Encounter Books

Encounter Books is a publisher of conservative books. It describes itself as "an activity of Encounter for Culture and Education, a tax exempt, non profit corporation" - which describes itself as "an editor, publisher and distributor for books related to democratic society which have no traditional means of publication."[1]

Books Published by Encounter

Encounter has published books by:

• Kate Coleman's The Secret Wars of Judi Bari: A Car Bomb, the Fight for the Redwoods, and the End of Earth First!, January 2005. ISBN 1893554740
• Michael Fumento, Bio-Evolution: How Biotechnology Is Changing Our World, Encounter Books, October 2003.
• Jessica Gavora[2], Tilting the playing field... her book was funded by the John M. Olin Foundation[3]
• David Horowitz and Peter Collier, The Anti-Chomsky Reader;
• Frederick W. Kagan, Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy (2006)
• Robert Kagan and William Kristol, Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy (2000)
• Myron Magnet, Manhattan Institute - The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass (1999)
• Melanie Phillips, British columnist - The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power (2010), Londonistan (2007)
• Ronald Radosh Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left; and
• Debra Saunders The Hillary Trap and The World According to Gore;
• Wesley J. Smith, A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: The Human Costs of the Animal Rights Movement (2010), Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America (2001).
• Roy W. Spencer, climate contrarian - Climate Confusion (2008), The Great Global Warming Blunder (2010), The Bad Science and Bad Policy of Obama's Global Warming Agenda (2010)
• Peter W. Wood, climate contrarian president of the National Association of Scholars - Diversity: The Invention of a Concept (2002), A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now (2006)

Funding

According to Media Transparency Encounter for Culture Foundation has received over $4.6 million from a total of 70 grants from foundations between 1991 and 2002. [4]

Foundations that have supported Encounter include conservative foundations such as:

• John M. Olin Foundation
• Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation
• Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
• JM Foundation
• Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation [5]
• Philip M. McKenna Foundation

In 2003 the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation alone contributed $1,150,000 to Encounter Books from its "Intellectual Infrastructure" program.[6]

Personnel

• Roger Kimball Publisher (replaced Peter Collier in 2005)
• Nola Tully Director of Operations
• Cristina Guido Production and Acquisitions
• Lauren Powers Senior staff

Source: Encounter Books About Us page [7]

Contact details

Encounter Books
900 Broadway, Suite 400
New York, NY 10003
Phone: 212-871-6310
Toll free: 800-786-3839
Fax: 212-871-6311
Email: read AT encounterbooks.com
Web: http://www.encounterbooks.com
Contact Page: http://www.encounterbooks.com/contact/

Formerly in San Francisco

Former address, when Peter Collier was editor through ~2005 was:

c/o Richard S. Gallagher

665 Third St Ste 330, San Francisco

Articles and resources

External resources

• Media Transparency, "Encounter for Culture and Education, Inc", undated, accessed December 2004.
• The Bradley Foundation, "2003 Grants Awarded: Intellectual Infrastructure", 2003.

External articles

• Mike Sweeney, "The Right Wing Attacks Judi Bari", undated, accessed December 2004.
• The Nation, "The 'Right' Books and Big Ideas, by Eric Alterman, published November 22, 1999, accessed December 2004.
• Bill Berkowitz, "Kate Coleman and Encounter Books take on Bari, Earth First!, and the 'dead-enders' of the environmental movement", DissidentVoice, March 10, 2005.