Spring 2023 Announcements: Politics & Current Events – Publishers Weekly

Under the microscope this spring: the particular Supreme Court, housing segregation, endemic poverty, police brutality, the patriarchy, immigration, whistleblowers, Hollywood abusers, cancel culture, the war in Ukraine, and Gerald Ford.

Top 10

Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East

Steven Simon. Penguin Press, Apr. 11 ($32, ISBN 978-0-7352-2424-7)

Analyzing the past 40 years of American involvement in the centre East, longtime national security adviser Simon finds a record of illusory thinking and deliberate misconduct.

Just Action: Creating a Movement That Can End Segregation Enacted Under the particular Color of Law

Leah plus Richard Rothstein. Liveright, June 20 ($25, ISBN 978-1-324-09324-4)

The bestselling author associated with The Color of Law partners with his daughter, an affordable housing advocate, to offer the blueprint for ending racial segregation in the U. S.

The Lost Sons associated with Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

Joe Sexton. Scribner, May 9 ($30, ISBN 978-1-982198-34-3)

ProPublica reporter Sexton debuts with an investigation into two linked deaths stemming from the protests that erupted within Omaha, Neb., after the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”

Héctor Tobar. MCD, May 9 ($27, ISBN 978-0-374-60990-0)

Interweaving memoir, reportage, and cultural studies, Pulitzer-winning journalist plus novelist Tobar investigates the meaning of Latino as a racial and ethnic identity in the Oughout. S. today.

The particular Patriarchs: The Origins associated with Inequality

Angela Saini. Beacon, Feb. 28 ($26. 95, ISBN 978-0-8070-1454-7)

The particular origins plus evolution of gender inequality—and the role colonialism played in solidifying patriarchal customs—are explored in this survey from the particular author associated with Superior .

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond. Crown, Mar. 21 ($28, ISBN 978-0-593-23991-9)

Pulitzer winner Desmond follows up Evicted along with an argument that low income persists in America because the affluent benefit from it.

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the particular Clock

Jenny Odell. Random House, Mar. 7 ($28. 99, ISBN 978-0-593-24270-4)

In the follow-up in order to How to Do Nothing , Odell draws on history, science, and psychology in order to envision the world not centered around the corporate clock and the notion that will time is money.

Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable

Joanna Schwartz. Viking, Feb. 14 ($30, ISBN 978-0-593-29936-4)

Qualified immunity, no-knock warrants, judicial discretion, and other obstacles to holding police accountable with regard to their misconduct are analyzed in this account from UCLA law professor Schwartz.

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, plus Child Removal in the usa

Roxanna Asgarian. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Scar. 14 ($28, ISBN 978-0-374-60229-1)

In journalist Asgarian’s debut, the 2018 murder-suicide of a married white couple and the particular six Black children they adopted exposes fault lines in America’s child welfare system.

Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life within an Unjust Society

Arline T. Geronimus. Little, Brown Spark, Mar. 28 ($30, ISBN 978-0-316-25797-8)

Geronimus, who coined the term weathering to describe the toll systemic inequality takes upon the health of marginalized people, presents more than 30 years associated with research into the subject.

Politics & Current Occasions Listings

Arcade

They Killed Freddie Gray: The Anatomy of a Police Brutality Cover-Up by Justine Barron (Apr. 18, $27. 99, ISBN 978-1-950994-25-0) draws on new evidence to argue that Baltimore officials covered upward the real cause of Freddie Gray’s death in 2015, undermining the criminal cases against the particular officers involved.

Astra House

Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, plus Migration simply by Alejandra Oliva (June 20, $28, ISBN 978-1-66260-169-9) examines the so-called immigration crisis at the U. S. -Mexico border from the perspective of an interpreter and migrant rights advocate whose family has a long history on both sides of the Rio Grande.

Atlantic Monthly Press

Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader by Mark Bowden (Apr. 11, $28, ISBN 978-0-8021-6242-7) reports upon gang leader Montana Barronette’s reign associated with terror over the streets of Sandtown, one of Baltimore’s deadliest neighborhoods.

Atria

Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America’s Future by Jean M. Twenge (Mar. 28, $32. 50, ISBN 978-1-982181-61-1) documents the differences plus points associated with connection between the six generations currently living in the Oughout. S.

Basic

The particular Shadow Docket: The way the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic simply by Stephen Vladeck (May 16, $30, ISBN 978-1-5416-0263-2) delves in to the Best Court’s increasing use of unsigned, unexplained orders to rule on consequential issues including voting laws, abortion bans, and
vaccine mandates.

Belknap

Never Again: Germans plus Genocide after the Holocaust by Andrew I. Port (May 2, $35, ISBN 978-0-674-27522-5) tracks how Germany’s reckoning with the particular Holocaust led to an increased willingness to get involved within military efforts to stop mass genocides abroad— a shift that has been celebrated by the country’s right-wing.

Bellevue Literary

All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart from the Migrant Aid Crisis by Dana Sachs (Mar. 21, $19. 99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-954276-09-3) spotlights the volunteer relief network that came to the aid of migrants fleeing Syria along with other war-torn countries in 2015.

Broadleaf

Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice regarding Maternal Health in The united states by Monique Rainford (May 9, $26. 99, ISBN 978-1-5064-8761-8) reveals the factors that make Dark women three times more likely to die through pregnancy than their white counterparts, and offers solutions in order to the problem.

Broadside

America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything simply by Christopher F. Rufo (May 16, $32, ISBN 978-0-06-322753-8). The conservative activist that sparked the controversy over critical race theory looks at the influence of left-wing politics on American society. 150, 000-copy announced first printing.

Cambridge Univ.

You Can’t Always Say What You Want: The Paradox of Free Speech by Dennis Baron (Feb. 28, $27. 95, ISBN 978-1-00-919890-5) surveys 200 years of speech legislation and technological advances to explain how free speech rights are now used by the particular powerful to protect themselves from those who else seek to hold them to account.

Catapult

Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn’t Enough by Dina Nayeri (Mar. 7, $27, ISBN 978-1-64622-072-4) takes the question of why some honest asylum seekers are dismissed as liars as the springboard for an interrogation to the nature plus meaning associated with believability.

Citadel

No Human Contact: Solitary Confinement, Maximum Security, and 2 Inmates That Changed the System by Pete Earley (Apr. 25, $27, ISBN 978-0-8065-4188-4) delves into the cases of Thomas Silverstein and Clayton Fountain, 2 inmates which endured decades in solitary confinement right after murdering prison guards.

Crown

A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All by Adam Benforado (Feb. 7, $28. 99, ISBN 978-1-984823-04-5) delineates the ways in which the U. S. education, justice, health, and well being systems mistreat children, and argues that will prioritizing children’s rights can help solve many of the major problems facing the country.

Dutton

The Teachers: A Year Inside America’s Most Vulnerable, Important Profession by Alexandra Robbins (Mar. 14, $29, ISBN 978-1-101-98675-2) tracks 3 U. S. teachers more than the course of the school year as these people grapple with Covid-19, school violence, inadequate resources, problematic parent plus student behavior, and more.

Experiment

Retracing the Iron Curtain: The 3, 000-Mile Journey Through the Finish and Afterlife of the particular Cold War by Timothy Phillips (Mar. 7, $30, ISBN 978-1-61519-964-8) depicts the author’s travels along the length of the particular former Metal Curtain, and the conflicted feelings he found there over the past and the future.

Hachette

Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in a good Era associated with New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats simply by Andrew Hoehn and Thom Shanker (May 9, $30, ISBN 978-0-306-82910-9) contends that America’s national security system needs in order to shift its focus through combating terrorism to a wider range of issues, including pandemics.

Hanover Square

Fire on the Levee: The Murder of Henry Glover plus the Pursuit of Justice After Hurricane Katrina by Jared Fishman (Apr. 25, $28. 99, ISBN 978-1-335-42926-1) recounts how the particular investigation into the mysterious death of a man soon after Hurricane Katrina led to reforms in the Brand new Orleans law enforcement department.

Harper

An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford by Richard Norton Smith (Apr. 11, $50, ISBN 978-0-06-268416-5) revisits Gerald Ford’s pardoning of Richard Nixon, support for the Helsinki Accords, and handling of a severe economic crisis in order to make the particular case that will his leadership has been underrated.

Haymarket

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility , edited simply by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young-Lutunatabua (Apr. 4, $16. 95 industry paper, ISBN 978-1-64259-897-1), gathers essays through scientists, organizers, and poets on the latest developments within the climate movement plus the need to combat inertia.

Knopf

Bottoms Up and the particular Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State by Kerry Howley (Mar. twenty one, $28, ISBN 978-0-525-65549-7) analyzes how the internet has changed modern life through profiles of NSA leaker Reality Winner, Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh, and others whose notoriety will follow them wherever they go.

LITTLE, BROWN

Every Choice Matters: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why We Blew the Whistle upon Facebook simply by Frances Haugen (May 2, $30, ISBN 978-0-316-47522-8) recounts the author’s decision in order to leak files revealing that Facebook knew its algorithms were spreading extremism plus negatively impacting users’ wellness and well-being.

Liveright

Cold Peace: Avoiding the New World Battle by Michael W. Doyle (Apr. 25, $30, ISBN 978-1-63149-606-6) assesses rising tensions between China, Russia, as well as the U. H. and argues that tackling such global threats because climate change and nuclear catastrophe requires cooperation among all three.

Mariner

Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call intended for Change within Hollywood by Maureen Ryan (June 6, $29. 99, ISBN 978-0-06-326927-9) uncovers long-standing patterns associated with harassment and discrimination in the entertainment industry and the myths that will enable them, and highlights grassroots campaigns for reform.

Melville House

Playing God: United states Catholic Bishops and the particular Far Right by Mary Jo McConahay (Mar. fourteen, $27. 99, ISBN 978-1-68589-028-5) draws attention to the way the U. T. Conference of Catholic Bishops has allied with right-wing donors plus evangelicals to oppose Pope Francis and promote an ultraconservative vision for America.

Metropolitan

Walk the Walk: Exactly how Three Police Chiefs Defied the Odds and Changed Cop Culture by Neil Gross (Mar. 21, $27. 99, ISBN 978-1-250-77752-2) profiles a trio of police chiefs within California, Colorado, and Georgia who have made strides in reforming their departments in order to be less aggressive and much more equitable plus humane.

MIT

Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the particular Dawn associated with the Metaverse by Elizabeth M. Renieris (Feb. seven, $26. 95, ISBN 978-0-262-04782-1) argues that laws focused on data privacy and data security have failed to adequately protect people within the internet age, and calls to get a change to a policy framework based on human rights.

Morrow

Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court’s Drive in order to the Correct and Its Historic Consequences by Joan Biskupic (Apr. 4, $32. 99, ISBN 978-0-06-305278-9) evaluates how the recent appointments of three traditional justices shifted the dynamics of the Great Court, leading to the particular overturning associated with Roe v. Wade as well as other controversial decisions.

New Press

The Fear of Too Much Justice: Just how Race plus Poverty Undermine Fairness in the Criminal Courts by Stephen Bright and James Kwak (June twenty, $27. 99, ISBN 978-1-62097-025-6) uses case studies plus legal analysis to examine the way the criminal justice system is weighted against the poor and the marginalized.

Norton

A Hacker’s Mind: The way the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Flex Them Back by Bruce Schneier (Feb. 7, $30, ISBN 978-0-393-86666-7) explores how the “hacker” mindset has gravitated outside the particular realm of computer technology, posing risks to America’s economic, political, plus legal systems.

The particular Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War simply by Jeff Sharlet (Mar. 21, $28. ninety five, ISBN 978-1-324-00649-7) reflects on the currents of faith and politics that brought Donald Trump to the White House and directed to the particular January six Capitol riot.

OR Books

Cold War, Hot War: Exactly how Russiagate Created Chaos from Washington to Ukraine by Aaron Mate (May 16, $45, ISBN 978-1-68219-365-5) suggests that will allegations associated with Russian interference within the 2016 election became such a huge political scandal—running far ahead of the facts—because they will served the particular interests of America’s elite.

PublicAffairs

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu plus Simon Johnson (May sixteen, $32, ISBN 978-1-5417-0253-0) reviews the Middle Ages, the Industrial Revolution, and other turning points to dispute that technological change will be less a driver associated with prosperity than a protector of entrenched powers.

Why Politics Fails by Ben Ansell (May 23, $30, ISBN 978-1-5417-0207-3) elucidates the way the political program prioritizes individual actions over collective goals and obstructs commonsense solutions to climate modify, economic inequality, and other social issues, while charting a path forward.

Random Home

The Secret Gate: A True Tale of Courage and Sacrifice During the Collapse of Afghanistan by Mitchell Zuckoff (Apr. 25, $28. 99, ISBN 978-0-593-59484-1) recounts the rescue of Homeira Qaderi, a good author plus women’s legal rights activist, and her son in the final hours from the Oughout. S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Zov: A Russian Soldier Caught Inside Putin’s Unjust War in Ukraine by Pavel Filatyev, trans. simply by Anna Aslanyan (Feb. 14, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-59738-5), chronicles the author’s experiences since a Russian Army paratrooper during the particular first two months of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Scribner

Untitled upon Ukraine by Mikhail Zygar (July twenty five, $29, ISBN 978-1-66801-372-4). The founding editor-in-chief of an independent Russian TV news channel—which stopped broadcasting within March 2022—details how Ukraine’s increasing ties to Europe after the collapse from the Soviet Union brought to Vladimir Putin’s attack.

Seal

Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis associated with Caregiving, and How We Solve It simply by Emily Kenway (May nine, $29, ISBN 978-1-5416-0122-2) pulls on financial analysis, sociological research, as well as the author’s experiences caring pertaining to her terminally ill mother to expose the isolation plus exhaustion of unpaid caregivers.

Sentinel

Regime Change: Toward the Postliberal Future by Patrick J. Deneen (June 6, $29, ISBN 978-0-593-08690-2) reveals how classical liberalism empowered the top notch while undermining traditions and institutions held dear by ordinary people plus calls for the particular emergence associated with conservative leaders whose interests align along with those of the working class.

Seven Stories

On Living in a Democracy simply by Ralph Nader (Mar. 28, $14. 95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64421-278-3) highlights the particular importance of engaging in one’s community and teaching civic responsibility in schools plus at home in order to create a more civil society.

Simon & Schuster

The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons associated with History Tell Us About Just how and When This Crisis Will End by Neil Howe (July eighteen, $28, ISBN 978-1-98217-373-9). The particular coauthor of Your fourth Turning draws on his theory of generational change in order to predict that America’s current period associated with civil unrest will end within 10 years.

Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the particular Rise of Right Wing Extremism simply by Jeffrey Toobin (May two, $29. 99, ISBN 978-1-66801-357-1) tracks Timothy McVeigh’s path to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and how his actions and beliefs foreshadowed the particular resurgence associated with white nationalism and the January six Capitol huge range.

Stanford Univ.

The Transition: Interpreting Justice through Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas by Daniel Kiel (Apr. 4, $30, ISBN 978-1-5036-3065-9) views the ideological shift that will occurred upon the Supreme Court when Clarence Thomas replaced Thurgood Marshall within 1991 through the lens of America’s fraught racial background.

St . Martin’s

The Case for Cancel Culture: How This Democratic Tool Works to Liberate All of us by Ernest Owens (Feb. 21, $26. 99, ISBN 978-1-250-28093-0) characterizes cancel tradition not as censorship, but as an essential tool associated with democracy that has been wielded simply by the much less powerful to drive historical alter and fight for justice.

Univ. of California

The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the particular Global War on Muslims by Khaled A. Beydoun (Mar. twenty one, $26. ninety five, ISBN 978-0-520-35630-6) spotlights anti-Muslim campaigns around the world, from America’s war on terror to hijab bans in France and the persecution of ethnic Uyghurs in China.

Verso

Right after Black Lives Matter by Cedric Manley (Mar. 21, $34. 95, ISBN 978-1-80429-167-2) contends that will the Black Lives Matter movement offers achieved few substantive reforms because it is not really focused enough on finding solutions in order to socioeconomic inequality.

Viking

Under the Eye of Energy: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy by Colin Dickey (July 11, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-29945-6) revisits the Salem witch trials, the particular Satanic panic of the 1980s, and other historical obsessions with secret societies to shed light on why Americans are so drawn to conspiracy theories.

Vintage

The particular Traitor: Within the World’s Most Powerful Drug Cartel by Anabel Hernandez (July 25, $18 trade papers, ISBN 978-0-593-31169-1) draws upon the courtroom testimony plus private journals of the high-ranking member of the particular Sinaloa cartel who testified against El Chapo to offer an up-close look in life within Mexico’s drug trade.

Yale Univ.

The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media simply by Alice E. Marwick (May 30, $32. 50, ISBN 978-0-300-22962-2) investigates how social media and big data possess jeopardized the privacy associated with marginalized communities, and exactly how the current legal system is incapable of addressing these problems.

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