenda as Western domination ends and the Asian renaissance impacts world politics, markets and history.

The president of the Council on Foreign Relations asserts that, despite the visible dangers of our time, we are living in a moment of unique opportunity for the U.S. to shape the future.

A gripping, intimately-observed history of Afghanistan from 1986 to the present--by the longest-serving Western journalist in the region--overturns our conventional and simplistic understandings.

By the author of The Fate of Africa: an updated and fully revised edition of "the best argued and best written indictment [of Mugabe] yet."--The Economist

The awesome, untold adventure of one couple's harrowing, heroic effort to save several hundred ice-bound whalers-- and the future of the Eskimo people

This riveting chronicle of an unimaginably difficult spiritual journey offers an unprecedented look inside a secretive world unchanged since medieval times

A revealing portrait of black men in America explores their lives and experiences with unusual depth and clarity

A prize-winning investigative expose of the poverty and injustice experienced by China's 900 million peasants, told through a series of dramatic personal narratives.

How one provocative, trail-blazing--and long-forgotten-- dealer, Edith Halpert, transformed the business of art dealing and shaped the legacy of modern American art