Walter Karp Collection hat

Walter Karp Collection hatJournalist, author, and historian Walter Karp was a vigilant and courageous advocate of American civil liberties and a voice of political dissent whose angry, sometimes comic, and always impassioned articles and essays graced the pages of Harpers Magazine for over a decade until his death in 1989. Now you can purchase a collection of Karps booksincluding Politics of War: The Story of Two Wars Which Altered Forever the Political Life of the American

There is such a seamless bond between writer and sport

(Previously published as Why You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America

In The Spoils of War Andrew Cockburn brilliantly dissects the intentions behind Washington’s martial appetites

"Karp's book is angry and cynical

Upton Sinclair

Looking closely at Congress

” —Publishers Weekly

Based on years of wide-ranging research

A deeply personal nine-year account of the lives of the “anchor-outs”—an unhoused community living off the California coast on abandoned boats—that explores the struggles and resilience of those surviving on the fringes of society

and is enhanced with period illustrations and photographs and an introductory essay by Lewis H

and a columnist for The Providence Journal and Le Devoir

he describes how his daily life was consumed by questions and fear