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A Drop of Treason
Philip Agee and His Exposure of the CIA
Jonathan Stevenson
The only biography of CIA whistleblower Philip Agee, A Drop of Treason is a thorough portrait of this contentious, legendary man and his role in US history during the Cold War and beyond.
2021 328 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones 578 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-35668-6 $27.50
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Troublemakers
Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay
Erik S. Gellman
Using Art Shay’s well-known photographs of Chicago, Gellman analyzes the political, social, and racial conflicts that shaped the city during that time.
2020 304 p. 81/2 x 11 72 color plates, 175 halftones 581 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-60392-6 $35.00
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The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade
Samantha Barbas
Samantha Barbas presents a longoverdue biography of the legendary civil liberties lawyer—a vital and contrary figure who both defended Ulysses and fawned over J. Edgar Hoover.
2021 424 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 579 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-65804-9 $35.00
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Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy
William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe
Howell and Moe argue that rising populism and ineffective government threaten the end of American democracy.
2020 256 p. 6 x 9 582 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-72879-7 $95.00
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The Economic Other
Inequality in the American Political Imagination
Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky
Laying bare how social comparisons drive political attitudes, The Economic Other is an essential look at the stubborn plight of inequality and the measures needed to solve it.
The Mismeasure of Progress
Economic Growth and Its Critics
Stephen J. Macekura
The Mismeasure of Progress illuminates the stories of the activists, intellectuals, and other leaders who long argued that GDP growth was not all it was cracked up to be.
Running the Numbers
Race, Police, and the History of Urban Gambling
Matthew Vaz
Running the Numbers traces the racially-fraught history of how illegal gambling rings were co-opted into the state-run lotteries enjoyed by millions of Americans today.
2020 208 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones 580 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-69044-5 $35.00 Your Price: $17.50
The Myth of the Imperial Presidency
How Public Opinion Checks the Unilateral Executive
Dino P. Christenson and Douglas L. Kriner
“This book offers remarkable evidence that the public. . . do in fact hold the president accountable. ” —James N. Druckman, Northwestern University,
2020 240 p. 6 x 9 37 line drawings, 23 tables 583 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-70422-7 $90.00
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Democracy Declined
The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection
Mallory E. SoRelle
Mallory E. SoRelle details how federal policy makers’ inability to curb risky practices can be explained by the evolution of consumer finance policies that encourage easy credit by foregoing more stringent regulation.
How Schools Really Matter
Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong
Douglas B. Downey
Contrary to popular belief, achievement gaps have very little to do with what goes on in our schools. Not only do schools not exacerbate inequality in skills, they actually help to level the playing field.
2021 176 p. 51/4 x 81/4 12 figures 587 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73319-7 $95.00
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King of the World
The Life of Louis XIV
Philip Mansel
Philip Mansel’s King of the World is the most comprehensive and upto-date biography in English of this hypnotic, flawed figure who continues to captivate our attention.
2020 608 p. 6 x 9 57 color plates, 2 halftones 590 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-69089-6 $35.00 Your Price: $17.50
The Streets of Europe
The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities
Brian Ladd
This book is a heavily sensory history of the European street—from its rise, to its peak in 19th century, to the decline that came with the proliferation of cars and suburbs.
2020 320 p. 6 x 9 60 halftones, 4 maps 588 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67794-1 $30.00
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Diagramming Devotion
Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus’s Poems in Praise of the Cross
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
This is an examination of a famous set of theological picture poems from 800 AD.
2020 384 p. 81/2 x 11 220 color plates, 1 halftone 591 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-64281-9 $65.00
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Shoddy
From Devil’s Dust to the Renaissance of Rags
Hanna Rose Shell
Did you know that shoddy was first coined as a noun? This is the untold story of one of the earliest forms of recycling and the political and social controversies that came with it.
2020 248 p. 6 x 8 4 color plates, 65 halftones 589 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-37775-9 $25.00
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Amber Waves
The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop
Catherine Zabinski
A biography of a staple grain we often take for granted, exploring how wheat went from wild grass to a world-shaping crop.
2020 216 p. 5 x 8 11 halftones 592 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-55371-9 $24.00
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The Genesis Quest
The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth
Michael Marshall
This book is the first full history of the scientists who strive to explain the genesis of life.
Dangerous Earth
What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More
Ellen Prager
Ellen Prager of the much loved Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime explores the extent of our scientific knowledge of what causes natural and human made disasters.
Hearing Happiness
Deafness Cures in History
Jaipreet Virdi
Weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society’s—and her own—perception of life as a deaf person in America.
Keats’s Odes
A Lover’s Discourse
Anahid Nersessian
Timed for the 200th anniversary of John Keats’s death, these intimate essays show why we love Keats still, and why his odes continue to speak powerfully to our own desires.
2021 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 596 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76267-8 $20.00
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The Opening of the American Mind
Ten Years of The Point
The Point
This anthology brings together significant essays from the first ten years of “The Point,” a philosophical magazine at the University of Chicago that has an international audience.
2020 392 p. 6 x 9 597 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73871-0 $18.00
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Mental Traveler
A Father, a Son, and a Journey through Schizophrenia
W. J. T. Mitchell
Mitchell’s memoir tells the story of one family’s encounter with mental illness, and bears witness to the life of the talented young man who was his son.
2020 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 18 halftones 599 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-69593-8 $22.50
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Myself and My Aims
Writings on Art and Criticism
Kurt Schwitters
The first anthology in English of the critical and theoretical writings of influential twentieth-century artist, Kurt Schwitters, best known for his Merz assemblages.
2021 656 p. 7 x 9 83 halftones 600 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-12939-6 $40.00
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The Porch
Meditations on the Edge of Nature
Charlie Hailey
Solidly grounded in ideas, ecology, and architecture, Charlie Hailey’s The Porch takes us on a journey along the edges of nature where the outside comes in, hosts meet guests, and imagination runs wild.
Music’s Monisms
Disarticulating Modernism
Daniel Albright
Daniel Albright investigates musical phenomena through the lens of monism, the philosophical belief that things that appear to be two are actually one.
Geschlecht III
Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity
Jacques Derrida
A significant long-lost text in Derrida’s four-part “Geschlecht” series, the book addresses Heidegger’s nationalism through the lens of the German word “Geschlect,” which roughly translates to race, sex, lineage, or creed.
2020 168 p. 51/2 x 81/2 598 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67746-0 $27.50
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Artist as Author
Action and Intent in LateModernist American Painting
Christa Noel Robbins
Christa Noel Robbins provides the first extended study of authorship in mid-20th century abstract painting in the US.
2021 256 p. 7 x 10 15 color plates, 45 halftones 601 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75295-2 $45.00
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The Eighth
Mahler and the World in 1910
Stephen Johnson
In The Eighth, Stephen Johnson provides a masterful account of Mahler’s symphony and its farreaching effect on composers, conductors, and writers of the time.
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