The moving story of one veteran’s search for redemption in Viet Nam as he seeks forgiveness from the family of the man he killed forty years ago.

The untold story of the making of Johnny Cash’s most controversial album, Bitter Tears

An award-winning young investigative journalist goes undercover, living the life of an undocumented immigrant.

The "Paul Revere and Tom Paine" (according to Bill Moyers) of media reform propose a bold and controversial response to the current crisis of journalism

There are 23,000,000 stories in Mexico City, 22,999,997 busted dreams, and 2 or 3 tales of overweening ambition and craven success: John Ross, the great chronicler of Mexico, tells them all

Just in time for the world’s most anticipated and watched sporting event—the World Cup—two award-winning journalists reveal the secrets, mysteries, and oddities of the beautiful game

For the first time, the award-winning reportage of Mark Danner-one of America's most brilliant foreign correspondents-brought together at last in a single volume

Cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us to the dark amphitheatre ruins of his family's nearly 200-year-old hillside homestead that has been strip-mined on the edge of the first federally recognized Wilderness Site in southern Illinois. In doing s...

An award-winning journalist shatters the myth of Ronald Reagan

From the award-winning, critically acclaimed Charles Bowden, a stunning work of reportage on Ciudad Juárez-the blood-soaked town caught in the crosshairs of Mexico's escalating drug wars

A definitive history of Lebanon, from one of the region's most celebrated and controversial journalists

From one of the world's leading authorities on arms control, a probing look at America's failed attempts at arms control, from the Truman administration to the present

In this Wall Street Journal Book of the Year, Michael Soussan gives a darkly comic first-person account of the oil-for-food scandal that rocked the United Nations to its core

The haunting story of a how a mosque and its imam were destroyed in post- 9/11 America, and a broader portrait of a nation fracturing under the pressures of fear and paranoia

Soccer is much more than just the most popular game in the world. It is a matter of life and death for millions around the world, an international lingua franca.

The titanic clash of wills between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs in the 1960s and how their dueling perspectives helped to define contemporary urban life

The 1967 Arab-Israeli War was a devastating triumph for Israel, which immediately began to establish settlements in the newly conquered territories. Those settlements, and the movement that made them possible, have utterly transformed Israel, and...

From one of the world's most famous political dynasties, a sensational new literary voice tells the heartbreaking and revelatory tale of the family that shaped Pakistan

In The Great American Stick-Up, long-time Los Angeles Times columnist and Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer has a controversial thesis: the great financial meltdown, the crash widely regarded as the result of extraordinary circumstances, is, ...

A hard-hitting exposé of the world's largest and richest military contractor