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Cover art for THE PARTNERSHIP
NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 3, 2012

"Will the partnership prevail? Stay tuned, but hope for the best--for, they warn, "[i]f urgent steps are not taken to rein in nuclear weapons...a catastrophic attack is virtually inevitable.""
Timely portrait of an alliance, seemingly unlikely, of former Cold War mavens now committed to nuclear disarmament. Read full book review >
Cover art for WHILE AMERICA SLEEPS
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 21, 2012

"Sage, sensible words by a leader who can now point to how he right he was."
Former Senator Feingold shares his progressive foreign-policy vision. Read full book review >
Cover art for MR. PRESIDENT
NONFICTION
Released: March 6, 2012

"Raphael's exceptional history of the beginning years of the United States should be required reading, especially in an election year."
Renowned historian Raphael (Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation, 2011, etc.) delivers an authoritative biography of the Constitutional Convention and the herculean task faced by the representatives. Read full book review >
Cover art for SOLDIER DOGS
NONFICTION
Released: March 15, 2012

"A well-deserved salute to the military's "paws-on-the-ground heroes.""
Dogster.com writer Goodavage profiles an indispensible warrior of the four-legged variety. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE HUNT FOR KSM
NONFICTION
Released: March 26, 2012

"A surprising, sobering look at one of the deadliest terror networks in history and the American spy agencies charged with bringing it down."
Superlative storytelling and crackling reportage define a pulse-pounding narrative tracing the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Read full book review >
Cover art for NIGHTCAP AT DAWN
NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2012

"A bracing cooperative effort taking readers as close to war as humanly possible."
Iraq war experiences from those who were there. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE OCCUPY HANDBOOK
NONFICTION
Released: April 17, 2012
edited by Janet Byrne

"An educational, highly useful primer on what's broken and how to fix it."
A succinct body of essays by knowledgeable, sympathetic observers on the grievances of the Occupy Wall Street protestors. Read full book review >
Cover art for FREEDOM'S FORGE
NONFICTION
Released: May 8, 2012

"A magnificent, controversial re-examination of the role of American business in winning WWII."
It's not often that a historian comes up with a fresh approach to an absolutely critical element of the Allied victory in World War II, but Pulitzer finalist Herman (Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age, 2009, etc.) has done just that. Read full book review >
Cover art for BETTER, STRONGER, FASTER
NONFICTION
Released: May 8, 2012

"An upbeat account full of useful information."
Yahoo! Finance columnist and editor Gross (Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation, 2009, etc.) confidently asserts that America is not in a terminal decline. Read full book review >
Cover art for WE CAN ALL DO BETTER
NONFICTION
Released: May 8, 2012

"An important contribution to the national discussion with appeal to independents as well as the more traditionally party-minded."
The three-term Democratic senator shares his political perspective and primary concerns for the United States. Read full book review >
Cover art for SERVICE
NONFICTION
Released: May 8, 2012

"An action-packed, occasionally reflective saga of contemporary military service."
A Navy combat veteran showcases the deadly operations in Iraq, promoting American military duty as ennobling in the service of humanity. Read full book review >
Cover art for AMERICA THE PHILOSOPHICAL
NONFICTION
Released: May 22, 2012

"A tour de force--encyclopedic, entertaining and enlightening."
Chronicle of Higher Education critic-at-large Romano (Philosophy and Humanities/Ursinus Coll.) debuts with a comprehensive and certain-to-be controversial diagnosis of the condition of philosophical thinking in America today. Read full book review >