Basic Books

 ( Book Publishing Companies Based In New York City ) 

Basic Books is a book publisher founded in 1950 and located in New York City, now an imprint of Hachette Book Group. It publishes books in the fields of psychology, philosophy, economics, science, politics, sociology, current affairs, and history.

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History Basic Books originated as a small Greenwich Village-based book club marketed to psychoanalysts. Arthur Rosenthal took over the book club in 1950, and under his ownership it soon began producing original books, mostly in the behavioral sciences. Early successes included Ernest Jones's The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, as well as works by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jean Piaget and Erik Erikson. Irving Kristol joined Basic Books in 1960, and helped Basic to expand into the social sciences. Harper & Row purchased the company in 1969.

In 1997, HarperCollins announced that it would merge Basic Books into its trade publishing program, effectively closing the imprint and ending its publishing of serious academic books. That same year, Basic was purchased by the newly created Perseus Books Group. Perseus's publishing business was acquired by Hachette Book Group in 2016.Natasha Onwuemezi, "Perseus sale to Hachette Book Group completed", The Bookseller, 1 April 2016 In 2018, Seal Press became an imprint of Basic.

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Authors Basic's list of authors includes:

• Stephon Alexander
  (2017). 9780465093571, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465093571
• Robert Alter
  Robert Alter (1981). 046500427X, Basic Books. 046500427X
• Edward E. Baptist
  (2017). 9780465049660, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465049660
• H.W. Brands
  (2019). 9781541672536, Basic Books. . ISBN 9781541672536
• Zbigniew Brzezinski
• Iris Chang
  (2017). 9780465068364, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465068364
• Stephanie Coontz
• Richard Dawkins
  (2017). 9780465069903, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465069903
• Andrea Dworkin
  (2017). 9780465017522, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465017522
• Michael Eric Dyson
  (2017). 9780465012862, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465012862
• Niall Ferguson
  (2017). 9780465023295, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465023295
• Richard Feynman
• Richard Florida
• Martin Ford
  (2017). 9780465097531, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465097531
• Howard Gardner
  (2017). 9780465024339, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465024339
• Jonathan Haidt
  (2017). 9780465028023, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465028023
• Victor Davis Hanson
  (2018). 9781541674103, Basic Books. . ISBN 9781541674103
• Judith L. Herman
  (2017). 9780465061716, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465061716
• Christopher Hitchens
  (2017). 9780465030330, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465030330
• Douglas Hofstadter
  (2017). 9780465026562, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465026562
• Leszek Kolakowski
  (2017). 9780465004997, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465004997
• Kevin M. Kruse
  (2017). 9780465097418, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465097418
• Lawrence Lessig
  (2017). 9780465039142, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465039142
• Robert Nozick
  (2017). 9780465051007, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465051007
• Steven Pinker
  (2017). 9780465072705, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465072705
• Samantha Power
  (2017). 9780465061518, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465061518
• Eugene Rogan
• Lee Smolin
  (2017). 9780465094547, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465094547
• Jacob Soll
• Jason Sokol
• Timothy Snyder
• Tamler Sommers
  (2017). 9780465098873, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465098873
• Thomas Sowell
• Ian Stewart
• Beverly Daniel Tatum
  (2017). 9780465060689, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465060689
• James Traub
  (2019). 9781541616851, Basic Books. . ISBN 9781541616851
• Sherry Turkle
  (2017). 9780465093656, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465093656
• Eric Topol
• Michael Walzer
  (2017). 9780465052714, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465052714
• Elizabeth Warren
  (2017). 9780465097708, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465097708
• George Weigel
• Steven Weinberg
  (2017). 9780465024377, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465024377
• Frank Wilczek
  (2017). 9780465018956, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465018956
• Bee Wilson
• Richard Wrangham
  (2017). 9780465020416, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465020416
• Irvin D. Yalom

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External links

• Basic Books website
• Perseus Group website (archived February 25, 2017)
• Samuel G. Freedman on the formation of Perseus Books

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