PoliPoint Press (or P3Books) was a

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company that was founded to print the writings of

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. In 2004 it published its first book, Sperling's ''The Great Divide'', a book of essays and full-color illustrations arguing that the Democratic Party, in order to retake the United States presidency, must abandon efforts in the allegedly culturally backwards " red states." The company was brought into being to "bring new ideas and perspectives into the body politic, to ignite dialogue," according to publisher Scott Jordan, a former publicist for the Saudi Arabian government. Under editorial director Peter Richardson, the company went on to publish books by Sasha Abramsky, Rose Aguilar,

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, Jeff Cohen,

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Marjorie Cohn Marjorie Cohn (born November 1, 1948) is an American legal scholar working as a professor of law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. She is also a former president of the National Lawyers Guild.

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, Belva Davis, Reese Erlich,

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, Phillip Longman,

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, David Neiwert,

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, William Rivers Pitt,

Sarah Posner Sarah Posner is an American journalist and author. She is the author of two books about the American Christian right and has written for ''The American Prospect'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Nation'', ''Salon'', ''AlterNet'', ''The Atlantic'', ''The ...

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, Norman Solomon, and Curtis White. One PoliPoint Press book, ''The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War'' (2008), was the basis for ''Official Secrets'', the 2019 film starring

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. PoliPoint Press's offices were in

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. The company closed in 2011, selling off rights to its books to Paradigm Publishers and Berrett-Koehler Publishers.''Publishers Weekly''
PoliPoint Press Closed.
July 12, 2011. Accessed February 11, 2015.

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