Николас Кристоф — новинки

W sondażu przeprowadzonym niedawno w Stanach Zjednoczonych poproszono respondentów, by znaleźli słowo, które ich zdaniem najlepiej opisuje obecne czasy. Wśród ośmiu najczęściej wymienianych określeń znalazły się: „niepokojące”, „chaotyczne”, „wyczerpujące” i „nerwowe”. Jak to możliwe, że Amerykanie stracili wiarę w przyszłość? Co sprawiło, że w jednym z najbogatszych krajów świata nierówności społeczne są porównywalne do tych, z którymi mierzono się w XIX wieku? I dlaczego „amerykański sen” coraz częściej staje się „amerykańskim mirażem”?

By to zrozumieć, dziennikarskie małżeństwo – Nicholas D. Kristof i Sheryl WuDunn – prowadzi nas przez kolejne kręgi amerykańskiego piekła: bezrobocie, uzależnienia, problemy z edukacją i opieką zdrowotną, utrata majątku, ubóstwo wśród wielodzietnych rodzin, przeludnienie. Z reporterską precyzją pokazują, że rzesza ciężko pracujących Amerykanów czuje się niezauważana i nierozumiana, co pogłębia polaryzację, rasizm i nietolerancję i stopniowo zżera tkankę społeczną.

Biedni w bogatym kraju to rzetelne studium problemów, z którymi mierzy się amerykańska klasa robotnicza, oraz wyzwań stojących przed rządem USA. To również próba odpowiedzi na pytania o źródła kryzysu i powody, dla których państwo przestało interesować się obywatelami.

With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon, an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About one-quarter of the children on Kristof's old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. And while these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia.

But here too are stories about resurgence, among them: Annette Dove, who has devoted her life to helping the teenagers of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, as they navigate the chaotic reality of growing up poor; Daniel McDowell, of Baltimore, whose tale of opioid addiction and recovery suggests that there are viable ways to solve our nation's drug epidemic. Taken together, these accounts provide a picture of working-class families needlessly but profoundly damaged as a result of decades of policy mistakes. With their superb, nuanced reportage, Kristof and WuDunn have given us a book that is both riveting and impossible to ignore.

Thunder from the East

From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.

With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope.

They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS.

Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it’s also the best strategy for fighting poverty.

Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, Half the Sky is essential reading for every global citizen.

A riveting and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hope–by a woman named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world

Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. She suffered unspeakable acts of brutality and witnessed horrors that would haunt her for the rest of her life–until, in her early twenties, she managed to escape. Unable to forget the girls she left behind, Mam became a tenacious and brave leader in the fight against human trafficking, rescuing sex workers–some as young as five and six–offering them shelter, rehabilitation, healing, and love and leading them into new life.

Written in exquisite, spare, unflinching prose, The Road of Lost Innocence is a memoir that will leave you awestruck by the courage and strength of this extraordinary woman and will renew your faith in the power of an individual to bring about change.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and authors of China Wakes comes this insightful and comprehensive look at Asia on the rise. The recent economic crisis in Asia heaped devastation upon millions. Yet Nicholas Kristof and