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Barricade Books is an independent publishing company, based in Fort Lee, New Jersey, specializing in controversial non-fiction titles, including , true crime, and Mafia titles.
One of the publisher's most controversial titles was The Anarchist Cookbook, released in 1970, which included recipes for making bombs.
In 1989, the Barricade Books imprint was established. In 1995, Barricade Books published the bestseller The Housekeeper's Diary by Wendy Berry. The violently racist anti-government novel The Turner Diaries, by Andrew Macdonald, was published in 1996, resulting in criticism. A bestseller, Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown and originally published by Bernard Geis Associates, was republished by Barricade in 2002.
In 1997, the publisher was forced into bankruptcy by a $3.1 million libel judgment arising from a lawsuit filed by Steve Wynn over the biography Running Scared by John L. Smith. The company continued to publish and the judgment was eventually reversed.
Upon Lyle Stuart's death in 2006, his wife Carole Stuart became publisher. She had previously worked in a variety of departments for Lyle Stuart Inc. and Barricade Books. In 2018, Carole Stuart sold Barricade to Jonathan Bernstein.
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