POLITICS
AKASHIC BOOKS/RDV
Manual for a Wounded Dove: The Origins of the Road Map to Middle East Peace (Aug., $22.95) by Yossi Beilin. One of the plan's founding architects offers a detailed personal history. Ad/promo.
BASIC BOOKS
The Price of Government: Getting the Results We Need in an Age of Permanent Fiscal Crisis (Apr., $25) by David Osborne and Peter Hutchinson recommends timely solutions. 75,000 first printing. Advertising. Author tour.
Command of Office: How War, Secrecy and Deception Transformed the Presidency, from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush (May, $30) by Stephen Graubard charts a dangerous shift of power to the chief executive. 75,000 first printing. Advertising. Author tour.
BERRETT-KOEHLER
Regime Change Begins at Home: Freeing America from Corporate Rule (July, $19.95) by Charles Derber asserts that electing a new president to replace Bush is the necessary first step. 10-city author tour.
CORNELL UNIV. PRESS
State-Building: The New Agenda (May, $21) by Francis Fukuyama stresses the importance of building new nation-states.
CROWN
The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy (Mar., $25.95) by David Brock explains how Democrats can counter the relentless conservative efforts to stifle their message. Ad/promo.Author publicity.
DUTTON
The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush (Mar., $24.95) by Peter Singer exposes the president's moral failure on many vital issues. Ad/promo.Author tour.
HARCOURT
Lincoln Matters: Wise Answers to Today's Tough Political Questions (June, $24) by Mario Cuomo. The former New York governor underscores the current relevance of Abraham Lincoln's wisdom. 75,000 first printing. Advertising. Author publicity.
KNOPF
Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America (May, $24) by Robert B. Reich charges that radical conservatives have gained ascendancy through big money and vociferous media personalities only. 60,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 11-city author tour.
LITTLE, BROWN
Worse than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush (Apr., $22.95) by John W. Dean indicts the current administration for its deceptions. Ad/promo.Author tour.
MIRAMAX
Fanatics and Fools (Apr., $23.95) by Arianna Huffington attacks the status quo of the American political system. 150,000 first printing. $125,000 ad/promo. 9-city author tour.
OXFORD UNIV. PRESS
Silent Covenants (May, $25) by Derrick Bell contends that Brown v. Board of Education should have been decided in favor of separate but equal and strictly enforced.
PENGUIN
The Right Nation: How Conservatism Won (June, $25.95) by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge cites American conservative triumphs as evidence of the most effective political movement of the age. Advertising. Author tour.
PRINCETON UNIV. PRESS
More Equal than Others: America from Nixon to the New Century (Apr., $29.95) by Godfrey Hodgson traces how conservatives have come to dominate American politics.
PUBLICAFFAIRS
The Hammer: Tom DeLay: God, Guns and Money (June, $25) by Lou Dubose and Jan Reid profiles the pro-business, pro-Jesus, anti-government and anti-environment house majority leader who drives the congressional agenda.
Cronies: Oil, the Bushes and the Rise of Texas, America's Superstate (June, $26) by Robert Bryce reveals how the Texans now running the world reward themselves and each other, often at the expense of American taxpayers. Ad/promo.Author tour.
RAYO
The Latino Wave (May, $24.95) by Jorge Ramos defines the issues vital to this community's powerful voting block. 75,000 first printing.
REGANBOOKS
Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism and Liberalism (Mar., $26.95) by Sean Hannity accuses liberals of degrading the American way of life. 400,000 first printing.
Hating America: The New World Sport (Mar., $24.95) by John Gibson spotlights the disturbing anti-Americanism now pervasive throughout the world. 75,000 first printing.
LYNNE RIENNER
Women and Power on Capitol Hill: Reconstructing the Congressional Women's Caucus (July, $49.95) by Irwin N. Gertzog assesses the group's origins, development and influence.
RUTGERS UNIV. PRESS
The Intruders: Unreasonable Searches and Seizures from King John to John Ashcroft (Apr., $22.95) by Samuel Dash explores the struggle for privacy with examples of legal battles throughout history.
SIERRA CLUB BOOKS (dist. by Univ. of California Press)
Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress (Apr., $24.95) by Carl Pope sheds light on current anti-environmental intentions.
SOURCEBOOKS
Fraud (Mar., $24.95) by Paul Waldman documents the Bush administration's policy of duping the American people and beating the media into complacency. 100,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
TEXAS A&M UNIV. PRESS
Power and Prudence: The Presidency of George H.W. Bush (Mar., $35) by Ryan Barilleaux and Mark Rozell challenges assumptions that the first Bush presidency was a failure.
TRANSACTION
Tax-Funded Politics (May, $29.95) by James T. Bennett unveils loopholes allowing mutually beneficial arrangements between government agencies and charities.
UNIV. PRESS OF KENTUCKY
The Sheriff: America's Defense of the New World Order (Apr., $29.95) by Colin S. Gray argues that the U.S. is—and should be—guardian of the world.
UPPER ACCESS (info@upperaccess.com)
Such Men Are Dangerous: The Fanatics of 1692 and 2004 (Mar., $22.95) by Frances Hill notes parallels between witch-hunting Puritans and today's power-wielding neo-conservatives. 30,000 first printing.
VIKING
Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet (Apr., $25.95) by James Mann evaluates the administration's inner circle that has sent America on an entirely new course and changed the world. 5- city author tour.
WESTVIEW
The Radical Middle (Mar., $19.95) by Mark Satin proposes an agenda for change among politically restless Americans. 40,000 first printing. Advertising. Author tour.
WILEY
Bush's War for Re-election: Iraq, the White House and the People (May, $27.95) by James Moore surveys the war's ramifications for the country and the world.
WND BOOKS
Democratic Candidate Book (July, $19.95) by Dave Bossie will dig up all the dirt on the 2004 Democratic nominee for president—whoever that may be. Advertising.
Shredding the Constitution (Aug., $26.99) by Andrew Napolitano bares the abuse of power in America's criminal justice system. Advertising.
