PublicAffairs (or PublicAffairs Books) is an imprint of the Perseus Books Group, an American book publishing company located in New York City. From PublicAffairs' web site:"PublicAffairs proudly publishes books by today’s top journalists, historians, and policymakers, in the fields of current affairs, politics, history, and biography."PublicAffairs was launched in 1997 by Peter Osnos, and has published over 200 books since then.