Fall 2012 Catalog
An Army of Phantoms
American Movies and the Making of the Cold War
NOW IN PAPERBACK: Acclaimed critic J . Hoberman’ s masterful exploration of the Cold War film industry in “an epic . . . al ternately fevered and measured account of what might be called the primal scene of American cinema” (Cineaste)
Electoral Dysfunction
A Survival Manual for American Voters
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Published to coincide with the nationally broadcast PBS documentary starring Mo Rocca, this eye-opening guide shows why there's something funny about voting in America—and offers an Rx for fixing our electoral dysfunction
Fatal Invention
How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
NOW IN PAPERBACK: Hailed as "essential reading" by Danny Glover and "a triumph!" by Harriet Washington, a groundbreaking critique of an emerging racial science, by the award-winning author of Killing the Black Body
Kids for Cash
Two Judges, Thousands of Children, and a $2.8 Million Kickback Scheme
From the Pulitzer prize-winning Philadelphia Inquirer reporter, a gripping work of true crime about the Pennsylvania case in which judges in a rural county took cash payments for sending children to a privatized juvenile detention facility
Lessons from the Heartland
A Turbulent Half-Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City
A sweeping narrative portrait of the all-American city at the epicenter of public education reform—A Common Ground for the decades since the events chronicled in J. Anthony Lukas's Pulitzer Prize winner

