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Robert J Spitzer

Gun Law History

Gun Law History accomplishes two important purposes. First, it brings together the full panoply of types of old weapons laws, numbering in the thousands. No work has presented as comprehensive, coherent, …

Poison Idea

We Must Burn (remastered)

Michael Bennet

The Land of Flickering Lights

From Colorado Senator Michael Bennet, a powerful up-to-the-minute book that lifts the veil on the dysfunctional inner workings of the U.S. Senate through five critically important case studies out of toda…

Andrew J Taylor

A Tolerance for Inequality

"A nuanced reassessment of US democratic responsiveness and public opinion on economic policy that explores the real reasons government does not do more to mitigate inequality. Many believe that the …

Laura R Bume

Art of Trafficking, The

The Art of Trafficking is a powerful condemnation of the U.S.-led War on Drugs and makes a strong case for urgent policy changes, both in the U.S. as well as in Central America.

Fabian Holt

Organize or Burn

A successful political playbook for fighting climate change and expanding democracy from the New York socialist movement Climate inaction is already causing widespread suffering and devastation around the…

Lydia Huerta Moreno

Mourning and Mobilization in the Americas

Shows how communities across the Americas transform their grief over murdered and missing trans and non-trans women, girls, and two-spirit people into powerful social movements that challenge state violen…

Family Policies in Latin America

Introduction: family policies in Latin America in perspective.- Part I: Problematizing family and familialism.- 2. The debate on family policies in Latin America: advances and setbacks.- 3. Care and its i…

The Obama Administration

Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic Title This collection offers a detailed assessment of the varied ways in which President Barack Obama was received by audiences beyond America's borders and assesses what …

Julia R. Azari

Backlash Presidents

How most presidents avoid upsetting the racial status quo-and why those who do pave the way for lawless, norm-violating successorsWhen Barack Obama won the White House in 2008, becoming the nation's first…

Kyle Morrison

Pathways Out of the Republican Party

This volume reflects nearly two years of Zoom interviews conducted leading up to and following the 2020 US election. In contrast to the abundance of literature on Trump and the far-right/left, the stories…

The Trump and Harris Doctrines

The 2024 U.S. presidential election will hinge on two very different basic approaches to domestic and foreign policy, two very different sets of underlying premises, and two very different types of presid…

Uchenna Onuzulike

Negotiating Ethnic and Transnational Identities in the African Diaspora

Examines how young adult second-generation Igbo Americans construct their ethnic and transnational identities in a multicultural society.Drawing on interviews, cultural narratives, and thematic analysis, …

Jeremy Kuzmarov

Political Assassinations in America

As Black revolutionary H. Rap Brown famously declared during the 1967 racial riots in Detroit, "Violence is as American as cherry pie." While violence is evident in its endless wars waged around…

Caroline Heldman, Lori Cox Han

Political Representation in America

How do laws governing voting and elections shape political representation and power in the USA?Are some demographic and socioeconomic groups of Americans over- or under-represented in Congress, state legi…

Adam S Myers

Coordination Failure

In the 1930s, American government began to transform in a way that its Founders simply could not foresee. The public sector grew exponentially, creating a demand for revenue across national, state, and lo…

Tanika Raychaudhuri

Social Roots of Asian American Partisanship, The

This book explores how Asian Americans learn about American politics and develop partisan attitudes. Asian Americans are the fastest-growing immigrant group in the US, and are thus the focus of intense in…

Identity Formation Within Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Drawing from institutional research, this book advocates for the ongoing importance of HBCUs and shows how their curriculum, programming, and self-understanding all point to education as a strategy for en…

Stacey Margolis

The Future Is Fiction

The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world for future generations. While political philosophers have regarded intergenerational jus…