“Friedman has drawn a vivid picture of the Times Square area and its denizens. He writes about the porn palaces with live sex shows, and the men and women who perform in them, prostitutes and their pimps, the runaways who will likely be the next decade's prostitutes, the clergymen who fight the smut merchants and the cops who feel impotent in the face of the judiciary.”—Publishers WeeklyThis classic account of the ultra-sleazy, pre-Disneyfied era of Times Square is now the...

What has happened to America, and what's become of the American dream?Behind the self-confident image of world's most influential country, we now see a nation tearing itself apart. The United States may be arguably the world's only superpower, but its internal tensions are a symptom of suffering and division, a condition only exacerbated by the election of President Donald Trump.In this searing account, expatriate journalist Alan Friedman returns after thir...

America was the shining city on a hill. It was the country at the forefront of the world democratic order, the global policeman, the might of its military matched only by the depth of its financial reserves. America was the one the world listened to, whether it wanted to or not. So, what happened?Well, a lot of things. In this searing account, Alan Friedman shows how, from the disastrous Vietnam War to Barack Obama's bungled response to the Arab Spring, American intervention has ce...

Where is Jimmy Dutton, Jr.? The infant child was snatched from a shopping cart while in his father's care and hasn't been seen since. Now Jim Dutton is on a journey to find his son. It's a journey that will teach him what it means to be a father and a son and why they need each other. "Superb. A beautiful, heartwarming tale." – Jennie Louwes, 5-star, Reedsy Discovery review of Second Chances "A great novel." – Reitumetse Mokoena, Reedsy Discovery review

"Josh Alan Friedman has chops like a wolf. The French had a phrase for his tropism for the seedy, the gutter, the outcasts: nostalgie de la boue. This book deserves wide attention." --Jerry Wexler, co-founder of Atlantic Records "A can't-put-it-down rock 'n' roll read ... a must for any fan of good music writing and great storytelling." --William Michael Smith, Houston Press "He dances off the page, improvises, hits all the grace notes. He knows the turfspeak of both showbiz and quality li...

JOSH ALAN FRIEDMAN, the inimitable voice behind BLACK CRACKER, TELL THE TRUTH UNTIL THEY BLEED, and TALES OF TIMES SQUARE, now invites you to tune in, turn on, and drop in on his latest trip: A kaleidoscopic tour of Great Neck, Long Island, at the dawn of a new decade: 1970.This is ALL ROADS LEAD TO GREAT NECK, where you'll witness stoned student freakouts during high school productions of THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, toke from sacred hash pipes, and annoy local cheese-shop proprietors...

South School, 1962: The last segregated school in New York. Their teacher moonlights on "Lawrence Welk," the lady principal wears boxing gloves, and the student body is all-Negro . . . except for first grader Josh Friedman. He's white, but he's working on it. The acclaimed author of TELL THE TRUTH UNTIL THEY BLEED and TALES OF TIMES SQUARE returns with a one-of-a-kind autobiographical novel - "a memoir you can't accuse of lies." Center stage in the unflinching and frequently hilarious funh...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize!An impassioned critique of America’s repeated failure to stop genocides around the world, from a New York Times bestselling author and former US Ambassador to the UN.**“An angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book.” —**New RepublicIn her Pulitzer Prize-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, for...

****AN ECONOMIST AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Essential and definitive'** CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN'S PEOPLEWe are in a new era.From Trump, Putin and Bolsonaro to Erdogan, Xi and Modi, self-styled strongmen have become a central feature of global politics. At home, they claim to be standing up for ordinary people against 'globalist' elites; abroad, they posture as the embodiment of their nation...

Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, 'think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the future; the second between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead. They must balance what they know, which is necessarily drawn from the past, with what they intuit about the future, which is inherently...

From the former secretary of state and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to support the cause of human freedom."This heartfelt and at times very moving book shows why democracy proponents are so committed to their work...Both supporters and skeptics of democracy promotion will come away from this book wiser and better informed." -- The New York TimesFrom the end of the Cold War ...

From the world's foremost intellectual activist, an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and its expected consequences."Intellectual activist Chomsky takes aim at the Bush administration's policy of preemptive force against terrorism and sees it as part of a US bent toward hegemony…. Chomsky offers a cautionary look at where we may be headed as a nation and the growing threats to world peace and personal freedom." —