Books published by PublicAffairs,U.S.

The renowned author of the New York Times bestseller Vernon Can Read, on his best speeches and the great tradition of African American oratory

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Woman at the Washington Zoo , a stunning collection of political portraits from the final dozen years of the twentieth century

This acidly funny account of the battle over an offshore wind farm is both a fascinating window on the business and politics of energy and a scathing portrait of the ruling class.

For Father's Day and the baseball season: This Gilded Age adventure of a great showman, an extraordinary voyage, and 19th century baseball could well be titled "Around the World in Eighty Games"

The definitive biography of the legendary conservative Senator from South Carolina, with new revelations about his life and career.

Through the compelling, sometimes heartbreaking story of one new teacher's experience in a Brooklyn elementary school classroom, a NEW YORK TIMES education reporter illuminates the complex dilemmas currently confounding American public education

For the first time ever, an incisive explanation of what George W. Bush is doing to the economy, by a young Harvard-educated economist and New York Times columnist.

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that separate educational facilities for blacks and whites are inherently ""unequal"" and, as such, violate the 14th Amendment.

A revolutionary program for fixing America's most serious domestic problems for just two cents on the national dollar--while we still can

Through the provocative stories of six contemporary "passers," and examples from history and literature, a renowned journalist illuminates passing as a strategy for bypassing prejudice and injustice

The true story of an African-American man who found, through faith and the self-assurance it provided, the strength to break free of the cycle of poverty and despair that had once characterized his life

A distinguished New York Times editor explores the history of the pipe organ in America in a book that will intrigue and delight anyone interested in classical music and popular culture. Hear the sounds of some of the pipe organs featured in ALL THE STOPS

A renowned psychoanalyst offers a clear-eyed, thought-provoking examination of humankind's most destructive emotion, and the seductive power it has to tear our world apart

For a Father's Day gift or everyday inspiration: a specially priced new paperback edition of the critically acclaimed memoir

A PublicAffairs Reports Paperback Original A meticulously reported expose uncovers exactly how the drug industry boosts sales and bilks consumers in the most lucrative prescription drug market in the world

With the airline industry under siege: A prescient analysis of its problems and an engaging look into its future--as well as a thought-provoking account of the challenges of entrepreneurship in the dot-com age--by the well-known Atlantic Monthly writer and award-winning author of National Defense and Breaking the News

Analysis on terrorism, international security, and global economics from some of the world's leading experts

The headline-making book that exposed the inner workings of the Chinese government and the crackdown on Tiananmen Square

From the controversial former FDA commissioner: the surprisingly gripping, suspenseful, inside story of how the FDA confronted the tobacco industry

A national bestseller and a timeless classic on the ways and mores of our nation's capitol

Most Americans first heard of Michael Harrington with the publication of The Other America, his seminal book on American poverty. Isserman expertly tracks Harrington's beginnings in the Catholic Worke

Each week the editors of Slate, one of the first and best on-line literary magazines, ask a different person to keep a diary. The Slate Diaries is a selection of some of the best of those diaries.

A penetrating memoir on forty years of fighting for civil liberties, human rights, and justice by the former executive director of the ACLU and Human Rights Watch and the current President of the Open Society Institute

Which of America's essential international commitments can we afford to keep in this time of diminished financial resources?

The book about the definitive report on the oil-for-food scandal, with an introduction by former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker

A provocative account of the decayed relationship between the U.S. and Arab world, and a powerful recommendation for how it can be salvaged