Bestselling track record: Chomsky is a perennial bestseller with a large national audience. Vijay's The Darker Nations has sold 26.8k across editions. Unique Collaboration: Combines one of the nation's most celebrated intellectuals with a critically-acclaimed radical scholar of Third World politics and social movements--creating the potential for a large and diverse new audience of readers. Popular format: Transcribed and edited conversations will make a complex history and political situation accessible to a wide range of general readers. Platform: Authors both have significant platforms. Prashad has over 80K Twitter followers, 16K LeftWord Book followers and 21K Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research followers. He is a regular on Democracy Now!, and has columns in Alternet and Globetrotter (affiliated with Independent Media Institute).

Chomsky is also a regular on Democracy Now! and a frequent contributor to numerous media outlets. Prashad also routinely lectures at universities and community organizations domestically and internationally, and both authors have had their writing translated into numerous languages, reaching audiences around the world. Blurbs/endorsements: Chomsky and Prashad both have access to major luminaries and have received blurbs and other endorsements from many influential intellectuals, critics, activists, etc. Their last book, The Withdrawal, featured a foreword by Angela Davis. The recent reissue of Vijay's The Darker Nations included a blurb from Ruth Wilson Gilmore.