Fall 2023 Avid Reader Press Catalog
Category: Political Science
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TitleProfiles in Ignorance
AuthorBorowitz, Andy
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government/Executive Branch
Category Full 2POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion
Category Full 3POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government/National
ISBN-139781668003893
On Sale09/05/23
Title StatusNYP
US Price$18.99
CDN Price$25.99
Pages336
Cover StatusFinal
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER *WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER *

Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly “chronicles our embrace of anti-intellectualism” (Walter Isaacson) in American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, from George W. Bush to Sarah Palin, to its apotheosis in Donald J. Trump.
TitleThe Four Tests
AuthorBaer, Daniel
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government/National
Category Full 2POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion
Category Full 3POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations/General
ISBN-139781668006580
On Sale09/19/23
Title StatusNYP
US Price$28
CDN Price$37
Pages272
Cover StatusReady to Feed
An authoritative, illuminating look at America’s future and the “tests” the United States must meet to maintain leadership and power in the 21st century—from the former US Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
TitleThese Walls
AuthorFedderly, Eva
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology
Category Full 2HISTORY / United States/21st Century
Category Full 3POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy/City Planning & Urban Development
ISBN-139781982193911
On Sale10/24/23
Title StatusNYP
US Price$28
CDN Price$37
Pages224
Cover StatusReady to Feed
A deeply reported work of narrative nonfiction that takes readers behind the scenes of one of the most consequential decisions of our time—the closure of Rikers Island—and what it could mean for the future of prison reform and restorative justice.
TitleUFO
AuthorGraff, Garrett M
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1HISTORY / United States/20th Century
Category Full 2POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government/General
Category Full 3SOCIAL SCIENCE / Conspiracy Theories
ISBN-139781982196776
On Sale11/14/23
Title StatusNYP
US Price$30
CDN Price$39.99
Pages368
Cover StatusReady to Feed
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Raven Rock, the first comprehensive and eye-opening exploration of our government’s decades-long quest to solve one of humanity’s greatest mysteries: Are we alone in the universe?