DAVID K. SHIPLER

From Pulitzer Prize winning author David Shipler, The Working Poor presents an intimate portrait of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty.  Shipler exposes the interlocking problems in the lives of the poor—white and black, Asian and Latino, citizens and immigrants. We encounter them every day, for the essential jobs they do for the American economy.  This impassioned book not only dissects the problems, but makes pointed, informed recommendations for change. It is a book that stands to make a  difference.

An enlightening, intensely researched examination of violations of the constitutional principles that preserve individual rights and civil liberties from courtrooms to classrooms.  With telling anecdote and detail, Pulitzer Prize–winner David K. Shipler explores the territory where the Constitution meets everyday America, where legal compromises—before and since 9/11—have undermined the criminal justice system’s fairness, enhanced the executive branch’s power over citizens and immigrants, and impaired some of the freewheeling debate and protest essential in a constitutional democracy. Often shocking, yet ultimately idealistic, Rights at Risk shows us the shadows of America where the civil liberties we rightly take for granted have been eroded—and summons us to reclaim them.

A Country of Strangers is a magnificent exploration of the psychological landscape where blacks and whites meet.  Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David K. Shipler takes us among ordinary Americans as they encounter one another across racial lines.  We learn how blacks and whites see each other and interpret each other's behavior, explore the competing impulses of integration and separation and how whites and blacks each carry the burden of our history.  It looks at relations between minorities, including blacks and Jews, and blacks and Koreans. It explores the human dimensions of affirmative action and the intricate contacts and misunderstandings across racial lines among coworkers and neighbors. The book makes clear that we have the ability to shape our racial landscape--to reconstruct, even if not perfectly, the texture of our relationships.  A remarkable book that will stimulate each of us to reexamine and better understand our own deepest attitudes in regard to race in relationships.

An impassioned, incisive look at the violations of civil liberties in the United States that have accelerated over the past decade—and their  direct impact on our lives.  How have our rights to privacy and justice been undermined? What exactly have we lost? Pulitzer Prize–winner David K. Shipler searches for the answers to these questions by traveling the midnight streets of dangerous neighborhoods with police, listening to traumatized victims of secret surveillance, and digging into dubious terrorism prosecutions. The law comes to life in these pages, where the compelling stories of individual men and women illuminate the broad array of government’s powers to intrude into personal lives. Examining the historical expansion and contraction of  fundamental liberties in America, this is the account of what has been taken—and of how much we stand to regain by protesting the departures  from the Bill of Rights.

In this monumental work, David Shipler, award-winning correspondent for The New York Times, examines the forces that contribute to the mutual aversion and hatred in Israel.

Interesting first hand account of a great reporter that lived in Russia before the wall came down... a real inside look at their culture - speckled with great insight and entertaining stories and accounts of acts of Russians that would have put some in great risk to themselves for the writers sake and for truth.

A provocative, timely assessment of the state of free speech in America.  Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times veteran David K. Shipler turns his incisive reporting to a critical American ideal: freedom of speech. Anchored in personal stories—sometimes shocking, sometimes absurd, sometimes dishearteningly familiar—Shipler’s investigations of the cultural limits on both expression and the willingness to listen build to expose troubling instabilities in the very foundations of our democracy.  Measured yet sweeping, Freedom of Speech brilliantly reveals the triumphs and challenges of defining and protecting the boundaries of free expression in modern America.