Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly''Adam Shatz, London Review of BooksBirmingham News proclaimed, it is 'undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S.' Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.