Robert Ellsberg

One of my favorite book publishers is Orbis Books, based at the Maryknoll community, a Roman Catholic order, in Ossining, New York. The editor-in-chief at Orbis is Robert Ellsberg, and over many years he and his staff have printed an extraordinary number of titles, many of which have deep, strong social justice themes. For my money, the most significant book in 2008 was an Orbis title: Jim Douglass' extraordinary JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters.