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"A legendary lawyer and a legal scholar reveal the structural failures that undermine justice in our criminal courts. The Fear of Too Much Justice offers a timely, trenchant, firsthand critique of our criminal courts and points the way toward a more just future"--

Successful format: Other New Press documents books, including The Pinochet File (over 15K copies sold), The Kissinger Transcripts (over 12K copies sold), White House Email (over 11K copies sold) and Bay of Pigs Declassified (over 9K copies sold) have reached wide general readerships.Major anniversary: Will publish as nation grapples with anniversary of the worst U.S. military defeat since Vietnam, positioning author as important commentator on the causes of the debacle.Unique, accessible package: Unlike long-form nonfiction narratives of Afghanistan, this is a short, digestible account for general readers, cleverly designed and formatted for maximum impact.Respected experts: The National Security Archive is considered the go-to source on government secrecy and American foreign policy. Author Tom Banton is widely quoted in the mainstream media and has extensive on-air media experience.Key institutional collaboration: The New Press and the National Security Archive are longtime collaborators and will combine forces for a major national media push.

Groundbreaking concept: Based on a new report that caused a lot of buzz, called The Power of Parsimony. "Parsimony" is coming into the language, as in this October 2021 New York Times op-ed by Khalil Gibran Muhammad.Prestigious Contributors: Including Matthew Desmond, Patrick Sharkey, Judge Nancy Gertner, Tracey Meares, Danielle Sered, and more.Editor reputations: Travis and Western are among the best-known and most respected people working on American criminal justice reform (Travis was president of John Jay College of Criminal justice, among other relevant positions). Travis has been praised by Richard M. Aborn, president of the Citizens Crime Commission, as well as former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton. Every person working in the space-on both sides of the aisle-will want this book. Institutional Support: Will be published in partnership with The Square One Project, which will help promote, as will Arnold Ventures and the MacArthur Foundation, which has funded the book.Author sales track: Jeremy Travis' previous book, But They All Come Back, has sold 4-5000 copies, per Rowman and Littlefield's sales (publisher has since gone out of business and exact figure is not available).

Major African American interest: Thomas is a key member of a generation of political, philanthropic, and business leaders who first broke down racial walls in the 1970s and 80s; his appointment to the Ford Foundation was a major national media event and the book will occasion a reassessment of how far we have come.Hot news story inside philanthropy: Thomas offers an unvarnished look inside the nation's largest foundation at a time of crisis and change-it will be newsworthy in the world of donors and philanthropy.Major serial placement: We expect high-profile serialization in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Essence, The Root, and elsewhere.Added publishing firepower: We have major support from the Ford Foundation to publish and promote this book.High profile launch: The Ford Foundation will launch the book at its NYC offices and promote it through its large network of grantees and collaborators nationwide.

A stunning full-color collection of photographs, old and new, by the renowned photographer and LGBTQIA+ activist Lola Flash Working at the forefront of genderqueer visual politics, celebrated photographer Lola Flash has become known for images that manage to both interrogate and transcend preconceptions about gender, sex, and race. Spurred by their experience as an active member of ACT UP and ART+ during the AIDS epidemic in New York City, their art is profoundly connected to their activism, fueling a lifelong commitment to visibility and preserving the legacy of queer communities, especially queer communities of color.The seventeenth volume in a groundbreaking series of LGBTQ-themed photobooks from The New Press, Believable draws on the extraordinary body of work that Flash has created over four decades, from their iconic “Cross Colour” images from the 1980s and early 1990s to their more recent photography, which used the framework of Afrofuturism to examine the intersection of Black culture and technoculture and science fiction. Also included in the book are portraits that explore the impact of skin pigmentation on Black identity and consciousness, as well as people who have challenged traditional concepts of gender and trendsetters in the urban underground cultural scene.In all their images, their passion for photography and their belief in the medium’s ability to provide agency and freedom and initiate change shine through. For the first time, Believable brings together the remarkable work of this queer art icon.Believable was designed by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS).

Two groundbreaking sociologists explore the way the American dream is built on the backs of working poor womenMany Americans take comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants, order groceries online, and hire nannies to care for kids.Getting Me Cheap is a riveting portrait of the lives of the low-wage workersprimarily womenwho make this lifestyle possible. Sociologists Lisa Dodson and Amanda Freeman follow women in the food, health care, home care, and other low-wage industries as they struggle to balance mothering with bad jobs and without public aid. While these women tend to the needs of well-off families, their own children frequently step into premature adult roles, providing care for siblings and aging family members.Based on years of in-depth field work and hundreds of eye-opening interviews, Getting Me Cheap explores how America traps millions of women and their children into lives of stunted opportunity and poverty in service of giving others of us the lives we seek. Destined to rank with works like Evicted and Nickle and Dimed for its revelatory glimpse into how our society functions behind the scenes, Getting Me Cheap also offers a way forwardwith both policy solutions and a keen moral vision for organizing women across class lines.

Strong track record for authors' previous books: Hanauer's The True Patriot sold 40K+ copies and his Gardens of Democracy sold 27K. Roth's The Great Suppression was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize.Robust Social Media Platform for Authors: Nick Hanauer has 53,000 followers on Twitter and 138,000 followers on Facebook; the Pitchfork Economics podcast has 150,000 downloads each month; Joan Walsh has 346,000 followers on Twitter.Fun, politically engaged book in beautiful package: Amazing illustrations, beautiful interior design and packaging, to appeal to Americans feeling bamboozled by the rich and powerful.Blurbers: We expect strong blurbs from people like Anand Giridharadaras, Naomi Klein, and Representative Katie Porter.

Sales Track: Captured has sold 8K copies across all editions, including over 5K hardcovers.National Recognition: Senator Whitehouse has raised the visibility of these issues considerably since he took over chairmanship of the Senate subcommittee on Courts and made penetrating presentations in the Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Comey Barrett confirmation hearings (the latter went viral on the internet).Court tie-in: Will publish October 22, 2022, to coincide with opening of Supreme Court.Promotion: Senator Whitehouse did events at Politics & Prose, the Center for American Progress, and the Roosevelt House in NYC, among other events for Captured. He was also the subject of a profile by Jeffrey Toobin in The New Yorker. He is eager to promote The Scheme.Building interest in the topic: Senator Whitehouse has been speaking and writing on this topic for well over a year now, including his presentations during the Kavanaugh and Barrett hearings.

In Their Names busts open the public safety myth that uses victims' rights to perpetuate mass incarceration, and offers a formula for what would actually make us safe, from the widely respected head of Alliance for Safety and JusticeWhen twenty-six-year-old recent college graduate Aswad Thomas was days away from starting a professional basketball career in 2009, he was shot twice while buying juice at a convenience store. The trauma left him in excruciating pain, with mounting medical debt, and struggling to cope with deep anxiety and fear. That was the same year the national incarceration rate peaked. Yet, despite thousands of new tough-on-crime policies and billions of new dollars pumped into ';justice,' Aswad never received victim compensation, support, or even basic levels of concern. In the name of victims, justice bureaucracies ballooned while most victims remained on their own.In In Their Names, Lenore Anderson, president of one of the nation's largest reform advocacy organizations, offers a close look at how the political call to help victims in the 1980s morphed into a demand for bigger bureaucracies and more incarceration, and cemented the long- standing chasm that exists between most victims and the justice system. She argues that the powerful myth that mass incarceration benefits victims obscures recognition of what most victims actually need, including addressing their trauma, which is a leading cause of subsequent violent crime.A solutions-oriented, paradigm-shifting book, In Their Names argues persuasively for closing the gap between our public safety systems and crime survivors.

A gripping work of narrative nonfiction, told across time, that exposes whats at stake when prosecutors conceal evidenceand what we can do about it The Brady rule was meant to transform the U.S. justice system. In soaring language, the Supreme Court decreed in 1963 that prosecutors must share favorable evidence with the defensepart of a suite of decisions of that reform-minded era designed to promote fairness for those accused of crimes. But reality intervened. The opinion faced many challenges, ranging from poor legal reasoning and shaky precedent to its clashes with the very foundations of the American criminal legal system and some of its most powerful enforcers: prosecutors.In this beautifully wrought work of narrative nonfiction, Thomas L. Dybdahl illustrates the promise and shortcomings of the Brady rule through deft storytelling and attention to crucial cases, including the infamous 1984 murder of Catherine Fuller in Washington, DC. This case led to eight young Black men being sent to prison for life after the prosecutor, afraid of losing the biggest case of his career, hid information that would have proven their innocence.With a seasoned defense lawyers unsparing eye for detail, Thomas L. Dybdahl chronicles the evolution of the Brady rulefrom its unexpected birth to the series of legal decisions that left it defanged and ineffective. Yet Dybdahl shows us a path forward by highlighting promising reform efforts across the country that offer a blueprint for a legislative revival of Bradys true spirit.

Sales Track: Kleinknecht's The Man Who Sold the World sold 6300 copies across all editions.Incredibly strong category: Authors from Ezra Klein to Heather McGee have tried to explain the origins and implications of the red/blue divide; this takes a bold new tack by focusing on common threads in Republican governance.Hot topic for the midterms and beyond: 2022 American media and voters will be watching 2022 election closely for a read on which way the nation is tilting politically-this book explains the implications for different states.Serial: We will work to place serial excerpts in relevant state newspapers and media outlets (Texas, Florida, Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, and West Virginia).Original reporting and political analysis: Author delves deeply into underreported stories of corruption and underdevelopment in Red States-an eye-opening and newsworthy synthesis.

From a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of commercial marketing on children, a timely investigation into how big tech is hijacking childhoodand what we can do about itEven before the COVID-19 pandemic, digital technologies had become deeply embedded in children's lives, despite a growing body of research detailing the harms of excessive immersion in the unregulated, powerfully seductive, profit-driven world of the ';kid-tech' industry.In Who's Raising the Kids? Linnone of the world's leading experts on the impact of Big Tech and big business on childrenexplores the roots and consequences of this monumental shift toward a digitized, commercialized childhood, focusing on kids' values, relationships, and learning. From birth, kids have become lucrative fodder for a range of tech, media, and toy companies, from producers of exploitative games and social media platforms to ';educational' technology and branded school curricula of dubious efficacy. Noting that many Silicon Valley elites wouldn't dream of exposing their young kids to the very technologies they've unleashed on other people's children, Who's Raising the Kids? is uniquea highly readable social critique and guide to protecting kids from exploitation by the tech, toy, and entertainment industries. Linn provides a deep and eye-opening dive into exactly how new technologies enable huge conglomerates to transform young children into lifelong consumers by infiltrating their lives and influencing their values, relationships and learning. She persuasively argues that our digitized-commercialized culture is damaging for kids and families as well as society at large, and maps out what we must do to change course.Written with humor and compassion, the book concludes with two hopeful chapters';Resistance Parenting' and ';Making a Difference for Everybody's Kids'that chart a path for protecting kids from targeting by the tech, toy, and entertainment industries that treat them as lucrative bundles of data and as mini-consumers ripe for exploitation rather than as the children they need to be.

Nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction)A 2017 Washington Post Notable Book A Kirkus Best Book of 2017Butler has hit his stride. This is a meditation, a sonnet, a legal brief, a poetry slam and a dissertation that represents the full bloom of his early thesis: The justice system does not work for blacks, particularly black men.The Washington Post The most readable and provocative account of the consequences of the war on drugs since Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow . . . .The New York Times Book ReviewWith the eloquence of Ta-Nehisi Coates and the persuasive research of Michelle Alexander, a former federal prosecutor explains how the system really works, and how to disrupt itCops, politicians, and ordinary people are afraid of black men. The result is the Chokehold: laws and practices that treat every African American man like a thug. In this explosive new book, an African American former federal prosecutor shows that the system is working exactly the way its supposed to. Black men are always under watch, and police violence is widespreadall with the support of judges and politicians. In his no-holds-barred style, Butler, whose scholarship has been featured on 60 Minutes, uses new data to demonstrate that white men commit the majority of violent crime in the United States. For example, a white woman is ten times more likely to be raped by a white male acquaintance than be the victim of a violent crime perpetrated by a black man. Butler also frankly discusses the problem of black on black violence and how to keep communities saferwithout relying as much on police. Chokehold powerfully demonstrates why current efforts to reform law enforcement will not create lasting change. Butlers controversial recommendations about how to crash the system, and when its better for a black man to plead guiltyeven if hes innocentare sure to be game-changers in the national debate about policing, criminal justice, and race relations.

An eye-opening look at how America's elite colleges and suburbs help keep the rich richmaking it harder than ever to fight the inequality dividing us todayThe front-page news and the trials that followed Operation Varsity Blues were just the tip of the iceberg. Poison Ivy tells the bigger, seedier story of how elite colleges create paths to admission available only to the wealthy, despite rhetoric to the contrary. Evan Mandery reveals how tacit agreements between exclusive ';Ivy-plus' schools and white affluent suburbs create widespread de facto segregation. And as a college degree continues to be the surest route to upward mobility, the inequality bred in our broken higher education system is now a principal driver of skyrocketing income inequality everywhere.Manderya professor at a public college that serves low- and middle-income studentscontrasts the lip service paid to ';opportunity' by so many elite colleges and universities with schools that actually walk the walk. Weaving in shocking data and captivating interviews with students and administrators alike, Poison Ivy also synthesizes fascinating insider information on everything from how students are evaluated, unfair tax breaks, and questionable fundraising practices to suburban rituals, testing, tutoring, tuition schemes, and more. This bold, provocative indictment of America's elite colleges shows us what's at stake in a faulty systemand what will be possible if we muster the collective will to transform it.

Kaba's Sales Track Record: Kaba's We Do This 'til We Free Us was published in February 2021 by Haymarket, is a New York Times bestseller, and to date has sold 27,500 copies.Platform: Mariame Kaba has 141k twitter followers, tweets regularly, and is known as one of the leading prison and police abolitionists of our time; Andrea Ritchie has 14k twitter followers. A number of books will be published later this year that cover some of the same material from similarly respected and renowned abolitionists, including Ruth Wilson Gilmore's Change Everything (June 2021) and Derecka Purnell's Becoming Abolitionists (October 2021), but Kaba's platform far exceeds these authors. Both Kaba and Ricthie have essays in the forthcoming Abolition for the People (October 2021), the anthology edited by Colin Kaepernick.Credentials: Kaba is the recipient of the 2020 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship, the National Sexual Violence Resource Center's 2019 Visionary Voice Award, 2017 Peace Award by War Resisters League, a 2016 SOROS Justice Fellowship, and a 2016 AERA Ella Baker/Septima Clark Human Rights Award. She was listed in the 2018 Bitch 50 and Essence Magazine's 2018 #Woke100.Ritchie was a 2014 Senior Soros Justice Fellow, has testified before the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, the White House Council on Women and Girls, the Prison Rape Elimination Commission, and is a member of the Movement for Black Lives Policy Table, and was a founding member of the Steering Committee of New York City's Communities United for Police Reform.Blurbs/endorsements: Both authors' previous books boast blurbs from virtually every major Black intellectual or high-profile activist, including Michelle Alexander, Dorothy Roberts, Barbara Ransby, Robin D. G. Kelley, Rashad Robinson, Opal Tometi, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Charlene A. Carruthers, Beth Richie, and Mychal Denzel Smith. We expect a similar response to this book.Anniversary: The book will publish at approximately the two-year anniversary of George Floyd's death, and media retrospectives are expected.

Powerful, wry essays offering modern takes on a primitive practice, from one of our most widely read death penalty abolitionistsAs Ruth Bader Ginsburg has noted, people who are well represented at trial rarely get the death penalty. But as Marc Bookman shows in a dozen brilliant essays, the problems with capital punishment run far deeper than just bad representation. Exploring prosecutorial misconduct, racist judges and jurors, drunken lawyering, and executing the innocent and the mentally ill, these essays demonstrate that precious few people on trial for their lives get the fair trial the Constitution demands.Today, death penalty cases continue to capture the hearts, minds, and eblasts of progressives of all stripes—including the rich and famous (see Kim Kardashian’s advocacy)—but few people with firsthand knowledge of America’s “injustice system” have the literary chops to bring death penalty stories to life.Enter Marc Bookman. With a voice that is both literary and journalistic, the veteran capital defense lawyer and seven-time Best American Essays “notable” author exposes the dark absurdities and fatal inanities that undermine the logic of the death penalty wherever it still exists. In essays that cover seemingly “ordinary” capital cases over the last thirty years, Bookman shows how violent crime brings out our worst human instincts—revenge, fear, retribution, and prejudice. Combining these emotions with the criminal legal system’s weaknesses—purposely ineffective, arbitrary, or widely infected with racism and misogyny—is a recipe for injustice.Bookman has been charming and educating readers in the pages of The Atlantic, Mother Jones, and Slate for years. His wit and wisdom are now collected and preserved in A Descending Spiral.

In this provocative new book, Richard A. Greenwald¿a working-class kid from Queens turned historian, professor, and college dean¿argues that we are at a fork in the road. The country can either move further into a two-tier higher education system divided by class and access, or we can stop talking naively about college as an engine of opportunity and start making it one.Class Dismissed leads with a discerning history of higher ed battles that still reverberate in the current times, whether over Reagan-era cultural attacks and budget cuts or veterans' opportunities. Greenwald proceeds to expose the dangers of a system shaped by elitism and thoughtfully analyze how the needs of today's working-class students and their schools are unmet and misunderstood¿enlightening us on everything from costs, resource allocation, and job training to the implications of adjuncts, reputation, and MOOCs.With a fresh voice that stands apart from the perennial pontificators who typically dominate the public conversation on college, Greenwald reminds readers that it's always been uncomfortable to talk openly and honestly about class. He warns that if we continue to dismiss where and how the mass of American students go to school rather than expand the debate over the future of higher education, we are destined to end up with a simulacrum of what college should be.

Written by a trio of celebrated scholars, "The Race Track" is a twenty-first-century road map to how race operates in America today. From its covert and psychological dimensions to how race plays a key role in allocating assets to some while denying them to others and a "whiteness protection program" that keeps race-based advantages intact, this landmark new book challenges some of society's most cherished notions-- about merit, markets, and choice, and about the causes and consequences of unequal racial outcomes. As leaders of a cutting-edge think-tank, the authors have crafted an essential guide to contemporary racism based on years of looking beyond the ivory tower and talking to ordinary people from all walks of life. Amid all the "post-racial" rhetoric, "The Race Track" boldly claims that it is not racist to talk about race while structural racism is alive and well. Asserting that color-bound problems cannot be remedied with colorblind solutions, this courageous new work lays out what the full range of responses must be if we are truly interested in achieving justice for all people.

Serial: The previous books in the series were picked up for serial in major LGBTQ and photography publications, and there is a strong likelihood that this will be too. Outreach: Dedicated communications and advertising campaign geared toward LGBTQ community.Beautiful, affordable package: French flaps with full color throughout.Funding: The book is funded by the ARCUS foundation, which will help promote the book.

The first comprehensive account of the Trump administrations efforts to destroy our government institutions, by the man Ralph Nader says writes authoritatively and with revealing detail about important topics that few others coverTom McGarity writes authoritatively and with revealing detail about important topics that few others cover. Ralph NaderKoch Industries spent $3.1 million in the first three months of the Trump administration, largely to ensure confirmation of Scott Pruitt as head of the EPA. By July 2018, more than sixteen federal inquiries were pending into Pruitts mismanagement and corruption. But Pruitt was just the first in a long line of industry-friendly, incompetent, and destructive agency heads put in place by the Trump administration in its effort to dismantle the federal governments protective edifice.Remember Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, who, before he faced eighteen separate federal inquiries and was fired, made a deal with Halliburton to build a brewery on land that Zinke owned in Montana? Or how about Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who rescinded requirements that high-hazard trains install special braking systems, weakened standards for storing natural gas, and lengthened the hours that truck drivers could be on the road without a break, even as she failed for two years to divest her interest in a road materials manufacturer? And then there were Rick Perry, Betsy DeVos, Sonny Perdue, Andrew Puzder . . . the list goes on.In an original and compelling argument, Thomas McGarity shows how adding populists to the Republicans traditional base of free market ideologues and establishment Republicans allowed Trump to come dangerously close to achieving his goal of demolishing the programs that Congress put in place over the course of many decades to protect consumers, workers, communities, children, and the environment. Finally, McGarity offers a blueprint for rebuilding the protective edifice and restoring the power of the American government to offer all Americans better lives.

The inside story of the U.S.-Chinese superpower conflict playing out behind the scenes of todays movie industry, from the leading media scholarIn the last decade, China has become the worlds largest movie market. Formerly objects of exotic fascination in the golden age of Hollywood, today the Chinese are a make-or-break audience for Hollywoods biggest blockbusters. And movies are now an essential part of Chinas global soft power strategy: a Chinese real estate tycoon (who until recently was the major shareholder of the AMC theater chain) is building the worlds largest film production facility. Behind the curtains, as this brilliant new book reveals, movies have become one of the biggest areas of competition between the worlds two remaining superpowers.Will Hollywood be eclipsed by a Chinese Huallywood? No author is better positioned to untangle this question than Ying Zhu, a leading expert on Chinese film and media. Hollywood in China unravels the fascinating, century-long relationship between Hollywood and China for the first time. Blending cultural history, business, and international relations, Hollywood in China offers an inside look at the intense business and political maneuvering that is shaping the movies and the U.S.-China relationships itselfrevealing a headlines-grabbing conflict that is playing out not only on the high seas, but on the silver screen.

A bold new assessment of the multipronged attack on rights in the United States, and how to push backAn overwhelming majority of Americans agree that rights are essential to their freedom, and that rights today are severely threatened. The promise of rights has been reimagined at pivotal moments in American historyfrom the American Revolution to the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. Can today become another time of transformation?Holding Together is about the promise of rights as a source of American identity, the struggle to realize rights by countless Americans to whom the promise has been denied or not fulfilled, the hijacking of rights by politicians who seek power by dividing and polarizing, and the way forward in which rights can bring Americans together instead of tearing them apart.Drawing on a series of town hall meetings with representative groups of citizens across the country discussing their concerns over rights, new national opinion polls from all demographic groups and political perspectives conducted in 2020 and 2021, and extensive research, Holding Together is a road map for an American rights revival.John Shattuck, Sushma Raman, and Mathias Risse present a comprehensive account of the current state of rights in the United Statesand concrete recommendations to policy makers and citizens on how to reclaim them.

With history and the extraordinary parallels between Biden and FDR as his guide, the veteran political analyst diagnoses whats at stake for America in 2022 and beyondJoe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelts New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril as Republicans, increasingly the national minority, try to destroy democracy in order to cling to power. It is the best of times and the worst of times. In Going Big, bestselling author and political journalist Robert Kuttner assesses the promise and peril of this critical juncture.Biden, like FDR in his time, faces multiple challenges. Roosevelt had to make terrible compromises with racist legislators to win enactment of his program. Biden, to achieve the necessary governing coalition, needs to achieve durable multiracial coalitions. Roosevelt had to conquer fascism in Europe; Biden must defeat it at home. And after four decades of neoliberal policy disasters reflecting Wall Streets political influence, Biden needs to go beyond what even FDR achieved, to restore a democratic economy of broad possibility.From a writer with an unparalleled understanding of the history and politics that have made this moment possible, this book is the essential guide to what is at stake for Joe Biden, for America, and for our democracy.

An American Library Association Notable BookA powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth’s futureAlthough for a great many people, the human impact on the Earth—countless species becoming extinct, pandemics claiming millions of lives, and climate crisis causing worldwide social and environmental upheaval—was not apparent until recently, this is not the case for all people or cultures. For the Indigenous people of the world, radical alteration of the planet, and of life itself, is a story that is many generations long. They have had to adapt, to persevere, and to be courageous and resourceful in the face of genocide and destruction—and their experience has given them a unique understanding of civilizational devastation.An innovative work of research and reportage, We Are the Middle of Forever places Indigenous voices at the center of conversations about today’s environmental crisis. The book draws on interviews with people from different North American Indigenous cultures and communities, generations, and geographic regions, who share their knowledge and experience, their questions, their observations, and their dreams of maintaining the best relationship possible to all of life. A welcome antidote to the despair arising from the climate crisis, We Are the Middle of Forever brings to the forefront the perspectives of those who have long been attuned to climate change and will be an indispensable aid to those looking for new and different ideas and responses to the challenges we face.

Named a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times "e;Singular, stylish and slightly intoxicating in its scope."e;-Rolling Stone Acclaimed media critic J. Hoberman's masterful and majestic exploration of the Reagan years as seen through the unforgettable movies of the era The third book in a brilliant and ambitious trilogy, celebrated cultural and film critic J. Hoberman's Make My Day is a major new work of film and pop culture history. In it he chronicles the Reagan years, from the waning days of the Watergate scandal when disaster films like Earthquake ruled the box office to the nostalgia of feel-good movies like Rocky and Star Wars, and the delirium of the 1984 presidential campaign and beyond. Bookended by the Bicentennial celebrations and the Iran-Contra affair, the period of Reagan's ascendance brought such movie events as Jaws, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Ghostbusters, Blue Velvet, and Back to the Future, as well as the birth of MTV, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the Second Cold War. An exploration of the synergy between American politics and popular culture, Make My Day is the concluding volume of Hoberman's Found Illusions trilogy; the first volume, The Dream Life, was described by Slate's David Edelstein as "e;one of the most vital cultural histories I've ever read"e;; Film Comment called the second, An Army of Phantoms, "e;utterly compulsive reading."e; Reagan, a supporting player in Hoberman's previous volumes, here takes center stage as the peer of Indiana Jones and John Rambo, the embodiment of a Hollywood that, even then, no longer existed.

The founders of the critical race movement have collaborated to edit this collection of important writings on the subject. Included in the essays are "Whiteness as Property" by Cheryl Harris, "Race Consciousness" by Garry Peller and "Race, Reform and Retrenchment" by Kimberle Crenshaw.