The roles that Christodora House has played from 19th-century settlement house to its newest formsSettlement house workers helped transform the lives of thousands of people despite lack of funding, the influenza epidemic of 1918, economic depressions, and two World Wars. Many of these houses still exist in the original neighborhoods where they confront the problems of today and advocate for their communities.Christodora House, founded in 1897 as “The Young ...

In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been similarly embattled for nearly two centuries. From the gent...

**An Independent Press BestsellerA Pulitzer-finalist historian charts a 250-year-old intellectual and political tradition—the conviction that all Americans are NOT created equal.**The story of American history is often told as a hard-won march toward the promise of equality, derived from Thomas Jefferson’s famous proclamation that “all men are created equal.”But this inspiring story obscures a parallel tradition: an enduring and organized argument against equality i...

The secret to good government is a question no one in Washington is asking: “What’s the right thing to do?”What’s wrong in Washington is deeper than you think.Yes, there’s gridlock, polarization, and self-dealing. But hidden underneath is something bigger and more destructive. It’s a broken governing system. From that comes wasteful government, rising debt, failing schools, expensive health care, and economic hardship.Rules have replaced leadership ...

Public relations as described in this volume is, among other things, society’s solution to problems of maladjustment that plague an overcomplex world. All of us, individuals or organizations, depend for survival and growth on adjustment to our publics.Publicist Edward L. Bernays offers here the kind of advice individuals and a variety of organizations sought from him on a professional basis during more than four decades. With such knowledge, every intelligent person can carry on hi...

In Women Money Power**, financial journalist Josie Cox delivers a sweeping narrative account of women's fight for financial independence, the legal and cultural barriers that hold them back, and the ongoing struggle to close the gender pay gap and address other economic inequalities.**"A bold, fascinating, and hugely important book. Unforgettable." —Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of King: A Life

Whether on Caribbean plantations in the seven�teenth century or in Amazon warehouses today, the powerful have constantly developed new techniques to control workers-and new justifications for doing so. Ideas of control perfected on the factory floor have expanded to dictate our personal lives, polit�ical rights, national policy, and the global economy.Seventeenth-century intellectuals such as William Petty and John Locke argued that human beings were selfish machines who had to be ...

"How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America is one of those paradigm-shifting, life-changing texts that has not lost its currency or relevance-even after three decades. Its provocative treatise on the ravages of late capitalism, state violence, incarceration, and patriarchy on the life chances and struggles of black working-class men and women shaped an entire generation, directing our energies to the terrain of the prison-industrial complex, anti-racist work, labor organizing, a...

An in-depth perspective of the transformative decade that was the American Jazz Age, from the end of World War I to the stock market crash."[Dumenil] has captured the fire of this volcanic time and weaves together scores of social and political threads into an insightful overview." — Publishers WeeklyWhen most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Har...

The progressive economics writer redefines the national conversation about American freedom“Mike Konczal [is] one of our most powerful advocates of financial reform‚ [a] heroic critic of austerity‚ and a huge resource for progressives.”—Paul KrugmanHealth insurance, student loan debt, retirement security, child care, work-life balance, access to home ownership—these are the issues driving America’s current political debates. And they are al...

"An eye-opening and persuasive defense of robust antitrust enforcement as essential to the core principles of American democracy" ( Publishers Weekly )."Very few thinkers in recent years have done more to shift the debate in Washington than Barry Lynn. In Liberty from All Masters , he proves himself as a lyrical theorist and a bold interpreter of history....

From the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country.A birder strolling in Central Park. A college student lounging on a university quad. Two men sitting in a coffee shop. Perfectly ordinary actions in ordinary settings—and yet, they sparked jarring and inflammatory responses that involved the police and attracted national media cove...