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Basic Books
Parent company	Perseus Books Group
Founded	1952
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	New York, New York
Official website	www.basicbooks.com

Basic Books is a book publisher founded in 1952 and located in New York. It publishes books in the fields of psychology, philosophy, economics, science, politics, sociology, current affairs, and history.

Contents

1 History
2 Select bibliography
3 Footnotes
4 External links

History

Basic Books is a member of the Perseus Books Group, since its sale by HarperCollins in 1997.^[1] Harper had owned the press since 1969.

Basic Books publishes the imprint Basic Civitas. Basic's list of authors includes Susan R. Barry, Stephen Carter, Iris Chang, George Chauncey, Richard Feynman, Niall Ferguson, Howard Gardner, Douglas Hofstadter, Victor Johnston, Irving Kristol, Edward Larson, Charles R. Marsh, Ernst Mayr, Alice Miller, Charles Murray, George H. Nash, Robert Nozick, Seymour Papert, Orlando Patterson, Samantha Power, Thomas Sowell, Beverly Tatum, Lester Thurow, Frank Wilczek and Irvin Yalom.

Select bibliography

It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism, Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein (2012)

Footnotes

^ Doreen Carvajal (August 22, 1997). "HarperCollins Selling Basic Books Unit to Venture Capital Firm". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04E6D9153EF931A1575BC0A961958260.

External links

v t e Perseus Books Group

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