John Nichols, Author . New Press $23.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-56584-840-5
That George W. Bush is a bumbling "president in name only" and that Dick Cheney holds the real power in the administration is a familiar position, and Nichols, Washington correspondent for the Nation
, takes it with an unsubtle, repetitive...
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John Nichols, Author, David DesChamps, With . New Press $14.95 (226p) ISBN 978-1-56584-717-0
Nichols, an experienced political observer who writes for the Nation, assembles an impressively wide array of little-known information about the 2000 election in Florida: how TV network cutbacks left them short of news resources and vulnerable to...
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John Nichols, Author . Chronicle $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8118-3201-4
Nichols plumbs a familiar, wacky vein in this completely over-the-top sendup of the mindless ambitions of our shallow, materialistic, upwardly mobile modern-day society. Reading as if written in one extra-long sitting, this 10th novel by the...
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John Nichols, Author . Milkweed $14 (200p) ISBN 978-1-57131-253-2
"It's a mystery to me how anybody among us develops a social conscience," observes Nichols, a prolific novelist (The Milagro Beanfield War) and nonfiction author (Keep It Simple: A Defense of the Earth) who has long been a writer of...
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John Nichols, Author Henry Holt & Company $18.95 (161p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1994-0
Nichols enjoys a sizable cult reputation on the strength of his New Mexico trilogy ( The Milagro Beanfield War ; The Magic Journey ; The Nirvana Blues ) , but it is hard to imagine any but the staunchest of his supporters finding much to cheer about
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John Nichols, Author Henry Holt & Company $22.5 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2803-4
Lively, personable narrative and a myriad of piercing insights on the politics of marriage spice this piquant, entertaining domestic comedy set in the American Southwest. Roger, the middle-aged author of a popular sci-fi detective series, finds his...
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John Nichols, Author Peregrine Smith Books $7 (193p) ISBN 978-0-87905-220-1
To the average eye, the mesa (in northwestern New Mexico) is a wastelanda sagebrush plain with little appeal. To Nichols, author of The Sterile Cuckoo and environmental activist, it is a place of refuge and renewal, a haven of tranquility in a...
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John Nichols, Author Henry Holt & Company $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0374-1
With the cynical conviction that his purpose as a grunt in Vietnam was ""to mutilate people and landscape as thoroughly and as horribly as possible,'' Michael Smith returns to the U.S. a sociopath, unable to shuck off his murderous state of mind....
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John Nichols, Author David & Charles Publishers $29.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-7153-9461-8
The author looks at rain forests around the world, describing the animals, plants and people who inhabit them and showing how humans are destroying vital natural resources at an alarming rate. He explains how, why and by whom the rain forests are...
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John Nichols. Verso, $26.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-83976-377-9
Journalist Nichols (The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party) delivers a blistering rebuke of politicians and private corporations for exacerbating the Covid-19 pandemic. He cites a Columbia University study showing that President Trump’s...
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Robert W. McChesney, Author, John Nichols, Author . Nation $25.95 (334p) ISBN 978-1-56858-605-2
Two respected media authorities, McChesney, a radio host of Media Matters
, and Nichols, the Nation
's Washington, D.C., correspondent, spell out the rapid decline of and possible financial solutions for American journalism in their new book....
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John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney. Nation, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-56858-707-3
Nichols and McChesney (coauthors of The Death and Life of American Journalism and cofounders of Free Press, a media reform group) are both despairing and hopeful in this incisive account of what they see as corporate America’s hijacking of the...
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Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols. Nation, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-56858-521-5
In a stirring call to arms, McChesney (Blowing the Roof off the Twenty-First Century) and Nichols (The S Word) argue that although the digital revolution has been world-shaking and ruthlessly efficient, it has fallen short of ushering in the utopia...
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