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America

Post-Racial or Most-Racial? Race and Politics in the Obama Era

Tesler Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226353012, ISBN: HB: 9780226352961, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 55 line drawings, 11 tables

When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn't lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans' political beliefs have become significantly mor...

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Film Studies

America

Rhapsodes How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture

Bordwell David

ISBN: PB: 9780226352206, ISBN: HB: 9780226352176, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America's most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies they wrote about. But their remarkable contributions to the burgeoning American film criticism of the...

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America

History

Open Mind Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature

Cohen-Cole Jamie

ISBN: PB: 9780226361901, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 3 line drawings

"The Open Mind" chronicles the development and promulgation of a scientific vision of the rational, creative, and autonomous self, demonstrating how this self became a defining feature of Cold War culture. Jamie Cohen-Cole illustrates how from 1945 t...

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America

World More Concrete Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida

Connolly N. D. B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226115146, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 3 maps

Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised and often racist tools for reshaping American cities in the postwar period. In "A World More Concrete", N. D. B. Connolly uses the hist...

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America

Making Sense of the Americas How Protest Related to America in the 1980s and Beyond

Hansen Jan, Helm Christian, Reichherzer Frank

ISBN: PB: 9783593504803, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
360 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

From anti-Reagan riots in West Berlin to pictures of revolutionary Nicaragua, it is impossible to examine global social protest movements of the 1970s and '80s without addressing how these movements imagined the Americas. By examining historical repr...

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Political Science

America

Politics of Resentment Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker

Cramer Katherine J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226349114, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 maps, 13 figures, 1 table

Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall t...

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Political Science

America

Streets of San Francisco Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950-1972

Lowen Agee Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226378084, ISBN: HB: 9780226122281, University of Chicago Press, January 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 1 map

For decades, the city of San Francisco has been nearly synonymous with the word "liberal", known for its diversity and acceptance, environmental activism, and thriving art scene. But this has not always been the case. Liberalism in San Francisco in t...

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America

Law

Illinois Justice The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens

Manaster Kenneth A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226350103, ISBN: HB: 9780226502434, University of Chicago Press, January 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Illinois political scandals reached new depths in the 1960s and '70s. In "Illinois Justice", Kenneth Manaster takes us behind the scenes of one of the most spectacular. The so-called Scandal of 1969 not only ended an Illinois Supreme Court justice's...

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America

Movers and Shakers, Scalawags and Suffragettes Tales from Bellefontaine Cemetery

Ferring Shepley Carol

ISBN: PB: 9781883982867, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, January 2016
392 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 colour plates, 40 halftones

The history of Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis is told through the stories of those who are buried there. The book is organized into sections, such as artists, fur traders, and Civil War generals, which feature biographies of individuals. Besides...

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