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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.

Acclaimed by the Los Angeles Review of Books as ¿the most detailed year-by-year look at Hollywood during the first decade of the Cold War ever published, one that takes film analysis beyond the screen and sets it in its larger political context,¿ An Army of Phantoms is a ¿delightful¿ and ¿amazing¿ (Dissent) work of film history and cultural criticism by J. Hoberman, one of the foremost film critics writing today, addressing the dynamic synergy of American politics and American popular culture.By ¿tell[ing] the story not just of what's on the screen but what played out behind it¿ (The American Scholar), Hoberman orchestrates a colorful, sometimes surreal pageant wherein Cecil B. DeMille rubs shoulders with Douglas MacArthur, atomic tests are shown on live TV, God talks on the radio, and Joe McCarthy is bracketed with Marilyn Monroe. From cavalry Westerns, apocalyptic sci-fi flicks, and biblical spectaculars, movies to media events, congressional hearings and political campaigns, An Army of Phantoms ¿remind[s] you what criticism is supposed to be: revelatory, reflective and as rapturous as the artwork itself¿ (Time Out New York).

Media track record: Dahr Jamail has been a regular guest on Democracy Now!. Platform: He has a regular column in Truthout; he also contributes to Tom Dispatch. He has appeared on and reported for Inter Press Service, The Nation, The Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Independent, and Al Jazeera English. He has reported for NPR, Democracy Now!, Al-Jazeera, the BBC, NPR, and numerous other stations around the globe. Credentials: The author's monthly climate change report for Truthout is one of the mostly highly-regarded and read columns of its kind. He can also talk about the dramatic effect climate change is having on glaciers and mountains because he is a seasoned mountaineer. Speaking: The author had toured extensively to promote his books in the past. Opportunities: More and more NGO and scientific reports will back the arguments the author is making Blurbs/endorsements: Amy Goodman, Jeremy Scahill, Tom Engelhardt, Robert Jay Lifton Affiliations: The Lannan Foundation is a strong supporter of the author's work, as well as Wallace Global Fund.

Part of the ongoing series of photobooks published with the Arcus Foundation and Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios on queer communities around the world, a stunning portrait of a community battling homophobia in Serbia In June 2001, Serbia witnessed its first gay pride parade in history in Belgrade's central square. It was a short-lived march, as an ultranationalist mob quickly descended on the participants, chanting homophobic slurs and injuring dozens. For years afterward, fear of violence prevented further marches, and when, in October 2010, the next pride march finally went ahead, it again devolved into violence as anti-gay rioters, firing shots and hurling petrol bombs, fought the police. It was only in 2014 that a pride march was held uninterrupted, albeit under heavy police protection. In Lives in Transition, photographer Slobodan Randjelovic captures the struggles and successes of twenty LGBTQ people living throughout Serbia-a conservative, religious country where, despite semi-progressive LGBTQ protection laws, homophobia fueled by religious authorities and right-wing political parties remains deeply entrenched. In a country where lack of employment opportunity and hostile families frequently drive queer people into poverty and isolation, these individuals have struggled to build a community that will offer solace, protection, and even joy. Lives in Transition portrays remarkable and inspiring resilience in the human struggle against a repressive social environment and demonstrates how friendship and community can help people shape their own futures.Lives in Transition was designed by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS).

One of Book Riot's "e;The Best Books We Read in October 2018"e;"e;To say this collection is transgressive, provocative, and brilliant is simply to tell you the truth."e; -Roxane Gay, author of Hunger and Bad FeministSmart, humorous, and strikingly original essays by one of "e;America's most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time"e; (Rebecca Traister) In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom-award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed-embraces her venerated role as a purveyor of wit, wisdom, and Black Twitter snark about all that is right and much that is wrong with this thing we call society. Ideas and identity fuse effortlessly in this vibrant collection that on bookshelves is just as at home alongside Rebecca Solnit and bell hooks as it is beside Jeff Chang and Janet Mock. It also fills an important void on those very shelves: a modern black American feminist voice waxing poetic on self and society, serving up a healthy portion of clever prose and southern aphorisms as she covers everything from Saturday Night Live, LinkedIn, and BBQ Becky to sexual violence, infant mortality, and Trump rallies. Thick speaks fearlessly to a range of topics and is far more genre-bending than a typical compendium of personal essays. An intrepid intellectual force hailed by the likes of Trevor Noah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Oprah, Tressie McMillan Cottom is "e;among America's most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time"e; (Rebecca Traister). This stunning debut collection-in all its intersectional glory-mines for meaning in places many of us miss, and reveals precisely how the political, the social, and the personal are almost always one and the same.

In "provocative and entertaining essays [that] will appeal to reflective readers, parents, and educators" (Library Journal), one of the country's foremost education writers looks at the stories we tell our children. Available now in a revised edition, including a new essay on the importance of "stoop-sitting" and storytelling, Should We Burn Babar? challenges some of the chestnuts of children's literature. Highlighting instances of racism, sexism, and condescension that detract from the tales being told, Kohl provides strategies for detecting bias in stories written for young people and suggests ways to teach kids to think critically about what they read.Beginning with the title essay on Babar the elephant-"just one of a fine series of inquiries into the power children's books have to shape cultural attitudes," according to Elliott Bay Booknotes-the book includes essays on Pinocchio, the history of progressive education, and a call for the writing of more radical children's literature. As the Hungry Mind Review concluded, "Kohl's prescriptions for renewing our schools through the use of stories and storytelling are impassioned, well-reasoned, and readable."

"Captivating and brilliantly conceived. . . [The Hamlet Fire] will provide readers with insights into our current national politics."-The Washington Post A "gifted writer" (Chicago Tribune) uses a long forgotten factory fire in small-town North Carolina to show how cut-rate food and labor have become the new American normFor decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a magnet for businesses searching for cheap labor with little or almost no official oversight. One of these businesses was Imperial Food Products. The company paid its workers a dollar above the minimum wage to stand in pools of freezing water for hours on end, scraping gobs of fat off frozen chicken breasts before they got dipped in batter and fried into golden brown nuggets and tenders. If a worker complained about the heat or the cold or missed a shift to take care of their children or went to the bathroom too often they were fired. But they kept coming back to work because Hamlet was a place where jobs were scarce. Then, on the morning of September 3, 1991, the day after Labor Day, this factory that had never been inspected burst into flame. Twenty-five people-many of whom were black women with children, living on their own-perished that day behind the plant's locked and bolted doors.Eighty years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, industrial disasters were supposed to have been a thing of the past. After spending several years talking to local residents, state officials, and survivors of the fire, award-winning historian Bryant Simon has written a vivid, potent, and disturbing social autopsy of this town, this factory, and this time that shows how cheap labor, cheap government, and cheap food came together in a way that was bound for tragedy.

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.

The Washington Post reporter delivers a groundbreaking investigation into the nation's crisis of indigent defense';a hugely important book' (New York Law Journal). A Nieman Report's Top Ten Investigative Journalism Books of 2013 First published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court decisionGideon v. Wainwright, which guaranteed all criminal defendants the right to legal counsel,Chasing Gideon offers a personal journey through our systemic failure to fulfill this basic constitutional right. Written in the tradition of Anthony Lewis's landmark work Gideon's Trumpet, it focuses on the stories of four defendants in four statesWashington, Florida, Louisiana, and Georgiathat are emblematic of nationwide problems. Revealing and disturbing, it is ';a book of nightmares' because it shows that the ';';justice system' that too often produces the exact opposite of what its name suggests, particularly for its most vulnerable constituents' (The Miami Herald). Following its publication, Chasing Gideon became an integral part of a growing national conversation about how to reform indigent defense in America and inspired an HBO documentary as well as the resource website GideonAt50.org. ';Chasing Gideon is a wonderful book, its human stories gripping, its insight into how our law is made profound.' Anthony Lewis, author ofGideon's Trumpet

Called a book "which is factual yet reads like a novel” by the Huffington Post, 12 Angry Men reveals some pointed truths about our nation, as a dozen eloquent authors from across the United States tell their personal stories of being racially profiled.We hear from Joe Morgan, a former Major League Baseball MVP, who was tackled and falsely arrested at the Los Angeles airport; Paul Butler, a federal prosecutor who was detained while walking in his own neighborhood in Washington, D.C.; Kent, a devoted husband and father, hauled into central booking for trespassing and loitering when he visits his mother's housing project; Solomon Moore, a former criminal justice reporter for the New York Times, detained by the police while on assignment in North Carolina; and King Downing, former head of the ACLU's racial profiling initiative, who was himself pursued by National Guardsmen after arriving on the red-eye in Boston's Logan Airport.A narrative of another America for men of color emerges in 12 Angry Men as "a dozen brothers are allowed to give full vent to their feelings about [an] indignity routinely suffered by the majority of African American males” and, in doing so, reveal "a serious impediment to the collective American Dream of a colorblind society” (the nationally syndicated Pittsburgh Urban Media).

"Tough Cases stands out as a genuine revelation. . . . Our most distinguished judges should follow the lead of this groundbreaking volume."-Justin Driver, The Washington PostA rare and illuminating view of how judges decide dramatic legal cases-Law and Order from behind the bench-including the Elián González, Terri Schiavo, and Scooter Libby cases Prosecutors and defense attorneys have it easy-all they have to do is to present the evidence and make arguments. It's the judges who have the heavy lift: they are the ones who have to make the ultimate decisions, many of which have profound consequences on the lives of the people standing in front of them. In Tough Cases, judges from different kinds of courts in different parts of the country write about the case that proved most difficult for them to decide. Some of these cases received international attention: the Elián González case in which Judge Jennifer Bailey had to decide whether to return a seven-year-old boy to his father in Cuba after his mother drowned trying to bring the child to the United States, or the Terri Schiavo case in which Judge George Greer had to decide whether to withdraw life support from a woman in a vegetative state over the wishes of her parents, or the Scooter Libby case about appropriate consequences for revealing the name of a CIA agent. Others are less well-known but equally fascinating: a judge on a Native American court trying to balance U.S. law with tribal law, a young Korean American former defense attorney struggling to adapt to her new responsibilities on the other side of the bench, and the difficult decisions faced by a judge tasked with assessing the mental health of a woman who has killed her own children. Relatively few judges have publicly shared the thought processes behind their decision making. Tough Cases makes for fascinating reading for everyone from armchair attorneys and fans of Law and Order to those actively involved in the legal profession who want insight into the people judging their work.

An essential handbook of eye-opening-and frequently myth-busting-facts and figures about the real lives of Black Americans todayThere's no defeating white supremacist myths without data-real data. Black Stats is a compact and useful guide that offers up-to-date figures on Black life in the United States today, avoiding jargon and assumptions and providing critical analyses and information.Monique W. Morris, author of the acclaimed Pushout, has compiled statistics from a broad spectrum of telling categories that illustrate the quality of life and the possibility of (and barriers to) advancement for a group at the heart of American society. With fascinating information on everything from disease trends, incarceration rates, and lending practices to voting habits, green jobs, and educational achievement, the material in this book will enrich and inform a range of public debates while challenging commonly held yet often misguided perceptions.Black Stats simultaneously highlights measures of incredible progress, conveys the disparate impacts of social policies and practices, and surprises with revelations that span subjects including the entertainment industry, military service, and marriage trends. An essential tool for advocates, educators, and anyone seeking racial justice, Black Stats is¿an affordable guidebook for anyone seeking to understand the complex state of our¿nation.

"Intertwines history, philosophy, and science . . . A powerful challenge to conventional notions of individual responsibility" (Publishers Weekly).   Few concepts are more unshakable in our culture than free will, the idea that individuals are fundamentally in control of the decisions they make, good or bad. And yet the latest research about how the brain functions seems to point in the opposite direction . . .   In a work of breathtaking intellectual sweep and erudition, Heidi M. Ravven offers a riveting and accessible review of cutting-edge neuroscientific research into the brain's capacity for decision-making-from "mirror" neurons and "self-mapping" to surprising new understandings of group psychology. The Self Beyond Itself also introduces readers to a rich, alternative philosophical tradition of ethics, rooted in the writing of Baruch Spinoza, that finds uncanny confirmation in modern science.   Illustrating the results of today's research with real-life examples, taking readers from elementary school classrooms to Nazi concentration camps, Ravven demonstrates that it is possible to build a theory of ethics that doesn't rely on free will yet still holds both individuals and groups responsible for the decisions that help create a good society. The Self Beyond Itself is that rare book that injects new ideas into an old debate-and "an important contribution to the development of our thinking about morality" (Washington Independent Review of Books).   "An intellectual hand-grenade . . . A magisterial survey of how contemporary neuroscience supports a vision of human morality which puts it squarely on the same plane as other natural phenomena." -William D. Casebeer, author of Natural Ethical Facts