Sasha Abramsky, Author . St. Martins/Dunne $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-26811-4
Journalist Abramsky delivers a carefully rendered, emotionally charged portrait of America's embrace of maximum imprisonment and punitive justice over the past two decades. Focusing on opponents of rehabilitative ideals and casualties of...
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Sasha Abramsky, Author . Beacon $25.95 (213p) ISBN 978-0-8070-4222-9
There's no doubt about where journalist Abramsky's fury is directed: at the contemporary U.S. penal system, which he criticizes for jettisoning any thoughts of rehabilitation in favor of increasingly harsh punishment, and which he sees as a...
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Sasha Abramsky, Author . PoliPoint $23.95 (209p) ISBN 978-0-9817091-1-6
Journalist Abramsky (Hard Times Blues
) combines an account of his own seven-week experiment in living on a poverty budget with moving vignettes of men and women who have fallen through society's frayed safety net and are suffering from “f
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Sasha Abramsky, Author . Portfolio $24.95 (278p) ISBN 978-1-59184-302-3
This breezy, engaging book does not explicitly attempt biography; instead journalist Abramsky dissects the personality of Barack Obama, examining the qualities—focus, self-confidence and curiosity—that fueled his meteoric rise. The book,
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Sasha Abramsky. Nation, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56858-726-4
Destitution, squalor, loneliness, and despair are the distinctive features of lower-class America in this searing exposé. Recalling Michael Harrington's The Other America, journalist Abramsky (Inside Obama's Brain) meets and profiles an...
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Sasha Abramsky. New York Review Books, $27.95 (344p) ISBN 978-1-59017-888-1
Abramsky’s tale begins after his grandfather Chimen’s death, with his family faced with the daunting task of cleaning out a London house filled to bursting with books, many of them rare, on Marxism, socialism, and Judaica. Doing so stirred the...
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Sasha Abramsky. Nation, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-1-56858-519-2
In this pensive exploration of the American culture of fear, Abramsky (The House of 20,000 Books) identifies a variety of personal and societal ills, including widespread anxiety disorders, overstuffed prisons, income inequality, and Islamophobia,...
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Sasha Abramsky. Akashic, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61775-819-5
Abramsky (Jumping at Shadows) documents in this engrossing page turner the inspiring life of forgotten sports phenomenon Lottie Dod (1871–1960), who blazed a trail for women sports superstars today. Dod was born into a wealthy family in Liverpool,...
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Sasha Abramsky. Bold Type, $30 (288p) ISBN 978-1-64503-043-0
Two small towns grapple with a rising tide of right-wing conspiracy theories and violent rhetoric in this enthralling account. Journalist Abramsky (Jumping at Shadows) profiles residents of Sequim, Wash., and Shasta County, Calif., who experienced...
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