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New Books in American Politics

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Decolonizing Praxis

23 mins; October 23, 2023

Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023)

58 mins; October 23, 2023

Kevin Passmore, "Fascism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2014)

43 mins; October 22, 2023

Jason C. Bivins, "Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion" (Oxford UP, 2022)

35 mins; October 21, 2023

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (Vintage, 2006)

70 hours 35 mins; October 21, 2023

Diana Furchtgott-Roth on Serving In Four U.S. Presidential Administrations, Environmental Regulation, and Infrastructure

59 mins; October 21, 2023

Allison M. Prasch, "The World Is Our Stage: The Global Rhetorical Presidency and the Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

46 mins; October 19, 2023

The Future of Incarceration: A Discussion with Colleen P. Eren

43 mins; October 18, 2023

Michael A. Robinson, "Dangerous Instrument: Political Polarization and US Civil-Military Relations" (Oxford UP, 2022)

28 mins; October 17, 2023

Colin Dickey, "Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy" (Viking, 2023)

32 mins; October 17, 2023

Christopher John Bosso, "Why SNAP Works: A Political History--And Defense--of the Food Stamp Program" (U California Press, 2023)

41 mins; October 14, 2023

Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol, "Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party" (Columbia UP, 2023)

40 mins; October 12, 2023

Dennis C. Rasmussen, "The Constitution's Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter" (UP of Kansas, 2023)

51 mins; October 12, 2023

Aurelian Craiutu, "Why Not Moderation?: Letters to Young Radicals" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

33 mins; October 09, 2023

Tariq D. Khan, "The Republic Shall be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

51 mins; October 09, 2023

John Arena, "Expelling Public Schools: How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

47 mins; October 09, 2023

Andrew Monteith, "Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs" (NYU Press, 2023)

74 hours 36 mins; October 08, 2023

Chrissy Yee Lau, "New Women of Empire: Gendered Politics and Racial Uplift in Interwar Japanese America" (U Washington Press, 2022)

56 mins; October 08, 2023

Charlotte Gray, "Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)

50 mins; October 07, 2023

Melissa Estes Blair, "Bringing Home the White House: The Hidden History of Women Who Shaped the Presidency in the Twentieth Century" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

39 mins; October 06, 2023

James N. Druckman and Elizabeth A. Sharrow, "Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

88 hours 1 min; October 05, 2023

Adrian Chastain Weimer, "A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

37 mins; October 03, 2023

40 Years Since Milton Friedman‘s ‘Free To Choose‘

16 mins; October 02, 2023

Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023)

52 mins; September 30, 2023

Sara Marcus, "Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)

44 mins; September 30, 2023

Sarah Sunn Bush and Lauren Prather, "Monitors and Meddlers: How Foreign Actors Influence Local Trust in Elections" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

63 hours 17 mins; September 28, 2023

Dylan C. Penningroth, "Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights" (Liveright, 2023)

107 hours 31 mins; September 26, 2023

The Civic Bargain: A Conversation with Josiah Ober on Ancients and Moderns

63 hours 28 mins; September 26, 2023

Mark Thomas Edwards, "Walter Lippmann: American Skeptic, American Pastor" (Oxford UP, 2023)

53 mins; September 25, 2023

Laura F. Edwards, "The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South" (UNC Press, 2009)

63 hours 58 mins; September 25, 2023

Diana Rickard, "The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence" (NYU Press, 2023)

48 mins; September 23, 2023

James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States" (Routledge, 2023)

74 hours 23 mins; September 23, 2023

Zebulon Vance Miletsky, "Before Busing: A History of Boston's Long Black Freedom Struggle" (UNC Press, 2022)

62 hours 5 mins; September 22, 2023

Todd E. Vachon, "Clean Air and Good Jobs: U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice" (Temple UP, 2023)

36 mins; September 22, 2023

David Cunningham, January 6th and Asymmetrical Policing (JP, EF)

31 mins; September 21, 2023

The Future of Anarchism: A Discussion with Ruth Kinna

37 mins; September 16, 2023

Christopher F. Zurn, "Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States" (Routledge, 2023)

80 hours 4 mins; September 16, 2023

Zachary Parolin, "Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2023)

31 mins; September 15, 2023

Christopher Paul Harris, "To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care" (Princeton UP, 2023)

33 mins; September 15, 2023

Emilee Booth Chapman, "Election Day: How We Vote and What It Means for Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2022)

52 mins; September 14, 2023

Michèle Lamont, "Seeing Others: How Recognition Works-And How It Can Heal a Divided World" (Atria, 2023)

36 mins; September 13, 2023

Matthew McManus, "The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity" (Routledge, 2023)

30 mins; September 13, 2023

Anthony B. Sanders, "Baby Ninth Amendments: How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

49 mins; September 13, 2023

The Shadow War between America and Russia

64 hours 47 mins; September 13, 2023

William Darity et al., "The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice" (U California Press, 2023)

37 mins; September 12, 2023

Gilberto Rosas, "Unsettling: The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the US-Mexico Border" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

44 mins; September 12, 2023

A Better Way to Buy Books

34 mins; September 12, 2023

Postscript: How Firearms Fuel Domestic Violence in the US

73 hours 18 mins; September 11, 2023

Al Davidoff, "Unionizing the Ivory Tower: Cornell Workers' Fifteen-Year Fight for Justice and a Living Wage" (ILR Press, 2023)

60 hours 46 mins; September 04, 2023

Zachary Jacobson, "On Nixon's Madness: An Emotional History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

37 mins; September 03, 2023

Kathryn J. Edin et al., "The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America" (Mariner Books, 2023)

33 mins; September 01, 2023

Sarah R. Coleman, "The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)

47 mins; August 31, 2023

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Knopf Doubleday, 2023)

61 hours 43 mins; August 30, 2023

On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen

62 hours 29 mins; August 29, 2023

How Should Protestants Engage With Natural Law Theory?

48 mins; August 29, 2023

Beverly C. Tomek, "Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania" (Temple UP, 2021)

89 hours 41 mins; August 27, 2023

Marisa Holmes, "Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

47 mins; August 26, 2023

The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI

54 mins; August 25, 2023

On the (Still Bright) Future of Nostalgia

54 mins; August 24, 2023

Cara Fitzpatrick, "The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America" (Basic Books, 2023)

35 mins; August 23, 2023

Postscript: Guns, Violence, and the Law: How Federal Courts are Trying to Figure Out the Second Amendment

52 mins; August 22, 2023

Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care" (Penguin, 2023)

56 mins; August 21, 2023

Morgan L. W. Hazelton et al., "The Elevator Effect: Contact and Collegiality in the American Judiciary" (Oxford UP, 2023)

57 mins; August 21, 2023

Becoming Justice Thomas

56 mins; August 20, 2023

Jean M. Twenge, "Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future" (Atria, 2023)

62 hours 30 mins; August 20, 2023

Peter Moore, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776)" ( FSG, 2023)

70 hours 26 mins; August 20, 2023

Samuel Moyn, "Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times" (Yale UP, 2023)

49 mins; August 19, 2023

The Future of Traditionalism: A Discussion with Mark J. Sedgwick

49 mins; August 18, 2023

Bobby J. Smith II, "Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2023)

78 hours 27 mins; August 16, 2023

Take Back the Center: Progressive Taxation for a New Progressive Agenda

18 mins; August 15, 2023

Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)

45 mins; August 15, 2023

How Uber Disrupted Washington, D.C.: A Conversation with Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh

80 hours 4 mins; August 14, 2023

Nicholas Tochka, "Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America" (Oxford UP, 2023)

52 mins; August 13, 2023

Ashley Robertson Preston, "Mary Mcleod Bethune the Pan-Africanist" (UP of Florida, 2023)

28 mins; August 12, 2023

Sophie Bjork-James, "The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

55 mins; August 12, 2023

Michael J. Diamond, "Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times" (Phoenix Publishing, 2022)

68 hours 38 mins; August 11, 2023

Len Niehoff and Thomas Sullivan, "Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

69 hours 30 mins; August 09, 2023

Postscript: Protecting the Public? Guns, Intimate Partner Violence, and the US Supreme Court

46 mins; August 07, 2023

Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, "Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America" (UNC Press, 2023)

57 mins; August 04, 2023

Olivier Burtin, "A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

43 mins; August 03, 2023

Colleen M. Grogan, "Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State" (Oxford UP, 2023)

40 mins; August 02, 2023

Kathryn Cramer Brownell, "24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News" (Princeton UP, 2023)

31 mins; August 01, 2023

Talking Clarence Thomas: A Conversation with Amul Thapar

42 mins; August 01, 2023

Nick Bunker, "In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World In 1950" (Basic Books, 2023)

58 mins; August 01, 2023

Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)

45 mins; July 31, 2023

Manfred B. Steger and Ravi K. Roy, "Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2021)

66 hours 49 mins; July 30, 2023

Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts eds. "W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

39 mins; July 30, 2023

Phil Klay, "Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War" (Penguin, 2022)

68 hours 24 mins; July 30, 2023

Margaret M. Power, "Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-Imperialism" (UNC Press, 2023)

55 mins; July 29, 2023

Benjamin Studebaker, "The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

67 hours 22 mins; July 28, 2023

Penelope Ingram, "Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in 'Postracial' America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)

55 mins; July 26, 2023

Is Democracy in Trouble?

18 mins; July 25, 2023

Nicole Evelina, "America's Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor" (Two Dot Books, 2023)

45 mins; July 24, 2023

Postscript: Is it Unconstitutional to Take Guns Away from Domestic Abusers?

54 mins; July 24, 2023

Andrew Quilty, "August in Kabul: America's Last Days in Afghanistan" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

41 mins; July 24, 2023

Penny M. Von Eschen, "Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder Since 1989" (Duke UP, 2022)

87 hours 26 mins; July 19, 2023

Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia, "Violent America: The Dynamics of Identity Politics in a Multiracial Society" (Cornell UP, 2023)

69 hours 20 mins; July 18, 2023

Anne Phillips, "Unconditional Equals" (Princeton UP, 2021)

58 mins; July 18, 2023

Mere Natural Law: A Conversation with Hadley Arkes

64 hours 52 mins; July 18, 2023

Brendan O'Brien, "Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It" (Chicago Review Press, 2023)

37 mins; July 18, 2023

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