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Sasha Abramsky
A harrowing tale of how polarization threatened to break apart two American communities and how one found a way back while the the other splintered.
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Takes us on a journey through disenfranchised America, detailing the revival of anti-democratic laws that came of age in the post-Civil War segregationist South. From the Pacific Northwest to Miami…
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An expose about the penitentiary system and how vengeance has replaced rehabilitation in our prisons
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Originally published: Great Britain: Halban, 2014.
Twenty-five million Americans-nearly 9 percent of the U.S. population-rely on food pantries. Another 13 million aren’t linked to a food distribution network, and 14 million children are at risk of…
For decades, Chimen Abramsky and his wife, Miriam, organized epic encounters in their fascinating house full of books, and brought together many of the great intellectuals of the time. His…
A groundbreaking biography of the world’s first female sports superstar, the pioneering and uncompromising Lottie Dod.
A New York Times Notable Book of 2013: An ambitious book that both describes and prescribes… [Abramsky] has invited serious rethinking and issued a significant call to action.
Ebola outbreaks, terrorist attacks, inner-city guns, illegal immigrants, the Zika virus, drug dealers, death panels. Sasha Abramsky sets out to uncover what things frighten us most
A heartfelt celebration of the vanished world of his grandfather’s intellectual passions.
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Little Wonder tells the epic, and until now largely unchronicled, story of Lottie Dod, the first great heroine in women’s sports. Dod was a champion tennis player, golfer, hockey player…
