Books from Metropolitan Books
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My Father's Fortune: A Life
By Michael FraynOur house is changed even further by the acquisition of a Morrison shelter, which is not something for waterfowl to live in at the bottom of the garden but a perfectly practicable A Glass of Sherry 123.
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Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
By Thomas HealyWhen Edward McCabe founded Langston, he wasn't attempting to create a community for starry-eyed transcendentalists. Like McKissick, he hoped to build a town that would attract hardworking residents with traditional, even Victorian, ...
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Sacrifice
By Todd Gitlin" A memorable portrait of a father and son locked in a biblical embrace, Sacrifice builds with quiet elegance to its shocking conclusion.
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The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London
By Sarah WiseMaytooklodgings in Clement's Lane,just south of Clare Market,overlooking theburial groundof St.Clement Danes Church. This cemetery, known as the Green Ground, was also the graveyard of the local workhouse in Portugal Street and was ...
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Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
By Barbara EhrenreichAn ALA Notable Book A New York Times Notable Book In Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the mystery of the human attraction to violence: What draws our species to war and even makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking?
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Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century
By Katherine S. Newman, Hella WinstonFrom Katherine Newman, award-winning author of No Shame in My Game, and sociologist Hella Winston, a sharp and irrefutable call to reenergize this nation's long-neglected system of vocational training After decades of off-shoring and ...
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Downhill from Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality
By Katherine S. NewmanOther countries are confronting similar demographic challenges, yet they have not abandoned their social contract with seniors. Downhill From Here makes it clear that America, too, can—and must—do better.
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The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe
By Sarah Churchwell... Marilyn Monroe, 1954 © Rex/Sam Shaw; Marilyn Monroe,1955 © Rex/Sam Shaw; “Overexposure” © Bettmann/Corbis; Marilyn Monroe,1954 © Christian Blau, 2003 (detail); Norma Jeane Dougherty, 1945 TM© Estate of André de Dienes © 2005 www.
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Mad Scenes and Exit Arias: The Death of the New York City Opera and the Future of Opera in America
By Heidi Waleson... 234 Invisible Cities (Cerrone), 250 Iphigénie en Tauride (Gluck), 103 Irons, Jeremy, 112, 126 Iseman, Frederick J., 175 Italiana in Algeri, L' (Rossini), 103 Jaffee, Christopher, 28 Janáček, Leoš, 38, 53, 85–86, 94 Japan tour 2005, ...
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Inglorious: A Novel
By Joanna Kavennagiving her evenings on her own and evenings with Neil and disappearing when Iess had guests over—as if she was merely a sponging interloper, the recipient of charity. Still it was hard to construct a case. There was no way she could ...
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The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
By Greg GrandinChapman was a contradictory figure. He worked to make “illegal alien” a household phrase and brought a militarist's sensibility to border security, warning about high Mexican birth rates and “silent invasions.
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The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias
By Jessica Nordell... and Nellie Bowles and Liz Gannes, “Kleiner's Matt Murphy on Why Pao Failed as a VC,” Vox.com, March 19, 2015, https://www.vox.com/2015/3/19/11560516/kleinersmatt-murphy-on-why-pao-failed-as-a-vc. 3. Liz Gannes and Nellie Bowles, ...
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The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
By Thomas Frank... nation instructing clean-cut kids on how to use the tactics of the sixties left for their own causes.8 A snapshot of Abramoff using a bullhorn to rally a conservative throng was proudly reproduced in the CRs' Annual Report for 1983, ...
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The Wall and the Gate: Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human Rights
By Michael SfardThe defense of human rights is often marked by such ethical dilemmas, which are especially acute in Israel, where lawyers have for decades sought redress for the abuse of Palestinian rights in the country’s High Court―that is, in the ...
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Anne Frank: The Biography
By Melissa Müller521 522 522 525 525 525 525 526 527 527 527 528 528 529 “through a barbed—wire fence”: Numerous conversations with Nanette Blitz Konig, and her presentation to the Argentinian Senate, June 2011. “Rosa de Winter had become”: De ...
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We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People
By Peter Van BurenThe AAFES barbers were all from Sri Lanka or Bangladesh, imported into Iraq by yet another unnamed subcontractor to work for cheap. They spoke little to no English, other than barber words like short or shave. A sign ofa newbie soldier ...
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Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
By Thomas FrankBut this is to fundamentally misunderstand the modern Democratic Party.
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Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society
By Thomas FrankRendezvous with Oblivion is a collection of interlocking essays examining how inequality has manifested itself in our cities, in our jobs, in the way we travel—and of course in our politics, where in 2016, millions of anxious ordinary ...
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The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism
By Thomas FrankBut this is a mistake. The real story of populism is an account of enlightenment and liberation; it is the story of American democracy itself, of its ever-widening promise of a decent life for all.
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Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism
By Bill Kauffman... 74 O'Sullivan, John L., 35 Out of Iraq:A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now (McGovern and Polk), 143 Palmer, Irwin H., 83 Palmer, John, 53 Palmer, Ruth, 83–84, 95, 149 Panama, 60 Parker,Alton B., 64 Parker, Theodore, 169 Patriot Act, ...