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Renowned publisher of serious nonfiction by leading intellectuals, scholars, and journalists. An imprint of @hachetteUS
New York, NY
Joined March 2009
"The Price of Democracy" is available now:
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An eye-opening history of taxation showing that battles over taxes have always really been battles over democracy itself “A convincing case that we must ta...
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"The Price of Democracy feels essential today.... Anyone who cares about preserving democracy would be well served by reading it." NPR reviews Vanessa Williamson's "fascinating" new history of taxation in America from colonization to the present day! Read more:
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The Price of Democracy tells the history of taxation from colonization to the present day. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about preserving democracy.
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Watch Adam Becker (@FreelanceAstro), author of "More Everything Forever," on @StarTalkRadio with @neiltyson. They talk about Silicon Valley's dreams of space empires, AGI, and "functional immortality"—and why you shouldn't believe the hype. Watch here:
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Well, colonialism, slavery, and foreign aid are not exactly equivalent but maybe there are some lessons from the extreme cases... Russ Roberts indulges me in his great podcast ECONTALK https://t.co/v3ux3c25XN
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Promotional Video for my new book (Coming February 2026) "The Doom Loop" is out! https://t.co/Ruo98hjVu3
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If you'd like to read more about this very point—how police veto elected officials' decisions—I've written a whole book on the topic, called Blue Power! It's now available for preorder from @BasicBooks, 20% discount with the code BLUE20. https://t.co/XJbHiWcW7K
“I find it ridiculous and inimical to democracy that police have veto power over elected officials’ decisions, and that politicians therefore need to walk on eggshells so as not to offend them.” Read our interview with @stschrader1 in Issue Sixteen. https://t.co/a0ExWKTvSm
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@closefrank @guardian "Destroyer of Worlds" is available now:
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The thrilling and terrifying seventy-year story—"kinetic, dramatic, and compulsively readable" (Patchen Barss)—of the physicists that deciphered the atom...
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“Physicist Frank Close ventures beyond the Manhattan Project to tell the gripping story of the nuclear age.” "Destroyer of Worlds," by Frank Close (@closefrank), is a @guardian Best Book of 2025! See the full list:
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From the threat of superintelligent AI to the dangers of overdiagnosis; plus the evolution of language and the restless genius of Francis Crick
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My new interview in @thedrift_mag is out now! Come for why everyone hates police reform, stay for why everyone loves Fredric Jameson.
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Stuart Schrader, Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism at Johns Hopkins University, is a leading scholar...
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"Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II," by Paul Thomas Chamberlain, has been named a @HistoryToday Best Book of 2025! See the full list:
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@FreelanceAstro @sciam "More Everything Forever" is available now:
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This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death...
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“Equal parts fascinating and infuriating, this book sheds light on the way some of the most powerful people in the world think and also shows you how to argue against it.” "More Everything Forever" by Adam Becker (@FreelanceAstro) is a @sciam Best Book of 2025! Learn more:
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Here are the 67 books Scientific American staffers couldn’t put down this year, from fantasy epics to gripping nonfiction
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“Cobb captures the intellectual restlessness of a man who chased problems (and women) rather than disciplines, and who mixed with artists and beat poets.” Congratulations once again to @matthewcobb -- "Crick: A Mind in Motion" is a @guardian Best Book of the Year! Learn more:
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From the threat of superintelligent AI to the dangers of overdiagnosis; plus the evolution of language and the restless genius of Francis Crick
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@HistoryToday "Summer of Fire and Blood" is available now:
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Winner of the Cundill Prize From a prize-winning historian, the definitive account of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe “A balanced...
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"Deeply impressive." Congratulations to Lyndal Roper, whose book "Summer of Fire and Blood," the new definitive account of the German Peasants' War, was named a Best Book of 2025 by @HistoryToday! Learn more:
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"[A] superb fresh translation." @HistoryToday has named Robin Waterfield's new translation of Thucydides's "The History of the Peloponnesian War" a Best Book of 2025! See the full list:
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