Law & Political Science

Why We Don’t Sue

David M. Engel

“[Engel] presents an exceptionally clear and compelling explanation of why most injurers are never asked to pay compensation for the harm they have inflicted on others—and why most injury victims never receive justice. In showing how and why this happens, he also offers us a way to change it.”—Former US Congressman Henry Waxman

2016 248 p. 51/2 x 81/2 5 figures, 1 table 441 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30504-2 $24.00

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Why the Law Is So Perverse

Leo Katz

“Katz wisely peppers his puzzles with humor, jokes, mini-plays, and thoughtful warnings of difficult passages to come (along with welcome invitations to skip ahead) that temper this otherwise demanding volume and make following the twists and turns of the argument well worth the challenge.” —Boston Globe

2011 256 p. 6 x 9 1 line drawing 442 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-00581-2 $22.50

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Tell

Love, Defiance, and the Military Trial at the Tipping Point for Gay Rights

Major Margaret Witt

“Margaret Witt’s moving and inspirational story of how she took on the US military and won is a powerful testament to how regular people can help achieve extraordinary results. Witt gives the reader a poignant insider’s perspective on the legal case that was crucial in building momentum to send Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell to the dustbin of this country’s history.”—Marc Solomon, author of Winning Marriage

Distributed for ForeEdge

2017 288 p. 61/4 x 91/4 443 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61168-842-9 $27.95

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Attorney for the Damned

Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

Clarence Darrow

“Clarence Darrow [was] perhaps the most effective courtroom opponent of cant, bigotry, and special privilege that our country has produced. All of Darrow’s most celebrated pleas are here. . . . The ghastly comedy of his deadpan interrogation of William Jennings Bryan on the origin of man in the Scopes case is particularly recommended.” —New Yorker

1957, 1989, 2012 576 p. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 444 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13650-9 $28.00

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Surviving and Thriving through Deep Difference

John D. Inazu

“It is abundantly clear that we have become a deeply divided country. . . . This country no longer has one clear majority. Inazu explores the ways Americans can live together peaceably despite these deeply ingrained differences.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune

2016 176 p. 6 x 9 445 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-36545-9 $29.00

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The Fear of Barbarians

Beyond the Clash of Civilizations

Tzvetan Todorov

Tzvetan Todorov argues that the West must overcome its fear of Islam if it is to avoid betraying the values it claims to protect.

“Fascinating and important. . . . Now, of all times, there is a need for cool heads, such as Todorov, who approaches the limits of free speech with admirable dexterity.” —New York Review of Books

2010 248 p. 6 x 9 446 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80575-7 $27.50

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Anarchism

Seán Sheehan

“[Sheehan] has produced an elegant and readable introduction to many kinds of modern counter-cultural thought.”—Guardian

“[Anarchism] makes many important points with admirable clarity, and opens up areas of debate. It is a charming, well-produced work, whose author is clearly excited by anarchist actions.” —Anarchistic Studies

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2004 176 p. 53/4 x 81/4 447 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-169-3 $19.95

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The Chicago Companion to Tocqueville’s Democracy in America

James T. Schleifer

“Virtually everything one needs to know about Democracy, including a taste for Tocqueville’s prose, is included in this fine companion.”—Michael Kammen, Cornell University

2012 216 p. 6 x 9 448 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73704-1 $15.00

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Commentaries on the Laws of England, A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769

William Blackstone

The Polarizers

Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era

Sam Rosenfeld

“We live in a polarized nation, and we vote in polarized elections. Sam Rosenfeld, in his excellent The Polarizers, shows us how we got here. . . . Rosenfeld has produced a smart, fine-grained, and thorough analysis of one of the most consequential changes in modern American politics.”—Journal of American History

2018 336 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones 450 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-40725-8 $30.00

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Secular Faith

How Culture Has Trumped Religion in American Politics

Mark A. Smith

“Secular Faith is a spirited and contrarian entry in the debate over what to make of the religious element of the ‘culture wars.’ Against the view that religion is a major influence on our politics, Smith sets out to show, as his subtitle puts it, ‘how culture has trumped religion.’ . . . . Throughout, he strives to be attentive not only to what Christians are saying but also to what they are choosing not to talk about.” —Wall Street Journal

2015 288 p. 6 x 9 10 figures, 1 table 451 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-27506-2 $25.00

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The Politics of Petulance

America in an Age of Immaturity

Alan Wolfe

“A withering broadside against the immaturity that infests American politics, revealing itself in populism and demagoguery. Both the left and the right take it on the chin in this tough-minded analysis by Wolfe. . . . This is a persuasive and alarming book.”—Kirkus

“The Politics of Petulance joins an impressive array of books and essays that may, someday, have a future intellectual historian using them as examples to lament the fact that his or her contemporaries are not as eloquent or important as the group that arose in the Trump era to combat the threats to our way of life.” —New York Times Book Review