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Verso Books

Verso Books is a publishing house based in London and New York City, founded in 1970 by the staff of 'New Left Review'. The company claims "global sales approaching $3 million per year and over 350 titles in print," possibly making it "the largest radical publisher in the English-language world." Wikipedia*

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Verso Books has hosted 6 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1997 Speech. The year with the most events was 2010 with two events. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2010 with an average of 1,239 views per video. Most appearances with Andre Schiffrin (2). Most common tag: Book Business.

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    A History of Violence

    Oscar Martinez talked about his book, A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America, about the origins of violen…

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    Panel Discussion on Verso Books' Counterblasts Series

    Andrew Hsaio moderated a discussion of the first three books in the “Counterblasts” series from Verso Books. They are polemic…

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    Words and Money

    Andre Schiffrin, founder of The New Press, argues that media conglomeration has led to the death of serious reportage in the …

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    The Obama Syndrome

    Tariq Ali takes a critical look at Barack Obama’s presidency. He argues that President Obama has continued, without much chan…

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