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Secular Faith How Culture Has Trumped Religion in American Politics

Smith Mark A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226275062, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 figures, 1 table

When Pope Francis recently answered "Who am I to judge?" when asked about homosexuality, he ushered in a new era for the Catholic church. A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable for a pope to express tolerance for homosexuality. Yet shifts of th...

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Political Peoplehood The Roles of Values, Interests, and Identities

Smith Rogers M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226285092, ISBN: HB: 9780226284934, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 figures

For more than three decades, Rogers M. Smith has been one of the leading scholars of the role of ideas in American politics, policies, and history. Over time, he has developed the concept of "political peoples", a category that is much broader and mo...

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Democratic Surround Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

Turner Fred

ISBN: PB: 9780226325897, ISBN: HB: 9780226817460, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones

We commonly think of the psychedelic sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in "The Democrat...

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Reconstructing the Commercial Republic Constitutional Design after Madison

Elkin Stephen L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324012, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

James Madison is the thinker most responsible for laying the groundwork of the American commercial republic. But he did not anticipate that the propertied class on which he relied would become extraordinarily politically powerful at the same time as...

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Legislating in the Dark Information and Power in the House of Representatives

Curry James M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226281711, ISBN: HB: 9780226281681, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 figures, 17 tables

The 2009 financial stimulus bill ran to more than 1,100 pages, yet it wasn't even given to Congress in its final form until thirteen hours before debate was set to begin, and it was passed twenty-eight hours later. How are representatives expected to...

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Why Washington Won't Work Polarization, Political Trust, and the Governing Crisis

Hetherington Marc J., Rudolph Thomas J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226299211, ISBN: HB: 9780226299181, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 figures, 29 tables

Polarization is at an all-time high in the United States. But contrary to popular belief, Americans are polarized not so much in their policy preferences as in their feelings toward their political opponents: To an unprecedented degree, Republicans a...

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Mountain A Political History from the Enlightenment to the Present

Debarbieux Bernard, Rudaz Gilles, Todd Jane Marie

ISBN: HB: 9780226031118, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 2 tables

In "The Mountain", geographers Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz trace the origins of the very concept of a mountain, showing how it is not a mere geographic feature but ultimately an idea, one that has evolved over time, influenced by changes in p...

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Ambiguities of Domination Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria

Wedeen Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226333373, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
272 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 9 halftones, 19 line drawings

Treating rhetoric and symbols as central rather than peripheral to politics, Lisa Wedeen's groundbreaking book offers a compelling counterargument to those who insist that politics is primarily about material interests and the groups advocating for t...

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Going to War in Iraq When Citizens and the Press Matter

Feldman Stanley, Huddy Leonie, Marcus George E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226304236, ISBN: HB: 9780226304069, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 70 figures, 12 tables

How was the Bush administration able to convince both Congress and the American public to support the plan to go to war against Iraq in spite of poorly supported claims about the danger Saddam Hussein posed? Conventional wisdom holds that, because ne...

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Free Expression and Democracy in America A History

Feldman Stephen M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226333069, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From the 1798 Sedition Act to the war on terror, numerous presidents, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, and local officials have endorsed the silencing of free expression. If the connection between democracy and the freedom of speech is su...

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