You can’t go anywhere these days without running into some kind of political discussion, and these new and forthcoming books will keep your patrons in the know. DEMOCRACY MAY NOT EXIST, BUT WE’LL MISS IT WHEN IT’S GONE by Astra Taylor What is democracy really? What do we mean when we use the term? And […]
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Kirkus Reviews’ Best Nonfiction of 2012!
Huzzah! Kirkus Reviews continues their year-end celebration by inviting all of their top nonfiction picks to the party! 18 of their top 100 nonfiction selections were published or distributed by Macmillan this year:
WINTER JOURNAL By Paul Auster
VISIT SUNNY CHERNOBYL: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places By Andrew Blackwell
AFTERMATH: On Marriage and Separation By Rachel Cusk
CITY: A Guidebook for the Urban Age By P.D. Smith
THE TENDER HOUR OF TWILIGHT: Paris in the '50s, New York in the '60s: A Memoir of Publishing's Golden Age By Richard Seaver
WHAT MONEY CAN'T BUY: The Moral Limits of Markets By Michael J. Sandel
POWER, INC.: the Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government--and the Reckoning that Lies Ahead By David Rothkopf
HAITI: The Aftershocks of History By Laurent Dubois
FREEDOM'S CAP: The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War By Guy Gugliotta
LIVING, THINKING, LOOKING: Essays By Siri Hustvedt
LEONARDO AND THE LAST SUPPER By Ross King
THE PATAGONIAN HARE: A Memoir By Claude Lanzmann
SAVAGE CONTINENT: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II By Keith Lowe
DESERT AMERICA: Boom and Bust in the New "New West" By Rubén Martínez
SUBVERSIVES: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power By Seth Rosenfeld
RED PLENTY By Francis Spufford
THE BIG SCREEN: The Story of the Movies By David Thomson
RISE TO GREATNESS: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year By David Von Drehle
See the the full Best Nonfiction of 2012 list from Kirkus Reviews. Also take a look at all of the great Macmillan titles in their Best of Fiction 2012! [...]
