The New Press Index First Book Published: Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession by Studs Terkel (1992)
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The New Press Index First book published: Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession by Studs Terkel (1992) Number of employees: 18 Number of titles The New Press has published since its inception: 1,000 Top all-time New Press bestsellers: Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen, Other People’s Children by Lisa Delpit, Dr. Seuss Goes to War by Richard Minear Bestselling e-book author: Henning Mankell Book that caused the U.S. Supreme Court to send a cease-and-desist letter to The New Press: May It Please the Court: Live Recordings and Transcripts of Landmark Oral Arguments edited by Peter Irons and Stephanie Guitton TNP title that won the most prizes: Embracing Defeat by John Dower (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Bancroft Prize, Mark Lynton History Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize) Number of books with the word “war” in the title: 41 Number of books with the word “peace” in the title: 2 (1 of which also contained “war”) Number of books with the word “love” in the title: 3 Most recent major prizes won: 2011 NAACP Image Award for The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander and the 2011 Francis Parkman Prize for Stayin’ Alive by Jefferson Cowie Percentage of TNP books that are commissioned (versus acquired in manuscript form): 60+ First hardcover printing of The New Jim Crow in January 2010: 3,000 copies Copies of The New Jim Crow now in print: 175,000 Number of weeks The New Jim Crow paperback has been on the New York Times nonfiction paperback bestseller list: 8 weeks and counting Number of languages into which TNP books have been translated: 24 Number of not-for-profit organizations with which TNP has collaborated: 303 Cumulative revenue since 1992: $75,000,000 Number of graduates from TNP Diversity in Publishing internship program: 526 Top five foundation funders: the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Florence Gould Foundation, and the Florence and John Schumann Foundation Figures cited are the latest available as of March 2012 (Thank you, Harper’s Magazine!) TNP Fall Catalogue 2012_kp5.indd 1 12/03/12 10:31 AM From Cairo to Wall Street Voices from the Global Spring EDITED BY ANYA SCHIFFRIN AND EAMON KIRCHER-ALLEN WITH A FOREWORD BY JEFFREY D. SACHS AND AN INTRODUCTION BY JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ JUST PU BLISHED PAPERBACK ORIGINAL AN ON-THE-GROUND, AROUND-THE-WORLD PORTRAIT OF THE 2011 GLOBAL PROTEST MOVEMENTS, IN THE WORDS OF THE PEOPLE WHO MADE THEM HAPPEN Includes voices from: No one can be sure where the Arab Spring or the Occupy Wall Bahrain Street movements will lead. But of this we can be sure: these young protestors have already altered public discourse and the Chile consciousness of both ordinary citizens and politicians. Egypt —FROM JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ’S INTRODUCTION TO FROM CAIRO TO WALL STREET Greece Ireland From Tunisia to Egypt, from Athens to Madrid, from Zuccotti Park to London, protest- Spain ers made history in 2011 camping in the streets, toppling dictators, and calling for dig- Syria nity, an end to inequality, and government leaders to be held accountable. Tunisia In From Cairo to Wall Street, journalists Anya Schiffrin and Eamon Kircher-Allen United Kingdom bring together voices from the “global spring” to tell the story of the movements that United States redefined history. We hear from the Egyptian youth leaders who made Tahrir Square a symbol of freedom; the Tunisians who transformed a single act of martyrdom into an entire movement; the Indignados who raged against austerity measures in Spain’s already-dark times; and the Americans, from New York to Madison to Oakland, who marched under the banner “We Are the 99%.” Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and economist Jeffrey D. Sachs—twice named one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” in the The Road to Tahrir Square: Egypt and world—frame these movements in the context of global capitalism and its discon- the United States from the Rise of Nasser to the Fall of Mubarak tents, drawing connections between the individual, country-based protest move- Lloyd C. Gardner Paperback, $17.95, 978-1-59558-721-3 ments and the singular sense of outrage that has fueled them the world over. May Anya Schiffrin is the director of the media and communications program at Colum- Paperback, 978-1-59558-827-2 bia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She spent ten years work- E-book, 978-1-59558-837-1 $16.95 / $19.50 CAN ing overseas as a journalist in Europe and Asia. She lives in New York City. Eamon 1 1 5 ⁄2” x 8 ⁄4”, 272 pages Kircher-Allen has reported on music, politics, and the economy from several coun- Current Affairs tries in Africa and the Middle East. A San Francisco native, he currently lives in New York City. 2 WWW.THENEWPRESS.COM TNP Fall Catalogue 2012_kp5.indd 2 12/03/12 10:31 AM From Dictatorship to Democracy A Conceptual Framework for Liberation GENE SHARP PAPERBACK ORIGINAL THE REVOLUTIONARY WORD-OF-MOUTH PHENOMENON, AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME AS A TRADE BOOK—NOT “sINCE MACHIAVELLI HAS A BOOK HAD SUCH IMPACT IN SHIFTING THE BALANCE OF POWER” (THE TIMES OF LONDON) Few Americans have heard of Dr. Sharp. But for decades, his Named a Foreign Policy Top 100 practical writings on nonviolent revolution—most notably [his] Global Thinker guide to toppling autocrats—have inspired dissidents around The man who changed the world. the world, including Burma, Bosnia, Estonia and Zimbabwe, and —THE BOSTON GLOBE now Tunisia and Egypt. For the world’s despots, his ideas —THE NEW YORK TIMES can be fatal. —THE NEW YORK TIMES Twenty-one years ago, at a friend’s request, a Massachusetts professor sketched Hailed as the manual by those out a blueprint for nonviolent resistance to repressive regimes. It would go on to be who conducted people-power translated, photocopied, and handed from one activist to another, traveling from coups in Eastern Europe, its con- country to country across the globe: from Iran to Venezuela—where both countries tents were no secret in Iran. consider Gene Sharp to be an enemy of the state—to Serbia; Afghanistan; Vietnam; Officials saw this summer’s un- the former Soviet Union; China; Nepal; and, more recently and notably, Tunisia, Egypt, rest as the fruit of his strategies. Yemen, Libya, and Syria, where it has served as a guiding light of the Arab Spring. —THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR This short, pithy, inspiring, and extraordinarily clear guide to overthrowing a In June 2007, Venezuelan dictatorship by nonviolent means lists 198 specific methods to consider, depending president Hugo Chavez publicly on the circumstances: sit-ins, popular nonobedience, selective strikes, withdrawal accused Mr. Sharp of stirring un- rest in Venezuela. The target of bank deposits, revenue refusal, walkouts, silence, and hunger strikes. From of all this intrigue and animosity Dictatorship to Democracy is the remarkable work that has made the little-known is eighty years old and slightly Sharp into the world’s most effective and sought-after analyst of resistance to au- stooped. He walks with a cane. thoritarian regimes. —THE WALL STREET JOURNAL September Gene Sharp advises governments and resistance movements around the world and is considered the most influential living promoter of nonviolent resistance to autocratic Paperback with French flaps, 978-1-59558-850-0 governments. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Mas- E-book, 978-1-59558-857-9 $13.95 / $15.95 CAN sachusetts, Dartmouth. He currently resides in East Boston. 5 1⁄4” x 7 1⁄2”, 160 pages Politics Available in the U.S. only WWW.THENEWPRESS.COM 3 TNP Fall Catalogue 2012_kp5.indd 3 12/03/12 10:31 AM TNP Fall Catalogue 2012_kp5.indd 4 12/03/12 10:31 AM Howard Zinn A Life on the Left MARTIN DUBERMAN FROM THE AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN AND ACTIVIST MARTIN DUBERMAN, A SWEEPING POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY—THE FIRST—OF HOWARD ZINN, “THE PEOPLE’S HISTORIAN” WHO HIMSELF MADE HISTORY, CHANGING FOREVER HOW WE THINK ABOUT OUR PAST [Howard Zinn] changed the consciousness of a generation. Martin Duberman is America’s —NOAM CHOMSKY most daring and creative living biographer. —TIMOTHY PATRICK MCCARTHY, PROFESSOR Howard Zinn was perhaps the best-known and most widely celebrated popular in- OF HISTORY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY terpreter of American history in the twentieth century, renowned as a bestselling author, a political activist, a lecturer, and one of America’s most recognizable and admired progressive voices. His rich, complicated, and fascinating life placed Zinn at the heart of the signal events of modern American history—from the battlefields of World War II to the McCarthy era, the civil rights and the antiwar movements, and beyond. A bombardier who later renounced war, a son of working-class parents who earned a doctorate at A Saving Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds Columbia, a white professor who taught at the historically black Spelman College in Martin Duberman Paperback, $19.95, 978-1-59558-776-3 Atlanta, a committed scholar who will be forever remembered as a devoted “people’s historian”—Howard Zinn blazed a bold, iconoclastic path through the turbulent sec- ond half of the twentieth century. For the millions who were moved by Zinn’s personal example of political engage- ment and by his inspiring “bottom up” history, here is the first biography of this tow- ering figure—by Martin Duberman, recipient of the American Historical Association’s 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award.