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Bestselling author Ellis Cose's groundbreaking latest work interrogates pivotal decisions from enslavement to the New Deal to the handling of Covid that established the United States discriminatory practices for centuries to come. Numerous racialized decisions have solidified America's, and people of color's, fate at different points in history. The first were race-based slavery and the removal of Indigenous peoples from their land. More have ...

Spanning from the nation's earliest years through the New Deal to the Covid pandemic, a groundbreaking work that interrogates how pivotal decisions have established and continued discriminatory practices in the United States, even as the rise of disinformation and other modern advertising techniques have plunged democracy into an ever-deepening crisis. Throughout our nation's history, numerous racialized decisions have solidified the fates of ...

The critically acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rage of a Privileged Class explores one of the most essential rights in America—free speech—and reveals how it is crumbling under the combined weight of polarization, technology, money and systematized lying in this concise yet powerful and timely book. Named one of Newsweek's "25 Must-Read Fall Fiction and Nonfiction Books to Escape the Chaos of 2020" Free speech has long been ...

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The critically acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rage of a Privileged Class explores one of the most essential rights in America—free speech—and reveals how it is crumbling under the combined weight of polarization, technology, money and systematized lying in this concise yet powerful and timely book. Free speech has long been one of American's most revered freedoms. Yet now, more than ever, free speech is reshaping America's...

This book examines the proposition that granting control over decision making to cities, states, or regions rather than to the federal government can result in more efficient energy planning. It discusses the relationship between decentralization and small-scale technologies.

Published to coincide with the ACLU's centennial, a major new book by the nationally celebrated journalist and bestselling author For a century, the American Civil Liberties Union has fought to keep Americans in touch with the founding values of the Constitution. As its centennial approached, the organization invited Ellis Cose to become its first ever writer-in-residence, with complete editorial independence. The result is Cose's groundbrea...

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With The Rage of a Privileged Class, Ellis Cose, a venerated and bestselling voice on American life, offered an eye-opening look at the simmering anger of the black middle class. Some sixteen years later, Cose has discovered this group is much less angry and even optimistic about its future, despite a flagging economy and a deeply divided body politic. With The End of Anger, Cose examines these new attitudes as well as the decline of white gui...

Drawing on the experiences of South Africa and Latin America, the acclaimed author of "The Rage of a Privileged Class" illustrates why it has been impossible for the United States to move directly from race relations hell to utopia without passing through a purgatory where most most legal barriers have dropped away, but racial misunderstanding and deeply ingrained prejudices persist.

A controversial and widely heralded look at the race-related pain and anger felt by the most respected, best educated, and wealthiest members of the black community--"a disciplined, graceful exposition of a neglected aspect of the subject of race in America".--New York Times Book Review.

Much of living, both for nations and individuals, is about dealing with the pain that is caused by others. "Bone to Pick" explores how readers can go about the business of accepting that pain, getting past it, or even--when necessary--reconciling.