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REGIONAL POLITICS NORTH AMERICA
Brookings Institution Press
Darrell M. West As power politics and authoritarianism gain strength, there are no guarantees facts will triumph over falsehoods and reason will dominate over emotion. Drawing on his personal experiences in the D.C. policy world, West offers advice for dealing with this high-risk situation and facing the challenges that permeate the current environment.
Jun 2022 220pp 9780815739593 Hardback £21.95 / €26.00
Vanderbilt University Press West Academic
UNMASKED COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji
Emily Mendenhall Tells the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the coronavirus to the economy occurred in the COVID summer of 2020. Unmasked is a fascinating and heartbreaking account of where people put their trust, and how isolationist popular beliefs can be in America's small communities.
Mar 2022 312pp 9780826504524 Hardback £23.50 / €28.00
BEYOND IMAGINATION? The January 6 Insurrection
Mark C. Alexander et al Coursebook Series
Exposing the issues that led us to January 6, 2021, Beyond Imagination? brings together 14 deans of American law schools to examine the day’s events and how the US got there, from a legal perspective, in hopes of moving the nation forward towards healing and a recommitment to the rule of law and the Constitution.
Dec 2021 335pp 9781636598741 Paperback £39.95 / €47.00 West Academic Publishing
Brookings Institution Press
OVERCOMING TRUMPERY How to Restore Ethics, the Rule of Law, and Democracy
Edited by Norman Eisen US government has been repeatedly renewed during its over 230 years. Major aspects of the federal system were broken again during the Trump administration, so it's time for even more fixes. This book sets out the damage that was done and ideas on how the repairs should be made, focusing on ethics, the rule of law, and democracy.
Mar 2022 320pp 9780815739678 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00
THE INHERITANCE America's Military After Two Decades of War
Mara E. Karlin Despite its lengthy warfighting experience and high-technology weapons, the US military is woefully unprepared for future wars. If it seeks to win in the future, it must acknowledge and reconcile with the inheritance of its long and failed wars. This book seeks to help them do so.
Dec 2021 320pp 9780815738459 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00
MANAGING U.S. NUCLEAR OPERATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Edited by Charles L. Glaser, Austin Long & Brian Radzinsky Describes how the United States manages its nuclear forces, focusing on how theories and policies are put into practice. The book addresses the guiding priorities of US nuclear strategy since the end of the cold war; attack options available during a war; how war plans are developed and reviewed; and how presidential orders would be conveyed.
May 2022 310pp 9780815739616 Paperback £36.50 / €43.00
POLICY ENTREPRENEURSHIP A Guide to Shaping and Understanding Policy
Lynn Ross Public policymaking in the US is a dynamic, complex, and even circuitous process. That's where policy entrepreneurs come in. These critical catalysts and shapers of change are the engines that drive the whole policy process. Here, Lynn Ross lays out what it takes to be a policy entrepreneur.
Jan 2022 60pp 9780815727361 Paperback £9.95 / €12.00
Darrell M. West For further details, please see page 33.
Jun 2022 220pp 9780815739593 Hardback £21.95 / €26.00
THE RISE OF ILLIBERALISM
Thomas J. Main Looking at how a more positive form of identity politics can restore public trust in government, this book explores the philosophical underpinnings of ‘illiberalism' and documents how it has infiltrated the mainstream of political discourse in the United States.
Jan 2022 351pp 9780815738497 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00
University of Calgary Press
STRESS TESTED The COVID-19 Pandemic and Canadian National Security
Edited by Leah West, Thomas Juneau & Amarnath Amarasingam Brings together leading experts to examine the role of Canada's national security and intelligence community in anticipating, responding to, and managing a global public welfare emergency. This interdisciplinary collection offers a clear-eyed view of successes, failures, and lessons learned in Canada's pandemic response.
Jan 2022 192pp 9781773852430 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00 LCR Publishing Services
Central Recovery Press
THE QUAKING OF AMERICA An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning
Resmaa Menakem New York Times bestselling author, therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem surveys the deteriorating US political climate and presents an urgent call for action. He takes readers through a step-by-step programme of somatic practices addressing the growing threat of white-supremacist political violence.
Apr 2022 288pp 9781949481662 Hardback £26.50 / €30.00
University of Georgia Press University Press of Kansas
eBook available GLOBALIZING COLLATERAL LANGUAGE From 9/11 to Endless War
Edited by John Collins & Somdeep Sen Studies in Security and International Affairs Series
Presents essays that explore the long shadow of America's ‘War on Terror' discourse. Two decades after the attacks of September 11, this book calls on us to resist the tyranny of collateral language at a time when the need for such interventions in the public sphere is more urgent than ever.
Sep 2021 216pp 9780820360522 Paperback £22.95 / €27.00 9780820360539 Hardback £92.95 / €108.00
eBook available LOSING POWER African Americans and Racial Polarization in Tennessee Politics
Sekou M. Franklin & Ray Block Jr. Investigates the relationship between racial polarisation, black political influence, and multiracial coalitions in Tennessee in the first decade of the twenty-first century. The authors contend that the racial divide is both one of the causes and one of the consequences of black Tennesseans' recent loss of political power.
Oct 2021 268pp 9780820361734 Paperback £24.50 / €28.00
THE DAY THAT SHOOK AMERICA A Concise History of 9/11
J. Samuel Walker Offers a long perspective and draws on recently opened records to provide an in-depth analysis of the approaches taken by the Clinton and Bush administrations toward terrorism in general and Al-Qaeda in particular. The book also delivers arresting new details on the four 9/11 hijackings and the collapse of the Twin Towers.
Sep 2021 232pp 9780700632619 Hardback £29.95 / €35.00
NEWT GINGRICH The Rise and Fall of a Party Entrepreneur
Matthew N. Green & Jeffrey Crouch Though much has been written about Newt Gingrich, accounts of his time in Congress are incomplete and often skewed. Matthew Green and Jeffrey Crouch draw from newly uncovered archival material, original interviews, and other data to provide a fresh and insightful look at Gingrich’s entire congressional career.
Jul 2022 296pp 9780700633265 Hardback £29.95 / €35.00
THE PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE W. BUSH
John Robert Greene The first balanced academic study to analyse the entirety of George W. Bush's presidency, as well as the administration's response to 9/11 and the subsequent ‘War on Terror'. In so doing, John Robert Greene argues that the judgment of most scholars has been made in haste and without the benefit of primary sources.
Oct 2021 416pp 9780700632688 Hardback £39.95 / €47.00
LSU Press
COVERING POLITICS IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
Edited by Jerry Ceppos Like politics, journalism has been turned topsy-turvy by the presidency of Donald Trump. In concise, illuminating, and often personal essays, the contributors take a wide-ranging view of the relationship between the forty-fifth president and the Fourth Estate.
Jul 2021 174pp 9780807175736 Paperback £19.95 / €24.00
Lynne Rienner Publishers
QUESTIONS OF CHARACTER The Presidency of Donald J. Trump
Robert C. Smith Conversations about Donald Trump often begin with the question: how did he become president? Here, Robert Smith provides some compelling answers based on his assessment of the role that personality and character played leading up to and during Trump's term in office.
Jan 2022 175pp 9781955055093 Paperback £23.50 / €27.00 9781955055086 Hardback £72.95 / €85.00
McFarland
CONSPIRACY AND TRIUMPH Theories of a Victorious Future for the Faithful
Aaron John Gulyas Since the country's founding, conspiracies have been part of American culture, but with the rise of social media, we're witnessing an increase in people believing in non-traditional explanations for events and occurrences. This book highlights a subset of conspiratorial beliefs that grew in popularity in the early twenty-first century.
Jan 2022 209pp 9781476680767 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00
POLITICAL TRIBALISM IN AMERICA How Hyper-Partisanship Dumbs Down Democracy and How to Fix It
Timothy J. Redmond Provides a host of actionable strategies that are designed to reduce the influence of political tribalism in our lives. This book includes instructions for plumbing the depths of political views; evaluating sources of political information; engaging in difficult political conversations; appraising political data; and assessing political arguments.
Apr 2022 277pp 9781476683102 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00
PRESIDENTS VERSUS SENATORS Conflicts and Rivalries That Shaped America
F. Martin Harmon Landmark political confrontations between sitting presidents and powerful senators have occurred throughout American history - some have shaped the nation. This book takes an in-depth look at seven of those major ‘Washington wars', including the personal rivalries that spawned each one.
Jan 2022 206pp 9781476683140 Paperback £42.50 / €49.00
THE TWO-PARTY TRAP Recipe for Dysfunction in American Politics
Steven Verrier Offers a comprehensive, fast-paced analysis of how the two-party system has grown to be such an affront to the ideals of the Founding Fathers and to the numerous Americans of today who appear to accept it as a fact of life.
May 2022 277pp, 15 photos 9781476689456 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00
University of Michigan Press
THE COMMITTEE A Study of Policy, Power, Politics and Obama's Historic Legislative Agenda on Capitol Hill, Second Edition, With a New Foreword
Bryan William Marshall & Bruce C. Wolpe Legislative Politics and Policy Making
Engages with the important questions that political science asks about committee power, partisanship, and the strategies used to build winning policy coalitions both in the Committee and on the floor of the House.
Sep 2021 328pp 9780472038824 Paperback £24.50 / €28.00
IN CONTEMPT Defending Free Speech, Defeating HUAC
Ed Yellin & Jean Fagan Yellin Offers a faithful, factual testament to the enduring quality of patriotic dissent in America's evolving democracy.
Jan 2022 120pp 9780472038916 Paperback £16.50 / €19.00
THE POLITICS OF AMERICAN JEWS
Herbert F. Weisberg Uncovers new perspectives on Jews' political choices by analysing the unprecedented amount of survey data that is now available, including surveys that permit contrasting the voting of Jews with that of comparable non-Jews. The data suggest several mysteries about Jewish voting.
Aug 2021 296pp 9780472038725 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00
RACE AND THE POWER OF SERMONS ON AMERICAN POLITICS
James S. Jackson, Ronald E. Brown & R. Khari Brown Examines the intersection of race, political sermons, and social justice. Drawing on 44 national and regional surveys conducted between 1941 and 2019, this work explores how racial experiences impact the degree to which religion informs social justice attitudes and political behaviour.
Sep 2021 180pp 9780472132591 Hardback £56.95 / €66.00
University Press of Mississippi
FEAR, HATE, AND VICTIMHOOD How George Wallace Wrote the Donald Trump Playbook
Andrew E. Stoner Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series
Though separated by almost half a century, the campaigns of both George Wallace and Donald Trump broke new grounds for political partisanship and divisiveness. Andrew Stoner analyses the two candidates, their campaigns, and their speeches and activities, as well as their coverage by the media, through the lens of demagogic rhetoric.
Apr 2022 256pp 9781496838469 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00 9781496838452 Hardback £93.50 / €107.00
University of New Mexico Press
TRUMPISM, MEXICAN AMERICA, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR LATINX CITIZENSHIP
Edited by Phillip B. Gonzales, Renato Rosaldo & Mary Louise Pratt School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
What role did anti-Mexicanism and attacks on Latinx people and their communities play in Donald Trump's political rise and presidential practices? Driven by the overwhelming political urgency of the moment, the contributors to this volume seek to frame Trumpism's origins and political effects.
Oct 2021 256pp 9780826362841 Paperback £32.50 / €38.00
The University of North Carolina Press
THE MEN AND THE MOMENT The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America
Aram Goudsouzian The presidential election of 1968 forever changed American politics. Well-paced, accessible, and engagingly written, Aram Goudsouzian's book chronicles anew the characters and events of the 1968 campaign as an essential moment in American history, one with clear resonance in our contemporary political moment.
Aug 2021 240pp 9781469666228 Paperback £18.95 / €22.00
MODERATES The Vital Center of American Politics, from the Founding to Today
David S. Brown The polarisation of contemporary politics has encouraged Americans to read back into their nation's past a perpetual ideological struggle between liberals and conservatives. However, David Brown advances an original interpretation that stresses the critical role of moderate statesmen, ideas, and alliances in making America's political system work.
Jan 2022 352pp 9781469668659 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00
NIXON'S WAR AT HOME The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism
Daniel S. Chard Justice, Power, and Politics
Drawing on thousands of pages of declassified FBI documents, Daniel Chard shows how America's war with domestic guerillas during the Nixon presidency prompted a host of new policing measures as the FBI revived illegal spy techniques previously used against communists in the name of fighting terrorism.
Sep 2021 384pp 9781469664507 Hardback £31.50 / €36.00
SETTLER MEMORY The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States
Kevin Bruyneel Critical Indigeneities
Confronts the chronic displacement of Indigeneity in the politics and discourse around race in American political theory and culture, arguing that the ongoing influence of settler-colonialism has undermined efforts to understand Indigenous politics while also hindering conversation around race itself.
Nov 2021 256pp 9781469665238 Paperback £26.50 / €30.00 9781469665221 Hardback £89.50 / €100.00
THE VOTE COLLECTORS The True Story of the Scamsters, Politicians, and Preachers Behind the Nation's Greatest Electoral Fraud
Michael Graff & Nick Ochsner A Ferris and Ferris Book
Tells the story of the political shenanigans in Bladen County, North Carolina, exposing the shocking vulnerability of local elections and explaining why America's present systems are powerless to monitor and prevent fraud.
Nov 2021 296pp 9781469665566 Hardback £26.50 / €30.00
WHITE PHILANTHROPY Carnegie Corporation's An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order
Maribel Morey Since its publication in 1944, many Americans have described Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma as a defining text on US race relations. Here, Maribel Morey confirms with historical evidence what many critics of the book have suspected: it was not commissioned, funded, or written with the goal of challenging white supremacy.
Oct 2021 336pp 9781469664743 Paperback £32.95 / €38.00 9781469664736 Hardback £89.50 / €103.00
University of Oklahoma Press
BOOKS ON TRIAL Red Scare in the Heartland
Shirley A. Wiegand & Wayne A. Wiegand Between the two major red scares of the twentieth century, a police raid on a Communist Party bookstore in Oklahoma City marked an important lesson in the history of American freedom. Richly detailed and colourfully told, Books on Trial is a sobering story of innocent people swept up in the hysteria of their times.
May 2022 308pp 9780806190235 Paperback £16.50 / €19.00
HOW AMERICA LOST ITS MIND The Assault on Reason That's Crippling Our Democracy
Thomas E. Patterson The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series
Americans are losing touch with reality. On virtually every issue, from climate change to immigration, tens of millions of Americans have opinions and beliefs wildly at odds with fact. In this book, Thomas Patterson explains the rise of a world of ‘alternative facts’ and the slow-motion cultural and political calamity unfolding around us.
Jul 2021 208pp 9780806168913 Paperback £17.95 / €20.00
POWER BALANCE Increasing Leverage in Negotiations with Federal and State Governments— Lessons Learned from the Native American Experience
Steven J. Haberfeld Negotiation is often anything but simple for Native nations engaged with federal, state, and local governments to solve complex issues. Power Balance builds on traditional Native values and peacemaking practices to equip tribes today with additional tools for increasing their negotiating leverage.
Feb 2022 244pp 9780806176260 Paperback £24.50 / €28.00
Rutgers University Press
IMMIGRANT AGENCY Hmong American Movements and the Politics of Racialized Incorporation
Yang Sao Xiong Through analysis of Hmong former refugees' grassroots movements in the US between the 1990s and 2000s, this work shows how Hmong, despite being one of America's most economically impoverished ethnic groups, were able to engage with the political system and influence policy.
Mar 2022 210pp 9781978824041 Paperback £24.50 / €28.00 9781978824058 Hardback £97.50 / €113.00
The University of South Carolina Press RURAL REPUBLICAN REALIGNMENT IN THE MODERN SOUTH The Untold Story
M.V. Hood III & Seth C. McKee Since the 1948 Dixiecrat revolt from the national Democratic Party, rural white southerners have experienced a painstakingly slow transformational shift from being fiercely loyal Democrats to stalwart Republicans. In this book, the authors examine the factors driving this movement.
May 2022 280pp 9781643363028 Paperback £24.50 / €29.00 9781643363011 Hardback £72.95 / €85.00
Vanderbilt University Press
THE DEMOCRATIC ETHOS Authenticity and Instrumentalism in US Movement Rhetoric after Occupy
What did Occupy Wall Street accomplish? While it began as a startling disruption in politics as usual, A. Freya Thimsen argues that the movement’s long-term importance rests in how its commitment to radical democratic self-organisation has been adopted within more conventional forms of politics.
Jun 2022 192pp 9781643363189 Paperback £24.50 / €29.00 9781643363172 Hardback £72.95 / €85.00
HIGHLIGHT UNMASKED COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji
Emily Mendenhall For further details, please see page 33.
Mar 2022 312pp 9780826504524 Hardback £23.50 / €28.00
University of Virginia Press
AVERTING DOOMSDAY Arms Control During the Nixon Presidency
Patrick J. Garrity & Erin R. Mahan Miller Center Studies on the Presidency
In the controversial legacy of the Nixon presidency, the administration's effort to curb and control the spread of the world's weapons of mass destruction is often overlooked. Here, the authors explore and assess Nixon's record, addressing not only nuclear but also biological and chemical weapons.
Jan 2022 288pp 9780813946696 Hardback £36.50 / €43.00
FIGHTING POLITICAL GRIDLOCK How States Shape Our Nation and Our Lives
David J. Toscano Beginning with an analysis of state responses to COVID-19, David Toscano goes on to detail how various states are attacking issues in different ways - from education and voting to criminal justice and climate change - and provides a broad overview of how state actions affect the American system of federalism.
Sep 2021 298pp 9780813946467 Hardback £24.50 / €28.00
THE SENATE From White Supremacy to Governmental Gridlock
Daniel Wirls Constitutionalism and Democracy
In this lively analysis, Daniel Wirls examines the US Senate in relation to other American institutions of government and the constitutional system as a whole, exposing the role of the ‘world's greatest deliberative body' in undermining effective government and maintaining white supremacy in America.
Sep 2021 278pp 9780813946900 Paperback £27.95 / €33.00 9780813946894 Hardback £76.95 / €89.00
WASHINGTON'S GOVERNMENT Charting the Origins of the Federal Administration
Edited by Max Edling & Peter J. Kastor Early American Histories
Shows how George Washington's administration - the subject of remarkably little previous study - was both more dynamic and more uncertain than previously thought. As Americans debate the nature of good national governance two and a half centuries after the founding, this volume's insights appear timelier than ever.
Jul 2021 290pp 9780813946139 Hardback £36.50 / €43.00
West Academic
HIGHLIGHT BEYOND IMAGINATION? The January 6 Insurrection
Mark C. Alexander et al Coursebook Series
For further details, please see page 33.
Dec 2021 335pp 9781636598741 Paperback £39.95 / €47.00 West Academic Publishing
THE IMPEACHMENTS OF DONALD TRUMP An Introduction to Constitutional Interpretation
Victoria F. Nourse Coursebook Series
Presents an accessible introduction to one of America's most searing constitutional confrontations between the President and Congress. The purpose of this book is to provide a curated record of a constitutional moment of extraordinary importance and is pitched at a wider audience than standard legal texts.
