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CONTENTSWORLD REPORT 2011HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH___________________________4
BIRTH MATTERSA Midwifes ManifestaINA MAY GASKIN
foreword by Ani DiFranco____________________________6
THE SWEETEST THING
A Boxers MemoirMISCHA MERZ ___________________________________8
BODY POLITICDispatches from the WomensHealth RevolutionEdited by BARBARA SEAMAN
with Laura Eldridge _______________________________10
THE KILLING GAMESelected Writings by the Author of DarkAlliance:The CIA, the Contras, and theCrack Cocaine ExplosionGARYWEBB
edited with an introduction by Eric Webb
foreword byTom Loftus
afterword by Robert Parry __________________________12
TEACHINGWITH VOICES OF APEOPLES HISTORY OF THEUNITED STATESGAYLE OLSON-RAYMER__________________________14
DEEP GREEN RESISTANCEStrategy to Save the PlanetARIC MCBAY,LIERRE KEITH,
and DERRICK JENSEN____________________________16
ONLY THE SUPER-RICHCAN SAVE US!Abridged EditionRALPH NADER __________________________________18
DREAMSDERRICK JENSEN _______________________________20
A HISTORY OF MARRIAGEFrom Same Sex Unions to Private Vowsand Common Law, the Surprising Diversityof a TraditionELIZABETH ABBOTT ____________________________22
REAL COMMON SENSEUsing Our FoundingValues to Reclaim OurNation and Stop the Radical Right fromHijacking AmericaBRIAN KAHN____________________________________24
ANTI-CAPITALISMEZEQUIEL ADAMOVSKY
illustrated by the United Illustrators
translated by Marie Trigona _________________________26
HAMASFrom Resistance to GovernmentPAOLA CARIDI
translated by AndreaTeti ___________________________28
TEA OF ULAANBAATAR
A NovelCHRISTOPHER R.HOWARD _______________________30
THERE ARETHINGS I WANT YOUTO KNOWABOUT STIEG LARSSONAND MEEVA GABRIELSSON
with Marie-Franoise Colombani
translated by Linda Coverdale _______________________32
BUZZ ALDRIN,WHAT HAPPENEDTOYOU IN ALLTHE CONFUSION?A NovelJOHAN HARSTAD
translated by Deborah Dawkin _______________________34
HOWARD ZINN ON RACEHOWARD ZINN
introduction by Cornel West _________________________38
HOWARD ZINN ON HISTORYSecond EditionHOWARD ZINN
introduction by Marilyn B.Young ____________________38
HOWARD ZINN ON WARSecond EditionHOWARD ZINN
introduction by Staughton Lynd ______________________40
REBEL BOOKSELLERWhy Indie Businesses RepresentEverything YouWant to Fight for, fromFree Speech to Buying Local to Building
CommunitiesRevised and Updated EditionANDREW LATIES
foreword by Ed Morrow
afterword by Bill Ayers _____________________________44
UNRULY WOMENThe Politics of Confinement & ResistanceKARLENE FAITH ________________________________46
SCORCHED EARTHLegacies of Chemical Warfare in VietnamFRED A.WILCOX
introduction by Noam Chomsky ______________________48
WAITING FOR AN ARMY TO DIEThe Tragedy of Agent Orange
Second EditionFRED A.WILCOX ________________________________50
About Seven Stories Press __________________53
About Seven Stories Institute________________54
Seven Stories Staff ________________________55
Distribution Information____________________56
Contact Information:Editorial and Rights _____58
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Human Rights Watch, under director Kenneth Roth, leads the struggle to
focus the worlds eye on human rights issues at home and abroad. Its
annual World Report, written in straightforward, nontechnical language,
conducts a systematic investigation of human rights abuses in every coun-
try from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, with a particular focus on the roles
played in each country by key domestic and international figures. Then
in incisive essays written by staff, scholars, and activiststhe report
describes the way forward to a more humane future.
Highly anticipated and widely publicized by the US and international
press every year, World Reportcollecting reports on human rights issues
from 2010is an invaluableresource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens.
Author event in New York City National drive-time radio tour
WORLD REPORT 2011
Human Rights Watch
A wonderful report. An attempt to bring rationality where
emotion tends to dominate.
Simon Jenkins,former editor of the Times (London)
The reports of the New Yorkbased Human Rights Watch have become
extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical,
these reports have gone far beyond an account of human
rights abuses in the country.
Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH is the largest US-based international human
rights organization. It investigates, reports on, and seeks to curb human rights
abuses in over seventy countries. For more information, visit www.hrw.org.
Publication: February 2011
Current Affairs
6 x 9 640 pages
24 pages color photos
trade paperback original
$30.00 US / $36.00 CAN
ISBN: 978-1-58322-921-7
KENNETH ROTH
Human Rights Watch
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In Birth Matters, Americas leading midwife, Ina May Gaskin, reminds usthat the ways in which women experience birth have implications for us all.
Renewing confidence in a womans natural ability to birth provides trans-
formative possibilities for individual families, and for society at large.
A woman who gives birth in the US today is more likely to die in child-
birth than her mother was. With one in three babies born via cesarean, the
US ranks behind thirty-three other nations in neonatal mortality rates, and
forty other nations in maternal mortality rates. Confidence in womens
bodies and womens choices has been lost. Known around the world for
her birthing practices exemplary low rates of intervention, morbidity, andmortality, Ina May Gaskin has gained an international reputation in ob-
stetrics for demonstrating the magic key to safe birth: respect for the nat-
ural process. Birth Mattersis a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust
women, value birth, nurture families, and reconcile modern life with a
process as old as our species.
National drive-time radio tour
Features in major health, womens, and general interestmagazines
Author Events: San Francisco Boston Ann Arbor, MI NewYork Portland, OR Philadelphia Nashville, Memphis, andSummertown, TN Seattle
BIRTH MATTERSA Midwifes Manifesta
Ina May Gaskin
Foreword by Ani DiFranco
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Ina May Gaskin is an international treasure. And Birth Matters
is a must-read for anyone and everyone who cares about humanity.
I love this book!
Christiane Northrup,MD, ob/gyn physician and author of the New York Timesbestsellers
Womens Bodies,Womens Wisdom, and The Wisdom of Menopause
A wonderful book expressing Ina Mays energy and vision.
Sheila Kitzinger, author of The Complete Book of Pregnancy and
Childbirthand Rediscovering Bir th
EVERYONE should read this book . . . a cogent analysis of why birth isrelevant to our culture and our sustainability as a people on this planet.
Ina May has outdone herself!
Elizabeth Davis, author of Orgasmic Birth
Calledthe midwife of modern midwiferyby Salon, INA MAY GASKIN has
practiced for nearly forty years at the internationally lauded Farm Midwifery
Center. She is the only midwife for whom an obstetric maneuver has been named
(Gaskin maneuver). She is the author of Spiritual Midwifery, Ina Mays Guide
to Childbirth,and Ina Mays Guide to Breastfeeding.
ANI DIFRANCO is one of Americas most fiercely independent and beloved mu-
sicians, as well as an outspoken voice of conscience. She is the author of AniDiFranco:Verses.
Publication: March 2011
Womens Studies / Health & Fitness
5 x 8 272 pages
trade paperback original
$16.95 US / $19.95 CAN
ISBN: 978-1-58322-927-9
Alex MacNaughton
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Mischa Merzs chronicle of her journey into womens boxing is a must-read for
those interested in seeing just how womens boxing became a sport on its own.
Bert Randolph Sugar, author of The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists and editor of Boxing Illustrated,
The Ring,and Bert Sugars Fight Game
A beautiful journal-like book [that] documents the ins and outs of
female boxing behind the scenes.
Lucia Rijker, two-time super lightweight world boxing champion
Puts the reader in the ring,in the gym, deep into the hopes, dreams and aspira-
tions of what it takes to live up to the label,boxer. But best of all its a book that
will be meaningful to the boxing commuity while, at the same time, serving as a
clear-eyed, definitive look for those unfamiliar with an often misunderstood sport.
Bernie McCoy, Womens Boxing Archive Network
MISCHA MERZ is a journalist and author of fiction and creative nonfiction.
She began training as an amateur boxer in 1995 and is the 2001 Australian
Amateur Boxing League womens welterweight champion. Her book Bruising,
about her experiences as a boxer, was published to critical acclaim by Picador
Australia in 2000 and was shortlisted for the Dobbie Award. Her journalism
has appeared in numerous publications,including the Age,the Sunday Age,and
the Herald Sun.
Publication: March 2011
Sports / Womens Studies
5 x 8 304 pages
trade paperback original
$18.95 US / $23.00 CAN
ISBN: 978-1-58322-928-6
Jess Dcruze
Australian national womens champion Mischa Merz had reached the ageof forty-five and was about to give up boxing altogether when she decided
to give it one last go in the USA. In less than two years of training and
fighting she found herself the American masters champion. This book is
the story of that improbable late run, success when she least expected it
and most wanted it. A journalist as well as a boxer, Merz brings her read-
ers into the gym and the arenastarting with Gleasons in New York, then
other boxing meccas in Florida, California, and across Americato witness
firsthand the surprising, frustrating, irresistible world of womens boxing.
We meet many of the top competitors (among them Merzs idol, Lucia
Rijker, ofMillion Dollar Babyfame), each of whom carries within her the
requisite combination of personality and fight. These women are nothing
if not persistent, often sassy, and breathtakingly strong.
Here arethe American women and girls who entered a traditionally male
domain and turned it into a place for athletes of both genders. In recogni-
tion of thischange, womens boxing will be included in the Olympics for the
first time at the London 2012 Games. Mischa tests her own limits and goes
from being a neophyte and outsider to a true insider, trusted by the other
boxers shetrainswith andfights against. Shewins fight after fight, andlearns
things she never knew before, about herself and this sport:
I have loathed it and adored it. It has invaded my dreams,
and turned my stomach. I have resolved to leave it, only to
see my passion for it intensify. Boxing is my man. Even my
husband will tell you so.
National radio and TV
Author tour to Atlanta, Los Angeles, and New York City
Promotion through the authors web site:www.mischamerz.com
THE SWEETEST THINGA Boxers Memoir
Mischa Merz
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Pioneering feminist author Barbara Seaman spent the last forty years on
the front lines as a womens health advocate. Throughout her career, shewas not only a tireless muckraker and book writer, but also a relentless sup-
porter of other womens voices. Here she brings together an essential
collection of essays, interviews, and commentary by leading activists, writ-
ers, doctors, and sociologists on topics ranging across reproductive rights,
sex and orgasm, activism, motherhood and birth control. The more than
two hundred contributors include Jennifer Baumgardner, Susan Brown-
miller, Phyllis Chesler, Angela Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, Germaine Greer,
Shulamith Firestone, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Erica Jong, Molly Haskell,
Shere Hite, Susie Orbach, Judith Rossner, Alix Kates Shulman, GloriaSteinem, Sojourner Truth, Rebecca Walker, Naomi Wolf, and many oth-
ers. For this volume Seaman worked together with her friend, former
assistant, and last collaborator, the young feminist health author Laura
Eldridge.
BODY POLITICDispatches from the Womens Health Revolution
Edited by Barbara Seaman with Laura Eldridge
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In 1969,Barbara Seaman proved that women can talk back to doc-
torscalmly, rationally, and scientifically. For many of us, womens
liberation began at that moment.
Barbara Ehrenreich
BARBARA SEAMANs (19352008) first book, The DoctorsCase Against
the Pill (1969), prompted Senate hearings, exposed the biases of the medical
establishment regarding womens health issues,and inspired women around the
world to take control of their health. She was also the author of Free and Female
(1972), Women and the Crisis in Sex Hormones (1977), Lovely Me:The Life of
Jacqueline Susann(1987), The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed onWomen
(2003), and The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause(2008).
LAURA ELDRIDGE is a womens health writer and activist.Her latest books
are The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause, coauthored with Barbara Seaman,
and In Our Control:The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women.
Publication: March 2011
Current Events / Health
6 1/8 x 9 1,120 pages
trade paperback
$29.95 US / $36.00 CAN
ISBN: 978-1-58322-844-9
Joan Roth
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Praise for Dark Alliance:
Gary Webb wrote a series of articles that said some bad things about the
CIA and drug traffickers.The CIA denied the charges, and every major
newspaper in the country took the agencys word for it. Gary Webb was
ruined.Which is a shame, because he was right.
Charles Bowden, Esquire
Gary Webb wrote the truth. . . . [Dark Alliance] brings to light one
of the worst official abuses of our nations history.
US Congresswoman Maxine Waters
GARY WEBB (19552004) was a Pulitzer Prizewinning investigative journalist best known for Dark
Alliance.
ERIC WEBB is Gary Webbs youngest son. Surrounded by journalism all his life, he is now a journalism stu-
dent in Northern California.
Publication: March 2011
Journalism
5 x 8 384 pages
trade paperback original
$16.95 US / $20.50 CAN
ISBN: 978-1-58322-932-3
Esquire Ian Webb
Gary Webb was best known for his three-part series, Dark Alliance, that
appeared in the San Jose Mercury News in August 1996. In it, Webb linked
the CIA to the crack-cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles during the Iran-Con-
tra scandal. By October of that year Webb was reeling from a concerted
government-sponsored smear campaign that led to front-page vilification in
the NewYorkTimes, Los AngelesTimes, and Washington Post. However, Webbs
findings were later confirmed, and Webb himself vindicated two years later
by the investigation of the CIAs inspector general and the US Senate.His only published book, Dark Alliance, is still a classic of contempo-
rary journalism. But Webbs journalistic career consisted of much more than
this one story. The Killing Gamecollects the best of his investigative stories
from his beginnings at the Kentucky Postto his end at the Sacramento News
& Review. It includes Webbs series at the Kentucky Poston organized crime
in the coal industry, at the Cleveland Plain Dealeron Ohio States negligent
medical board, and on the US militarys funding of first-person shooter
video games. The Killing Game, by illuminating Webbs work outside of
Dark Alliance, is a testament to investigative journalism at its best.
National radio and TV interviews with Eric Webb
THE KILLING GAMESelected Writings by the Author of Dark Alliance:The CIA,
the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
Gary Webb
Edited with an introduction by Eric Webb Foreword by Tom Loftus
Afterword by Robert Parry
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GAYLE OLSON-RAYMER is professor of history and education at Hum-
boldt State University and a participating professor in the Teaching American
History program in two California elementary and high school districts. She is
the author of Terrorism: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective and
Instructors Manual for Alan Brinkley's American History: A Survey.
Publication: March 2010
Education
6 x 9 400 pages
trade paperback
$21.00 US / $25.50 CAN
ISBN: 978-1-58322-897-5
Courtesy of Gayle Olson-Raymer
Howard Zinns influential books have inspired students and activists of all
ages, affirming the power of the people to influence the course of events.
From the classicA Peoples History of the United States, to the primary sources
in Voices of a Peoples History of the United States, to the stories of young lead-
ers in A Young Peoples History of the United States, arises a symphony of our
nations original voices, an embodiment of the power of civil disobedience
and dissent wherein lies our nations true spirit of defiance and resilience.
In this teaching guide, history professor Gayle Olson-Raymer provides
insight into how to applyVoices of a Peoples History of the United Statesin the
classroom. It includes questions for discussions, exams, and essays; creative
ideas for in-class activities and group projects; and suggestions for teaching
Voicesalongside Zinns A Peoples History of the United States.
In conjunction with the newly launched Zinn Education Projecta
collaboration between Teaching for Change and Rethinking Schools
Olson-Raymers teaching guide will bring the writings of Howard Zinn to
the most critical population: our youth.
TEACHING WITH VOICES OF A
PEOPLES HISTORY OF THE
UNITED STATES
Gayle Olson-Raymer
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For years, Derrick Jensen has asked his audiences, Do you think this cul-ture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way
of life? No one ever says yes.
Deep Green Resistancestarts where the environmental movement leaves
off: industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technology cant fix it,
and shoppingno matter how greenwont stop it. To save this planet,
we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial
economy. Deep Green Resistanceevaluates strategic options for resistance,
from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare, and the conditions required for
those options to be successful.
It provides an exploration of organizational structures, recruitment,
security, and target selection for both aboveground and underground
action. Deep Green Resistancealso discusses a culture of resistance and the
crucial support role that it can play.
Deep Green Resistanceis a plan of action for anyone determined to fight
for this planetand win.
Promotions tied to Earth Day in April
Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the authorsspeaking engagements
Promotion through the authors websites: www.inthewake.org(Aric McBay); www.derrickjensen.org; www.lierrekeith.com
DEEP GREEN RESISTANCEStrategy to Save the Planet
Aric McBay, Lierre Keith, and Derrick Jensen
Publication: April 2011
Ecology / Current Affairs
6 x 9 592 pages
trade paperback original
$22.95 US / $28.00 CAN
ISBN: 978-1-58322-929-3
ARIC MCBAY is a writer, activist,and small-scale organic farmer living in Ontario,Canada. His first book
was Peak Oil Survival:Preparation for Life After Gridcrash. His most recent book is WhatWe Leave Behind,
co-written with Derrick Jensen.
LIERRE KEITH is a writer,small-scale farmer, and radical feminist activist.She is the author of two nov-
els, as well as The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability. Shes been arrested six times. She
lives in Humboldt County, California.
Hailed as the philosopher poet of the environmental movement, DERRICK JENSEN is author of fifteen
books, including Endgame Volumes 1 and 2, What We Leave Behind, and A Language Older Than Words.
courtesy of Derrick Jensen Richard Katz Aric McBay
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No one but Americas first citizen, presidential candidate, and bestsellingauthor Ralph Nader could have written this entertaining, provocative
practical utopia in which seventeen real-life billionaires and
multimillionaires decide to use their wealth and savvy to equalize the odds
on behalf of working people, the environment, clean elections, and the
other pressing issues of our times. A work of the imagination, Only the
Super-Rich Can Save Us! has started a revolution among the wealthiest
Americansfor as Nader knows so well, if you can picture it, and if its
the right thing to do, it can happen.
Picture a world where those who have benefited the most decide to usetheir vast resources to help their fellow citizens. It wont be easy. Every
attempt to make real change will be matched by counterattacks from
reactionary forces committed to maintaining the status quo. Even with
seventeen of the super-rich on our side now, the outcome can never be
assumed.
Author events in Boston, New York, Washington DC, and other stops in the Northeast
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ONLY THE SUPER-RICH
CAN SAVE US!Abridged Edition
Ralph Nader
One of the unlikeliest books of last year was Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!,
a fictional account by Ralph Nader, a veteran left-wing campaigner, of a movement
of billionaires led by Warren Buffett . . . who use their fortunes to clean up
America. . . . Perhaps the Sage of Omaha, as Mr. Buffett is known,was listening.
The Economist on GivingPledge.org,started by Warren Buffett and the Gates Foundation
Clever, fanciful, thought-provoking.
The NewYorkTimes
Nader poses a genuinely interesting question: in a society ravaged by 30 years
of free-market fundamentalism, might it be true that big capitalists can most
effectively challenge the reign of capital?
London Review of Books
A powerful idea by the perfect person at a fortuitous time.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Named by the Atlanticas one of the hundred most influential figures in
American history, and by Timeand Lifemagazines as one of the hundred
most influential Americans of the twentieth century, RALPH NADER has
helped us lead healthier, safer, better lives for more than four decades.
Publication: April 2011
Current Events
5 x 8 512 pages
trade paperback
$17.95 US / $21.50 CAN
ISBN: 978-1-58322-923-1
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Earth Day promotions
DREAMS
Derrick Jensen
Derrick Jensens furthest-reaching book yet, Dreams challenges the
destructive nihilism of writers like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harriswho believe that there is no reality outside what can be measured using
the tools of science. He introduces the mythologies of ancient cultures
and modern indigenous peoples as evidence of alternative ways of under-
standing reality, informed by thinkers such as American Indian writer Jack
Forbes, theologian and American Indian rights activist Vine Deloria,
shaman Martin Prechtel, Dakota activist and scholar Waziyatawin, and
Okanagan Indian writer Jeannette Armstrong. He draws on the wisdom of
Dr. Paul Staments, author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can
Help Save the World; sociologist Stanley Aronowitz, who discusses scienceslack of accountability to the earth; and many others. As in his previous
books, Jensen draws heavily from his own life experience living alongside
the frogs, redwoods, snails, birds, and bears of the upper Northwest, about
which he writes with exquisite tenderness. Having taken on the daunting
task of understanding ones dreams as a source of knowledge, Jensen
achieves the near impossible in this breathtakingly brave and ambitious
new work.
Jensen [is one of] those rare thinkers who challenges all the accepted norms and
habits of civilization and asks us to get back to our naked selves.
Howard Zinn
DERRICK JENSEN is the author of fifteen books,including Endgame, A Lan-
guage Older Than Words, and What We Leave Behind (with Aric McBay). He
holds degrees in creative writing and in mineral engineering physics. He lives in
Crescent City, California.
Publication: April 2011
Nature / Body, Mind & Spirit
6 x 9 672 pages
trade paperback original
$24.95 US / $29.95 CAN
ISBN: 978-1-58322-930-9
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What does the tradition of marriage really look like? With A History of Mar-
riage, Elizabeth Abbott paints an often surprising picture of this most
public, yet most intimate, institution. A union between a man and a
woman, or between varying genders? A legal prerequisite to childrearing, or
an after-the-fact common law arrangement? Abbott reveals a complex tra-
dition that includes same-sex unions, arranged marriages, impromptu
self-marriages, and child brides.
The wedding ceremony too has worn many faces: spousals, common
before the mid-twelfth century in western Europe, required no priest, but
only the privately proclaimed consent of the couple; the iconic white wed-
ding dress did not emerge until the late eighteenth century after Queen
Victorias lavish 1840 gown; and the elegant wedding day of Portia de Rossi
and Ellen DeGeneres at their Los Angeles home in 2008 perhaps hints at
wedding days to come.
The unexpected past of traditional marriagein all its loving, unloving,
decadent, impoverished, conventional, and unconventional manifesta-
tionsfrom mail-order brides and polyandry to infidelity and divorceis
revealed here through Abbotts famously infectious curiosity.
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A HISTORY OF MARRIAGEFrom Same Sex Unions to Private Vows and Common Law,
the Surprising Diversity of a Tradition
Elizabeth Abbott
A History of Marriage amuses and entertains readers . . . sure to
provoke and surprise.
The Globe and Mail
Ambitious and wide-ranging.
The New Yorker
A juicy,brilliantly insightful surveyas readable as it is intellectually
sophisticated,alternately witty and moving.
The Village Voice
ELIZABETH ABBOTT is an award-winning and best-selling author and his-
torian with a special interest in womens issues and the environment. She has
a doctorate from McGill University in nineteenth century history. Her other
books include A History of Celibacy and A History of Mistresses. She lives in
Toronto.
Publication: April 2011
History / Social Science
6 x 9 464 pages
hardcover
b&w photos and illustrations throughout
$24.95 US
ISBN: 978-1-60980-088-8
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Americas extreme Right falsely claims the Founding Fathers as allies for theirradical agenda. Pundit Glenn Beck has gone so far as to use the title of
Thomas Paines famous 1776 pamphlet Common Sensefor his own book
a book that attacks the political, social, and economic rights that Paine and
the Founders fought for.
Its time to cut through the rhetoric, smoke, and spin, and get back to
our core American values. We have gone off course as a country by empha-
sizing consumerism over citizenship, entertainment over education, and
me over we. By rediscovering the moral compass our Founders put into
place, we can create a united America, and a future worthy of our grand-children.
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REAL COMMON SENSEUsing Our Founding Values to Reclaim Our Nation and Stop the Radical
Right from Hijacking America
Brian Kahn
Author events in San Francisco; Washington, DC; Baltimore; Boston; Helena, MT; New York; Portland, OR; Philadelphia;Seattle; Madison, WI
A well-intended, well-written effort to reclaim Thomas Paine from todays Tea
Party . . . Paine would be proud.
Kirkus Reviews
Grounded in the real common sense we inherited from the Founders and other pa-
triots, this wonderful book is a road map toward establishing genuine democracy.
William Greider, author of Come Home,America and national affairs correspondent for the Nation
Brian Kahn wisely shows us that the values of true conservatives of the
Depression-era generation largely mesh with those of progressiveshonest busi-
ness dealings, rewarding work with decent pay,etc. Real Common Sense is our
guide to how we can get to a better place in America.
Dale Maharidge, author of Someplace Like America:Tales from the New Great Depression
and winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction
BRIAN KAHN is host of the awardwinning public radio program Home
Ground. He has been published in the Los AngelesTimes, the Nation,and Field
& Stream. He has worked as a ranch hand, a college boxing coach, a lawyer, a
conservationist, and a journalist. He lives in Montana.
Publication: April 2011
History
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Any young person who enters the world of progressive politics has had this
experience. You meet an arch-conservative and you decide to convince him
to join your side. You argue passionately against the powers that be, bring-
ing up labor abuses, unnecessary wars, political corruption, simple com-
monsense injustice at every level of society. Your conservative interlocutor
agrees with you: these are all problems. But, he asserts: exactly what do you
intend to replace capitalism with? Capitalism is, after all, the best system
we have.
In Anti-Capitalism, activist and scholar Ezequiel Adamovsky gives the
lie to the assertion, telling the story of the long-standing effort to build a
better world, one without an abusive system at its heart. Backed up by ar-
resting, lucid images from the radical artist group United Illustrators,
Adamovsky details the struggle against rising corporate power, as that strug-
gle unfolds in the halls of academia, in the pages of radical newspapers,
and in the jungles and the streets. From Marx through the Battle of Seat-
tle and beyond, Adamovsky traces the beliefs and politics of the major fig-
ures in the anti-capitalist tradition and explores modern experiments in
building different ways of living, in the process providing an indispensible
primer for anyone interested in finding alternatives to the so-called best
system we haveand for anyone interested in joining the fight.
ANTI-CAPITALISM
Ezequiel AdamovskyIllustrated by the United Illustrators
Translated by Marie Trigona
EZEQUIEL ADAMOVSKY is a writer and activist from Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He has published articles for Z Magazine, OpenDemocracy.org, and
many other activist and progressive outlets. He currently teaches Russian His-
tory at the University of Buenos Aires.
The UNITED ILLUSTRATORS are visual artists who participated in the Taller
Popular de Serigrafa, a group that formed in the midst of the intense upsurge
of political and social movements during the popular rebellion of December 2001.
MARIE TRIGONA is a translator and journalist whose work is inspired by inter-
national anarchist working class history and anti-imperialist struggles.She lives
in Buenos Aires.
Publication: May 2011
Politics
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HAMASFrom Resistance to Government
Paola CaridiTranslated by Andrea Teti
The Palestinian elections of 2006 changed modern Middle East history
as well as changing the perception of the Israel/Palestine conflict around the
world. How, Americans asked, could a secular people elect a radical Islamist
group, one that openly advocated violence against the Israeli government
and its people, to lead them? How could ordinary Palestinian people sup-
port the violent resistance their newly elected government had dedicated it-
self to? How could a failure of democracy on this level be explained?
Italian journalist Paola Caridis Hamas: From Resistance to Government
addresses the question, breaking with the tradition of sensationalist jour-
nalism about the elections, and choosing instead to take a clear-eyed look
at the controversial government of Palestine, a look informed by years ofon-the-ground research and interviews from the residents of Gaza them-
selves. Covering the history of the region from its golden age as a port city
in the fifth century.. through the formal birth of Hamas as a resistance
movement after the first Intifada, and continuing past Operation Cast Lead
into the present day, Caridis Hamastraces, with nuance and clarity, the
rise, growth, and evolution of Hamas into one of the key players in the
search for a way through the central crisis of the Middle East today. In so
doing, she performs, with intelligence, dexterity, and heart, the central
function of history: to look at a peoples actions through that peoples eyes,to explain what to many Americans seems inexplicableto explain the rise
of Hamas.
PAOLA CARIDI has lived in the Middle East and Jerusalem since 2001. She
has worked with Lettera22, LEspresso, Sole 24 Ore, Il Riformista, Famiglia
Cristiana,and Diaro della Settimana. Hamas:From Resistance to Government,
her first book, was published in Italy in 2009 and in Palestine in March 2010.
ANDREA TETI is a lecturer in International Relations at the University of
Aberdeen and Senior Fellow at the European Center for International Affairs.
His research focuses on Middle Eastern politics, political theory, and the his-
tory of social science.
Publication: May 2011
History / Political Science
6 x 9 320 pages
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ISBN: 978-1-60980-127-4
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Brage Awardwinning author Johan Harstads debut novelpreviously
published to great success in eleven countries and now making its first
English-language appearancetells the story of Mattias, a thirty-something
gardener living in Stavanger, Norway, whose idol is Buzz Aldrin, second
man on the moon: the man who was willing to stand in Neil Armstrongs
shadow in order to work, diligently and humbly, for the success of the
Apollo 11 mission. Following a series of personal and professional disasters,
Mattias finds himself lying on a rain-soaked road in the desolate, treeless
Faroe Islands, population only a few thousand, a wad of bills in his pocketand no memory of how he had come to be therewhen a truck approaches
him, driven by a troubled, fantastic man with an offer that will shortly
change Mattiass life.
And so, surrounded by a vivid and memorable cast of characters
aspiring pop musicians, Caribbean-obsessed psychologists, death-haunted
photographers, girls who dream of anonymous men falling in love with
them on bus trips, and even Buzz Aldrin himselflaunches Buzz Aldrin,
What Happened To You In All The Confusion?, the epic story of Mattiass
pop-saturated odyssey through the space between himself and other people,a journey maybe as remote and personally dangerous as the trip to the
moon itself.
Major literary review coverage
Book trailer based on Norwegian TV miniseries
Ad in n+1
Author tour to New York, Cleveland and Minneapolis in conjunction with Scandinavia House, the Norwegian Consulate,and Words Without Borders
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BUZZ ALDRIN,WHAT HAPPENEDTO YOU IN ALL THE CONFUSION?A Novel
Johan Harstad
Translated from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin
Like Jonathan Safran Foer, Harstad combines formal play and linguistic
ferocity with a searing emotional directness.
Dedi Felman, Words Without Borders
The fact is that Johan Harstad has a wholly unique voice, simultaneously both
concrete and soaring . . . to be able to write in this way, to conjure a situation and
construct space and time around it with such linguistic fluency, cannot be learned.
You are born with it. Harstads fellow countryman Knut Hamsun, who was able to
do the same, must be rejoicing in his heaven or wherever he might be.
Jakob Levinsen, Jyllands-Postenreview
It doesnt always have to be crime novels that come from Scandinavia.What 27-
year-old Johan Harstad has written is quite plainly a work of genius. Buzz Aldrin,
What Happened to You in All the Confusion?is as poetic as it is alive.
Bucherwelt review
JOHAN HARSTAD, winner of the 2008 Brage Award (previously won by Per
Petterson), is a Norwegian author, playwright,graphic designer, drummer, and
international sensation,with books published in eleven countries.His first novel,
Buzz Aldrin,What HappenedTo You In AllThe Confusion?, was in 2009 made
into a NorwegianTV s eries starring The Wires Chad Coleman. Harstad lives
in Oslo.
DEBORAH DAWKIN graduated from Drama Centre London, in 1983 and
worked in theater for many years in Norway and the United Kingdom.She has
worked as a full-time literary translator since 2004.
Publication: June 2011
Fiction
6 x 9 480 pages
hardcover, paper over board
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Do you really think thats going to change
anything?
Im not sure.Why are you going?
I had no answer. I tore up a fistful of grass,
held it up in front of the beast. But it was full.
This obviously wasnt the time for lunch. The
days were probably long.
Do you know about Buzz Aldrin? I asked.
The cow looked away. Snorted.
Do you think Aldrin was lonely?
Why do you always want to be number two?
The freedom it gives, maybe.
What freedom?
The freedom to go where you want, and do
what you want afterwards. The freedom of not
being remembered for your achievements. What
did you want more than anything when you were
a calf?
To be a cow.
I nod cautiously.
from Buzz Aldrin,What Happened to You in All the Confusion?by Johan Harstad, translated by Deborah Dawkin
The mist had receded duringthe course of the morning, and green mountains and
fields stretched in every direction now, interrupted
only by the road, a straight line drawn straight across
the valley and connected to a tunnel into which pass-
ing cars vanished. I counted red cars. None came in
fifteen minutes. I felt ill, nauseous. Id drunk a whole
bar. I bent down, stuck my head in the stream, held it
underwater until I felt the weather clear in my head.
Then I heard snorting behind me. A cow came up to
the wire fence beside the stream, brown and white, a
genuine milk chocolate ad. It stood there close to the
fence, staring at me. I stared back.
Good morning, I said.
I got a vacant look in return.
And the grass is still green?
Gaze. Like a camera out of focus.Moo, I said.
I was being eyeballed. For a long time. And then
it spoke:
What are you really thinking of doing now?
I stared at the cow.
Im going home, I answered.
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Howard Zinn on Raceis Zinns choice of the shorter writings and speeches
that best reflect his views on Americas most taboo topic. As chairman ofthe history department at all black womens Spelman College, Zinn was an
outspoken supporter of student activists in the nascent civil rights move-
ment. In The Southern Mystique, he tells of how he was asked to leave
Spelman in 1963 after teaching there for seven years.
Behind every one of the national governments moves toward racial
equality, writes Zinn in one 1965 essay, lies the sweat and effort of boy-
cotts, picketing, beatings, sit-ins, and mass demonstrations. He firmly
believed that bringing people of different races and nationalities together
would create a more compassionate world, where equality is a given andnot merely a dream. These writings, which span decades, express Zinns
steadfast belief that the people have the power to change the status quo, if
they only work together and embrace the nearly forgotten American tra-
dition of civil disobedience and revolution.
In clear, compassionate, and present prose, Zinn gives us his thoughts
on the Abolitionists, the march from Selma to Montgomery, John F.
Kennedy, picketing, sit-ins, and, finally, the message he wanted to send to
New York University students about race in a speech he delivered during
the last week of his life.
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HOWARD ZINN ON RACE
Howard Zinn
Introduction by Cornel West
What can I say that will in any way convey the love, respect, and admiration I feel
for this unassuming hero who was my teacher and mentor, this radical historian and
people-loving trouble-maker, this man who stood with us and suffered with us?
Howard Zinn was the best teacher I ever had, and the funniest.
Alice Walker
Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden
prose of academic history, and his text is studded with telling quotations from
labor leaders, war resisters, and fugitive slaves.
Eric Foner, The New York Times Book Review
Hes changed the conscience of America in a highly constructive way. Ireally cant think of anyone I can compare him to in this respect.
Noam Chomsky
HOWARD ZINN, Americas most popular historian, has introduced four gen-
erations of Americans to his views on democracy, civil disobedience, history,
and war. Zinns books have sold over two million copies and, in 2009, a film
based on two of his books,The People Speak, aired on national television, bring-
ing his vision to millions more. Zinn died at 87 in 2010, but his books, ideas,
and activism live on.
Oneof Americas mostprovocativepublicintellectuals, CORNELWEST istheau-
thor of RaceMatters(1993),a searing analysis of racism in Americandemocracy.He is currently the Class of 1943 Professor at Princeton University.
Publication: June 2011
Current Events
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Roslyn Zinn
Library promotions
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This second edition of Howard Zinn on History brings together twenty-
seven short writings on activism, electoral politics, the Holocaust, Marxism,
the Iraq War, and the role of the historian, as well as portraits of Eugene
Debs, John Reed, and Jack London, effectively showing how Zinns
approach to history evolved over nearly half a century, and at the same time
sharing his fundamental thinking that social movementspeople getting
together for peace and social justicecan change the course of history.
That core belief never changed.
Chosen by Zinn himself as the shorter writings on history he believed to
have enduring valueoriginally appearing in newspapers like the Boston
Globe or the New York Times; in magazines like Z, the New Left, the
Progressive,orthe Nation; orin his bookFailure to Quitthese essays appear
here as examples of the kind of passionate engagement he believed all
historians, and indeed all citizens of whatever profession, need to have,
standing in sharp contrast to the notion of objective or neutral history
espoused by some.
It is time that we scholars begin to earn our keep in this world, he
writes in The Uses of Scholarship. And in Freedom Schools, about his
experiences teaching in Mississippi during the remarkable Freedom
Summer of 1964, he adds: Education can, and should, be dangerous.
This second edition of Howard Zinn on War is a collection of twenty-six
short writings chosen by the author to represent his thinking on a subject
that concerned and fascinated him throughout his career. He reflects on the
wars against Iraq, the war in Kosovo, the Vietnam War, World War II, and
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HOWARD ZINN ON HISTORYSecond Edition
Introduction by Marilyn B. Young
and
HOWARD ZINN ON WARSecond Edition
Introduction by Staughton Lynd
Howard Zinn
Publication: June 2011
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on the meaning of war generally in a world of nations that cant seem to stop destroy-
ing each other. These readings appeared first in magazines and newspapers including the
Progressiveand the Boston Globe, as well as in Zinns books, Failure to Quit, Vietnam: The
Logic of Withdrawal, The Politics of History, and Declarations of Independence.
Here we see Zinns perspective as a World War II veteran and peace activist who
lived through the most devastating wars of the twentieth century and questioned every
one of them with his combination of integrity and historical acumen. In his essay, Just
and Unjust War, Zinn challenges us to fight for justice with struggle, but withoutwar. He writes in After the War (2006) that while governments lead us into war,
their power is dependent on the obedience of the citizenry. When that is withdrawn,
governments are helpless. In Howard Zinn on War, his message is clear: The aboli-
tion of war has become not only desirable but absolutely necessary if the planet is to
be saved. It is an idea whose time has come.
STAUGHTON LYND is a lawyer and historian specializing in the period of the American Revolution and
twentieth-century labor history. He has taught at Spelman College, where his department head was
Howard Zinn, and at Yale University.
MARILYN B.YOUNG has published widely on the subject of the American way of making war, the Viet-nam War and its aftermath, antiwar resistance movements,post-1945 US foreign policy, and the world
post-9/11. She is a professor of history at New York University, where she has taught since 1980, and
was elected president of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations for 201011.
The thing about Howard is that the history that he taught was not
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I would argue that the end of the VietnamWarenabled the people of the United States to shake the war syn-
drome, a disease not natural to the human body. But they
could be infected once again, and September 11 gave the gov-
ernment that opportunity. Terrorism became the justification
for war, but war is itself terrorism, breeding rage and hate, as
we are seeing now.The war in Iraq has revealed the hypocrisy of the war on ter-
rorism. And the government of the United States, indeed
governments everywhere, are becoming exposed as untrustwor-
thy: that is, not to be entrusted with the safety of human beings,
or the safety of the planet, or the guarding of its air, its water,
its natural wealth, or the curing of poverty and disease, or cop-
ing with the alarming growth of natural disasters that plague so
many of the 6 billion people on Earth.
I dont believe that our government will be able to do oncemore what it did after Vietnamprepare the population for still
another plunge into violence and dishonor. It seems to me that
when the war in Iraq ends, and the war syndrome heals, there
will be a great opportunity to make that healing permanent.
My hope is that the memory of death and disgrace will be
so intense that the people of the United States will be able to
listen to a message that the rest of the world, sobered by wars
without end, can also understand: that war itself is the enemy
of the human race.Governments will resist this message. But their power is
dependent on the obedience of the citizenry. When that is with-
drawn, governments are helpless. We have seen this again and
again in history.
The abolition of war has become not only desirable but
absolutely necessary if the planet is to be saved. It is an idea
whose time has come.
from "After the War" (2006) in Howard Zinn on War
The thing about Howard is that the history that he taught was not
just about losing the official illusions about nationalism, about the
heroic figures. It was about telling people to believe in themselves and
their power to change the world.
Naomi Klein
A welcome collection of essays and occasional pieces by the
dean of radical American historians.
Kirkus Reviews, on The Zinn Reader
Howard's life and work are a persistent reminder that our own
subjective judgments of the likelihood of success in engaging human
problems are of little interest, to ourselves or others. What matters is to
take part, as best we can, in the small actions of unknown people that
can stave off disaster and bring about a better world, to honor them for
their achievement, to do what we can to ensure that these achievements
are understood and carried forward.
Noam Chomsky
Unlike many historians, he was not afraid to speak out about the
difference between right and wrong.
Eric Foner, The Nation
Howard had a genius for the shape of public morality
and for articulating the great alternative vision of peace as
more than a dream.
James Carroll, columnist for the Boston Globe
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Tour to independent bookstores throughout the Northeast
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The revival of independent bookselling has already begun and is one of the
amazing stories of our times.
Bookseller Andrew Laties wrote the first edition of Rebel Booksellersix
years ago, hoping it would spark a movement. Now, with this revised and
updated edition, Latiess book can be a rallying cry for everyone who wants
to better understand how the rise of the big bookstore chains led irrevoca-
bly to their decline, and how even in the face of electronic readers from
three of Americas largest and most successful companiesApple, Ama-
zon, and Googlethe movement to support locally owned independentstores, especially bookstores, is on the rise.
From the mid-1980s to the present, Andy Laties has been an inde-
pendent bookseller, starting out in Chicago, teaching along the way at the
American Booksellers Association, and finally running the bookshop at the
Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts. His innovations were
adapted by Barnes & Noble, Zany Brainy, and scores of independent stores.
In Rebel Bookseller, Laties tells how he got started, how he kept going,
and why he believes independent bookselling has a great future. He alter-
nates his narrative with short anecdotes, interludes between the chaptersthat give his credo as a bookseller. Along the way, he offers a treasure trove
of tips for anyone who is considering opening up a community store.
Rebel Bookselleris a must-read for those in the book biz, a testament to
the ingeniousness of one mans plan to make a life and build community
out of his passionate commitment to books and bookselling.
REBEL BOOKSELLERWhy Indie Businesses Represent EverythingYou Want to Fight
for, from Free Speech to Buying Local to Building Communities,
Revised and Updated Edition
Andrew LatiesForeword by Ed Morrow Afterword by Bill Ayers
A must-read.
Publishers Weekly (starred review of first edition)
Everything you always wanted to know about the book business
but were afraid to ask.
Eric Carle, author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Andy has put so much passion into his book that it is impossible to read before
bed: the book incites a disturbing concoction of adrenaline and hormones that
rages against that good night. Not only does Andy not go gently there, he refuses
to go, period.This book is heartfelt and honest.
Bernie Rath, former executive director,American Booksellers Association
ANDREW LATIES co-founded Childrens Bookstore, Childrens Bookfair Com-
pany, Childrens Museum Store, Povertyfighters.com, and Eric Carle Museum
Bookshop, and created the film Art of Selling Childrens Books. He shared the
1987 Lucile Micheels Pannell Award for bringing children and books together.
ED MORROW is the founder and proprietor of Northshire Bookstore in Man-
chester Center,Vermont.
BILL AYERS is a distinguished professor at University of Illinois, founder of
Small Schools Workshop and Center forYouth and Society,and author of fifteenbooks on teaching and childrens rights.
Publication: July 2011
Business / Politics
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Outreach to prison reform groups
Features in feminist magazines
UNRULY WOMENThe Politics of Confinement & Resistance
Karlene Faith
Winner of the VanCity Book Prize, Unruly Women: The Politics of Con-
finement & Resistanceis the seminal book about womens imprisonment
that helped spark examinations around the world into the special circum-
stances women face in prison, as well as the sex and gender crimes that get
them there. Most women who are incarcerated do not pose a danger to
society but transgress patriarchal, capitalist norms that seek to control their
bodies and choices, as seen in the case of prostitution and prosecutions of
pregnant women for risky behaviors. Further, the majority of women who
enter the criminal justice system have been victims of violence, which raises
questions about the continuum from victimization to criminalization.
Unruly Womenexplores patterns of female crimes and punishments,
from the witch hunts to the present; institutionalized violence and sexual
abuse against incarcerated women; women loving women in prison; moth-
erhood inside prison; battered woman syndrome; Hollywoods formulaic
women-in-prison films; political education in prisons; and acts of resist-
ance, inside and out. Karlene Faith challenges misconceptions of deviant
women, and celebrates the unruly woman: the unmanageable woman who
claims her own body, and who cannot be silenced.
As the drug war wages on, riddled with excessive and inequitable
prison sentences; the incarcerated population skyrockets toward 2.5 mil-
lion (up from less than 200,000 nationwide in 1970); and private prisons
burgeon around the coasts, now is a critical moment to educate ourselves
about what is at stake with our prison system. Faiths incisive work causes
us to question the usefulness of the forced confinement and surveillance
of mostly nonviolent people.
Unruly Women is an important text for classroom teaching and research,
because it places the ongoing crisis of women in prison in historical context. It
provides a point of comparison with more recent research on this topic.The title
also encourages readers to break out of the singular focus on incarcerated women
to trace out the many different ways women have beenand continue to be
defined as unruly and deviant, in need of intense social control.
Geraldine Casey, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
A human rights activist for five decades, KARLENE FAITH is Canadas leading
feminist sociologist on prisons. Her seminal book, Unruly Women, raised many
crucial questions that define the prison reform movements of today. Co-founder
of the revolutionary Santa CruzWomens Prison Project in 1972, and author of
many books on criminology and womens studies, Faith is currently professor
emerita at Simon Fraser Universitys School of Criminology.
Publication: July 2011
Sociology / Womens Studies
6 x 9 352 pages
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ISBN: 978-1-60980-137-3
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SCORCHED EARTHLegacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam
Fred A. WilcoxIntroduction by Noam Chomsky
Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnamis the first book to
chronicle the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people andtheir environment, where, even today, more than 3 million peoplein-
cluding 500,000 childrenare sick and dying from birth defects, cancer,
and other illnesses that can be directly traced to Agent Orange/dioxin ex-
posure.
Weaving first-person accounts with original research, Vietnam War
scholar Fred A. Wilcox examines long-term consequences for future gen-
erations, laying bare the ongoing monumental tragedy in Vietnam, and
calls for the United States government to finally admit its role in chemical
warfare in Vietnam. Wilcox also warns readers that unless we stop poison-ing our air, food, and water supplies, the cancer epidemic in the United
States and other countries will only worsen, and he urgently demands the
chemical manufacturers of Agent Orange to compensate the victims of
their greed and to stop using the Earths rivers, lakes, and oceans as toxic
waste dumps.
On August 10, 1961, the United States military began experimenting
with toxic herbicides in Vietnam. By 1965, the Air Force was saturating
long swaths of the country with Agent Orange and other deadly chemicals.
Scorched Earthwill be released on August 10, 2011, to coincide with theday that the Vietnamese people have chosen to honor and to mourn sev-
eral million victims of chemical warfare.
FREDA.WILCOX has been a scholar on the Vietnam War for the past thirty
years. He has published numerous articles and made several media appear-
ances as a trusted authority on the war and its aftereffects. He is the author
of Waiting for an Army to Die, which explains the tragedy of Agent Orange
from an American perspective.He teaches at Ithaca College.
NOAM CHOMSKY is a world-renowned political activist, writer, and profes-
sor of linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books withSeven Stories Press include 9-11 and Profit Over People.
Publication: August 2011
History
5 x 8 256 pages
hardcover
b&w photos throughout
$23.95 US / $26.95 CAN
ISBN: 978-1-60980-138-0
Brendan B. Wilcox
I consider Scorched Earth to be the Silent Springof chemical warfare in
Vietnam, a powerful clarion call [that brings together] scientific evidence,
passionate argument,Vietnamese interviews and documentation, review of the
class action suits . . . and new and little known evidence gathered by
Vietnamese scholars . . . to form one coherent argument.
Dr. John Marciano, Vietnam scholar, and professor emeritus,State University of New YorkCortland
A fascinating and compelling book on the effects on the Vietnamese people of the
Agent Orange defoliation campaign during the Vietnam War, a personal, impas-
sioned account on the part of the victims,a fascinating and at times shocking tale
of an important and unresolved episode in American history.
Dr. Michael Viola, director, Medicine for Peace,and retired chair, oncology department,
State University of New YorkStonybrook
Promotion with veterans and environmental groups
Radio interviews
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I died in Vietnam, but I didnt even know it, said a young Vietnam vet
on the Today Show one morning in 1978, shocking viewers across the
country. Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orangethe firstbook ever written on the effects of Agent Orangetells this young vets
story and that of hundreds of thousands of other former American ser-
vicemen. During the war, the US sprayed an estimated 12 million gallons
of Agent Orange on Vietnam, in order to defoliate close to 5 million acres
of its land.
Had anyone predicted that millions of human beings exposed to
Agent Orange/dioxin would get sick and die, scholar Fred A. Wilcox
writes in the new introduction to his influential book, their warnings
would have been dismissed as sci-fi fantasy or apocalyptic nonsense. Toldin a gripping and compassionate narrative style that travels from the war
in Vietnam to the war at home, and through portraits of many of the
affected survivors, their families, and the doctors and scientists whose clin-
ical experience and research gave the lie to the government whitewash,
Waiting for an Army to Dietells a story that, thirty years later, continues to
create new twists and turns for Americans still waiting for justice and an
honest account of what happened to them.
Vietnam has chosen August 10the day that the US began spraying
Agent Orange on Vietnamas Agent Orange Day, to commemorate allits citizens who were affected by the deadly chemical. The new second edi-
tion of Waiting for an Army to Die will be released upon the third
anniversary of this day, in honor of all those whose families have suffered,
and continue to suffer, from this tragedy.
WAITING FOR AN ARMY TO DIEThe Tragedy of Agent Orange, Second Edition
Fred A. Wilcox
My bible on the issue of Agent Orange.
Tom Hayden
This is a sad and frightening book, and it should not be disregarded.
Tracy Kidder, author of The Soul of a New Machine and Mountains Beyond Mountains
It is impossible to read this book without feeling outrage and despair, for the
story of Agent Orange is a tragedy that affects not only Vietnam veterans,but all
Americans and their offspring.
The Saturday Review
Publication: August 2011
History
5 x 8 256 pages
trade paperback
$16.95 US / $18.95 Can
ISBN: 978-1-60980-136-6
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