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Shane O’Sullivan DIRTY TRICKS The Dark Side of Democracy

New revelations—including never-before- published documents—into the “dirty” victories of Nixon in ’68 and Reagan in ’80.

he victories of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan in the US presidential elections of 1968 Tand 1980 depended on “October Surprises”— keeping the South Vietnamese government away from peace talks in Paris, and delaying a resolution to the Iran hostage crisis until after the election. These treasonous “dirty tricks” were both engineered by the same key figures in the Republican Party, who had close ties to the CIA and the national security state.

There is growing evidence that the CIA and other Shane O’Sullivan is an author and filmmaker. His work players in the national security state were also be- includes the acclaimed documentaries RFK Must Die, hind the Watergate break-ins during Nixon’s 1972 Children of the Revolution, and Killing Oswald and the campaign, which led to his downfall. CIA Director book Who Killed Bobby? Richard Helms’s relationship with E. Howard Hunt • Advance Reading Copies was much closer than previously disclosed; and the • Comprehensive coverage in newspapers post-Watergate career of the Cuban CIA agent inside and magazines the plot reveals much through his connections to a • Salon.com excerpt web of intelligence agencies. • Review coverage from political bloggers and websites Including previously-unpublished details, Dirty Tricks • Mass media—TV and radio corrects the myths and deepens our understanding of • Co-op available the “dirty tricks” that undermined democracy during these election campaigns and defined the political climate of the seventies and eighties. These political scan- dals emerged from two powerful interest groups—the coterie of senior CIA officers around Helms and Hunt, and the lobbyists and national security advis- $21.99 hardcover (Can. $33.99) ers in the Nixon and Reagan administrations. A wide World (W) • CQ 32 swath of characters from vastly different backgrounds ISBN 978-1-5107-2958-2 fit together to tell this unbelievable story of deception. 6” x 9” • 160 pages Current Affairs & Politics “Mr. O’Sullivan knows how to spin a yarn.” —Steve ebook ISBN 978-1-5107-2959-9 JULY Dollar, New York Sun Hot Books | Spring 2018 2

Chris Hedges with David Talbot UNSPEAKABLE

A powerful, necessary conversation with one of the sharpest and boldest political minds in America today.

hris Hedges is an intellectual bomb thrower. The kinds of insights he provides into the Ctroubled state of our democracy cannot be found anywhere else. Like many of our most important thinkers, he has been relegated to the margins because of ideas deemed too radical—or true—for public consumption.

Hedges here speaks up about the most pressing issues currently facing our nation. If we are to combat the intellectual and moral decay that have come to grip Chris Hedges is the Pulitzer Prize–winning, National American life, we must listen to Chris Hedges and Book Critics Circle finalist, andNew York Times bestsell- the urgent message he brings in this book. ing author. He was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years and was part of a team awarded the Pulitzer Prize in “A long-running commentary on the many issues 2002. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his family. Hedges confronts in his writing, including war, David Talbot is the founder and former editor in chief of Occupy Wall Street, and the New York Times’ relation- Salon and a New York Times bestselling author. He has ship to organs of state power . . . It’s bracing to hear written for the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Time, the San Hedges’s unfiltered dissent and disdain, from his dis- Francisco Chronicle, and the Guardian. He lives in San Francisco, California. missal of George W. Bush as ‘a man of limited intelligence and dubious morals’ to his discussion of how • Advance Reading Copies the seductions of celebrity undermined Christopher • Comprehensive coverage in newspapers Hitchens’s writing.” —Publishers Weekly and magazines • Salon.com excerpt “Chris Hedges fearlessly tells his own ‘forbidden’ sto- • Review coverage from political bloggers ries. . . . The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist tells and websites how he saw firsthand ‘how the elites and the children • Mass media—TV and radio of the elites treated those “beneath them.”’” —Alternet • Co-op available $16.99 paperback reprint (Can. $25.99) “Like early twentieth-century muckraking journal- World (W) • CQ 36 ists and, more recently, I.F. Stone, Hedges makes a ISBN 978-1-5107-2942-1 boisterous outspoken contribution to revolutioniz- 6” x 9” • 160 pages Current Affairs ing the national conversation.” —Kirkus Reviews ebook ISBN 978-1-5107-1274-4 JULY Previous edition: 978-1-5107-1273-7 Hot Books | Spring 2018 3

Brian Klaas THE DESPOT’S APPRENTICE Donald Trump’s Attack on DemocracyAdvance Reading Copies

An ex-US campaign advisor who has sat with the world’s dictators explains Donald Trump’s increasingly authoritarian tactics and the threats they pose to American democracy.

onald Trump isn’t a despot. But he is increasingly acting like The Despot’s Apprentice, an un- Dderstudy in authoritarian tactics that threaten to erode American democracy. Whether it’s attacking the press, threatening rule of law by firing those who investigate his alleged wrongdoings, or using nepo- tism to staff the White House, Donald Trump is bor- rowing tactics from the world’s dictators and despots. Brian Klaas is the author of The Despot’s Accomplice and a fellow in comparative politics at the London School Trump’s fascination for the military, his obsession of Economics, where he focuses on democratization and with his own cult of personality, and his deliberate political violence. He has advised several national govern- campaign to blur the line between fact and falsehood ments and major international NGOs, including Interna- are nothing new to the world of despots. But they tional Crisis Group, the Carter Center, and One Earth Future. Klaas received his doctorate from the University are new to the United States. With each authoritar- of Oxford. He has written op-eds for the New York Times, ian tactic or tweet, Trump poses a unique threat to Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and has democratic government in the world’s most powerful a column in the Washington Post. democracy.

• Comprehensive coverage in newspapers At the same time, Trump’s apprenticeship has seri- and magazines ous consequences beyond the United States too. His • Salon.com excerpt • Review coverage from political bloggers bizarre adoration and idolization of despotic strong- and websites men—from Russia’s Putin, to Turkey’s Erdogan, or to • Mass media—TV and radio the Philippines’s Duterte—has transformed Ameri- • Co-op available can foreign policy into a powerful cheerleader for some of the world’s worst regimes.

$18.99 hardcover (Can. $29.99) The Despot’s Apprentice: Donald Trump’s Attack on De- North America (NA) • CQ 32 ISBN 978-1-5107-3585-9 mocracy will explore how Trump uniquely threatens 5” x 7 ¾” • 336 pages democracy—and how to save it from him. Current Events and Politics ebook ISBN 978-1-5107-3593-4 RECENTLY RELEASED Hot Books | Backlist | Spring 2018 4

American Nuremberg The Beast Side The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial Living and Dying While Black in America for Post-9/11 War Crimes D. Watkins Rebecca Gordon An essential read for anyone trying to make An indictment of the men and women sense of race and class in America in the responsible for torture, assassinations, and chaos of our current political moment. other war crimes that is certain to ignite a fiery debate. $16.99 pb (Can. $25.99) 160 pages / 6 x 9 / World $21.99 hc (Can. $31.99) 978-1-5107-1639-1 (pb) 176 pages / 6 x 9 / World 978-1-5107-0335-3 (hc) 978-1-5107-0333-9

Bravehearts The Burn Pits Whistle-Blowing in the Age of Snowden The Poisoning of America’s Soldiers Mark Hertsgaard Joseph Hickman A brutally honest portrait of the heroes who The shocking inside story of the speak out to save our health and freedom, “chemical war” waged on GIs in Iraq and and the terrible punishment they endure for Afghanistan—by their own commanding their courage. officers.

$21.99 hc (Can. $31.99) $21.99 hc (Can. $27.99) 160 pages / 6 x 9 / World 160 pages / 6 x 9 / World 978-1-5107-0337-7 978-1-5107-0573-9

The Convenient Terrorist The Gilded Rage Two Whistleblowers’ Stories of Torture, A Wild Ride through Donald Trump’s Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies America Joseph Hickman and John Kiriakou Alexander Zaitchik Introduction by David Talbot Foreword by David Talbot Foreword by Jason Leopold A grippingly intimate and heartbreaking A startling spotlight on the darkest corners portrait of the walking wounded who make of America’s “War on Terror” and the first up the base of the Trump movement. definitive inside account of the capture, torture, and detention of the first “high-value $21.99 hc (Can. $33.99) target” captured by the CIA after 9/11. 144 pages / 6 x 9 / World 978-1-5107-1428-1 $21.99 hc (Can. $33.99) 160 pages / 6 x 9 / World 978-1-5107-1162-4 Hot Books | Backlist | Spring 2018 5

Horsemen of the The Hunting Ground Apocalypse The Inside Story of Sexual Assault on The Men Who Are Destroying Life on Earth American College Campuses and What It Means for Our Children Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Dick Russell A startling exposé of sexual assault on An intimate look at the energy industry US campuses, institutional cover-ups, and moguls and leading politicians who are the brutal social toll on victims and their responsible for blocking climate change families. progress—and how they explain themselves $21.99 hc (Can. $27.99) in their private lives. 188 pages / 6 x 9 / World $21.99 hc (Can. $31.99) 978-1-5107-0574-6 160 pages / 6 x 9 / World 978-1-5107-2175-3

Inside Job Scapegoats How American Elections Are Still Rigged How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies Against Voters and Threatens Our Freedoms Steven Rosenfeld Arsalan Iftikhar Catalogs the litany of ways our elections Finally . . . a voice of wit and intelligence in fail their billing as a model democracy the endless debate over Islam. through the lens of impassioned skepticism, highlighting what went wrong and convey- $21.99 hc (Can. $31.99) ing why that need not be the case. 160 pages / 5 ¼ x 7 ½ / World 978-1-5107-0575-3 $21.99 hc (Can. $33.99) 160 pages / 6 x 9 / World 978-1-5107-2945-2

Seeds of Resistance Spooked The Fight to Save Our Food Supply How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Mark Schapiro Hoodwinks Hollywood Nicholas Schou An impassioned investigation of the corporate behemoths that have taken An eye-opening book on how US intel- control of our entire food chain from seeds ligence agencies secretly seduce journalists to supermarkets. and spin the news.

$21.99 hc (Can. $31.99) $21.99 hc (Can. $31.99) 160 pages / 6 x 9 / World 160 pages / 6 x 9 / World 978-1-5107-0576-0 978-1-5107-0336-0 Hot Books | Backlist | Spring 2018 6

Unspeakable The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark Chris Hedges with David Talbot How the NSA Failed to Protect America from the 9/11 Attacks A must-read interview that cuts through the lies, distortions, and obfuscations of the Ray Nowosielski and John Duffy mainstream media and political elites to An important reexamination of the huge reveal the most pressing challenges facing unexplored failures by government officials American journalism, politics, and culture. to use available intelligence to stop the $21.99 hc (Can. $33.99) events of September 11. 208 pages / 6 x 9 / World $21.99 hc (Can. $33.99) 978-1-5107-1273-7 160 pages / 6 x 9 / World 978-1-5107-2136-4

Without a Country The Untold Story of America’s Deported Veterans J. Malcolm Garcia A searing exposé that analyzes the political climate that has led us to veterans being deported, and takes a hard look at the toll deportation has taken on American vets and their communities.

$22.99 hc (Can. $35.99) 248 pages / 6 x 9 / World 978-1-5107-2243-9 Hot Books | Index | Spring 2018 7

Index

A G U American Nuremberg, 4 Gilded Rage, The, 4 Unspeakable, 2, 6 B H W Beast Side, The, 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 5 Watchdogs Didn’t Bark, The, 6 Bravehearts, 4 Hunting Ground, The, 5 Without a Country, 6 Burn Pits, The, 4 I C Inside Job, 5 Convenient Terrorist, The, 4 S D Scapegoats, 5 Despot’s Apprentice, The, 3 Seeds of Resistance, 5 Dirty Tricks, 1 Spooked, 5