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New Books in American Politics
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Susan Burgess, "LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights" (NYU Press, 2023)
54 mins; March 30, 2023
Administrative State 101: A Conversation with Adam J. White
49 mins; March 30, 2023
The Future of Political Time and Space: A Discussion with Jan Zielonka
47 mins; March 28, 2023
Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
65 hours 12 mins; March 27, 2023
Robin M. Morris, "Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
44 mins; March 23, 2023
Leigh Goodmark, "Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism" (U California Press, 2023)
59 mins; March 22, 2023
Nadia Abu El-Haj, "Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America" (Verso, 2022)
79 hours 10 mins; March 21, 2023
Michael Walzer, "The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On 'Liberal' As an Adjective" (Yale UP, 2023)
52 mins; March 18, 2023
Bradford Vivian, "Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2022)
57 mins; March 15, 2023
Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren, "The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
66 hours 37 mins; March 13, 2023
Robin L. Owens, "'My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole': Barbara Jordan and the Politics of Scriptures" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
32 mins; March 11, 2023
Jefferson Cowie, "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" (Basic Book, 2022)
56 mins; March 10, 2023
Elizabeth Cobbs, "Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé" (Harvard UP, 2023)
67 hours 43 mins; March 07, 2023
Raina Lipsitz, "The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics" (Verso, 2022)
38 mins; March 05, 2023
Lerone A. Martin, "The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism" (Princeton UP, 2023)
40 mins; March 01, 2023
Richard McGahey, "Unequal Cities: Overcoming Anti-Urban Bias to Reduce Inequality in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)
33 mins; March 01, 2023
Melvyn P. Leffler, "Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq" (Oxford UP, 2023)
81 hours 41 mins; February 28, 2023
What a City Is for: Remaking the Politics of Displacement
23 mins; February 28, 2023
Mapping the American Right: A Conversation with the American Enterprise Institute’s Robert Doar
47 mins; February 28, 2023
Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
80 hours 7 mins; February 27, 2023
Claire Bond Potter, "Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy" (Basic Books, 2020)
69 hours 30 mins; February 25, 2023
Jeffrey J. Matthews, "Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)
54 mins; February 24, 2023
Tara Zahra, "Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars" (Norton, 2023)
65 hours 20 mins; February 22, 2023
Michel Jacques Gagné, "Thinking Critically about the Kennedy Assassination: Debunking the Myths and Conspiracy Theories" (Routledge, 2022)
68 hours 38 mins; February 21, 2023
Zachary M. Schrag, "The Fires of Philadelphia: Citizen-Soldiers, Nativists, and the 1844 Riots Over the Soul of a Nation" (Pegasus, 2021)
59 mins; February 20, 2023
Lisa Hajjar, "The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight Against Torture" (U California Press, 2022)
88 hours 54 mins; February 18, 2023
The Future of the Liberal Order: A Discussion with James E. Cronin
51 mins; February 16, 2023
The Politics of Bicycling
91 hours 3 mins; February 16, 2023
Stephen F. Knott, "Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
48 mins; February 16, 2023
Matthew S. Henry, "Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
55 mins; February 15, 2023
Winston James, "Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik" (Columbia UP, 2022)
113 hours 22 mins; February 11, 2023
The Geopolitics of Microchips: China, the EU, and the US
23 mins; February 10, 2023
Kate Masur, "Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction" (Norton, 2021)
51 mins; February 10, 2023
Bruce Kuklick, "Fascism Comes to America: A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
62 hours 9 mins; February 08, 2023
M. V. Hood and Seth C. McKee, "Rural Republican Realignment in the Modern South: The Untold Story" (U South Carolina Press, 2022)
50 mins; February 08, 2023
Where is the Left? The Rise and Decline of Social Democratic Movements
43 mins; February 06, 2023
Gabriel Glickman, "US-Egypt Diplomacy Under Johnson: Nasser, Komer, and the Limits of Personal Diplomacy" (Bloombury, 2021)
83 hours 21 mins; February 05, 2023
Reclaiming a Lost Vision of Feminism: A Conversation with Erika Bachiochi
55 mins; February 04, 2023
H. Jefferson Powell, "The Practice of American Constitutional Law" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
108 hours 31 mins; February 03, 2023
Where Did Conservatism Go? A Conversation with Yoram Hazony
64 hours 0 mins; February 03, 2023
Truth, Fiction, and Student Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Beth Akers
41 mins; February 02, 2023
Derrick Darby, "A Realistic Blacktopia: Why We Must Unite to Fight" (Oxford UP, 2022)
78 hours 1 min; February 01, 2023
Zachary Shore, "This Is Not Who We Are: America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
47 mins; January 29, 2023
Above the Veil: Beyond Segregationism and Assimilationism
37 mins; January 29, 2023
Dissecting Morality: What do Scientists Have To Say About Ethics? (Part 1)
30 mins; January 27, 2023
Shaun M. Anderson, "The Black Athlete Revolt: The Sport Justice Movement in the Age Of #BlackLivesMatter" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
83 hours 14 mins; January 27, 2023
Kevin Munger, "Generation Gap: Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture" (Columbia UP, 2022)
42 mins; January 25, 2023
How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
84 hours 3 mins; January 23, 2023
Progressive Souls: Religion and the Pursuit of a Just Society (Part 2)
24 mins; January 22, 2023
Karyne E. Messina, "Resurgence of Global Populism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy" (Routledge, 2022)
48 mins; January 20, 2023
Daniel F. Runde, "The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power" (Bombardier, 2023)
47 mins; January 20, 2023
Robert Ovetz, "We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few" (Pluto Press, 2022)
71 hours 12 mins; January 18, 2023
Richard Aquila, "Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America: A Cultural History of the Early 1960s" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
97 hours 39 mins; January 18, 2023
Michael Joseph Roberto, "The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920-1940" (Monthly Review Press, 2018)
90 hours 44 mins; January 17, 2023
Apocalyptic Politics: What Do Evangelical Voters Want?
29 mins; January 15, 2023
The Politics of Digital Technology
75 hours 6 mins; January 14, 2023
Aaron Berman, "America's Arab Nationalists: From the Ottoman Revolution to the Rise of Hitler" (Routledge, 2022)
74 hours 28 mins; January 13, 2023
Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America
62 hours 9 mins; January 12, 2023
Enlightened Cynicism: Should We Be More Cynical Than We Are?
20 mins; January 11, 2023
Vincent Phillip Muñoz, "Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
81 hours 43 mins; January 11, 2023
Demeritocracy: Should We Still Believe in Meritocracy?
25 mins; January 10, 2023
Neoliberalism and Higher Education
66 hours 33 mins; January 08, 2023
Lior Lehrs, "Unofficial Peace Diplomacy: Private Peace Entrepreneurs in Conflict Resolution Processes" (Manchester UP, 2022)
49 mins; January 08, 2023
21st Century Citizenship: What Does It Mean to be a Citizen in America?
15 mins; January 08, 2023
White Balance: How Do Race and Class Intersect?
13 mins; January 06, 2023
Seriously Funny: Politics and Comedy
14 mins; January 03, 2023
Adam M. Silver, "Partisanship and Polarization: American Party Platforms, 1840-1896" (Lexington Books, 2022)
57 mins; December 30, 2022
Tommie Shelby, "The Idea of Prison Abolition" (Princeton UP, 2022)
72 hours 2 mins; December 30, 2022
Abdul Alkalimat, "The Future of Black Studies" (Pluto Press, 2022)
96 hours 2 mins; December 29, 2022
Jefferson Cowie, "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" (Basic Books, 2022)
91 hours 43 mins; December 28, 2022
Mary M. Burke, "Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
44 mins; December 26, 2022
Kevin R. C. Gutzman, "The Jeffersonians: Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, 1801-1825" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
60 hours 40 mins; December 25, 2022
The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 3 of 3
113 hours 44 mins; December 25, 2022
The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 2 of 3
89 hours 42 mins; December 24, 2022
Lauren N. Haumesser, "The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861" (UNC Press, 2022)
41 mins; December 23, 2022
The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 1 of 3
73 hours 36 mins; December 23, 2022
Michael Ayers Trotti, "The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South" (UNC Press, 2022)
63 hours 56 mins; December 23, 2022
Jacob Kramer, "The New Freedom and the Radicals: Woodrow Wilson, Progressive Views of Radicalism, and the Origins of Repressive Tolerance" (Temple UP, 2015)
55 mins; December 21, 2022
Matthew F. Delmont, "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad" (Viking, 2022)
43 mins; December 18, 2022
Gregory Smithsimon, "Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism" (NYU Press, 2022)
84 hours 37 mins; December 16, 2022
Alison L. Gash and Daniel J. Tichenor, "Democracy's Child: Young People and the Politics of Control, Leverage, and Agency" (Oxford UP, 2022)
63 hours 35 mins; December 15, 2022
Harold Holzer, "The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media" (Dutton, 2020)
62 hours 1 min; December 14, 2022
William Inboden, "The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink" (Dutton, 2022)
68 hours 34 mins; December 13, 2022
What Went Wrong in the 1970s in the USA?: A Discussion with Bill McKibben
44 mins; December 12, 2022
Barbara Katz Rothman, "The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic" (Stanford UP, 2021)
52 mins; December 11, 2022
Jake S. Friedman, "The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
52 mins; December 10, 2022
Daniel Immerwahr, "The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars" (2022)
65 hours 33 mins; December 10, 2022
Timothy Shenk, "Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy" (FSG, 2022)
66 hours 14 mins; December 08, 2022
Robert L. Hetzel, "The Federal Reserve: A New History" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
102 hours 8 mins; December 08, 2022
Dan Bouk, "Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them" (MCD, 2022)
57 mins; December 08, 2022
Ted Conover, "Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge" (Knopf, 2022)
53 mins; December 07, 2022
Yoram Hazony, "Conservatism: A Rediscovery" (Regnery Publishing,2022)
70 hours 23 mins; December 05, 2022
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, "Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt" (Harvard UP, 2021)
64 hours 49 mins; December 04, 2022
Char Miller, "West Side Rising: How San Antonio's 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement" (Maverick Books, 2022)
82 hours 22 mins; December 02, 2022
Alexander Kirshner, "Legitimate Opposition" (Yale UP, 2022)
62 hours 55 mins; December 01, 2022
Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
67 hours 28 mins; November 29, 2022
William Marling, "Christian Anarchist: Ammon Hennacy, A Life on the Catholic Left" (NYU Press, 2022)
73 hours 30 mins; November 28, 2022
Shana Kushner Gadarian et al., "Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID" (Princeton UP, 2022)
45 mins; November 28, 2022
Tara T. Green, "Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
52 mins; November 25, 2022
Jennifer Mittelstadt and Mark R. Wilson, "The Military and the Market" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
53 mins; November 25, 2022
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