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More Unequal
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina exposed to the world what many U.S. politicians and pundits have long been able to ignore. The media images that commanded our attention spoke loudly of the class...
Endless Holocausts
An argument against the myth of "American exceptionalism"Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire helps us to come to terms with what we have long suspected: the rise...
Nobody Called Me Charlie
In the 1940s, at the height of segregation, Charles Preston became the unlikely newest worker at a black owned-and-operated newspaper. Preston, a white man and, unbeknownst to most of his colleagues,...
Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate
The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. But nowhere in American literature, until now, has a left-wing economist hit the road, observing and interpreting the extraordinary range and...
The Art of Democracy
"Cullen's strength comes from his understanding of how the different strands of American society intertwine in imaginative, unpredictable ways ... The shape and vitality of pop culture's next era will...
The Punishment Monopoly
Examines the roots of white supremacy and mass incarceration from the vantage point of historyWhy, asks Pem Davidson Buck, is punishment so central to the functioning of the United States, a country...
The Coming of the American Behemoth
A primer on the history of American fascismMost people in the United States have been trained to recognize fascism in movements such as Germany’s Third Reich or Italy’s National Fascist Party, where...
On the Global Waterfront
Visit the book websiteLongshoremen stand at the nexus of the global economy, handling nearly every cargo container that enters or leaves any country. Even in the face of cargo “containerization”...
Under Attack, Fighting Back
Named an "Outstanding Book" by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America "Abramovitz introduces the reader to cutting edge socioeconomic analysis. . . . It is not possible...
Censorship, Inc.
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is a landmark in the defense of free speech against government interference and suppression. In this book we come to see how it also acts as a smokescreen...
Longer Hours, Fewer Jobs
Using charts, graphs, and cartoons, Michael Yates describes how unemployment, or the fear of it, is part of the life of every American worker. He outlines the changes in the structure of the labor market...
Inside the Monster
Explores the emergent threat of U.S. imperialism (1881 to 1895).
Cuba and the U.S. Empire
The 1959 Cuban Revolution remains one of the signal events of modern political history. A tiny island, once a de facto colony of the United States, declared its independence, not just from the imperial...
Race to Revolution
The histories of Cuba and the United States are tightly intertwinedand have been for at least two centuries. In Race to Revolution,historian Gerald Horne examines a critical relationship betweenthe...
Silencing "Fighting Bob”
Silencing "Fighting Bob” tells the story of the coordinated attack by the federal government on the progressive opponents of the First World War. As Eric Chester reminds us, the American people saw...