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Balance of Power: Central Banks and the Fate of Democracies

Ivan Radanović LSE Review of Books
Reviewer Radanović calls this book essential reading for understanding why reconnecting central banks to the people is crucial to meet the major challenges of our time, from rising inequality to the climate crisis.

A Soundtrack of Irrationalism

Blaire Briody Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviewer Briody calls this book "a tightly written and well-reported account of the rise of extremism in small-town America."

Jim Williams’s Quest for Justice

Paul Buhle CounterPunch
Activist and writer Jim Williams, in his new autobiography, covers his life from Students for a Democratic Society activist, to Communist labor editor, to social worker.

Grave New World

David Klion Bookforum
This book starts by saying that the 9/11 attacks "occurred at a moment when “the United States found itself at the head of a global economic order that had been founded on a growth surge that was slowly but surely running out of steam."

Man Overboard

Rebecca Onion Slate
"Josh Hawley’s long-threatened tome about American masculinity is here," writes this reviewer. "Savor it with me."

John Lewis: A Life

Steve Nathans-Kelly New York Journal of Books
"More than any Lewis biography to date," writes reviewer Nathans-Kelly, this book "captures that life’s complex, magnificent, and underappreciated second act.”

The Charge Sheet Against Rule Britannia

Colin Grant The Guardian
In this ambitious sequel to Empireland, the journalist travels far and wide to examine the legacy of British imperialism, piecing together an important rebuttal of revisionist narratives