Fall 2018

Summer/Karl Ove Knausgaard

Big Game/Mark Leibovich

Fashion Climbing/Bill Cunningham

They Fought Alone/Charles Glass

American Prison/Shane Bauer

The Poison Squad/Deborah Blum

The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino/Michael Sokolove

Reagan/Bob Spitz

The Invisible Emperor/Mark Braude

Capitalism in America/Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge

Of Love & War/Lynsey Addario

The Last Pass/Gary Pomerantz

The Indispensables/Anthony Tommasini

The War Before the War/Andrew Delbanco

Che/Jon Lee Anderson

Fall 2018

SU M M E RK A R L O V E K N A U S G A A R D

isbn: 9780399563393price: $30.00

on sale: 8/21/2018

2 June—It is completely dark out now. It is twenty-three minutes to midnight and you have already slept for four hours. What you will dream of tonight, no one will ever know. Even if you were to remember it when you wake up, you wouldn’t have a language in which to communicate it to us, nor do I think that you quite understand what dreams are, I think that is still undefined for you, that your thoughts haven’t grasped it yet, and that it therefore lies within that strange zone where it neither exists nor doesn’t exist.

The conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses short vividly descriptive essays with emotionally-raw diary entries addressed directly to Knausgaard’s newborn daughter. Writing more expansively and, if it is possible, even more intimately and unguardedly

than in the previous three volumes, he mines with new depth his difficult memories of his childhood and fraught relationship with his own father. Documenting his family’s life in rural Sweden and reflecting on a characteristically eclectic array of subjects—mosquitoes, barbeques, cynicism, and skin, to name just a few—he braids the various threads of the previous volumes into a moving conclusion.

At his most voluminous since My Struggle, his epic sensational series, Knausgaard writes for his daughter, striving to make ready and give meaning to a world at once indifferent and achingly beautiful. In his hands, the overwhelming joys and insoluble pains of family and parenthood come alive with uncommon feeling.

The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated

with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer

K A R L OV E K N AU S G A A R D’s first novel, Out of the World, was the first ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics’ Prize and his second, A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven, was widely acclaimed. A Death in the Family, the first of the My Struggle cycle of novels, was awarded the prestigious Brage Award. The My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece wherever it appears.©

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isbn: 9780399185427price: $28.00

on sale: 9/04/2018

BIG G A M E M A R K L E I B O V I C H

Like millions of Americans, Mark Leibovich has spent more of his life than he’d care to admit tuned into pro football. Being a lifelong New England Patriots fan meant growing up with a steady diet of lovable loserdom. That is until the Tom Brady/Bill Belichick era made the Pats the most ruthlessly efficient sports dynasty of the 21st century, its organization the most polarizing in the NFL, and its fans the most irritating in all of Pigskin America. Leibovich kept his obsession relatively private, in the meantime making a nice career for himself covering that other playground for rich and overgrown children, American politics. Still, every now and then Leibovich would reach out to Tom Brady to gauge his willingness to subject himself to a profile in the New York Times Magazine. He figured that the chances of Brady agreeing to this were a Hail Mary at best, but Leibovich kept trying, at least to indulge his fan-boy within. To his surprise, Brady returned the call, in the summer of 2014. He agreed to let Mark spend time with him through the coming season, which proved to be a fateful one for all parties. It included another epic Patriots Super Bowl win and, yes, a scandal involving Brady—Deflategate—whose grip on sports media was as profound as its true significance was ridiculous.

So began a four-year odyssey that has taken Mark Leibovich deeper inside the NFL than anyone has gone before. Ultimately, this is a chronicle of what may

come to be seen as “peak football”—the high point of the sport’s economic success and cultural dominance, but also the moment when it all began to turn. From the owners meeting to the NFL draft to the sidelines of crucial games, he takes in the show, at the elbow of everyone from Brady to Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to the NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell, who is cordially hated by even casual football fans to an extent that is almost weird. It is an era of explosive revenue growth, as deluxe new stadiums spring up all over the country, but also one of creeping existential fear. Football was never thought to be easy on the body—players joke darkly that the NFL stands for “not for long” for good reason. But as the impact of concussions on brains became has become the inescapable ear-ring in the background, it became increasingly difficult to enjoy the simple glory of football without the buzz-kill of its obvious toll.

And that was before Donald Trump. In 2016, Mark Leibovich’s day job caught up with him, and the NFL slammed headlong into America’s culture wars. Big Game is a journey through an epic storm, Through it all, Leibovich always keeps one eye cocked on Tom Brady and his beloved Patriots, through to the end of the 2017-1018 season. Pro football, this hilarious and enthralling book proves, may not be the sport America needs, but it is most definitely the sport we deserve.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Town, an equally merciless probing of America’s biggest cultural force, pro

football, at a moment of peak success and high anxiety.

M A R K L E I B OV I C H is The New York Times Magazine’s chief national correspondent, based in Washington, D.C. He is the author of #1 New York Times-bestselling book This Town and Citizens of the Green Room. Leibovich lives with his family in Washington, D.C.

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FA SH ION C L I M BI NGB I L L C U N N I N G H A M

isbn: 9780525558705price: $27.00

on sale: 9/04/2018

For Bill Cunningham, New York City was the land of freedom, glamour, and, above all, style. Growing up in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston, secretly trying on his sister’s dresses and spending his evenings after school in the city’s chicest boutiques, Bill dreamed of a life dedicated to fashion. But his desires were a source of shame for his family, and after dropping out of Harvard, he had to fight them tooth-and-nail to pursue his love.

When he arrived in New York, he revelled in people-watching. He spent his nights at opera openings and gate-crashing extravagant balls, where he would take note of the styles, new and old, watching how the gowns moved, how the jewels hung, how the hair laid on each head. This was his education, and the birth of the democractic and exuberant taste that he came to be famous for as a photographer for The New York Times. After two style mavens—the women who eventually gave Jackie Kennedy her famous pink Chanel suit—took Bill under their wing, his creativity thrived and he made a name for himself as a designer. Taking on the alias William J.—because

designing under his family’s name would have been a disgrace to his parents—Bill became one of the era’s most outlandish and celebrated hat designers, catering to movie stars, heiresses, and artists alike. Bill’s mission was to bring happiness to the world by making women an inspiration to themselves and everyone who saw them. These were halcyon days when fashion was all he ate and drank. When he was broke and hungry he’d stroll past the store windows on Fifth Avenue and feed himself on beautiful things.

Fashion Climbing is the story of a young man striving to be the person he was born to be: a true original. But although he was one of the city’s most recognized and treasured figures, Bill was also one of its most guarded. Written with his infectious joy and one-of-a-kind voice, this memoir was polished, neatly typewritten, and safely stored away in his lifetime. He held off on sharing it—and himself—until his passing. Between these covers, is an education in style, an effervescent tale of a bohemian world as it once was, and a final gift to the readers of one of New York’s great characters.

Iconic New York Times photographer BILL CUNNINGHAM was the creative force behind the columns On the Street and Evening Hours. Cunningham dropped out of Harvard and moved to New York City at 19, eventually starting his own hat design business under the name “William J.” His designs were featured in Vogue, The New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, and Jet. While covering fashion for publications including Women’s Wear Daily and The Chicago Tribune, he took up photography, which led to him becoming a regular contributor to the Times in the late 70s. Cunningham was the subject of the documentary “Bill Cunningham, New York.” His contributions to New York City were recognized in 2009 when he was designated a “living landmark.”

The untold story of a New York City legend’s education in creativity and style

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T H E Y FOUGH T A LON EC H A R L E S G L A S S

As far as the public knew, Britain’s Special Opera-tions Executive did not exist. After the defeat of the French Army, Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the top-secret espionage operation to “set Europe ablaze,” and the SOE remained below the radar until the end of World War II. The agents in-filtrated Nazi-occupied France, parachuting behind enemy lines and hiding in plain sight, quietly but forcefully recruiting, training, and arming the local French résistants willing to aid in sabotage of the German war machine. The SOE would not only change the course of the war, but the very nature of combat itself. Of the many brave men and women conscripted, two Anglo-American recruits, the Starr brothers, stood out to become legendary figures to the guerillas, assassins, and saboteurs they led.

While both brothers were sent across the channel to organize against the Germans, their fates in war could hardly have been more differ-ent. Captain George Starr commanded networks of résistants in southwest France, cutting German communications, destroying weapons factories, and delaying the arrival of Nazi troops to Nor-mandy by seventeen days after D-Day. Younger brother Lieutenant John Starr laid groundwork for resistance in the Burgundy countryside until he was betrayed, captured, tortured and imprisoned

at Gestapo headquarters and forced labor camps. Feats of boldness and bravado were many, but ap-palling scandals, including George’s supposed tor-ture and execution of Nazis prisoners, and John’s alleged collaboration with his German captors, overshadowed them all. At the war’s end, Brit-ain, France, and the United States awarded both brothers medals for heroism, and George would become one of only three among thousands of SOE operatives to achieve the rank of colonel. Yet, their battle honors did little to allay post-war al-legations against them, and when they returned to England, their government accused both brothers of war crimes.

Here, for the first time, is the story of one of the last secret organizations of World War II, and of two brothers whose ordeals during and after the war challenged the accepted myths of Britain’s wartime resistance in occupied France. Written with com-plete and unrivaled access to only recently declas-sified documents from Britain’s SOE, family letters, diaries, and court records, along with interviews from surviving wartime Resistance fighters, They Fought Alone is a real-life thriller. Renowned jour-nalist and war correspondent Charles Glass exposes a dramatic tale of spies, sabotage, and the daring men and women who risked everything to change the course of World War II.

From the bestselling author of Americans in Paris and The Deserters, the untold story of Britain’s Special Operations Executive,

one of World War II’s most important secret fighting forces

C H A R L E S G L A S S was the Chief Middle East Correspondent for ABC News from 1983 to 1993 and has covered wars in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. His writings appear in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, The Independent, and The Spectator. He is the author of Tribes with Flags, The Tribes Triumphant, Money for Old Rope, The Northern Front, and Americans in Paris: Life and Death.©

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A M E R IC A N PR ISONS H A N E B A U E R

isbn: 9780735223585price: $28.00

on sale: 9/18/2018

In 2015, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winn, Louisiana. He used his real name, and although it was apparent to all who could use Google that he was an award-winning investigative journalist with a history of immersive inside stories, no meaningful background check was done on him. 120 days later, after the prison cottoned to what he was up to, he was summarily fired. His Mother Jones cover story exploded in summer 2016; it became that magazine’s most read story in history. In response, the Obama administration announced that federal prisoners would no longer be housed in private prisons. Hillary Clinton announced her full support. One of the first moves President Trump made was to reverse that order; no industry’s stock price has been more positively affected by Trump’s victory thanthe private prison sector.

In American Prison, Shane Bauer tells the full, horrific story of his own experiences, and those of the prisoners and other guards around him, in the private prison system, a sector that has been

deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private prisons are not incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates, or to feed them well, or to attract and retain a highly-trained prison staff. The rampant dysfunction of the prison guards is at times a close second to the dysfunction of the prisons. To his shame, Bauer finds himself becoming crueler and more aggressive the longer he works in the prison, and he is far from alone. Prison is a brutalizing experience for all involved. Woven into the narrative is a ground-breaking history of the private prison system in America, from its origins in the aftermath of the Civil War. Private prisons sprang up in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery. The echoes of these shameful origins are still with us in the management of today’s largest companies.

A powerful indictment of the private prison system, and of the phenomenon of mass incarceration that drives it, American Prison is a powerful human document about the true face of justice in America.

S H A N E B AU E R is a senior reporter for Mother Jones and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Best Reporting. His writing has appeared in The Nation, Salon, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the Christian Science Monitor. He’s received the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism, the John Jay Award for Criminal Justice Reporting, and the Media for a Just Society Award. Bauer is the co-author, along with Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal, of a memoir, A Sliver of Light, which details his time spent as a prisoner in Iran.

A harrowing and groundbreaking account of going undercover as a guard in a private prison in Louisiana,

springing from the extraordinary National Magazine Award-winning Mother Jones cover story that shocked a nation

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T H E POISON SQUA DD E B O R A H B L U M

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By the end of nineteenth century, food was dangerous. Lethal, even. “Milk” might contain formaldehyde, most often used to embalm corpses. Decaying meat was preserved with both salicylic acid, a pharmaceutical chemical, and borax, a compound first identified as a cleaning product. This was not by accident; food manufacturers had rushed to embrace the rise of industrial chemistry, and were knowingly selling harmful products. Unchecked by government regulation, basic safety, or even labelling requirements, they put profit before the health of their customers. By some estimates, in New York City alone, thousands of children were killed by “embalmed milk” every year. Citizens—activists, journalists, scientists, and women’s groups—began agitating for change. But even as protective measures were enacted in Europe, American corporations blocked even modest regulations. Then, in 1883, Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, a chemistry professor from Purdue University, was named chief chemist of the agriculture department, and the agency began methodically investigating food and drink fraud,

even conducting shocking human tests on groups of young men who came to be known as, “The Poison Squad.”

Over the next thirty years, a titanic struggle took place, with the courageous and fascinating Dr. Wiley campaigning indefatigably for food safety and consumer protection. Together with a gallant cast, including the muckraking reporter Upton Sinclair, whose fiction revealed the horrific truth about the Chicago stockyards; Fannie Farmer, then the most famous cookbook author in the country; and Henry J. Heinz, one of the few food producers who actively advocated for pure food, Dr. Wiley changed history. When the landmark 1906 Food and Drug Act was finally passed, it was known across the land, as “Dr. Wiley’s Law.”

Blum brings to life this timeless and hugely satisfying “David and Goliath” tale with righteous verve and style, driving home the moral imperative of confronting corporate greed and government corruption with a bracing clarity, which speaks resoundingly to the enormous social and political challenges we face today.

DEBORAH BLUM is director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT. In 1992, she won the Pulitzer Prize for a series on primate research, which she turned into a book, The Monkey Wars. Her other books include The Poisoner’s Handbook, Ghost Hunters , Love at Goon Park, and Sex on the Brain. She has written for publications including The New York Times, Wired, Time, Discover, Mother Jones, The Guardian and The Boston Globe. Blum is a past president of the National Association of Science Writers, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a lifetime associate of the National Academy of Sciences.

From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food

was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change

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T H E POISON SQUA DD E B O R A H B L U M

isbn: 9780399563270price: $28.00

on sale: 9/25/2018

T H E L A ST T E M P TAT ION OF R IC K PI T I NO

M I C H A E L S O KO L O V E

In late August 2017, the University of Louisville athletic director, who drew an annual compensation package of over $5 million from the commonwealth of Kentucky, one of the poorest states in the nation, threw a lavish party to celebrate an extension of his school’s sponsorship deal with Adidas: $160 million for another 10 years. The invitees were city’s gentry—horse breeders, bourbon distillers, partners at big law firms, the state’s governor, Matt Bevin, and its most powerful politician, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. One month later, the FBI revealed that it had reached the endgame of a sprawling investigation of large-scale corruption involving Adidas, Louisville and a host of other colleges, in which large payments were laundered from Adidas through a network of coaches and fixers to athletes and their families to induce them to go to Adidas-branded college programs. In short order, Hall of Fame basketball coach Rick Pitino (salary: $8 million) and athletic director Tom Jurich were fired, and fear and trembling swept through the world of bigtime college athletics. Because there is another shoe, as it were, and it will fall.

In The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino , Michael Sokolove lifts the rug on the Louisville scandal and places it in

the context of the much wider problem, the farce of amateurism in bigtime college sports. In a world in which even assistant coaches can make high-six and seven-figure salaries, as long as they keep the “elite” athletes coming in, shoe deals can reach into the nine figures, and everyone is getting rich but the players, can it be surprising that unscrupulous parties would pay athletes, creating in effect a black market in young men, a veritable underground railroad of talent?

But a few bad apples are one thing. In The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino, Michael Sokolove shows an elaborate, systematic machine, involving millions of dollars in illicit payments and connecting at least one of the largest apparel companies in the world with schools across the country. The Louisville-Adidas scandal has revealed a web of conspiracy whose scope has shaken big-time college sports to its core, delivering a devastating blow to the fantasy of amateurism, of “scholar athletes.” A Shakespearean drama of greed and desperation involving some of the biggest characters in the arena of sports, The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino will be the definitive chronicle of this scandal and its broader echoes.

M I C H A E L S O K O L OV E is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, as well as the author of four previous books, Drama High, The Ticket Out, Hustle, and Warrior Girls.

From acclaimed New York Times Magazine author Michael Sokolove, the astonishing inside story of the epic

corruption scandal that has rocked the NCAA and exposed the rot and hypocrisy at the heart of big-time college sports.

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R E AG A NB O B S P I T Z

More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents, and infused with irresistible storytelling charm, Bob Spitz’s Reagan stands fair to be the first truly post-partisan biography of our 40th President, and thus a balm for our own bitterly divided times.

It is the quintessential American triumph, brought to life with cinematic vividness: a young man is born into poverty and raised in a series of flyspeck towns in the Midwest by a pious mother and a reckless, alcoholic, largely absent father. Severely near-sighted, the boy lives in his own world, a world of the popular books of the day, and finds his first brush with popularity, even fame, as a young lifeguard. Thanks to his first great love, he imagines a way out, and makes the extraordinary leap to go to college, a modest school by national standards, but an audacious presumption in the context of his family’s station. From there, the path is only very dimly lit, but it leads him, thanks to his great charm and greater luck, to a solid career as a radio sportscaster, and then, astonishingly, fatefully, to Hollywood. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Bob Spitz’s Reagan is an absorbing, richly detailed, even revelatory chronicle of the full arc of Ronald Reagan’s epic life—giving full weight to the Hollywood years, his transition to politics and rocky but ultimately

successful run as California governor, and ultimately, of course, his iconic presidency, filled with storm and stress but climaxing with his peace talks with the Soviet Union that would serve as his greatest legacy. It is filled with fresh assessments and shrewd judgments, and doesn’t flinch from a full reckoning with the man’s strengths and limitations. This is no hagiography: Reagan was never a brilliant student, of anything, and his disinterest in hard-nosed political scheming, while admirable, meant that this side of things was left to the other people in his orbit, not least his wife Nancy; sometimes this delegation could lead to chaos, and worse. But what emerges as a powerful signal through all the noise is an honest inherent sweetness, a gentleness of nature and willingness to see the good in people and in this country, that proved to be a tonic for America in his time, and still is in ours. It was famously said that FDR had a first-rate disposition and a second-rate intellect. Perhaps it is no accident that only FDR had as high a public approval rating leaving office as Reagan did, or that in the years since Reagan has been closing in on FDR on rankings of Presidential greatness. Written with love and irony, which in a great biography is arguably the same thing, Bob Spitz’s masterpiece will give no comfort to partisans at either extreme; for the rest of us, it is cause for celebration.

B O B S P I T Z is a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Life. In his career as a music-business figure, he has represented the careers of everyone from the Partridge Family to Bruce Springsteen and Elton John. He is the author of seven books, including The Beatles, his definitive bestselling biography of the phenomenal supergroup; Barefoot in Babylon, the eye-opening documentary of the Woodstock Music Festival; and Dearie, his bestselling biography of Julia Child.

From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a full and rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what

made Ronald Reagan both so beloved and so transformational.

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T H E I N V ISI BL E E M PE RORM ARK BR AUDE

In 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated. Having overseen an empire spanning half the European continent and governed the lives of some seventy million people, he suddenly found himself exiled to Elba. This was his punishment, and would have been the end of him, if Europe’s rulers had had their way. Naturally, the man who ten years earlier had pronounced himself the Emperor of France would not stand for that. In no time, Napoleon imposed his preternatural charisma and historic ambition on both his captors and the very island itself, plotting his return to France and to power. Merely ten months later, with just of over a thousand supporters, he sailed to France, marched on Paris, and easily retook the Tuileries Palace. Not long after that, tens of thousands people would die fighting both for and against him at Waterloo.

Braude dramatizes in granular detail and with novelistic relish this enthralling and improbable

escape, offering sharp new insight into one of the less well-known moments in Napoleon’s life, as well as portraying a terrific cast of secondary characters, including his official British minder on Elba, Neil Campbell, a tragically noble character who, having let “Boney” get free, ends in disgrace. This is a surprising new perspective on one of history’s most consequential figures, which both subverts and celebrates his customary myth. By putting this sliver of Napoleon’s life under the microscope, Braude depicts him both in all his glory and in hubris: vanquished, fallible, and, yet, irrepressible. Indeed this is not just a riveting story and highly original biographical study, but also an interrogation of the very idea of both exile and return, a timeless examination of how preposterous, quixotic, and grandiose ideas can suddenly leap from the imagination and into reality.

M A R K B R AU D E writes for The Globe and Mail, The Los Angeles Times, New Republic, and The Daily Beast. His first book, Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle was published 2016. He is the recipient of a 2017 Public Scholar Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has been a lecturer and postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University, and lives in Vancouver with his wife.

Part forensic investigation, part dramatic jailbreak adventure, Mark Braude’s The Invisible Emperor is a gripping narrative

history of Napoleon Bonaparte’s ten-month exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba.

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C A PI TA L ISM I N A M E R IC AA L A N G R E E N S PA N & A D R I A N W O O L D R I D G E

From even the start of his fabled career, Alan Greenspan was duly famous for his deep understanding of even the most arcane corners of the American economy, and his restless curiosity to know even more. To the extent possible, he has made a science of understanding how the US economy works almost as a living organism—how it grows and changes, surges and stalls. He has made a particular study of the question of productivity growth, at the heart of which is the riddle of innovation. Where does innovation come from, and how does it spread through a society? And why do some eras see the fruits of innovation spread more democratically, and others, including our own, see the opposite?

In Capitalism in America, Greenspan distills a lifetime of grappling with these questions into a thrilling and profound master reckoning with the decisive drivers of the US economy over the course of its history. In partnership with the celebrated Economist journalist and historian Adrian Wooldridge, he unfolds a tale involving vast landscapes, titanic figures, triumphant breakthroughs, enlightenment ideals as well as terrible moral failings. Every crucial debate is here—from the role of slavery in the antebellum Southern economy to the real impact of FDR’s New Deal to America’s violent

mood swings in its openness to global trade and its impact. But to read Capitalism in America is above all to be stirred deeply by the extraordinary productive energies unleashed by millions of ordinary Americans that have driven this country to unprecedented heights of power and prosperity.

At heart, the authors argue, America’s genius has been its unique tolerance for the effects of creative destruction, the ceaseless churn of the old giving way to the new, driven by new people and new ideas. Often messy and painful, creative destruction has also lifted almost all Americans to standards of living unimaginable to even the wealthiest citizens of the world a few generations past. A sense of justice and human decency demands that those who bear the brunt of the pain of change be protected, but America has always accepted more pain for more gain, and its vaunted rise cannot otherwise be understood, or its challenges faced, without recognizing this legacy. For now, in our time, productivity growth has stalled again, stirring up the populist furies. There’s no better moment to apply the lessons of history to the most pressing question we face, that of whether the United States will preserve its preeminence, or see its leadership pass to other, inevitably less democratic powers.

ALAN GREENSPAN was born in 1926 and reared in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. After studying the clarinet at Juilliard and working as a professional musician, he earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in economics from New York University. From 1974 to 1977, he served as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ford. In 1987, President Reagan appointed him chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, a position he held until his retirement in 2006. He is the author of The New York Times bestsellers The Map and the Territory and The Age of Turbulence.

ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE is The Economist’s political editor and writes the Bagehot column. With John Micklethwait he is the author of six previous books: The Fourth Revolution, The Witch Doctors, A Future Perfect, The Company, The Right Nation, and God is Back.

From the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economist writer and historian, the full, epic story of America’s evolution from a small patchwork of threadbare colonies to the most powerful engine of

wealth and innovation the world has ever seen.

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OF LOV E & WA RLY N S E Y A D DA R I O

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on sale: 10/23/2018

Lynsey Addario has captured audiences with her disarming and compelling photographs and her uncanny ability to personalize even the most remote corners of our world. Here, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist returns with a stunning collection of more than two hundred of her photographs from across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. In her distinctively powerful dramatic style, Addario documents life in Afghanistan under the Taliban, the stark truth

of sub-Saharan Africa, and the daily reality of women in the Middle East, as well as much more. Featuring revelatory essays from esteemed writers, such as Dexter Filkins and Suzy Hansen, and public figures, like Christy Turlington, Of Love & War is an utterly compelling and singular statement about the world, and all its inescapable chaos and conflict, from one of the most brilliant and influential journalists working today in any medium.

LY N S E Y A D D A R I O is an American photojournalist whose work appears regularly in The New York Times, National Geographic, and Time Magazine. She has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Darfur, and the Congo, and has received numerous awards, including the MacArthur Genius Grant and the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and New York Times bestselling author, a stunning and personally curated selection of

her work across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa

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on sale: 10/23/2018

T H E L A ST PA SSG A R Y P O M E R A N T Z

About to turn ninety, Bob Cousy, the Hall of Fame Boston Celtic captain who led the team to its first six championships on an unparalleled run, has much to look back on in peace and contentment. Yet it is heart-rending that for Cousy, a widower living alone with memories and echoes in a big house in Worcester, MA, the last piece of unfinished business—the last pass he hopes to throw - is to close the circle with his great partner on those Celtic teams, fellow Hall of Famer Bill Russell, now 83. Ironic because these teammates were basketball’s Ruth and Gehrig, and because Cooz, as everyone called him, was famously ahead of his time as an NBA player in terms of race and civil rights.

But as the decades passed, Cousy blamed himself for not having done enough, for not having understood the depth of prejudice that Russell faced as an African-American star in a city with a fraught history regarding race. Cousy wishes he had defended Russell publicly, and that he had told him privately that he had his back. At this late hour, how can he make amends?

At the heart of Gary Pomerantz’s wonderful book lies the relationship between these two men. It is Bob Cousy’s last testament, a full reckoning with a complex and fascinating life. As a sports story alone it has few parallels: An immigrant ghetto kid whose French parents suffered a dysfunctional marriage, the young Cousy

escaped to the New York City playgrounds where his creativity as a dribbler and passer made him an urban legend soon known as the Houdini of the Hardwood. The legend grew at Holy Cross, and then nationally in 1950, his first year as a Celtic: he would be an all-star all 13 of his NBA seasons.

Even as Cousy’s on-court imagination and daring brought new attention to the pro game, the Celtics struggled until Coach Red Auerbach landed Russell in 1956. He fit in with Cooz beautifully. Russell was a track star in college with explosive speed and leaping ability; he could run with Cooz on the break, and became a revolutionary enforcer as a shot blocker and rebounder. The Celtics dynasty was born.

To Boston’s white sportswriters it was Cousy’s team, not Russell’s. As the civil rights movement took flight, Russell became more publicly involved in it, which involved some ugly repercussions. The Last Pass situates the Celtics dynasty against the full dramatic canvas of American life in the 50’s and 60’s, with Cousy and Russell in the foreground. It is an enthralling portrait of the heart of this legendary team that throws open a window onto the wider world at a time of convulsive social change. And it is a book about the legacy of a life: what matters to us in the end, long after the arena lights have been turned off and we are alone with our memories.

G A RY P O M E R A N T Z spent eighteen years as a celebrated daily journalist and sportswriter. He has written several books on topics ranging from sports to history to civil rights, beginning with Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, followed by Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds; WILT, 1962, a narrative of basketball star Wilt Chamberlain’s legendary 100-point game; The Devil’s Tickets; and Their Life’s Work, on the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers. Pomerantz has taught reporting at Stanford for the past ten years.

From an acclaimed bestselling historian, a poignant and revelatory narrative about the greatest dynasty in American professional sports

history, and an intimate story of race, mortality, and regret

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isbn: 9781594205934price: $30.00

on sale: 11/6/2018

T H E I N DISPE NSA BL ESA N T H O N Y T O M M A S I N I

In 2011 the New York Times Chief Classical Music critic Anthony Tommasini wrote a wildly popular series called “The Top Ten Composers.” Over the course of a few weeks, Tommasini somewhat cheekily engaged his readers to determine the all-time great composers.

They wrestled with questions of criteria. What made the greatest the greatest? Would a composer’s popularity factor in? Should influence matter? What about someone whose range was narrow? Chopin was a staggering genius who wrote almost exclusively for the piano. And what do you do with opera?

Tommasini had hit a nerve, but he’d only just begun. Now, he makes the case for his own canon of indispensable composers—and what greatness really means in classical music.

Classical music lovers have always cared about greatness; but what does it mean to be canonical now? Who gets to say? And do we have enough perspective on the 20th century to even begin assessing it?

The Indispensables is Tommasini’s argument for the composers he finds essential and why. To make his case, he draws on elements of biography, historical background, the anxiety of influence, the composer’s relationships with colleagues, and shifting attitudes toward a composer’s work over time.

As he argues for his particular pantheon, Tommasini also provides a masterclass in what to listen for and how to understand what music does to us. If Alex Ross’ The Rest Is Noise used music to tell a history, Tommasini here is using history to explain music.

A N T H O N Y TO M M A S I N I is the chief classical music critic for the New York Times. He graduated from Yale University, and later earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Boston University. He is the author of three books, including a biography of the composer and critic Virgil Thomson. As a pianist, he recorded two Northeastern Records compact discs of music by Thomson, both funded through grants he was awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

An investigation of the question of greatness in Western classical music in which the Chief Classical Music Critic of the New York Times

makes the case for his own canon of composers

T H E I N DISPE NSA BL ESA N T H O N Y T O M M A S I N I

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T H E WA R BE FOR E T H E WA RA N T H O N Y D E L B A N C O

isbn: 9781594204050price: $28.0011/06/2018

In the early nineteenth century, many people were sure that America could not possibly last. It was too big to be ruled by a central government. Its politics were chaotic. It was held together by a piece of paper signed by semi-sovereign states. And it was really two nations—one slave, one free.

The War Befo re the War begins with the Founders, both to tell the long and hideous story of slavery and to examine the evolving American conscience. Over the first 75 years of our nation’s history, citizens of the North slowly came to understand the moral horror of slavery as stories from fugitive slaves, chief among them Frederick Douglass, made that reality inescapable.

Yet for many antebellum Americans the whole issue of slavery still came down to a question of law and order. The law pretended that slavery was a

question of property. The law pretended that the great question of the age was whose responsibility it was to return an escaped person to bondage.

By the spring of 1850, as abolitionist voices grew louder and Southerners grew more insistent about the return of their human property, the collapse of the U.S. appeared inevitable. The three elders of the Senate—Calhoun, Clay, and Webster—began work on a compromise to hold the nation together. This act of appeasement was meant to be a remedy, but it inflamed the minds and hearts of all Americans.

Slavery was always the noose around the nation, and the fugitive slave question was the final tightening that allows us to see the whole history of the country—what brought us to war and what remained after war.

A N D R E W D E L B A N C O is the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia and the author of College, Melville, The Death of Satan, Required Reading, The Real American Dream, and The Puritan Ordeal, among other books. Professor Delbanco’s essays appear regularly in The New York Review of Books and other journals. In 2001, he was named by Time Magazine as “America’s Best Social Critic” and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. President Barack Obama presented Professor Delbanco with the National Humanities Medal in 2012.

A damning account of how the battles over the status of fugitive slaves, from the Constitution to the Fugitive Slave Law, drove the nation to Civil War.

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isbn: 9780735221772price: $35.00

on sale: 11/13/2018

C H EJ O N L E E A N D E R S O N

Che Guevara’s legend is unmatched in the modern world. Since his assassination in 1967 at the age of thirty-nine, the Argentine revolutionary has become an internationally recognized icon, as revered as he is controversial. As a Marxist ideologue who sought to end global inequality by bringing down the American capitalist empire through armed guerrilla warfare, Che has few rivals in the Cold War era as an apostle of revolutionary change. In Che: A Revolutionary Life, Jon Lee Anderson and José Hernández present the man behind the myth, creating a complex and human portrait of this passionate idealist.

Adapted from Jon Lee Anderson’s definitive masterwork, Che vividly transports us from young Ernesto’s medical school days as a sensitive

asthmatic to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from his place of power alongside Castro, to his disastrous sojourn in the Congo, and his violent end in Bolivia. Through renowned Mexican artist José Hernández’s drawings we feel the bullets wing past the head of the young rebel in Cuba, we smell the thick smoke of Castro’s cigars, and scrutinize the face of the weary guerrilla as he’s called “Comandante” for the first time.

With astonishing precision, color, and drama, Anderson and Hernández’s Che makes us a witness to the revolution life and times of Che Guevara. Anderson’s meticulous research and unprecedented access and Hernández’s vivid and emotionally gripping artwork resurrect this mythic figure for a new generation of readers.

J O N L E E A N D E R S O N is the author of The Fall of Baghdad, Guerillas,The Lion’s Grave, and Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life. His reporting led to the discovery of Che’s skeletal remains thirty years after their secret burial in Bolivia. He is a New Yorker staff writer, and has reported frequently from Latin America and from war zones around the world. Anderson has written profiles of Augusto Pinochet, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He is at work on a book about Fidel Castro and modern Cuba.

The graphic novel adapation of the groundbreaking and definitive biography of Che Guevara

C H EJ O N L E E A N D E R S O N