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The Fascist Nature of Neoliberalism by Andrea Micocci 9780367594282
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $59.44Capitalism is based on a false logic in which all facts and ideas are reduced to a consideration of their 'feasibility' within the capitalist system. Thus, all mainstream economic and political... -
Neoliberalism, Theatre and Performance Andy Lavender 9780367190439
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $26.29Neoliberalism, Theatre and Performance tackles one of the most slippery but significant topics in culture and politics. Neoliberalism is defined by the contributors as a political-economic system,... -
Neoliberalism, Theatre and Performance by Andy Lavender 9780367190422
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $63.87Neoliberalism, Theatre and Performance tackles one of the most slippery but significant topics in culture and politics. Neoliberalism is defined by the contributors as a political-economic system,... -
Making the News Popular: Mobilizing U.S. News Audiences by Anthony M. Nadler
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26The professional judgment of gatekeepers defined the American news agenda for decades. Making the News Popular examines how subsequent events brought on a post-professional period that opened the... -
Neoliberalism Julie Wilson 9781138654631
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $38.45Thanks to the rise of neoliberalism over the past several decades, we live in an era of rampant anxiety, insecurity, and inequality. While neoliberalism has become somewhat of an academic buzzword in... -
The Machine Has a Soul: American Sympathy with Italian Fascism Katy Hull 9780691208138
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.74A historical look at the American fascination with Italian fascism during the interwar periodIn the interwar years, the United States grappled with economic volatility, and Americans expressed... -
The Politics of Hope and The Bitter Heritage: American Liberalism in the 1960s by Sean Wilentz 9780691134758
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $50.10The Politics of Hope and The Bitter Heritage brings together two important books that bracket the tempestuous politics of 1960s America. In The Politics of Hope, which historian Arthur Schlesinger,... -
The Machine Has a Soul: American Sympathy with Italian Fascism by Katy Hull
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.28A historical look at the American fascination with Italian fascism during the interwar periodIn the interwar years, the United States grappled with economic volatility, and Americans expressed... -
The Promise of American Life: Updated Edition by Herbert Croly 9780691160689
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.74The Promise of American Life is part of the bedrock of American liberalism, a classic that had a spectacular impact on national politics when it was first published in 1909 and that has been... -
Attention Deficit Democracy: The Paradox of Civic Engagement by Ben Berger 9780691144689
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.15Handwringing about political apathy is as old as democracy itself. As early as 425 BC, the playwright Aristophanes ridiculed his fellow Athenians for gossiping in the market instead of voting. In... -
Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History by David A. Hollinger
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $40.24This remarkable group of essays describes the "culture wars" that consolidated a new, secular ethos in mid-twentieth-century American academia and generated the fresh energies needed for a wide range... -
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era by Thomas C. Leonard
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.74In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the... -
American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century by Christine Stansell 9780691142838
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $42.61In the early twentieth century, an exuberant brand of gifted men and women moved to New York City, not to get rich but to participate in a cultural revolution. For them, the city's immigrant... -
The Legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti by Louis Joughin 9780691614076
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $108.17"A definitive history of the case...notable alike for its clarity and its fairness...Professors Joughin and Morgan conclude that Sacco and Vanzetti were the victims of a sick society, in which... -
American Default: The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold by Sebastian Edwards 9780691161884
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.41The untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economyThe American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet in... -
American Default: The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold by Sebastian Edwards
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.78The untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economyThe American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet in... -
Demanding Democracy: American Radicals in Search of a New Politics by Marc Stears 9780691157900
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $30.96This is a major work of history and political theory that traces radical democratic thought in America across the twentieth century, seeking to recover ideas that could reenergize democratic activism... -
To End All Wars, New Edition: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order by Thomas Knock 9780691191614
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $36.83A close look at Woodrow Wilson's political thought and international diplomacyIn the widely acclaimed To End All Wars, Thomas Knock provides an intriguing, often provocative narrative of Woodrow... -
Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation by Deborah Welch Larson
RRP: $79.98Booksplease Price: $64.31The description for this book, Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation, will be forthcoming.Reviews"One of the more encouraging historiographical developments of recent years has been the... -
Reluctant Crusaders: Power, Culture, and Change in American Grand Strategy by Colin Dueck 9780691136257
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $40.24In Reluctant Crusaders, Colin Dueck examines patterns of change and continuity in American foreign policy strategy by looking at four major turning points: the periods following World War I, World... -
Adapt!: On a New Political Imperative by Barbara Stiegler 9780823299287
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $91.77Winner, French Voices Award This book, a crossover hit in France, offers a fresh genealogy of our neoliberal moment. "We must adapt!" These words can be heard almost everywhere and in... -
Letters on the League of Nations: From the Files of Raymond B. Fosdick. Supplementary volume to The Papers of Woodrow Wilson by Raymond Blaine Fosdick 9780691624082
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $34.31This supplementary volume to The Papers of Woodrow Wilson contains a collection of letters that eloquently reflect the ideals and expectations shared by those American intellectuals who hoped to... -
Herbert Croly of the New Republic: The Life and Thought of an American Progressive by David W. Levy 9780691612690
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $57.02Here is the first full-length biography of Herbert Croly (1869-1930), one of the major American social thinkers of the twentieth century. David W. Levy explains the origins and impact of Croly's... -
George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950 by Wilson D. Miscamble
RRP: $92.88Booksplease Price: $54.39When George C. Marshall became Secretary of State in January of 1947, he faced not only a staggering array of serious foreign policy questions but also a State Department rendered ineffective by... -
Jazz Age Jews by Michael Alexander 9780691116532
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $48.12By the 1920s, Jews were--by all economic, political, and cultural measures of the day--making it in America. But as these children of immigrants took their places in American society, many... -
The Air-Line to Seattle by Kenneth S. Lynn 9780226498331
Booksplease Price: $24.28In this controversial, wide-ranging, and fearlessly candid book, Kenneth S. Lynn argues that too many of our current commentators on the American past are out of touch with historical reality. His... -
Propaganda by Robert Jackall 9780814741962
Booksplease Price: $117.22This volume traces the origins, ethos, and workings of modern propaganda, which now permeates all institutions in our society. Scholars such as C. Wright Mills, Walter Lippmann, and Hans Speier here... -
Pragmatic Conservatism: Edmund Burke and His American Heirs by Robert J. Lacey 9781349949038
Booksplease Price: $116.82This book is a study of pragmatic conservatism, an underappreciated tradition in modern American political thought, whose origins can be located in the ideas of Edmund Burke. Beginning with an... -
Adapt!: On a New Political Imperative by Barbara Stiegler
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Winner, French Voices Award This book, a crossover hit in France, offers a fresh genealogy of our neoliberal moment. "We must adapt!" These words can be heard almost everywhere and in every aspect... -
Propaganda by Robert Jackall 9780814741979
Booksplease Price: $40.09This volume traces the origins, ethos, and workings of modern propaganda, which now permeates all institutions in our society. Scholars such as C. Wright Mills, Walter Lippmann, and Hans Speier here... -
Progressives, Pluralists, and the Problems of the State: Ideologies of Reform in the United States and Britain, 1909-1926 by Marc Stears
Booksplease Price: $62.67In the first three decades of the twentieth century, two groups of radical political theorists - one British and one American - were bound together in a unique ideological relationship. Progressives,... -
Words at Work in Vanity Fair: Language Shifts in Crucial Times, 1914-1930 by Martha Banta 9781349297740
Booksplease Price: $60.29Banta draws upon essays in Vanity Fair by noted journalists, literary figures, and cultural critics in order to examine the manner by which major cultural and historical events in the Untied States... -
Newsgathering in Washington: A Study in Political Communication by Dan Nimmo
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.24In the early twentieth century, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter Lippmann said that the presentation of truthful news lies at the heart of democracy. This volume strong strong stems from Dan... -
Historical Dictionary of the Cold War by Joseph Smith 9781442281851
Booksplease Price: $124.68"Cold war" was a term coined in 1945 by left-leaning British writer George Orwell to predict how powers made unconquerable by having nuclear weapons would conduct future relations. It was... -
Machine-Age Ideology: Social Engineering and American Liberalism, 1911-1939 by John M. Jordan 9780807857366
Booksplease Price: $70.95In this interdisciplinary work, John Jordan traces the significant influence on American politics of a most unlikely hero: the professional engineer. Jordan shows how technical triumphs--bridges,... -
The House of Truth: A Washington Political Salon and Foundations of American Liberalism by Brad Snyder 9780190261986
Booksplease Price: $38.52In 1912, a group of young and ambitious bureaucrats and thought-leaders, disillusioned by the progress of change in the Taft Administration, transformed the house they shared into the capital's... -
Attention and Arousal: Cognition and Performance by Michael Eysenck 9783642683923
Booksplease Price: $60.29The thinker who has a mortal fear of being wrong will give all that is valuable in himself to that little ambition. Walter Lippmann (1914) Psychology has always been plagued by passing fads and fan... -
New Deal Thought by Howard Zinn 9780872206854
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.73A reprint of the 1966 Bobbs-Merrill edition.This anthology assembles the contemporary writings not only of the New Dealers-the men who devised and executed the programs of the government in the era... -
New Deal Thought by Howard Zinn 9780872206861
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $54.35A reprint of the 1966 Bobbs-Merrill edition.This anthology assembles the contemporary writings not only of the New Dealers-the men who devised and executed the programs of the government in the era... -
The Poet and the Dictator: Lauro de Bosis Resists Fascism in Italy and America by Jean Mudge 9780275969646
Booksplease Price: $98.70This vivid biography is a study of the life and times of the Italian poet-activist, Lauro de Bosis. Remarkably productive as a poet, cultural diplomat, and political subversive, de Bosis founded and...