Publishers Weekly commends Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court: "A comprehensive survey of the Supreme Court's role in the battle for racial equality… [Orville Vernon Burton and Armand Derfner] make clear that the court has more often been an impediment to progress than an ally of it."
Dvora Hacohen's To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah introduces us to a remarkable leader who fought for women's rights and the poor. Pamela S. Nadell, author of America's Jewish Women, admires a "compelling work [that] will stand as the definitive biography of one of the most important figures in modern Jewish history."
Chad Bryant's Prague: Belonging in the Modern City is a poignant reflection on alienation and belonging, told through the lives of five remarkable people in one of Europe's most stunning cities. Library Journal is enamoured: "Each nuanced viewpoint… captures the imagination by tapping into the sense of belonging and its relationship to nationalism… Evocative."
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we present books that explore experiences in faith, in immigration, and in civil rights.
The Chinese Must Go » "The Chinese Must Go shows how a country that was moving, in a piecemeal and halting fashion, toward an expansion of citizenship for formerly enslaved people and Native Americans, came to deny other classes of people the right to naturalize altogether." —Slate
Nothing Ever Dies » "[Nguyen] brings every conceivable gift—wisdom, wit, compassion, curiosity—to the impossible yet crucial work of arriving at what he calls 'a just memory' of this war." —Los Angeles Times
Rave Reviews
"Sweeping, authoritative and—for the times—strikingly upbeat." —The Economist
"An important book for the times." —New York Journal of Books
Joshua Bennett » Joshua Bennett, author of Being Property Once Myself, has won a Whiting Award. The Whiting judges praised how Bennett "radically expands ideas of what it is to be alive in the world, reshuffling hierarchies of knowledge and power and hinting at a new way of being."
Heather Boushey » A member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Boushey has spoken with NPR and the Washington Post about new policies—many recommended in her books Unbound and Finding Time—created to encourage a booming economy.
Vincent Brown » Vincent Brown's Tacky's Revolt is winner of a James A. Rawley Prize. Steve Hahn commends the book in the Boston Book Review: "Outstanding… Brown has produced one of the best treatments of slavery ever written."
Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library is a groundbreaking facing-page translation series that makes the written achievements of medieval and Byzantine culture available to the English-speaking world.
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