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';Bernays' honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies.'Noam Chomsky';The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.'Edward Bernays, PropagandaA seminal and controversial figure in the history of political thought and public relations, Edward Bernays (18911995), pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion, which he famously dubbed ';engineering of consent.' During World War I, he was an integral part of the U.S. Committee on Public Information (CPI), a powerful propaganda apparatus that was mobilized to package, advertise and sell the war to the American people as one that would ';Make the World Safe for Democracy.' The CPI would become the blueprint in which marketing strategies for future wars would be based upon.Bernays applied the techniques he had learned in the CPI and, incorporating some of the ideas of Walter Lipmann, became an outspoken proponent of propaganda as a tool for democratic and corporate manipulation of the population. His 1928 bombshell Propaganda lays out his eerily prescient vision for using propaganda to regiment the collective mind in a variety of areas, including government, politics, art, science and education. To read this book today is to frightfully comprehend what our contemporary institutions of government and business have become in regards to organized manipulation of the masses.This is the first reprint of Propaganda in over 30 years and features an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller, author of The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder.

What is it about Elena Ferrante's writing, especially her masterwork Neapolitan Novels, that resonates so deeply with millions of readers, making this Italian author who writes under a pseudonym with absolutely no "platform" an international sensation?Brilliantly addressing issues such as class struggle, female friendship, women's autonomy, and literary creation itself, Ferrante's hyperrealist, intense storytelling is a saga of a highly specific place and history, yet somehow also transcends them, resonating on profoundly personal levels with readers of every background. Gina Frangello grew up in poverty in inner-city Chicago two decades after Ferrante's most famous characters, Lenu and Lila grew up in Naples. Despite these geographic and cultural differences, Frangello felt that Ferrante was "writing about my youth, my life, my relationships, my struggles." In the latest volume in the Bookmarked series, Gina Frangello contemplates Ferrante's Neapolitan novels through the lens of memoir, literary criticism, and issues of authorial identity and gender. Should who Ferrante "is" matter? And more importantly, what is it about Lenu and Lila's story that taps into such universal truths that makes readers feel that Ferrante is writing specifically to them?

When her friend asks, Why did we never have children?, Nell struggles to answer.¿¿She has a career, she married late...there are any number of reasons but fate seems set on making her face up to the realities of her past. A casual observer would say that Nell has it sorted-loving wife, stepmother, Emergency nurse, best friend-yet in her honest moments she knows she is drowning.This stepmother gig is harder than it looks. Work is no longer the vocation of her youth. Long suppressed voices threaten to reassert themselves as ungrieved loss demands to be recognized. A meeting with a woman who alleges she was raped by the man who was Nell's former lover, brings the truths of her own past into stark relief. The more palatable romantic wrapping she has tied her memories in begins to unravel and she understands that denial must give way to forgiveness of her young self.With the support of the women in her family Nell confronts her ex-lover and begins a journey that will require both courage and compassion. The birth of her granddaughter helps Nell realise that the maternal line, no matter how branched, blurred or broken, is more important than biology. Nell stands ready to pass on the tightly held knowledge of past generations to her niece and grandchildren, knowing that being out of her comfort zone is a gift and a second chance.

"After being named Assistant Director of Intelligence for the Capitol Police just days before the 2020 election, Julie Farnam warned its leadership of the upcoming insurrection, sharing that "Congress itself is the target on the 6th." Tragically, her warnings were ignored. DOMESTIC DARKNESS takes us inside the explosive events of January 6, 2021, exposing how the Capitol Police disregarded intelligence about the right-wing extremists who would seize the capitol on the fateful day. In addition to offering a harrowing view of what it was like on the ground, watching the violence unfold and knowing it could have been prevented, DOMESTIC DARNESS also examines the specific groups and ideologies, such as the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, QAnon and white supremacists, who were central to the events of January 6 and who, emboldened by Donald Trump and other right-wing leaders, continue to be a threat to our democracy. The book also explores the changes within Capitol Police in the wake of the insurrection---many introduced by Farnam after she was named Acting Director---and, critically for our country, how to address future dangers from domestic terrorism. With the 2024 presidential election just around the corner, we need to seriously examine the lessons January 6 taught us to ensure something like that never happens again."--Jacket flap.

This astonishing new book, by the brilliant Robin Black is an intimate meditation on reading and writing, aftermath and possibility, the tension between the never-stable, endlessly interpretable depths of a book and the fragility of life, the finality of death. I emerged from this breathtaking work with a transformed understanding of both Woolfs masterpiece and the stream of consciousness in which we swim, together and alone.Karen RussellReading Robin Blacks astute and enlightening meditation onMrs. Dallowayis like eavesdropping on a mesmerizing literary conversation, but one in which the participants are not two readers but a reader and a masterpiece. Black threads the very moving story of her own evolution as a writer through the exquisite fabric of Woolfs great novel, and the result will fascinate everyone who cares about the craft of fiction.Ann PackerI loved reading Robin Blacks take onMrs. Dalloway. She generously shares details of her own life that offer an example of how a great book stays with a person, and goes deep into the intricacies of important craft aspects of the text, illuminating its brilliance. Its a privilege to read alongside her.Alice Elliot DarkThrough Blacks gorgeous blend of personal narrative and incisive close reading, Virginia Woolfs novel becomes again fresh and contemporary, while at the same time deeper in its mysteries. I finished this Bookmarked knowing more about myself as a woman, reader, and writer. Pamela ErensAt fifty-nine, I am now the age Virginia Woolf was when she took that final, heavy-pocketed walk into The River Ouse. I am the age at which she killed herself, and I am not going to kill myself; but I was by no means always sure of that.Considered Virginia Woolf's greatest novel,Mrs. Dallowaytells the story of a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a high society woman in post World War I England. As she is preoccupied with the last-minute details of dinner party, Clarissa is flooded with remembrances of the past, in the process reexamining the choices she has made, as well as looking toward old age. Written in a stream of consciousness style,Mrs. Dallowayis one of the most important novels in literature.In this deeply personal volume, Robin Black writes about WoolfsMrs. Dalloway, a book she returned to again and again when she began writing at nearly forty and found herself gaining a sense of emotional stability for the first time in her life. For two decades,Mrs. Dallowayhas been Blacks partner in a crucial, ongoing conversation about writing and about the emotional life. Now, Black takes a deep dive into both the craft of the book, what a writer might learn from its mechanics, and also into the humanity to be found on every page.

In this trenchant memoir of reading and writing, Pamela Erens returns over a lifetime to George Eliot'sMiddlemarch.The calm, understanding, and generosity that shefinds in Eliot's masterpiecealbeit differently, at different moments in her own lifeinflects Erenssown account of becoming, and being, a mother and a writer. This short bookis filled with wisdom.Claire Messud, author ofKant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I WriteandThe Woman UpstairsErens makes an engaging andconvincing case for the value of readingMiddlemarchtoday, when we are still struggling to answer the questions it raisesabout marriage, about community, about society, and especially about how to balance our individual needs and desires against the claims of sympathy and conscience.Rohan Maitzen,author,Widening the Skirts of Light: Essays on George EliotandMiddlemarchfor Book ClubsThoughtful, frank, and always artful,Middlemarch and the Imperfect Lifeis an involving and deeply satisfying account of the reading and writing life.Rebecca Mead, author,My Life in MiddlemarchandHome/LandA masterly evocation of life in a provincial English community,Middlemarchis considered perhaps the greatestnovel of the Victorian era, praisedby writers from Emily Dickinson to Virginia Woolf.In the latest volume in Ig's acclaimed Bookmarked series, critically lauded author Pamela Erens talks about howMiddlemarchrescued her, first as a distressed college student, and then during the tragic events of the global pandemic.

A darkly funny meditation on creativity and family,Be Brief and Tell Them Everythingtracks the life of a middle-aged author who is struggling to write his next novel while trying to come to grips with his sons disabilities, set against a backdrop of ecological catastrophe and escalating human insanity in contemporary Los Angeles. A beautiful, powerful, concise work of autofiction that is reminiscent ofMy StruggleandGrief is the Thing with Feathers,Be Briefdocuments the stops and starts of adulthood and marriage, and the joys and challenges of parenting, while defining what it means to be a good man, and a good writer.

Lost stories and buried truths will challenge the comfortable order of Stella's life and ultimately her sense of self.

It has been widely reported how today''s young people in the USA are embracing socialism, which has been reflected by the rise of politicians such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This is not a new trend, however, as historical icons like Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Jr., Helen Keller, and Gandhi, among many others, spoke boldly against capitalism and in support of socialism. Why America Needs Socialism presents a contemporary case for socialism built on the words and ideas of history''s greatest leaders, thinkers, and artists.

A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, The Terror Factory: The Isis Edition exposes how the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11, built a network of more than 15,000 informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate phony terrorist plots so that the Bureau can then claim it is winning the war on terror. This updated edition of The Terror Factory examines the FBI''s use of stings to catch ISIS sympathiSers in the United States, as well as how the bureau, already transformed into an intelligence agency whose tactics are similar to those of the CIA and NSA, has and will change under the presidency of Donald Trump.

One of the best books around for demystifying the deliberately mysterious arts of advertising.--SalonFascinating, entertaining and thought-stimulating.--The New York Times Book ReviewA brisk, authoritative and frightening report on how manufacturers, fundraisers and politicians are attempting to turn the American mind into a kind of catatonic dough that will buy, give or vote at their command--The New YorkerOriginally published in 1957 and now back in print to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, The Hidden Persuaders is Vance Packard's pioneering and prescient work revealing how advertisers use psychological methods to tap into our unconscious desires in order to persuade us to buy the products they are selling.A classic examination of how our thoughts and feelings are manipulated by business, media and politicians, The Hidden Persuaders was the first book to expose the hidden world of ';motivation research,' the psychological technique that advertisers use to probe our minds in order to control our actions as consumers. Through analysis of products, political campaigns and television programs of the 1950s, Packard shows how the insidious manipulation practices that have come to dominate today's corporate-driven world began. Featuring an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller, The Hidden Persuaders has sold over one million copies, and forever changed the way we look at the world of advertising.Vance Packard (1914-1996) was an American journalist, social critic, and best-selling author. Among his other books were The Status Seekers, which described American social stratification and behavior, The Waste Makers, which criticizes planned obsolescence, and The Naked Society, about the threats to privacy posed by new technologies.