Kim Phillips-Fein’s book, The Invisible Hand, is cited in Frank Rich’s column “The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party” in The New York Times.

Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight debuted in The New York Times today.

Read Susan Kaiser Greenland’s “Why the Controversy over High Stakes  Testing and Teacher Evals Matters” in The Huffington Post.

Read Martha Nussbaum on the burqa and religious freedom in The New York Times.

Wendy Moffat’s A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster has just been placed on the shortlist for the UK Biographers’ Club 2010 Best First Biography Prize.  Her book was reviewed on the front page of The Sunday New York Times and in the daily edition of  The New York Times.

Listen to Vali Nasr, author of The Rise of Islamic Capitalism, on “Talk of the Town.”

Clyde Prestowitz’s The Betrayal of American Prosperity was selected as one of the top ten politics books by the “Political Bookworm” blog of The Washington Post.

Baseball Between the Numbers by the Baseball Prospectus team has been named one of the sixteen greatest books about baseball by The Huffington Post.

Matthew Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft is on The New York Times paperback and business bestseller lists.

Read about Cass Sunstein and Nudge in Magazine: The New York Times.

Greg Grandin’s Fordlandia was reviewed in Boing Boing, where it was described as a “novelistic history of Henry Ford’s doomed midwestern town in the Amazon jungle.  This year Fordlandia was named as a finalist in nonfiction for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Awards, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Previously, it was picked as one of only eleven books to be named by Amazon, Publisher’s Weekly, and The New York Times as one of the top 100 books of the year. It was also selected in The New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorite of 2009.

Read the first of Carlo Rotella’s columns for The Boston Globe.

Robert Perkinson’s book Texas Tough was reviewed in The New York Times Book Review.

Baseball Prospectus’s 2010 Baseball Annual, is now at fifty-four days on Amazon’s Top Sports 100, and at seven days on Amazon’s Top Bestsellers.

Susan Clancy’s The Trauma Myth: The Truth about Sexual Abuse of Children and Its Aftermath is reviewed in The New York Times.

Laney Salisbury’s Provenance: How A Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art has been named a finalist for an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category of Best Fact Crime and one of twelve books chosen as an ALA Notable Book in nonfiction for 2009. Previously, her book was named one of the best books of 2009 by The Christian Science Monitor, was picked by Oprah Magazine as one of the “twenty five books you’ve got to read,” and was featured in a segment by Gayle King on Good Morning America.

Matthew Crawford’s Shop Class as Soul Craft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work was named by Border’s Original Voices as the best book of 2009 in nonfiction.  Previously the book was named one of only eleven books to be picked by Amazon and Publisher’s Weekly as one of the best books of the year and was cited by The New York Times as one of the top 100 books of the year.

Martha Nussbaum was featured in the December 13 edition of The New York Times Magazine, and named to Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers list.

Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, authors of Nudge, were listed seventh on Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers list.

Stephanie Coontz’s op ed Till Children Do Us Part was the most e-mailed article in The New York Times.

Nicole J. Georges’ Calling Dr. Laura is showcased in the latest Publishers Weekly Comics Week and Bitch magazine wonders if the J in her name stands for “just lovely.”

Erin Bried appeared on The Today Show and WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show to discuss How to Sew a Button. Her book is featured in The New York Times “Motherlode” blog, ABC News, Self Magazine, O magazine, Redbook, Real Simple, The Washington Post, New York Daily News, The Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, and The Chicago Sun-Times among many others.  

Mario Livio’s Is God a Mathematician? was named one of the 2009’s best books by The Washington Post. The book was also selected as a 2009 Borders Original Voices Non-Fiction finalist.

Constantine Pleshakov’s There is No Freedom Without Bread: 1989 and the Civil War that Brought Down Communism was named one of the 2009’s best books by The Washington Post.

Karen Greenberg’s The Least Worst Place has been named one of 2009’s best books by the Washington Post and Slate.

Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home has been named one of the ten best books of the decade by Entertainment Weekly.

Nate Silver was named by Time Magazine as one of the 2009 Time 100.

Elizabeth Warren, co-author (with Amelia Tyagi) of The Two Income Trap, was named by Time Magazine as one of the 2009 Time 100. Read her commentary in The Huffington Post on “America Without a Middle Class.”

William Hitchcock’sThe Bitter Road To Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe was named a finalist for Pulitzer Prize in the General Nonfiction category of Letter and Drama Prizes.Senator Joe Lieberman complained to The New York Times about Yale Professor Jacob Hacker, author of The Great Risk Shift and a forthcoming book on inequality (to be co-authored with Paul Pierson), crediting Hacker as “the man who created the public option.”

Josh Kosman’s The Buyout of America was listed as one of the books to read in the coming year by The New York Times blogger Barbara Taylor. Kosman was interviewed on Fresh Air by Terry Gross and in print at Time.com, and The Wall Street Journal. com. The book was reviewed in The Wall Street Journal and in The Times of London. Read his op-editorial on the candidacy of private equity king Stephen Pagliuca for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in The Boston Globe.

Jennette Fulda’s forthcoming Chocolate & Vicodin is featured in The Washington Post.

John Holdren, White House science czar, revealed in Foreign Policy that he is reading Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum’s Unscientific America. Sheril has been named a science advisor to NPR’s Science Friday and Science Friday Initiative. Read Chris’s Washington Post op-ed. He has also just received a Templeton Cambridge fellowship.

Kathleen Horan was interviewed on WNYC’s The Leonard Lopate Show and her book Relationship Obits: The Final Resting Place for Love Gone Wrong was featured in The Independent.

Read Kim Phillips-Fein’s cover article in The Nation. Her book, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan, was recommended by“Paperback Row” in the Sunday New York Times Book review.

Bruce Tulgan’s book, Not Everyone Gets a Trophy, was cited in Investors Business Daily.com in an article entitled “How to Manage Generation Y.”

Read Dalton Conley’s latest piece in The American Prospect.

Lucy Knisley’s French Milk has been featured in Boing Boing, USA Today, Salon.com, The Comics Reporter, and People magazine

Debby Applegate was interviewed in the January issue of The Writer Magazine about her Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Henry Ward Beecher (”A ‘Crossover’ Success”). A Q&A with her agent, Susan Rabiner, appears in the same article.

Jeff Mac’s Manslations is featured on CNN.com, Seventeen Magazine and in The Sydney Morning Herald.