Abortion & Life
Baumgardner’s groundbreaking new book includes abortion testimonials by Ani DiFranco, Barbara Ehrenreich, Gloria Steinem, and others.
Subject: Politics/Current Affairs
Against the Written Word (Hardcover Edition)
The limited, hardcover edition of Against the Written Word. If the Gutenberg Bible is the alpha, Against the Written Word is the omega
*While supplies last, books ordered through the Akashic Books website will include a bookplate SIGNED by Ian F. Svenonius!
Against the Written Word: Toward a Universal Illiteracy
If the Gutenberg Bible is the alpha, Against the Written Word is the omega
This page is for the paperback edition of Against the Written Word. Order the limited-edition, hardcover here.
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All the Power: Revolution Without Illusion
An “anti-manifesto” from the co-author of Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation’s Capital with a preface by Jennifer Baumgardner, author of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future.
American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men
An exposé of an America no one is comfortable talking about: the volatile ground where male violence and sexuality overlap.
Among the Bloodpeople: Politics & Flesh
Concerns with human rights, political oppression, sexuality, race, and Jamaican culture thematically connect these essays.
And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality
A dramatic and inspirational memoir from one of the world’s top leaders of the movement for gay and lesbian equality.
The Anti-Capitalism Reader
A refreshingly non-doctrinaire anthology of writings and interviews covering much of the intellectual geography of the new anti-market left.
Bandits & Bibles: Convict Literature in Nineteenth-Century America
What was life like for the gangs of New York and others thrown into the nineteenth-century slammer?
Bivouac
The death of a Jamaican man’s father raises questions about the father’s political endeavors, and about the plight of 1980s Jamaica.
Black Music
The long-awaited reissue of the sequel to Amiri Baraka’s seminal work, BLUES PEOPLE, and latest selection in the AkashiClassics Renegade Reprint Series. This collection of essays by Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones includes a new introduction by the author and Q&A by Calvin Reid.
Bloody Crossroads 2020: Art, Entertainment, and Resistance to Trump
A deep dive into the role that mass-appeal movies, television, videos, and music played in Donald Trump’s failed reelection campaign, including brand-new interviews with some of the major players.
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Born on the Fourth of July
This edition marks the 40th anniversary of the original publication of Kovic’s American antiwar classic and features a new foreword by Bruce Springsteen.
Bronx Biannual Issue No. 2: The Literary Journal of Urbane Urban Literature
The second issue of the groundbreaking new literary journal.
Bronx Biannual: The Literary Journal of Urbane Urban Literature
A literary journal’s debut featuring writing from: Donnell Alexander, Federico Anderson, Dana Crum, Michael A. Gonzales, KRS-One, Michael C. Ladd, Ferentz Lafargue, Reginald Lewis, Adam Mansbach, Caille Millner, muMs, and Greg Tate.
Dance of Days: Updated Edition
Updated 2009 edition of this evergreen punk classic—with a new chapter, additional photos, and other original material!
Ending the War in Iraq
Tom Hayden brings a lifetime of experience to the challenge of ending the Iraq War—and preventing future wars.
Falun Gong’s Challenge to China: Spiritual Practice or “Evil Cult”?
This updated paperback edition has information on all of the latest developments with the Chinese government crackdown, including Danny Schechter’s analysis of the alleged public suicides by Falun Gong practitioners in Tiananmen Square in February 2001.
A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing
Cooper & Mansbach team with some of today’s most talented writers to vitalize American history.
Firewater
Life is teetering on the edge of the apocalypse in and around the tiny Washington State coastal community that occupies the center of Firewater, a posthumously released, brutally funny environmental suspense novel.
The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq
The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq is the comprehensive source on the administration’s campaign of disinformation before, during, and after the second Gulf War.
George Washington’s Rules of Civility
National Book Award/Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Haslett tackles George Washington’s Rules of Civility, which will be printed in its entirety. In addition to an introductory essay, Haslett annotates the text.
Go Fish
The debut collection of Mr. Fish’s searing and hilarious political cartoons, featured in Harper’s, Truthdig, and elsewhere.
A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid (A Novel)
Veteran authors Everett and Kincaid present an uproarious send-up of one of America’s most controversial American icons.
Home: Social Essays
A seminal Jones/Baraka literary land mine that launches AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series.
How the Left Lost Teen Spirit
Includes Goldberg’s groundbreaking book Dispatches from the Culture Wars, plus a new author introduction and additional chapters.
Hurricane Street
Kovic’s impassioned, timely memoir about the American Veterans Movement picks up where Born on the Fourth of July leaves off.
In Search of the Lost Chord
This paperback edition of Goldberg’s highly acclaimed homage to 1967 includes a new afterword and twenty beautiful and evocative photographs.
Israel vs. Utopia
Israeli American journalist Schalit distinguishes between the Israel he knows and the image of it in the minds of Americans.
The Jefferson Bible
Visionary author Percival Everett will take an atheist’s-eye-view of the little-known “Jefferson Bible,” the third president’s response to the King James Bible.
Jerusalem Calling
Schalit critically interrogates everything from Middle Eastern politics to the New Economy, from debates in the independent music scene about “selling out” to the current cultural interventions of Jerry Falwell and his followers.
John Adams’s A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America
Acclaimed novelist and satirist Neal Pollack analyzes and dissects selected early writings by Founding Father John Adams.
Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
Innocence Project attorney M. Chris Fabricant presents an insider’s journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science plays in maintaining the status quo
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Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist
The paperback reissue of the national best-selling memoir from the M*A*S*H star, with a brand-new introduction by Martin Sheen.
The Kevin Powell Reader: Essential Writings and Conversations
A hopeful and insightful collection by one of the great voices of our time
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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
The impassioned memoirs from one of America’s leading civil liberties attorneys of the 20th century.
Misstating the State of the Union: Right-Wing Media Distortions About the Clinton and Bush Presidencies
Best-selling author David Brock leads an analysis of right-wing media distortions.
News Dissector: Passions, Pieces, and Polemics – 1960–2000
News Dissector brings together Schechter’s writings on human rights, politics, and the media over a span of four decades of activism and reporting.
Of Grunge and Government: Let’s Fix this Broken Democracy!
Founding member of world-famous rock band Nirvana offers a personal and political memoir.
Of Mule and Man
Mike Farrell’s gripping and often hilarious book tour memoir provides a framework for grassroots civic engagement.
The Path to Geneva: The Quest for a Permanent Agreement, 1996 – 2004
A detailed and intimate personal history of the Middle East peace process by one of its founding architects.
Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton–and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush
In Playing President, Robert Scheer offers an unparalleled insight into the presidential mind.
Please Don’t Bomb the Suburbs
Best-selling author/activist William Upski Wimsatt is back with a blueprint for contemporary political organizers.
Police Brutality and White Supremacy: The Fight Against American Traditions
An NBA veteran offers engaging interviews and reflections that explore police brutality, white supremacy, and the struggle for racial justice in America.
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The Psychic Soviet
A reissue of Ian F. Svenonius’s cult-classic debut essay collection, including brand-new writing in this expanded edition.
Revolutionary Threads: Rastafari, Social Justice, and Cooperative Economics
An American Rasta’s retelling of episodes in American history with an anti-colonial thrust and a view toward charting a brighter future.
A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola
From the illustrator of Go the F*** to Sleep comes a history of coffee, Coca-Cola, caffeine, cocaine, secret formulas, special flavors, special favors, Harry J. Anslinger, and Prohibition.
*While supplies last, books ordered through the website will be SIGNED by Ricardo Cortés.
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows: Turning Our Grief into Action for Peace
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows presents a powerful collection of essays, photos, and heartfelt stories about their deeply personal responses to their very public tragedies.
STEWdio: Limited Edition Package
This page offers two LIMITED EDITION options for STEWdio: The Naphic Grovel ARTrilogy of Chuck D—one of which includes a priceless, one-of-a-kind original portrait of YOU by CHUCK D. STEWdio is the debut release of Chuck D’s new Enemy Books Imprint.
—Option 1. Choose the default option in the drop-down menu below for a $75 signed edition of the Box Set (only 500 available)
—Option 2. Choose the second option in the drop-down menu below for a $200 signed edition PLUS an original portrait of YOU by Chuck D (100 available. All orders are nonreturnable.)
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STEWdio: The Naphic Grovel ARTrilogy of Chuck D
Chuck D (Public Enemy, Prophets of Rage, etc.) brings his personal insights and social critiques to the page in fierce, passionate, and evocative visual art and prose
Note: This page is for the regular, unsigned edition of STEWdio. To order one of the limited edition options–a signed box set, or a signed set + an original portrait by Chuck D–click here.
Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group
Washington, DC–based rock ‘n’ roll antihero Ian F. Svenonius provides an unparalleled and exquisitely provocative how-to guide for rock bands.
Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story
A timely memoir about world record–breaking Tyus’s 1964 and 1968 Olympic victories, amid the turbulence of the 1960s, along with contemporary reflections.
The Uncomfortable Dead (What’s Missing is Missing)
A stylized reissue of the acclaimed, surreal noir collaboration between Mexico’s greatest writer and its most courageous revolutionary.
We Are The Clash
An impassioned history of the final, turbulent years of The Clash under the dark shadow of Reagan and Thatcher.
We Do!: American Leaders Who Believe in Marriage Equality
Cherished former Vermont governor Kunin teams up with Baumgardner to tell the inspiring story of American politicians’ growing acceptance of gay marriage.
We Matter: Athletes and Activism
In interviews and essays, high-profile activist athletes explore the intersection of sports and politics.
We Owe You Nothing, Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews Expanded Edition
Revised and expanded edition of the punk classic (more than 15,000 copies sold), with six new interviews.
You Throw Like a Girl: The Blind Spot of Masculinity
Former NFL quarterback McPherson examines the roots of masculinity gone awry and how it promotes violence against women.
Forthcoming Titles
Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System (Paperback Edition)
Forthcoming: 9/5/23
Innocence Project attorney M. Chris Fabricant presents an insider’s journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science plays in maintaining the status quo
This page is for the forthcoming paperback edition. Preorders will ship on or before September 5, 2023. If you’re looking for the published hardcover edition, please click HERE.
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The Last Election
Forthcoming: 9/12/23
A gripping, intricately plotted political thriller set on the campaign trail of the USA’s next—and because of crucial flaws in the electoral system—its last election; from former presidential candidate Andrew Yang and author Stephen Marche
All preorders will be shipped on or before September 12, 2023.
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A Dangerous Country: An American Elegy
Forthcoming: 2/13/24
Ron Kovic, author of Born on the Fourth of July and one of the country’s most powerful and passionate antiwar voices, completes his Vietnam Trilogy with this poignant, inspiring, and deeply personal elegy to America
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Now available for preorders. All preorders will be shipped on or before February 13, 2024