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Frederick H Fleitz

Iran, Nuclear Brinkmanship, and the Oval Office

Only nine countries have possessed nuclear weapons in the roughly eighty years since the US first introduced the atomic bomb to the world. Since then, a dangerous game of "will they, won't they?"…

Poison Idea

We Must Burn

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…

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.

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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, …

Bend But Do Not Break

The American military's All-Volunteer Force (AVF) recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. At the time of the post-Vietnam War move to end American military conscription, it was unclear whether a force c…

Sarah Maxey

Doves Into Hawks

Going to war is dangerous, costly, and questionable in its effectiveness. Yet majorities of the US public consistently support military interventions--a phenomenon that has generally been attributed to th…

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…

Ainsley Lesure

Locating Racism in the World

In Locating Racism in the World , Ainsley LeSure develops a worldly theory of antiblack racism rooted in the analytic promise of phenomenology, a philosophical examination of lived experience, to help exp…