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Spring 2018 Rights Guide Spring 2018 Rights Guide Visit our website at www.strothmanagency.com Enquiries to: The Strothman Agency, LLC Email Lauren MacLeod: [email protected] Brazil: Laura Riff, The Riff Agency China: Annie Chen, Bardon Chinese Media Agency France: Anna Jarota, Anna Jarota Agency (Children’s: David Camus) Germany: Sebastian Ritscher, Mohrbooks, (Children’s: Annelie Geissler) Greece: Evangelia Avloniti, Ersilia Literary Agency Hungary: Peter Bolza, Katai & Bolza Agency Italy: Erica Berla, Berla & Griffini Rights (Children’s: Vanessa Maus) Japan: Hamish McCaskill, The English Agency Korea: Duran Kim, Duran Kim Agency Poland & Eastern Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia): Filip Wojciechowski, Graal Russia: Zuzanna Brzezinska, Anna Jarota Agency Scandanavia, The Netherlands: Philip Sane, Lennart Sane Spain & Portugal: Teresa Vilarrubla, The Foreign Office Turkey: Amy Spangler and Dogan Terzi, Anatolia (Children's: Dilek Akdemir ) Early Warning: Upcoming & Recently Sold Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, When They Fall ……………………3 Kathryn Miles: Killers on the Trail: Love, Murder, and the Quest for Justice in America's Wild Places ………………………….……………………………………………………………………..……..…………………………..…4 Michelle Wilde Anderson: Left for Dead: Local Government in the Post-Industrial Age ……..………5 Richard Ford: Dress Codes: Laws of Attire and Crime of Fashion ………………………….……………………6 Now Available: Adult Titles David Kertzer: The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and The Emergence of Modern Europe ………………………………………………………………………..……..…………………………………………………..…7 Yanis Varoufakis: Adults in the Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment ………….…… 9 Yanis Vaourfakis: Introduction to The Communist Manifesto …………………………………….……………11 Donald Hall: Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety ……………………………………………………………12 Frances McCall Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro: Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself…………………………………………………………………………………………….……………………………………….… 13 James M. Scott: Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila ………………………….14 Lauren Dubois: Language of the Game: How to Understand Soccer …………….…………………….……15 Cinque Henderson: Sit Down and Shut Up: How Discipline Can Set Students Free ……………………16 Joanne B. Freeman: Field of Blood: Congressional Violence and the Road to Civil War ……………17 Bruce Gamble: Kangaroo Squadron: American Courage in the Darkest Days of World War II …18 Julie Dobrow: After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….19 Now Available: Young Adult Fiction Aminah Mae Safi: Not The Girls You’re Looking For …………………………………..………………………..…20 Jodi Meadows: Fallen Isles Trilogy …………………………………………………..……..…………………………..…21 Estates & Large Literary Properties Donald Hall………………………………………………………………………………………..……..…………………………..…22 Jane Kenyon………………………………………………………………………………………..…………..………….…………..23 John Kenneth Galbraith……………..……………………………………………………….……..………….………………..24 Doris Grumbach …………………………………………………..………………………….…………………………..…………25 Barbara Cooney ………..……………………………………………..…………………………………………………..…………26 Strothman Agency Rights Guide- 2 – Contact Lauren MacLeod, [email protected] Early Warning Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, When They Fall Ruth Ben-Ghiat • NA English Sold to Norton • UK English to Profile Books Limited, all other territories available • Proposal Available, Manuscript Available Summer 2019 • Length: 100,000 words Strongmen now rule over many of the most populous and geopolitically important nations on earth: India, China, Russia, Turkey, and now the United States, with the leaders of Venezuela, Hungary, the Philippines, Egypt, and North Korea also fitting the bill. It’s not surprising that those who created the template for this kind of leadership in the early twentieth century are also in the news. The surge in right-wing populist movements in Europe and America has led to a revival of interest in Fascist dictators like Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, while Putin has undertaken a rehabilitation of the Communist despot Joseph Stalin. While the one-party state of the past has been discarded practically everywhere but North Korea, the strongman is thriving in the twenty-first century. It’s high time for a history of this figure, and Strongmen is guided by questions that will resonate with readers today. How do strongmen differ from other repressive rulers? Why do they appear at certain times in history? What role does charisma have in convincing some people to support them no matter what they say or do? What are his weaknesses, and the constraints on his power? What happens when elites and the people turn against him? What ultimately causes him to topple? Strongmen captures what’s most compelling about our fraught political moment – and places it in perspective. The rulers of our time acquire more context and history, as do current debates about leadership, corruption, and political celebrity. Ruth Ben-Ghiat contributes frequently to CNN Opinion, writing about politics and culture. A Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University, she has won Guggenheim, Fulbright, Library of Congress, and many other fellowships. Her essays and interviews have also appeared in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Corriere della Sera, The Native Society, Il Sole 24Ore, and other publications. She has appeared on Huffington Post Live, Taking Stock with Pimm Fox, RAI Storia, and other news and culture programs. Ben-Ghiat sits on the Board of Directors of the World Policy Institute, and in 2013 received an Award for Outstanding Service for her work for the Scholar Rescue Fund of the Institute of International Education. Strothman Agency Rights Guide- 3 – Contact Lauren MacLeod, [email protected] Killers on the Trail: Love, Murder, and the Quest for Justice in America’s Wild Places Kathryn Miles • World English Sold to Algonquin • Narrative True Crime • Proposal Available, Manuscript Available Winter 2020 • Length: 90,000 words Killers on the Trail is an account of the unsolved murder of Julie Williams and Lollie Winans, the subsequent investigations, and their significance in a long history of violence—particularly against women—in America’s wild places. Someone must have tracked the two women a mile or so down the disused bridle trail, away from the scrum of holiday traffic on Shenandoah National Park’s Skyline Drive. Probably, he (for it surely was a “he”) followed unseen as Julie Williams and Lollie Winans turned off of the trail and walked a couple hundred yards to a hidden clearing next to the Rose River – a rocky stream with picturesque pools and descents. It’d been raining nonstop for days, and that normally pacific stream was now raging. That meant he could tail the couple unheard, watching as they pitched their tent and set up a run for their golden retriever, Taj. This was no chance encounter. Nor was it a spontaneous attack. Their killer carried duct tape and rope, a knife with a machete-like blade. And he was patient. He waited while they lit their camp stove and made dinner. He let them finish eating before he attacked. The din of the rapids meant Williams and Winans had no warning. He was all but on top of them before they ever even knew he was there. And by then, neither one of them stood a chance. Killers on the Trail follows the final days of Williams and Winans, their killings, the investigations by the FBI and the National Park Police, and the suspect who was never taken to trial. Since the death of Williams and Winans, six other young women have either been murdered or have gone missing in the area. The killer, whoever he is, is still out there. Kathryn Miles wants to know why. To understand the murder investigation of Williams and Winans, Miles will also take an in-depth look at backcountry investigations: we’ll meet the rangers and wardens first on the scene and follow detectives and forensic experts as their inquiry unfolds both on secluded mountain tops and in cutting edge DNA labs. Killers on the Trail will include first-hand reporting from places like the mountains outside Denver, Colorado, where special FBI evidence responses teams are taught to repel, ice climb, and spelunk in the name of solving backcountry crime, and ride-alongs with rangers and national park police as they attempt to solve their own crimes. Kathryn Miles is the writer-in-Residence at Green Mountain College and author of QUAKELAND: On The Road To America's Next Devastating Earthquake; SUPERSTORM: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy. Strothman Agency Rights Guide- 4 – Contact Lauren MacLeod, [email protected] Left for Dead: Local Government in the Post-Industrial Age Michelle Wilde Anderson • World English Sold to Simon & Schuster • Proposal Available, Manuscript Available Winter 2019 • Length:100,000 words On a Saturday morning in August, 2012, a terrified woman in Josephine County, Oregon called 911 to report a violent ex-boyfriend trying to break into her home. The 911 dispatcher had no one to send: the local sheriff’s department was too broke to staff anyone on weekends, and the nearest state police officer was hours away. The powerless operator stayed on the phone for ten minutes, coaching the caller to hide or ask the man to go away, until the intruder broke into the woman’s home, where he raped and choked her. The following week, the county sheriff issued a press release warning victims of domestic
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