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Clara Hughes – Learning to Breathe

Clara Hughes Learning to Breathe review and information of the memoir written by the Canadian speelskater, cyclist and Olympic Champion. Simon & Schuster will publish the memoir of Clara Hughes, October 13, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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Clara Hughes Learning to Breathe

Learning to Breathe

A Memoir

  • Author: Clara Hughes (Canada)
  • Book type: memoir, sports book
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • To be released: October 13, 2026
  • Length: 288 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize:  $ 29.99 /  $ 14.99 /  $ 23.99
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Blurb of the momoir by the Candadian speedskater and cyclist Clara Hughes

From Clara Hughes, the six-time Olympic medalist, celebrated humanitarian, and bestselling author of Open Heart, Open Mind: A story of healing and transformation in midlife.

As an elite athlete—the only person who has won multiple medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games—Clara Hughes thrived on powering through pain, with profound consequences for her body and mind. Following her retirement from sport, the mantra ‘‘movement as medicine’’ fueled her public advocacy for mental health and her personal healing journey. However, Clara’s attraction to extremes persisted: grueling months-long hikes and bike-packing trips began to take a toll. In 2021, a catastrophic knee injury coincided with menopausal hot flashes and dizzying mood swings, forcing her into stillness, and her depression, kept at bay for years, loomed larger than ever.

How do you move forward when the body you’ve always relied on doesn’t bounce back like it used to, when you feel like a stranger to yourself, and the punishing voice in your head won’t stop? Clara sought help through traditional avenues, but after realizing how little support there is for people in menopause, she turned to a different kind of medicine. Enter the world of psychedelic-assisted therapy.

Through guided experiences—some hilarious, some alarming, and some mind-expanding—Clara begins a winding trip back to herself, and to a deeper awareness of the roots of the inner pain she’d suppressed through sport. Along the way, she forges new relationships; begins the work of repairing old ones; and faces long-held fears.

Learning to Breathe is a vulnerable, funny, wise and fascinating memoir about one human’s healing journey, the terrors and joys of midlife change, and the potential for new beginnings at any stage.

Clara Hughes was born Spetember 27, 1972 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canda. Six-time Olympic medalist she became the only athlete to win multiple medals in both the Summer and Winter Games. She is a member of the Order of Manitoba and an officer of the Order of Canada, has received a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame, and was inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame. Clara was Canada’s flag bearer for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. She was the founding spokesperson for Bell Canada’s Let’s Talk initiative, a campaign dedicated to breaking down the stigma of mental health. In 2014, she was awarded the Meritorious Service Cross, which recognizes those whose outstanding personal commitment has brought honour to Canada. In 2022, she was named an Olympian for Life in recognition of her making the world a better place by promoting the Olympic Values at every stage of her life. Clara lives with her husband, Peter, on Vancouver Island, and continues to enjoy bike touring and hiking.

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Shawn Gude – American Socialist Eugene V. Debs Biography

Shawn Gude American Socialist Eugene V. Debs Biography review and information book on the life and legacy of Eugene V. Debs. Simon & Schuster will publish the book on Eugene V. Debs, the railroad worker whose leadership helped elect more than a thousand Socialists across the country during the Progressive Era in the United States, written by Shawn Gude, October 13, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “An essential story about one of America’s greatest champions for workers.” (Bernie Sanders)
  • “An important work of history, impeccably researched and beautifully written. Shawn Gude brings to life one of our great revolutionary figures with the power and complexity he deserves.” (Jonathan Eig, author)
  • “A meticulously researched and elegantly narrated account that restores Eugene V. Debs to his rightful place at the center of American history. American Socialist captures both the man and the movement he inspired with remarkable clarity and humanity.” (Siddharth Kara, author)

Shawn Gude American Socialist Eugene V. Debs Biography

American Socialist

The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs

  • Author: Shawn Gude (United States)
  • Book type: biography
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • To be released: October 13, 2026
  • Length: 416 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
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The first popular biography of Eugene Debs, the railroad worker turned radical visionary whose leadership helped elect more than a thousand Socialists across the country during the Progressive Era and inspired generations of Americans to fight back against the power of the rich over our politics and our lives.

Before Bernie Sanders, before Zohran Mamdani, America’s favorite socialist was Eugene Debs.

There was a time, a little more than 100 years ago, when some 1,200 Socialists held elected office across the United States. Wisconsin had a Socialist congressman in Washington. Ministers in Oklahoma preached the gospel of “Christian socialism” at revival-style gatherings come summertime. And Eugene V. Debs—part working-class agitator, part radical prophet—received nearly a million votes when he ran for president from behind bars.

Even opponents would describe Debs as Christlike. Born in Indiana in 1855, he’d dropped out of school at fourteen to work on the railroad. He’d seemed a rising star in the Democratic Party: an optimistic moderate who urged respectability and compromise. But this was the Gilded Age: an era of corporate tycoons and outrageous sums of money in politics, of grueling hours and few (if any) rights for workers. And when, in 1894, the president sent thousands of troops to break a railroad strike Debs had helped organize, he was radicalized. He emerged from a six-month prison sentence as a crusader, a stirring orator who would soon see all forms of unaccountable power—rich over poor, men over women, white over Black, colonizer over colonized—as poisonous to human freedom.

Cofounding the Socialist Party of America, Debs would spend the rest of his life striving to convince his countrymen that being an American and a socialist was the most natural thing in the world.

It wouldn’t be easy. He would suffer from chronic illness, lose friends, enrage allies, and risk his marriage. But he would also spark a profound shift in the American consciousness. Today, the ideals he spent his life fighting for are more popular than at any point since his death.

A rousing, poignant, intimately human tale of struggle against the odds, American Socialist is a stunning portrait of one man’s radicalization—and of the country he radicalized in turn.

Shawn Gude is a former editor at Jacobin and author of American Socialist. Born in Iowa and a proud product of its public schools, he lives with his wife in New York City.

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Bob Woodward – Secrets

Bob Woodward Secrets review and information about the book and A Reporter´s Memoir, written by the famous American journalist and reporter. Simon & Schuster will publish the book by Bob Woodward, November 24, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “The scope and depth of his work have earned him a unique place in politics and journalism as perhaps the most enduring chronicler of American presidents.” (The New York Times)
  • “He has an extraordinary ability to get otherwise responsible adults to spill their guts.” (Robert Gates, former Defense Secretary and CIA Director)

Bob Woodward Secrets

Secrets

A Reporter’s Memoir

  • Author: Bob Woodward (United States)
  • Book type: memoir
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • To be released: November 24, 2026
  • Length: 592 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 35.00 / $ 16.99 / $ 35.00
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Blurb of the memoir by Bob Woodward the American journalist

From two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist Bob Woodward comes the definitive memoir of the man with more #1 bestsellers than any journalist of our time, offering an unprecedented inside look at some of the most newsworthy stories ever.

Bob Woodward has reported on every American president from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump. His books have penetrated government institutions, informed the national conversation and shaped our culture.

In Secrets, Woodward tells his story—from his Illinois youth to his Navy service during the Vietnam War to his tenure at The Washington Post, where his reporting with Carl Bernstein on Watergate captivated the world and became the book All the President’s Men. Like never before, Woodward takes readers inside his reporting on the White House, Supreme Court, CIA operations, and the Pentagon.

Woodward’s one-of-a-kind reporter’s memoir lifts the lid on his historic reporting relationships and secret sources, and he explains why he can reveal some of those long-time sources now.

Bob Woodward was born March 26, 1943 in Geneva, Illinois in the United States. He is an associate editor at The Washington Post, where he has worked for fifty-five years. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his Watergate coverage with Carl Bernstein and the other for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has authored twenty-four bestselling books, sixteen of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers.

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Robert L. O’Connell – Band on the Run

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Band on the Run

Xenophon and the First Great Mercenary Army’s Epic Escape from Persia

  • Author: Robert L. O’Connell (United States)
  • Book type: Ancient Greek history
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • To be released: July 28, 2026
  • Length: 256 pages
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A riveting retelling of one of the great adventure stories of antiquity—when Greek philosopher-warrior Xenophon led a stranded band of the “Ten Thousand” mercenary soldiers on a treacherous escape from the Persians.

400 BC. The Persian prince Cyrus the Younger hires an army of Greek soldiers to oust his brother from the Persian throne. But when Cyrus dies in battle during the army’s trek through the middle east, the army is stranded deep in enemy territory.

Led by Xenophon, a young Athenian philosopher turned solider, the Ten Thousand fought their way home through deserts and mountains, snowstorms, starvation, and relentless attacks, evolving into one of the most fearsome forces of the ancient world. Their journey, chronicled in Xenophon’s Anabasis, is one of history’s greatest military stories.

In Band on the Run, Robert O’Connell not only gives us an exciting and witty retelling of this story, but he has done so with a wise contemporary spin. For in his estimation, this was the battle that established the use of powerful mercenary forces. The attempted conquest of the Ten Thousand begins a historical line through Western history of the use of mercenary armies that has lasted up to our present day. And, as O’Connell shows, much misery and tragedy in human history has been due to this trajectory. This is a brilliant revisionist history with important lessons for our time.

Robert L. O’Connell is an American historian, intelligence analyst, and author known for his thought-provoking works on war, weaponry, and human aggression. He has worked as a senior analyst at the National Ground Intelligence Center, as a contributing editor to Military History Quarterly and as a visiting professor at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is the author of numerous books, two of which, The Ghosts of Cannae and Fierce Patriot, were national bestsellers.

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Rachel Beanland – The Half Life

Rachel Beanland The Half Life review and information of the new novel by the American writer. Simon & Schuster will publish the Rachel Beanland novel on July 14, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “A captivating, whip-smart novel about love, loyalty, and a woman torn between two lives. I utterly adored it.” (Clare Leslie Hall)
  • “I can’t remember the last time I was as fully immersed in a book as I was in Rachel Beanland’s forthcoming novel, The Half Life; an effortlessly readable story of a young Navy wife’s journey to a remote duty station on the island of La Maddalena in the Mediterranean, and the awakening she experiences while living there. Often funny, and always astute in its examination of the unavoidable complexities of relationships, I found it deeply moving and endlessly entertaining. I could not recommend it more highly.” (Kevin Powers, author)
  • “The Half Life is a sexy tour-de-force fueled by one brave young woman who breaks all the rules and wins our hearts in the process. Beanland writes a heady and complex cast of hauntingly realized characters who not only offer an outpouring of both sizzling passions and stirring regrets, but bring new life to a lesser known period of American military history in Europe.” (Lauren Francis-Sharma, author)
  • “Beautiful…Beanland combines an intricate plot with deep moral insights into a woman’s willingness to defy expectations for the sake of justice, and she captures the magical beauty of the island setting. It’s a propulsive tale of love, loyalty, and the power of self-discovery.” (Publishers Weekly)

Rachel Beanland The Half Life

The Half Life

  • Author: Rachel Beanland (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • To be released: July 14, 2026
  • Length: 480 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 30.00 / $ 14.99 / $ 29.99
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From the author of Florence Adler Swims Forever and The House Is on Fire, a novel set on a remote Italian island about a navy wife’s reckoning with power, love, and the price of staying silent in the Atomic Age.

When twenty-three-year-old Eileen O’Malley meets charismatic naval officer Paul Archer in a Charleston department store, she doesn’t expect to fall so hard, so fast. But Paul is funny and ambitious, and soon, Eileen’s got a ring on her finger and is following him to the tiny, sun-drenched Mediterranean island of La Maddalena, where Paul will be heading up Radiological Controls aboard a submarine tender.

In La Maddalena, Eileen joins a makeshift community of navy wives who are hell-bent on making the island feel a little more like home. But for Eileen, whose brother died in Vietnam, home is a loaded word, and as she settles into life on the island—taking Italian lessons and learning to make culurgiones—she begins to love the place for all the ways it is not like where she comes from.

Still, it doesn’t take long for Eileen to be confronted with the complexities of being an American abroad. The decision to send nuclear-powered subs into the La Maddalena Archipelago was a contentious one, and the U.S. government is doing whatever it can to ensure that the island—not to mention all of Italy—doesn’t go communist in the next election.

When Italian activists and scientists begin to sound the alarm about possible nuclear contamination in the water, the island erupts in a series of protests, made worse by the ongoing mishaps of the U.S. Navy. Soon, Eileen’s marriage falters and her loyalties begin to shift as she is drawn into a web of secrets—and to a local journalist who forces her to imagine a life beyond the one she’s been handed.

Atmospheric, sexy, and quietly defiant, The Half Life is a story of love, complicity, and awakening—of one woman forced to choose between loyalty to her husband and country and to the Italian locals who show her the high cost of American exceptionalism.

Rachel Beanland is the author of The House Is on Fire and Florence Adler Swims Forever, which won the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction. She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and earned her MFA in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives with her family in Richmond, Virginia.

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Emma Southon – Not Built in a Day

Emma Southon Not Built in a Day review and information history book about how slavery made the Roman Empire. Simon & Schuster will publish the book about role of slavery during the Roman Empire written by historian Emma Southon, on June 30, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “Excellent… Southon’s brilliant scholarship is delivered in a unique and compelling style… Offers a thoughtful and refreshing, intimate and disturbing insight into the workings of the Roman Empire and the psyche of its inhabitants—free and enslaved.” (Sunday Times)
  • “With an approach both humorous and humanistic, Southon invites those unfamiliar with antiquity to treat it with curiosity while also engaging with the ethical and moral questions that the civilization struggled to resolve. Her work offers a stark, brutal look at the extractive economy Rome used to build itself, with rich detail and approachable language that make it an excellent starting point for learning about the time period. Readers will surely be inspired to read on about the Roman Empire in all of its thorny complexity.” (Booklist)

Emma Southon Not Built in a Day

Not Built in a Day

How Slavery Made the Roman Empire

  • Author: Emma Southon (Engeland)
  • Book type: Roman history
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • To be released: June 30, 2026
  • Length: 448 pages
  • Sizes: 15,2 x 22.9 x 4,3 cm
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A groundbreaking history of Ancient Rome that explores how the empire was built, fueled, and shaped by its enslaved people.

When Julius Caesar conquered Gaul he boasted that he killed a million Gauls and enslaved a million more. This is the truth about the Roman empire: Rome could not function without slavery as it underpinned every single part of their economy. Without the millions of people snatched from their homes in the aftermath of war, kidnapped from the streets, sold into slavery as punishment, or born into it as “home bred slaves”, the Roman empire’s great aqueducts and temples could never have been built. There would be no coins or tiles to find in fields, no limitless manpower for the army and navy that conquered the Mediterranean, no marble palaces or underfloor heating, and certainly no life of unimaginable luxury for the one percent who didn’t even tie their own shoes. For the first time, Not Built in a Day tells their stories.

Not Built in a Day takes readers into the invisible spaces of the Roman empire, where the millions of enslaved lives perpetuated the excesses of the empire that owned them. From the fields of wheat required to give every Roman his daily bread, to the actors and gladiators who provided their circuses; from the guards who kept the streets of Rome safe and the mines which kept Rome a city of gold and marble, to the builders who placed every brick in the Colosseum. It traces how people entered, experienced, and left slavery, covering the little known story of slave revolts and the complex realities of enslaved people who themselves owned enslaved people. Not Built in a Day also explores the lives of those freed from slavery, finally able to choose their own destinies.

With humor, wit, and expertise, Emma Southon invites us into the absurdity of Roman life and completely upends our idea of the Roman empire.

Emma Southon has a PhD in ancient history from the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World; A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome; and A Rome of One’s Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire. Emma also cohosts the podcast History is Sexy, which has 800,000 lifetime listens. She has written for History Today, All About History, Historia, Literary Hub, and British Museum Magazine, and has appeared in documentaries on Channel Four TV and Netflix.

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Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan – Regime Change

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan Regime Change review and information book Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. Simon & Schuster will publish the Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan on June 23, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “Riveting and richly textured…What the authors add is the vivid detail that makes these events feel actual. They wrest reality itself back from the distorted world of entertainment, illusion, fantasy and denial that Trump has generated around himself. It is this flood of provocation, atrocity, self-dealing and fabrication that makes Haberman and Swan’s counternarrative so vital.” (Fintan O’Toole, The New York Times)

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan Regime Change

Regime Change

Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

  • Authors: Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan (United States)
  • Book type: American politics
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • To be released: June 23, 2026
  • Length: 496 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 34.00 / $ 16.99 / € 32.99
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A riveting, intimate, and revelatory account of the most radical and consequential presidency of our time.

From the two reporters who have covered him more closely than perhaps anyone else over the past decade comes this definitive portrait of Donald Trump in the White House. Regime Change covers the first year of Trump’s second presidency—a term liberated from every constraint that defined his first. The generals who once told him “no” are gone, and the lawyers who remain have learned to pick their battles. His administration has flouted court orders and he has claimed powers that Congress once checked. What remains is a President willing to take enormous risks that have upended global markets and toppled heads of state; an imperial President operating almost entirely on instinct alone.

Based on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented reporting from deep within the administration’s most closely guarded rooms, Regime Change takes the reader inside the Situation Room and into the secret Oval Office deliberations that have launched a new war in the Middle East and seen Trump seal the border, surge National Guard troops into cities, and send immigration agents into deadly clashes with protestors. Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan bring us behind the scenes of a presidency that has transformed the culture, turned the Justice Department into an agent of retribution against the President’s enemies and the office itself into a brazen vehicle for profit. They reveal a second term propelled by a historical irony that Trump himself has come to understand: that the indictments, the convictions, the assassination attempts, and four years of exile made him not weaker but far more powerful, more vengeful, and more willing to gamble than any President in modern history.

This is the story of how Trump has used that power, who has tried to stop him, and why nearly all of them have failed. It is also the story of something American journalists are more accustomed to chronicling in distant capitals than in their own: a President who has fundamentally altered the nature of the office he holds—and, with it, how the rest of the world understands American power. It is an account of Regime Change right here in America—a landmark real-time history of a modern presidency like no other.

The Dutch translation of Regime Change wil be published by Omniboek on Jyly 9, 2026.

Maggie Haberman was born born October 30, 1973 in New York City. She is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. A New York City native, Haberman worked at the New York Post, New York Daily News, and Politico, before joining the Times in 2015. She has covered six US presidential elections and several gubernatorial and New York City mayoral races. She was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for reporting on President Trump’s advisers and their connections to Russia. In 2021, she was part of a team that was a Pulitzer finalist for coverage of President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus. She has received the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Aldo Beckman Award, as well as the Newswomen’s Club of New York’s Front Page Award for Journalist of the Year. She is the author of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. She lives in New York City with her husband and their three children.

Jonathan Swan was born August 7, 1985 in Sydney, Australia. He is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. Originally from Sydney, Australia, he has reported on Donald Trump since 2015, covering all three of his campaigns and his first term in office. Previously at Axios and The Hill, he won an Emmy Award for his 2020 interview of then-President Trump and received the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Aldo Beckman Award. He began his career as a teenage copy boy at a Sydney newspaper and later covered federal politics in Australia’s capital for The Sydney Morning Herald. He became a US citizen in 2024 and lives in Virginia with his wife and two children, with a third on the way.

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Beverly Gage – This Is Your Land

Beverly Gage This Is Your Land review and information book and a road trip through U.S. history. Simon & Schuster will publish the Beverly Gage book on American history, April 7, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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This is Your Land

A Road Trip Through U.S. History

  • Author: Beverly Gage (United Staters)
  • Book type: American history, travel stories
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • To be released: April 7, 2026
  • Length: 352 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
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Blurb of the Beverly Gage book on American history

Pulitzer Prize–winning author of G-Man and acclaimed historian Beverly Gage takes the ultimate road trip into the American past.

Ride along with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn—and fight—about our history. From the birth of the nation in Philadelphia to Disneyland and the California dream, This Land Is Your Land offers a guided tour of thirteen places and thirteen key moments that define America’s greatest successes and challenges.

The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a document that proclaimed the liberty and equality of all human beings, but produced a country that often failed to agree upon—or live up to—those ideals. This Land Is Your Land is for everyone who wants to find that history—to experience it and confront it, to celebrate it and condemn it—in the places where it happened.

Gage shows that Americans can face their past and still love their country. Toss the book in the back seat—or listen on audio with the windows down—and join the journey.

Beverly Gage teaches American history at Yale. Her book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the Bancroft Prize in American History, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography. She is also the author of The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror, and writes for numerous journals and magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

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Clara E. Mattei – Escape from Capitalism

Clara E. Mattei Escape from Capitalism review en information of the content of the book and an intervention by the American economist. Simon & Schuster will publish the Clara E. Mattei book on the consequences of capitalism on January 27, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “A compelling and insightful book on austerity that, through meticulous research and historical documentation, unveils the deep political forces behind economic decisions and offers essential tools for understanding today’s world.” (Thomas Piketty)
  • “Capitalism seems invincible and inevitable. It is neither. Clara Mattei’s new book illustrates brilliantly its fragility and, in so doing, restores hope that everything could be different.” (Yanis Varoufakis, Greek politician and author)
  • “One of the brightest voices of a coming generation, Clara Mattei here offers an impassioned plea for new and wider economic and political horizons.” (James K. Galbraith, Professor of Government, The University of Texas at Austin)

Clara E. Mattei Escape from Capitalism

Escape from Capitalism

An Intervention

  • Author: Clara E. Mattei (United States)
  • Book type: economics book on capitalism
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • To be released: January 27, 2026
  • Length: 384 pages
  • Prize: $ 26.00 / $ 13.00 / $ 18.99
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Blurb of the Clara E. Mattei book on capitalism

For fans of Bernie Sanders and Thomas Piketty, an urgent intervention against capitalism revealing how economic models serve the extremely wealthy and powerful at the expense of ordinary people—and how we can reclaim our power to make choices about our economic lives.

Capitalism isn’t inevitable, scientific, or natural—it’s a relatively young system that can be replaced. In this radical rethinking of economics, Clara Mattei argues that enduring problems such as poverty, unemployment, and inflation are not bugs in the economy but core features. They are justified with pseudoscientific models, fabrications built to support a capitalist economy that unfairly rewards people with the most resources.

The tools of economic experts—budget cuts, interest rate hikes, and regressive taxes—are sold as apolitical but disguise a bleak reality: they maintain our capitalist system, reinforcing inequality. Central bankers raise interest rates knowing this will cause a recession and pain to working families. Governments slash tax collection jobs in the name of balanced budgets, which actually shields the wealthy from tax enforcement and creates budget shortfalls used to justify cuts in social services. Textbooks teach that unemployment must rise to fix inflation. But this model creates conditions that force people to accept crummy jobs and low pay.

In the wake of World War I, when the world’s economy was in turmoil, economics was elevated to a scientific discipline, legitimized through mathematical formulas and new economic institutions considered too sophisticated for the average person to understand. Today’s economic institutions, from the Fed to the IMF, wield immense power over monetary policy yet are shielded from democratic scrutiny. Why should we accept a system that delegates crucial decisions that impact our lives to institutions in which we have no say?

All the major problems today—from a healthcare system that prioritizes profits over well-being to the rise of ultranationalism—are rooted in an economic system that fails to serve the common good. In this revelatory manifesto, Mattei sets out a revolutionary vision that may one day allow us to achieve true economic freedom and finally escape from capitalism.

Clara E. Mattei is a professor of economics at The University of Tulsa. She is the Founding President of FREE—the Forum for Real Economic Emancipation—and the author of The Capital Order (University of Chicago Press), which was praised by The Financial Times as one of the ten best economics books of 2022 and has been translated into over a dozen languages.

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Kenneth R. Rosen – Polar War

Kenneth R. Rosen Polar War review and information book about Submarines, spies, and the struggle for power in a melting Arctic. Simon & Schuster Profile Books Random House will publish the Kenneth R. Rosen book on January 6, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “At once both immensely fascinating and alarming, Rosen’s words culminate in a robust depiction of the Arctic climate, physically and politically. Control of the Arctic has roots in the climate crisis, making this extensively researched and accessible exposé ideal for readers interested in science and politics alike.” (Booklist)
  • “Lyrical and deeply reported…Two years of travel to the Arctic regions and hundreds of interviews bolster Rosen’s hypnotic descriptions of the frigid crossroads where nations vie for domination and control.” (Publisher’s Weekly)

Kenneth R. Rosen Polar War

Polar War

Submarines, Spies, and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic

  • Author: Kenneth R. Rosen (Verenigde Staten)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Random House
  • To be released: May 5, 2026
  • Length: 224 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 29.00
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Blurb of the book by Kenneth R. Rosen on the Arctic

A gripping blend of travelogue and frontline reporting that reveals how climate change, military ambition, and economic opportunity are transforming the Arctic into the epicenter of a new cold war, where a struggle for dominance between the planet’s great powers heralds the next global conflict.

Russian spies. Nuclear submarines. Sabotaged pipelines. Undersea communications severed in the dark of night. The fastest-warming place on earth—where apartment buildings, hospitals, and homes crumble daily as permafrost melts and villages get washed away by rising seas—the Arctic stands at the crossroads of geopolitical ambition and environmental catastrophe. As climate change thaws the northern latitudes, opening once ice-bound shipping lanes and access to natural resources, the world’s military powers are rushing to stake their claims in this increasingly strategic region. We’ve entered a new cold war—and every day it grows hotter.

In Polar War, Kenneth R. Rosen takes readers on an extraordinary journey across the changing face of the far north. Through intimate portraits of scientists, soldiers, and Indigenous community leaders representing the interests of twenty-one countries across four continents, he witnesses firsthand how rising temperatures and growing tensions are reshaping life above and below the Arctic Circle. He finds himself on the trail of Navy SEALs training for arctic warfare, embarks on Coast Guard patrols monitoring Russian incursions, participates in close-quarter-combat training aboard foreign icebreakers in the Arctic sea ice, and visits remote research stations where international cooperation is giving way to espionage and the search for long-frozen biological weapons.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews and three years of reporting from the frontlines of climate change and great power competition, Rosen blends incisive analysis with the vivid immediacy of a travelogue. His deeply researched and personal accounts capture the diverse landscapes, people, and conflicted interests that define this complex northern region. The result is both an elegy for a vanishing landscape and an urgent warning about how the race for Arctic dominance could spark the next global conflict.

Kenneth R. Rosen was born in 1990 in New York City. He is the recipient of a Kurt Schork Award, a Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, and was a two-time finalist for the Livingston Award for his work in Syria and Iraq. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and WIRED. He divides his time between Western Massachusetts and Northern Italy with his wife and their three children.

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