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IN THE NEWS SPRING 2008 Hardcover Paperback FALL 2008 Hardcover Paperback ALSO AVAILABLE PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED NEWSLETTER READING GROUP SUGGESTIONS

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The Perseus Books Group has been named Publisher of the Year by Publishers Weekly

Welcome to the PublicAffairs Fall 2008 list:

As always, I look forward to hearing which of the books and authors on our new list you and your colleagues are interested in working with. Please send your requests and I’ll do my best to accommodate them.

Whitney Peeling, Director of Publicity.


New Hardcovers

	A GREAT IDEA AT THE TIME The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books ALEX BEAM November Select for Review	A KIND OF GENIUS Herb Sturz and His Work on Society's Toughest Problems SAM ROBERTS January Select for Review

	ABRAHAM LINCOLN Great American Historians On Our Sixteenth President A C-SPAN READER EDITED BY BRIAN LAMB AND SUSAN SWAIN October Select for Review	CHURCHILL BY HIMSELF The Definitive Collection of Quotations RICHARD M. LANGWORTH, EDITOR FOREWORD BY LADY SOAMES INTRODUCTION BY SIR MARTIN GILBERT October Select for Review

	GETTING GREEN DONE Hard Truths and Real Solutions from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution AUDEN SCHENDLER January Select for Review	HIDE AND SEEK The Search for Truth in Iraq CHARLES DUELFER February Select for Review

	MAKE IT PLAIN A Life in Speaking VERNON E. JORDAN, JR. November Select for Review	OBSCENE IN THE EXTREME The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath RICK WARTZMAN September Select for Review

	PASSING GAME Benny Friedman and the Transformation of Football MURRAY GREENBERG November Select for Review	REPUTATION Portraits in Power MARJORIE WILLIAMS EDITED BY TIMOTHY NOAH October Select for Review

	TELL ME HOW THIS ENDS General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq LINDA ROBINSON September Select for Review	THE BEST PRACTICE How the New Quality Movement is Transforming Medicine CHARLES KENNEY July Select for Review

	THE GREAT DECISION Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court CLIFF SLOAN AND DAVID MCKEAN February Select for Review	THE GREATEST DAY IN HISTORY How, on the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month, the First World War Finally Came to an End NICHOLAS BEST October Select for Review

	THE HURRICANES One High School Team's Homecoming After Katrina JERÉ LONGMAN August Select for Review	THE SPY WHO LOVED US The Vietnam War and Pham Xuan An's Dangerous Game THOMAS BASS February Select for Review

	TITLE TO BE ANNOUNCED EVAN THOMAS AND THE STAFF OF NEWSWEEK January Select for Review	TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN Growing Up in the Shadow of my Grandparents, Franklin and Eleanor CURTIS ROOSEVELT October Select for Review

	WAITING FOR AN ORDINARY DAY The Unraveling of Life in Iraq FARNAZ FASSIHI September Select for Review

New Paperbacks

	BEST AMERICAN POLITICAL WRITING 2008 EDITED BY ROYCE FLIPPIN INTRODUCTION BY TODD S. PURDUM October Select for Review	HEALTHCARE, GUARANTEED A Simple, Secure Solution for America EZEKIEL J. EMANUEL, MD, PHD. WITH A FOREWORD BY VICTOR R. FUCHS May Select for Review

	THE PRACTICAL PROGRESSIVE How to Build a Twenty-first Century Political Movement ERICA PAYNE August Select for Review	WIFE IN THE NORTH 350 miles from home with three young children, two aging parents, and one absentee husband JUDITH O'REILLY August Select for Review

	BILL CLINTON Mastering the Presidency NIGEL HAMILTON October Select for Review	CREATING A WORLD WITHOUT POVERTY Social Business and the Future of Capitalism MUHAMMAD YUNUS January Select for Review

	DEMOCRACY'S GOOD NAME The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of Government MICHAEL MANDELBAUM August Select for Review	DIAMONDS, GOLD AND WAR The British, The Boers, and the Making of South Africa MARTIN MEREDITH September Select for Review

	ENCORE Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life MARC FREEDMAN September Select for Review	HIGH SOCIETY How Substance Abuse Ravages America and What to Do About It JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. October Select for Review

	HOW RICH COUNTRIES GOT RICH ... AND WHY POOR COUNTRIES STAY POOR ERIK REINERT October Select for Review	PETER JENNINGS A Reporter's Life EDITED BY KATE DARNTON, KAYCE FREED JENNINGS, AND LYNN SHERR October Select for Review

	RICHARD M. NIXON A Life in Full CONRAD BLACK November Select for Review	THE ASSIST Hoops, Hope, and the Game of Their Lives NEIL SWIDEY November Select for Review

	THE BILLIONAIRE WHO WASN'T How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune CONOR O'CLERY September Select for Review	THE NEW ASIAN HEMISPHERE The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East KISHORE MAHBUBANI February Select for Review

	THIS COMMON SECRET My Journey as an Abortion Doctor SUSAN WICKLUND WITH ALAN KESSELHEIM December Select for Review	ZHOU ENLAI The Last Perfect Revolutionary GAO WENQIAN TRANSLATED BY LAWRENCE R. SULLIVAN AND PETER RAND July Select for Review

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