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Political Science

Insurgent Democracy The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics

Lansing Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226434773, ISBN: HB: 9780226283500, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

In 1915, western farmers mounted one of the most significant challenges to party politics America has seen: the Nonpartisan League, which sought to empower citizens and restrain corporate influence. Before its collapse in the 1920s, the League counte...

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America

Dirty Waters Confessions of Chicago's Last Harbor Boss

Nelson R. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226334493, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 6 maps

In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was used to the darker side of the law – he had been followed by federal agents and wiretapped due to his a...

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America

General

Fixers Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990

Rabig Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780226388311, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 1 table

Stories of Newark's postwar decline are easy to find. But in "The Fixers", Julia Rabig supplements these tales of misery with the story of the many imaginative challenges to the city's decline mounted by Newark's residents and suburban neighbors. In...

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America

From Power to Prejudice The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America

Gordon Leah N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226419411, ISBN: HB: 9780226238449, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Americans believe strongly in the socially transformative power of education, and the idea that we can challenge racial injustice by reducing white prejudice has long been a core component of this faith. How did we get here? In this first-rate intell...

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America

Chicago's Block Clubs How Neighbors Shape the City

Seligman Amanda I.

ISBN: PB: 9780226385853, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

What do you do if your alley is strewn with garbage after the sanitation truck comes through? Or if you're tired of the rowdy teenagers next door keeping you up all night? Is there a vacant lot on your block accumulating weeds, needles, and litter? F...

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America

Landscapes of the Secular Law, Religion, and American Sacred Space

Howe Nicolas

ISBN: HB: 9780226376776, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

"What does it mean to see the American landscape in a secular way?" asks Nicolas Howe at the outset of this innovative, ambitious, and wide-ranging book. It's a surprising question because of what it implies: we usually aren't seeing American landsca...

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America

Paying with Their Bodies American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran

Kinder John M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226420714, ISBN: HB: 9780226210094, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The p...

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Political Science

America

Insecure Majorities Congress and the Perpetual Campaign

Lee Frances E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226409047, ISBN: HB: 9780226408996, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 23 line drawings, 18 tables

As Democrats and Republicans continue to vie for political advantage, Congress remains paralyzed by partisan conflict. That the last two decades have seen some of the least productive Congresses in recent history is usually explained by the growing i...

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Ecology

America

Alaska's Greatest Outdoor Legends Colorful Characters Who Built the Fishing and Hunting Industries

Kelly Doug

ISBN: PB: 9781602232990, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 100 halftones, 1 map

Outdoor tourism is one of Alaska's biggest industries, and the thousands of people who flock to the state's dramatic landscapes and pristine waters to hunt and fish are supported by a large and growing network of guides, lodges, outfitters, and wildl...

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America

American Guides The Federal Writers' Project and the Casting of American Culture

Griswold Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780226357836, ISBN: HB: 9780226357669, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 5 maps, 2 line drawings, 45 tables

In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate – and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and tenements alike. With an eye to this market and as a re...

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