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Political Science

Progressives' Century Political Reform, Constitutional Government, and the Modern American State

Ackerman Bruce A., Engel Stephen M., Skowronek Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300230499, Yale University Press, November 2017
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A landmark work on how the Progressive Era redefined the playing field for conservatives and liberals alike. During the 1912 presidential campaign, Progressivism emerged as an alternative to what was then considered an outmoded system of government....

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Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 42 March 1 through August 15, 1784

Cohn Ellen R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222692, Yale University Press, June 2017
648 pp., 20.4x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

The forty-second volume of the collected writings and correspondences of the American statesman, ambassador, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. In the spring of 1784, Franklin, John Jay, and British negotiator David Hartley exchanged ratificatio...

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America

Power without Victory Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment

Throntveit Trygve

ISBN: PB: 9780226459905, ISBN: HB: 9780226459875, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
416 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For decades, Woodrow Wilson has been remembered as either a paternalistic liberal or reactionary conservative at home and as a na??ve idealist or cynical imperialist abroad. Historians' harsh judgments of Wilson are understandable. He won two electio...

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Political Science

America

Presidents' Secrets The Use and Abuse of Hidden Power

Graham Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780300223743, Yale University Press, May 2017
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

How presidents use secrecy to protect the nation, foster diplomacy, and gain power. Ever since the nation's most important secret meeting – the Constitutional Convention – presidents have struggled to balance open, accountable government with necess...

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America

Political Science

President and the Apprentice Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961

Gellman Irwin F.

ISBN: PB: 9780300223521, Yale University Press, January 2017
816 pp., 22.7x14.7 cm, 32 black&white illus.

More than half a century after Eisenhower left office, the history of his presidency is so clouded by myth, partisanship, and outright fraud that most people have little understanding of how Ike's administration worked or what it accomplished. We kno...

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Christianity

America

Peaceful Conquest Woodrow Wilson, Religion, and the New World Order

Burnidge Cara Lea

ISBN: HB: 9780226232317, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

A century after his presidency, Woodrow Wilson remains one of the most compelling and complicated figures ever to occupy the Oval Office. A political outsider, Wilson brought to the presidency a distinctive, strongly held worldview, built on powerful...

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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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Law

America

Policing Immigrants Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines

Provine Doris Marie, Varsanyi Monica W., Lewis Paul G., Decker Scott H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226363189, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 maps, 4 figures, 13 tables

The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants during the first five years of the Obama presidency – more than during any previous administration. President Obama stands accused by activists of being "deporter in chief". Yet despite...

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Political Science

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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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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