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The Big Money Editor James Ledbetter is the co-editor of The Great Depression: A Diary, the riveting personal journal kept by Benjamin Roth, a lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio, during the Great Depression. Excerpted on The Big Money, the diary is a chilling chronicle of one man's attempts to understand the tumultuous economic events of the 1930s as they unfolded, with eerie parallels to our own financial meltdown.

Fred Kaplan, who writes Slate's "War Stories" column, is the author 1959: The Year Everything Changed. Click here to read an excerpt. He also wrote Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power. Click here to read some excerpts.

David Plotz, Slate's editor, is the author of Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible. You can browse inside the book at the Harper Collins site. He is also the author of The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank. Click here to read Plotz's "Seed" series that inspired this book. Click here to read a Slate excerpt of The Genius Factory. Click here to read an excerpt from the publisher.

Daniel Gross, Slate's "Moneybox" columnist, is the author of Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation; Pop! Why Bubbles Are Great for the Economy; Bull Run: Wall Street, the Democrats, and the New Politics of Personal Finance; and The Generations of Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation. Click here, here, and here to read excerpts of his books.

My Two Polish Grandfathers by Witold Rybczynski.

Witold Rybczynski, Slate's architecture critic, is the author of My Two Polish Grandfathers: And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life, a memoir of his parents' wartime escape from Warsaw, Poland, their struggles in the New World, and how it made him who he is today. Read an excerpt. He is the author of several other books, including The Look of Architecture, a survey of architectural style, and The Perfect House: A Journey With the Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio. Click here to read an excerpt of The Look of Architecture.

Farhad Manjoo, who writes Slate's "Technology" column, is the author of True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society, an analysis of the status of truth in the digital age. Read an excerpt.

Timothy Noah, Slate's "Chatterbox" columnist, is the editor of Reputation: Portraits in Power, a collection of profiles by Noah's late wife, Marjorie Williams. Williams was a writer for the Washington Post and Vanity Fair who contributed frequently to Slate. Click here and here to read excerpts. An earlier anthology of Williams' work edited by Noah, The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate, won the PEN/Martha Albrand nonfiction award.

Has this election kept you Barackupied or transformed you into an Obamazon? If so, Obamamania!: The English Language, Barackafied is for you. This book, based on Slate's popular dictionary of Obamaisms, features dozens of new words, definitions, and usages. Edited by Chris Wilson.

Jacob Weisberg, Slate editor and "Big Idea" columnist, is the author of The Bush Tragedy. Click here to read an excerpt. He is also co-author with Robert Rubin of In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices From Wall Street to Washington (click here to read an excerpt) and the author of the "Bushisms" series, which includes George W. Bushisms: The Slate Book of Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43^rd President, The Deluxe Election Edition Bushisms: The First Term, in His Own Special Words, and George W. Bushisms V: New Ways to Harm Our Country. Click here to read an excerpt of Bushisms V.

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Christopher Hitchens, who writes Slate's "Fighting Words" column, is the author of many books. Most recently, he published God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Click here to read some excerpts. In past years, he published Thomas Jefferson: Author of America; Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays; Blood, Class, and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship; A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq; and Why Orwell Matters.

Meghan O'Rourke, Slate's literary editor and "Highbrow" columnist, is the author of Halflife: Poems. Click here to read some of her poems.

Christine Kenneally, who writes regularly for Slate's "Books" column, is the author of The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language.

The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide to Intelligent Investing.

Henry Blodget, a former top-ranked Wall Street analyst, is a frequent Slate contributor (articles here) and the author of The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide to Intelligent Investing. The book tells you what you absolutely must know before you invest a single dime. Read excerpts here.

Backstabbers, Crazed Geniuses, and Animals We Hate collects Slate's sharpest, meanest, weirdest, and most hilarious "Assessment" columns. Contributors include Jacob Weisberg, Michael Kinsley, Bryan Curtis, Michael Lind, and Franklin Foer. Edited and introduced by Slate Deputy Editor David Plotz.

John Dickerson, Slate's chief political correspondent, is the author of On Her Trail, a biography of his late mother, television newscaster Nancy Dickerson. Click here to read an excerpt of On Her Trail.

The Best of Slate: A 10^th Anniversary Anthology, a collection of 50 of Slate magazine's best, funniest, and most thought-provoking pieces from the last 10 years, edited by Slate Deputy Editor David Plotz, with an introduction by Slate Editor Jacob Weisberg, and with a foreword by Slate founding editor and contributor Michael Kinsley. Click here to celebrate Slate's 10^th anniversary.

Robert Neubecker, a Slate illustrator, is the author of three recent children's books: Wow! America!, Beasty Bath, and Wow! City! Click here to read an excerpt of Wow! City!

Tim Harford, who writes "The Undercover Economist" column for Slate and the Financial Times, is the author of The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor—and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car! Click here to read an excerpt from his book.

Jon Katz, who contributes to Slate's "Heavy Petting" column, is the author of three recent books about dogs: Katz on Dogs: A Commonsense Guide to Training and Living With Dogs; The Dogs of Bedlam Farm: An Adventure With Sixteen Sheep, Three Dogs, Two Donkeys, and Me; and A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me. Click here, here, and here to read excerpts.

Robert Pinsky, Slate's poetry editor, is the author of The Life of David, a biography of the biblical figure.

Emily Yoffe, writer of Slate's "Dear Prudence" column and "Human Guinea Pig" and "Heavy Petting" contributor, is the author of What the Dog Did: Tales From a Formerly Reluctant Dog Owner. Click here and here to read two Slate excerpts of her book.

Edward Jay Epstein, who writes "The Hollywood Economist" for Slate, is the author of The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood and News From Nowhere, an analysis of network news organizations. Click here to read some of his Slate columns, and here, here, and here to read excerpts from his books.

Mark Alan Stamaty, a Slate illustrator, is the author of the children's books Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq and Who Needs Donuts?, about a boy who heads to the city on tricycle in search of donuts. Click here to read an excerpt of Who Needs Donuts?

Jim Lewis, a Slate contributor, is the author of The King Is Dead, a novel about a troubled son's exploration of his father's history. Click here to read an excerpt.

Slate's The Explainer is Slate's latest collection of "Explainer" columns. Click here to read an excerpt.

David Greenberg, who writes Slate's "History Lesson," is the author of Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image. Click here to read an excerpt of his book.

William Saletan, Slate's national correspondent, is the author of Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War. Click here to read an excerpt. He is also the author of Slate's Field Guide to the Candidates 2004. Click here to read an excerpt.

Blake Bailey, a Slate contributor, is the author of the biography A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates. Bailey writes a series for Slate called "My Year of Hurricanes," a collection of "Dispatches" chronicling his family's efforts to put their lives together again after Hurricane Katrina. Click here to read an excerpt of A Tragic Honesty.

Ann Hulbert, a Slate contributing editor who writes the "Sandbox" column, is the author of Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children. Click here to read her columns and here to read an excerpt of her book.

Dahlia Lithwick, a Slate senior editor who writes "Jurisprudence" and "Supreme Court Dispatches," is the co-author with Brandt Goldstein of Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World.

Jordan Ellenberg, Slate's "Do the Math" contributor, is the author of The Grasshopper King, a satirical novel about a prominent scholar who stops speaking. Click here to read an excerpt of his book.

Robert Wright, who writes Slate's "The Earthling" column, is the author of Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, a book that questions the purpose of evolution. Click here to read an excerpt.