Table of Contents

CONTENTS


Introduction: Violence in the Age of Organized Forgetting


Chapter 1: The New Authoritarianism

Chapter 2: America's Disimagination Machine

Chapter 3: Climate Change and the Politics of Disposability

Chapter 4: The Vanishing Point of Democracy

Chapter 5: Stories that Kill

Chapter 6: Lockdown, USA: Lessons from the Boston Marathon Manhunt

Chapter 7: Resisting Neoliberalism at Home

Conclusion

Index

Promotional Information

TV & RADIO CAMPAIGN: Research and focus on Canadian media, i.e. CBC TV & Radio, C-SPAN Book TV, Democracy Now!, NPR-Talk of the Nation, Alternative Radio, Pacifica Network stations/shows, Community and NPR affiliate radio stations around the U.S. including New Dimensions, XM: Bob Edwards Show, Tom Joyner TV and Radio Shows, and Tavis Smiley TV and radio.

PRINT CAMPAIGN: Toronto Globe & Mail, LA Times, NY Times, SF Chronicle, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, New Republic, Wall St Journal, Chronicle of Higher Education . . .
We'll send to the trades: PW, Kirkus, Library Journal and Booklist

ONLINE/SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN
Giroux regularly writes op-eds for Truthout, Truthdig and Counterpunch.
Will send for review/excerpts/opeds, etc. to Shelf Awareness, Salon, Slate, Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post, Tomdispatch, Truthout, Truthdig, Counterpunch, CommonDreams, Z-Net and Alternet.
Will pursue book salon on popular political blog FireDog Lake.
We'll promote it on City Lights' Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Tumblr, blog and web site, and on Wikipedia.
Active author web site at henrygiroux.com; Facebook: www.facebook.com/henry.a.giroux; Twitter @HenryGiroux

ENDORSEMENTS
Dennis Kucinich, Angela Davis, Karen Jennings Lewis, Noam Chomsky

ACADEMIC MARKETING
*Recommended Reading essay for Consortium.
*Giroux receives numerous invitations from universities in Canada and the U.S. and we'll report those as they are scheduled. In addition, the Canadian government recently awarded Giroux a significant financial prize ($114,000)to complete his lauded Education and the Crisis of Public Values. The author may be in a position to apply for grants from the Canadian government for travel around the U.S. (City Lights author Hal Niedzviecki, based in Toronto, has been skillful in securing grant money for this kind of work.)

*Author belongs to the following associations, which we'll promote the book to:
American Educational Studies Association
National Education Association
Association for Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies Association
Canadian Association of Cultural Studies
National Communication Association
Canadian Communication Association
Modern Language Association
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
National Education Policy Centre

*Author will either attend, or we will promote book at the following conferences:
American Educational Studies Association Annual Conference
Crossroads Conference in Cultural Studies
Modern Language Association
Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities (Canada)
First Year Experience

*We'll send review copies to the following academic publications familiar already with Giroux's work:
Chronicle of Higher Education (he's a regular contributor)
College Literature
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
Critical Studies in Media Communication
Cultural Politics
Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies
Fast Capitalism
Harvard Educational Review
In These Times
JAC: Journal of Advanced Composition
Journal of Urban and Cultural Studies
Logos: Journal of Modern Society and Culture
Nonsite
Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture
Policy Futures in Education
Qui Parle
Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies
SIMILE: Studies in Media and Information Literacy Education
Situations
Social Identities
symploke
Theory, Culture & Society
Third Text
Thought & Action
TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
Transformations
Works and Days

About the Author

Henry A. Giroux is a world renowned educator, author and public intellectual. He currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University. His most recent books include: Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism (Peter Lang, 2011); On Critical Pedagogy (Continuum, 2011); Education and the Crisis of Public Values (Peter Lang 2012); Twilight of the Social: Resurgent Publics in an Age of Disposability (Paradigm Publishers, 2012); Disposable Youth (Routledge 2012); Youth in Revolt (Paradigm, 2013); America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth (Monthly Review Press, 2013) A prolific writer and political commentator, he writes regularly for Truthout and serves on their board of directors. He currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada with his wife, Dr. Susan Searls Giroux.