Politics
Red Notice: A True Story
of High Finance, Murder,
and One Man’s Fight for
Justice by Bill Browder (Feb.
3, hardcover, $28, ISBN 978-
1-4767-5571-7). A real-life
political thriller about an
American financier in the
Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young
tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the
Kremlin’s corruption.
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Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable;
How I Tried to Help the World’s Most
Notorious Mayor by Mark Towhey, with
Johanna Schneller (May 5, hardcover,
$24.99, ISBN 978-1-63450-042-5).
Towhey, former chief of staff to disgraced
Toronto mayor Rob Ford, gives a tell-all
account of working for one of the world’s
most notoriously and publicly uninhibited
politicians. 30,000-copy announced first
printing.
ST. MARTIN’S
The New Spymasters: Inside the
Modern World of Espionage by Stephen
Grey (July 14, hardcover, $27.99, ISBN
978-0-312-37922-3). The old world of
spying—dead letter boxes, microfilm cameras—is history. In this searing look at
modern espionage, Grey shows how technology has replaced human intelligence,
but with often unsuccessful results—most
devastatingly, in the case of the 9/11
attacks.
TIMES
George W. Bush: The American Presidents Series; The 43rd President,
2001–2009 by James Mann, edited by
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and Sean Wilentz
(Feb. 3, hardcover, $25, ISBN 978-0-
8050-9397-1). In this assessment of the
43rd president, Mann (The Obamians) sheds
light on why George W. Bush made key
decisions and what went wrong for the controversial chief executive.
TRANSACTION
Genocide by Attrition:
The Nuba Mountains of
Sudan by Samuel Totten
(June 30, paper, $34.95,
ISBN 978-1-4128-5671-3).
The Sudanese government’s
genocidal attack against the
people of the Nuba Moun-
tains in the late 1980s and
early 1990s remains little
known. In this volume, Tot-
ten documents an atrocity
that even many human rights activists and
genocide scholars do not fully understand.
The Kurdish Spring: A New Map of
the Middle East by David L. Phillips (Feb.
28, paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-1-4128-
5680-5). Kurds constitute the world’s largest group of stateless people, with an estimated 32 million now living in “
Kurdistan,” which includes parts of Turkey, Iraq,
Syria, and Iran. This critical look at post-colonialism offers a new perspective on
sovereignty and statehood.
VANDERBILT UNIV.
People Power: The Community Organizing Tradition of Saul Alinsky, edited
by Aaron Schutz and Mike Miller (Feb. 15,
hardcover, $79.95, ISBN 978-0-8265-
2041-8). A primary source-based history of
activism carried out between 1955 and 1980
according to the guidelines laid down by the
famed, late community organizer. Many
selections appear in print for the first time.
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The Last Soldiers of the Cold War:
The Story of the Cuban
Five by Fernando Morais
(June 16, paper, $19.95,
ISBN 978-1-78168-876-2).
In 1998, five Cuban agents
were arrested by the U. S. after
being dispatched by their
government to infiltrate Flor-ida-based groups that were
violently anti-Castro. Best-selling Brazilian author
Morais retells their story as a
real-life spy thriller.
The Wikileaks Files: The World
According to US Empire by Julian
Assange (June 2, hardcover, $29.95, ISBN
978-1-78168-874-8). The first volume to
use experts to collate and analyze the most
important State Department cables
released by WikiLeaks, showing their
importance to understanding America’s
role in the world. 50,000-copy announced
first printing.
VIKING
The Two-State Delusion: Israel and
Palestine; A Tale of Two Narratives by
Padraig O’Malley (Apr. 28, hardcover, $30,
ISBN 978-0-670-02505-3). Leading reconciliation expert O’Malley argues, in a book
sure to spark controversy, that a two-state
solution is no longer a viable path to peace
between Israel and Palestine and that we
must find new frameworks for resolving this
conflict.
YALE UNIV.
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator
by Oleg V. Khlevniuk, trans. from the Russian by Nora Seligman Favorov (May 19,
hardcover, $35, ISBN 978-0-300-16388-
9). An essential biography from the author
most deeply familiar with the Soviet era’s
vast archives. Without mythologizing Stalin as either benevolent or an evil genius,
Khlevniuk resolves numerous controversies
about the dictator’s life.
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The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs.
the Masters of the Universe by Matt
Kennard (Apr. 15, hardcover, $24.95,
ISBN 978-1-78032-988-8).
Investigative journalist Kennard (Irregular Army) mounts
a vigorous polemical attack
on America’s self-image as a
force for good, revealing the
agendas of the wealthy elite
through more than 2,000
interviews with officials,
intellectual, artists, and activists, including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Howard
Zinn, and Banksy.
