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"The Town That Didn't Exist - How a copyright trap became a real place" tells the whimsical true story of Agloe, New York. In the 1930s, the General Drafting Co. created a map and inserted a fake town called "Agloe" (an anagram of the directors' initials) on a dirt road in the Catskills. This was a "copyright trap" designed to catch competitors stealing their work.Author John Atlas details the twist: Years later, Rand McNally released a map that also showed Agloe. General Drafting sued for plagiarism. But Rand McNally won. Why? Because people had looked at the first map, driven to the spot,...

"There is more value on a single page of Seeds of Change than in a year's worth of Rush Limbaugh screeds combined with a lifetime of Sarah Palin sneers at community organizers." --Todd Gitlin

Seeds of Change goes beyond the headlines of the last Presidential campaign to describe what really happened in ACORN's massive voter registration drives, why it triggered an unrelenting attack by Fox News and the Republican Party, and how it confronted its internal divisions and scandals.

Based on Atlas's own eyewitness original reporting, as the only journalist to have access to...

"There is more value on a single page of Seeds of Change than in a year's worth of Rush Limbaugh screeds combined with a lifetime of Sarah Palin sneers at community organizers." --Todd Gitlin

Seeds of Change goes beyond the headlines of the last Presidential campaign to describe what really happened in ACORN's massive voter registration drives, why it triggered an unrelenting attack by Fox News and the Republican Party, and how it confronted its internal divisions and scandals.

Based on Atlas's own eyewitness original reporting, as the only journalist to have access to...