Fall Indie Books
New Press
Dawn of Detroit:
A Chronicle of Slavery
and Freedom in the City
of the Straits
Tiya Miles (Oct., $27.95,
hardcover)
Author appearances, including launch event at
Source Booksellers in Detroit; dedicated freelance publicist; 12,500-copy announced first
printing
Miles, a MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, “places Detroit’s history in a more
expansive frame than its 20th-century
boom and decline, emphasizing racial
inequalities far in advance of the Great Migration,” notes
PW in a starred review.
New York Univ.
Gilded Suffragists:
The New York Socialites
Who Fought for Women’s
Right to Vote
Johanna Neuman (Sept.,
$24.95, hardcover)
Author events, including at the 92nd Street Y
in New York City; advertising; 10,000-copy
announced first printing
This chronicle of how New York’s most
glamorous women—with last names such
as Astor, Belmont, Harriman, and
Vanderbilt—aided the women’s suffrage
movement is being published to coincide
with the hundredth anniversary of women’s winning the
right to vote in New York (Nov. 6, 1917).
Oneworld
Democracy and Its
Crisis
A.C. Grayling (Oct.,
$21.99, hardcover)
Author appearances,
including launch event in
New York City hosted by
PEN America; 10,000-copy announced first
printing
Prompted by the most recent presidential
election in the U.S. and Brexit in the U.K.,
Grayling, who has frequently appeared on
CNN and The Colbert Report, investigates
why the institutions of representative
democracy have been unable to hold up against forces they
were designed to manage, and why it matters.
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