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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Puppeteers
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewJason Chaffetz first fought the Deep State from the inside. Now he has written a powerful guide to how it works and how to fight it. The Deep State is not to be missed. — Peter Schweizer on The Deep State Jason Chaffetz captures the reality of disaster liberalism in this fascinating new book. It’s true, Democrats never let a crisis go to waste. They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste illuminates the tactics, shares the stories, provides unique insight, and gives you the perspective so you can recognize what’s happening in real time. Once you see what they do, and how they do it, you will never look at Washington, D.C., the same. — Sean Hannity on They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste makes clear that the left has two sets of rules: one for themselves and one for everybody else. If you don’t buy their vision of an all-encompassing government, they deem you morally insufficient. That’s reason alone to deny them the power they seek. — Ben Shapiro on They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste shares the stories and provides true insights like you’ve never seen before. — Nicole Saphier, MD, on They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste In Power Grab, Jason Chaffetz takes us along his path toward a disturbing realization. Even as a seasoned political insider, he was taken aback by the post-Trump American reality in which news was quickly replaced by political theater and little was as it appeared to be. There are lessons for all of us, if we are willing to open our eyes. — Sharyl Attkisson on Power Grab Power Grab will leave you wanting more. Long after you’ll be thinking about the implications of what Jason Chaffetz reveals in this stunning new account of Washington, D.C., politics. Readers will never again take Democratic narratives at face value. The duplicity, the hypocrisy, and the flippancy with which they sacrifice the very foundational elements of our government must be fought on every level. — Sara A. Carter on Power Grab
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Raising Them Right
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A powerful investigative work.” — Library Journal (starred review) “There are very few books that I call ‘must read.’ This is one of them. In Raising Them Right, Kyle Spencer exhaustively details how the far right is trying to captivate and hold America's youth. Her expose will startle you, surprise you, and frighten you. And I say all that as someone who comes from the far right, is still of the right in my politics, and who has spent much time myself the past ten years speaking to and motivating young conservatives. I don't anymore. Because these young people are being radicalized. Kyle makes that clear in this book. Read it. Your country needs you to.” — Joe Walsh, Former U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “Kyle Spencer has gone behind the curtain of the far-right youth movement and given us a fascinating—and terrifying—account of the personalities and tactics they deftly deploy to provide a sense of belonging for many young people. We would all be wise to read and learn from her experience.” — Rachel Vindman, cohost The Suburban Women Problem, a podcast from @RedWineBlueUSA “In Raising Them Right, Kyle Spencer shows how the Trumpist political message has captured hearts and spleens within a large segment of America's splintered youth culture. Since the 1960s, Democrats have taken the votes of young people for granted, but Spencer expertly profiles a new generation of right-wing activists who have banded together to build a movement that is brash, transgressive, and gleefully eager to wage war on the woke. Liberals may not like what these rebellious young conservatives have to say, but they cannot ignore the growing power of their ideas and their confrontational political style.” — Andrew Rice, a contributing editor for New York magazine and the author of The Year That Broke America
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HarperCollins How I Saved the World
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Where is Dana Perino? She is desperately needed.” — Jesse's mom “Jesse Watters is officially out of control.” — Washington Post “Does Watters have the most punchable face in America? The answer is obviously yes.” — Daily Beast “Keep this guy off TV.” — Mayor Bill DeBlasio “A human Jäger bomb.” — Media Matters “A smug, unfunny goon.” — The Daily Show "Blissfully ignorant." — Salon “Probably the smarmiest fuck on the planet.” — Gawker “Jesse Watters is even more stupid than I originally gave him credit for. I mean, surprisingly ignorant. Which I kinda knew, but still.” — Soledad O'Brien “A Fox News reporter with a Stiffler-esque swagger who does not tend to break actual news.” — New Yorker
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Recessional
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Rise of the New Puritans
Book SynopsisIn the process, they are sucking the joy out of life.In The Rise of the New Puritans, Noah Rothman explains how, in pursuit of a better world, progressives are ruining the very things which make life worth living.Trade Review“The new Puritans are here, and they’re coming for your lifestyle, your freedoms, and your fun. In this book, Noah Rothman–one of the best authors in the country today–lays out the case for just why the censorious Left is winning the day, and why the future of the country relies on rejecting their tyrannical vision for tomorrow.” — Ben Shapiro, author and host of The Ben Shapiro Show “Living through a political and cultural realignment is fascinating, bewildering, and maddening. Noah Rothman nails these disparate thoughts to the page in his new book. He sets the reader up for finding a place to sit when the music stops on this current cycle of change and the inevitable ones that will come next. The Rise of the New Puritans does not scold; rather, it is a book that lifts up the best of our American independent spirit and reinforces the love we have for our country.” — Dana Perino, White House press secretary to President George W. Bush “The best book I’ve read on the absurdity and futility of the woke movement. Rothman brilliantly and methodically exposes the vapidity of these New Puritans with too-nuts-to-be-true examples of those they target—from poets, knitters, and bird-watchers to chefs and home decorators. No one is safe in these modern-day witch trials until we realize the secret to dismantling them: mockery. Absolutely brilliant, utterly engrossing. You will laugh out loud and shout these stories from the rooftops as Rothman reminds us that sanctimonious cults of misery have historically short shelf lives.” — Megyn Kelly, author, journalist, and host of The Megyn Kelly Show “Republicans long ago mastered the art of moral preening in the public square. In The Rise of the New Puritans, Noah Rothman vividly describes how today’s progressive movement is fueled by a utopian drive to enforce ideological conformity across America. Combined with rising illiberalism on the Far Right, this new Puritanism threatens to undermine some of liberal democracy’s most cherished values. Read Noah Rothman’s book to better understand why.” — Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe “Mixing sharp, pithy political analysis with old-fashioned reporting, Noah Rothman reveals how progressivism has sucked the excitement out of American life and tainted our politics. Rothman’s a brilliant thinker with a detective’s eye for both detail and motive. And this time he’s gone rogue taking on the Joy Police themselves. This dismantling of the Left’s censorship and hysteria is a must-read.” — Jonah Goldberg, author, syndicated columnist, and editor-in-chief of The Dispatch “Noah Rothman skewers the people who, to paraphrase H. L. Mencken, have a haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be having a good time—or, more to the point, transgressing against their petty and inane quasi-religious orthodoxies. Rothman is a first-rate writer and thinker who expertly dissects this blight on our public life and points the way to a better, less censorious American future.” — Rich Lowry, editor-in-chief of National Review “You hold in your hands a mirror on our collective recent history, and it’s pretty awful to gaze upon. Once more into the breach then with Rothman, who is a leading light of the rising generation of public intellectuals filling in the ranks of the exhausted and the exiled after more than two dozen years of constant, relentless boiling politics of rage. Freedom and fun are worth defending, and Rothman has done this for us.” — Hugh Hewitt, author, columnist, and host of The Hugh Hewitt Show “In chronicling the madness of woke excess, Rothman puts his finger on what makes its practitioners so deeply alienating: It’s not merely that they’re wrong about most things, though they are. It’s that they’re relentlessly, exhaustingly joyless, self-righteous, and devoid of grace. We can either ridicule and fight them or live under their capricious misery. Rothman takes sides—and names.” — Guy Benson, Fox News Channel contributor and host of The Guy Benson Show
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HarperCollins Fear Itself
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Shameless
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Oxford University Press Liberty
Book SynopsisAn edition of Isaiah Berlin's classic of liberalism, "Four Essays on Liberty", this book incorporates a fifth essay, and adds further pieces on the same topic, so that Berlin's principal statements on liberty are available together. This book throws biographical light on Berlin's preoccupation with liberty in appendices drawn from his writings.Trade ReviewA magnificent and indispensable volume: the best introduction to the most important and enduring of Berlin's ideas. * John Gray *For anyone wishing to have the essence of Berlin's thinking, Liberty is the volume to have. * John Banville, Irish Times *'Liberty not only offers a comprehensive overview of Isaiah Berlin's main topics and ideas, but also enables us to understand the development and relevance of those ideas in the context of his personality. * Steffen Gross, Dialektik *Practically every paragraph introduces us to half a dozen new ideas and as many thinkers - the landscape flashes past, peopled with familiar and unfamiliar people, all arguing incessantly. It is all a very long way from the austere eloquence of Mill's marvellous essay On Liberty, with which this collection's title seems to challenge comparison; but it is a measure of the stature of these essays that they stand such a comparison. * Alan Ryan, New Society *These famous essays ... are informed by that radical humanism, in the truest sense of that impoverished word, which has attached Sir Isaiah so closely to such nineteenth century figures as Herzen and Mill ... * Philip Toynbee, Observer *Table of ContentsTHE EDITOR'S TALE; FIVE ESSAYS ON LIBERTY; OTHER WRITINGS ON LIBERTY; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL APPENDICES; BERLIN AND HIS CRITICS BY IAN HARRIS; INDEX
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The University of Chicago Press Islamic Liberalism A Critique of Development
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The University of Chicago Press The Lost Soul of American Politics Virtue
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The University of Chicago Press Islam in Liberalism
Book SynopsisIn the most alarmist views, the West's most cherished values - freedom, equality, and tolerance - are said to be endangered by Islam worldwide. This book explores what Islam has become in today's world, with full attention to the multiplication of its meanings and interpretations.Trade Review"This powerfully-often passionately-written text will be read with interest by Middle East specialists, 'post-colonialist' scholars, and anyone trying to understand contemporary events in the so-called Islamic world." (Talal Asad, Graduate Center, City University of New York)"
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The University of Chicago Press Skepticism and Freedom A Modern Case for
Book SynopsisWith this book, Richard A. Epstein provides a spirited and systematic defense of classical liberalism against the critiques mounted against it over the past thirty years. One of the most distinguished and provocative legal scholars writing today, Epstein here explains his controversial ideas in what will quickly come to be considered one of his cornerstone works. He begins by laying out his own vision of the key principles of classical liberalism: respect for the autonomy of the individual, a strong system of private property rights, the voluntary exchange of labor and possessions, and prohibitions against force or fraud. Nonetheless, he not only recognizes but insists that state coercion is crucial to safeguarding these principles of private ordering and supplying the social infrastructure on which they depend. Within this framework, Epstein then shows why limited government is much to be preferred over the modern interventionist welfare state. Many of the modern attacks on the cl
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The University of Chicago Press The Shaping of American Liberalism The Debates
Book SynopsisA critique of the ideas espoused in In The Liberal Tradition in America (1955), Louis Hartz, and those of its detractors, such as Bernard Bailyn, who argued that preliberal, republican values initially held sway in eighteenth-century American politics.
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The University of Chicago Press The Democratic Surround
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The University of Chicago Press The Politics of Petulance
Book SynopsisIn this book he diagnoses what led to Trump: a culture of political immaturity—one that we’ve seen before, most recently in the McCarthy era, and defeated before. Looking to the midcentury intellectuals who helped win that battle, Wolfe charts a strategy for our own time.
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The University of Chicago Press Republic of Signs
Book SynopsisNorton examines the enactment of liberal ideas in popular culture; in the possessions of ordinary people and the habits of everyday life. She sees liberalism as the common sense of the American people: a set of conventions unconsciously adhered to, a set of principles silently taken for granted. The author ranges over a wide expanse of popular activities (e.g. wrestling, roller derby, lotteries, shopping sprees, and dining out), as well as conventional political topics (e.g., the Constitution, presidency, news media, and centrality of law). Yet the argument is pointed and probling, never shallow or superficial. Fred and Wilma Flintstone are as vital to the republic as Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. In discussions that range from the Constitution and the presidency to money and shopping, voting, lotteries, and survey research, Norton discerns and imaginatively invents possibilities that exceed recognized actualities and already approved opportunities.Richard E. Flathman, American Pol
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The University of Chicago Press Religion and the Demise of Liberal Rationalism
Book SynopsisThis text consists of critical analysis of four 20th-century liberal and postliberal thinkers: John Dewey, John Rawls, Richard Rorty and Stanley Fish. The author focuses on the theorists' approach to religion and draws conclusions that challenge the very basis of constitutional government.
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The University of Chicago Press Montesquieus Philosophy of Liberalism A
Book SynopsisThis first comprehensive commentary on The Spirit of the Laws uncovers and explicates the plan of Montesquieu's famous but baffling treatise. Pangle brings to light Montesquieu's rethinking of the philosophical groundwork of liberalism, showing how The Spirit of the Laws enlarges and enriches the liberal conception of natural right by means of a new appeal to History as the source of basic norms.
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The University of Chicago Press Hegels Critique of Liberalism Rights in Context
Book SynopsisIn Hegel's Critique of Liberalism, Steven B. Smith examines Hegel's critique of rights-based liberalism and its relevance to contemporary political concerns. Smith argues that Hegel reformulated classic liberalism, preserving what was of value while rendering it more attentive to the dynamics of human history and the developmental structure of the moral personality. Hegel's goal, Smith suggests, was to find a way of incorporating both the ancient emphasis on the dignity and even architectonic character of political life with the modern concern for freedom, rights, and mutual recognition. Smith's insightful analysis reveals Hegel's relevance not only to contemporary political philosophers concerned with normative issues of liberal theory but also to political scientists who have urged a revival of the state as a centralconcept of political inquiry.
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The University of Chicago Press Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge A New
Book SynopsisIn this study of democracy and its critics, the author debunks liberalism, arguing that its exaggerated ideals of authenticity, unity and community have deflected attention from the pervasive incompetence of the rule of experts. Instead, it emphasizes common interests rather than narrow disputes.
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Columbia University Press Liberalization and Foreign Policy
Book SynopsisTaking as its subject the global wave of political liberalization that has arisen since the mid-1970s and the trend toward liberal economic policies in the 1980s. This book discusses how the foreign policy effects of liberalization support new democratic regimes and help launch economic reforms.
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Columbia University Press The Politics of Authenticity Liberalism
Book SynopsisBreaking new ground in cultural, political, and social history, Rossinow tells the story of the new left-wing movement that emerged in the 1960s from an innovative perspective: illustrating the spiritual dimension of student activism and providing the first account from the bottom up-as well as linking local developments to the national scene.Trade ReviewIn a masterful blend of political, cultural, social, and diplomatic history, this book brings the crucial decade of the 1980s to life--and it does so in a highly original, imaginative manner. An ideal book for students, general readers, and speciallists alike. -- Robert McMahon, Ohio State University
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Columbia University Press Rawlss Political Liberalism
Book SynopsisLeading figures in politics and philosophy revitalize Rawls’s prescription for a just society.Trade ReviewThe center-piece is Nussbaum's "Introduction" which is the best of its kind - clear, wide-ranging and insightful. The other chapters, all by leading theorists, make distinctive and important contributions. Some remain close to the text while others explore broader implications of Rawls's approach, but all significantly advance our understanding of what Nussbaum rightly calls "one of the most important works of political philosophy of the twentieth century." -- Jon Mandle, University at Albany, State University of New York Rawls's Political Liberalism includes essays by distinguished and well-known philosophers and theorists. Martha Nussbaum's introduction is an excellent survey of main themes of Political Liberalism and of the philosophical discussion of it. The other essays, all of them up-to-date, are of very high quality. The essays range across a wide variety of philosophically interesting topics (most of them topics with a nice trail of discussion in the secondary literature, amply commented on in the treatments provided in the various chapters). One main focus of the book is on the myriad ways in which overlapping consensus and political stability (operating together on a terrain of moral pluralism) work together. The book makes a strong and compelling case for the enduring philosophical significance of Political Liberalism. -- Rex Martin, University of Kansas The contributors to this jewel of a collection reveal that there remains much to learn by engaging with Rawls's Political Liberalism. By querying the potential international reach of political liberalism, probing its capacity to account for constitutional and legal arrangements, and reexamining its appeal to conceptions of the good, the authors bring to light new aspects of the work's depth. -- Henry S. Richardson, Georgetown University These essays by leading political, moral, and legal theorists provide significant interpretations and reassessments of the central ideas of Rawls's Political Liberalism. Martha Nussbaum's introduction is a real service, a must read particularly for those new to the field. Frank Michelman's essay is the best work of its kind on the constitutional specification of the basic liberties, and Jeremy Waldron presents significant new challenges to the idea of public reason. Highly recommended. -- Samuel Freeman, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsPreface, by Thom Brooks and Martha C. Nussbaum List of Abbreviations Introduction, by Martha C. Nussbaum 1. Changing Constructions, by Onora O'Neill 2. Legitimacy and the Project of Political Liberalism, by Paul Weithman 3. Isolating Public Reasons, by Jeremy Waldron 4. The Capabilities Approach and Political Liberalism, by Thom Brooks 5. The Priority of Liberty: Rawls and "Tiers of Scrutiny", by Frank I. Michelman Index
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Columbia University Press Rawlss Political Liberalism
Book SynopsisLeading figures in politics and philosophy revitalize Rawls’s prescription for a just society.Trade ReviewThe center-piece is Nussbaum's "Introduction" which is the best of its kind - clear, wide-ranging and insightful. The other chapters, all by leading theorists, make distinctive and important contributions. Some remain close to the text while others explore broader implications of Rawls's approach, but all significantly advance our understanding of what Nussbaum rightly calls "one of the most important works of political philosophy of the twentieth century." -- Jon Mandle, University at Albany, State University of New York Rawls's Political Liberalism includes essays by distinguished and well-known philosophers and theorists. Martha Nussbaum's introduction is an excellent survey of main themes of Political Liberalism and of the philosophical discussion of it. The other essays, all of them up-to-date, are of very high quality. The essays range across a wide variety of philosophically interesting topics (most of them topics with a nice trail of discussion in the secondary literature, amply commented on in the treatments provided in the various chapters). One main focus of the book is on the myriad ways in which overlapping consensus and political stability (operating together on a terrain of moral pluralism) work together. The book makes a strong and compelling case for the enduring philosophical significance of Political Liberalism. -- Rex Martin, University of Kansas The contributors to this jewel of a collection reveal that there remains much to learn by engaging with Rawls's Political Liberalism. By querying the potential international reach of political liberalism, probing its capacity to account for constitutional and legal arrangements, and reexamining its appeal to conceptions of the good, the authors bring to light new aspects of the work's depth. -- Henry S. Richardson, Georgetown University These essays by leading political, moral, and legal theorists provide significant interpretations and reassessments of the central ideas of Rawls's Political Liberalism. Martha Nussbaum's introduction is a real service, a must read particularly for those new to the field. Frank Michelman's essay is the best work of its kind on the constitutional specification of the basic liberties, and Jeremy Waldron presents significant new challenges to the idea of public reason. Highly recommended. -- Samuel Freeman, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsPreface, by Thom Brooks and Martha C. Nussbaum List of Abbreviations Introduction, by Martha C. Nussbaum 1. Changing Constructions, by Onora O'Neill 2. Legitimacy and the Project of Political Liberalism, by Paul Weithman 3. Isolating Public Reasons, by Jeremy Waldron 4. The Capabilities Approach and Political Liberalism, by Thom Brooks 5. The Priority of Liberty: Rawls and "Tiers of Scrutiny", by Frank I. Michelman Index
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University of Illinois Press The Revival of Labor Liberalism
Book SynopsisThe labor-liberal alliance in late twentieth-century American politicsTrade Review"Battista's well-researched, informative account of labor's political struggles illuminates an important dimension of industrial relations history. Highly recommended."--Choice"Battista's analysis of attempts to rebuild a labor-liberal coalition provides considerable new information about the role played by union leaders and their reformer counterparts."--Industrial and Labor Relations Review“[Battista] provides a rich discussion of political rivalries between the dominant and dissident wings of labor, competition over institutional resources, and the coordination of position-taking between labor liberals and non-labor liberals.”--Journal of American History“I recommend the book—certainly anyone who lived through the last four or five decades and possesses a scholarly interest in American politics will find themselves informed.”--Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare“Battista’s focus on the forty years after 1968 offers readers new insights into efforts by labor liberals to reconstruct the alliance to fir the contemporary political environment. . . . Highly readable.”--Labor Studies Journal"An important source both for historians and labour-liberal activists."--Labour/Le Travail"The Revival of Labor Liberalism is a well-focused narrative history of the liberal-labor coalition during a time of great political and economic change. Anyone who is interested in understanding the development of liberalism and labor politics over the last forty years will find this book exceptionally useful."--Taylor E. Dark, author of The Unions and the Democrats: An Enduring Alliance"An innovative analysis of the social bases of liberal unionism, The Revival of Labor Liberalism addresses an important question: What happened to the liberal-labor coalition after the late 1960s and early '70s? Rejecting the simple and too often assumed answer that the coalitions simply collapsed, missing an opportunity to achieve many of the long-time goals of the New Deal-coalition, Battista sets out to show that the left-liberal wing of the labor movement enjoyed a resurgence in the mid-1990s, which itself grew out of a number of different left-liberal-labor alliances that were forged in the late 1970s and '80s."--Peter B. Levy, author of The New Left and Labor in the 1960sTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Introduction 1 PART 1: THE RISE AND DECLINE OF THE LABOR-LIBERAL COALITION 1. Understanding the Labor-Liberal Coalition 9 2. The Rise of the Labor-Liberal Coalition 27 3. The Decline of the Labor-Liberal Coalition 43 4. Labor Redivided 61 PART 2: THE REVIVAL OF THE LABOR-LIBERAL COALITION: CASE STUDIES 5. The Progressive Alliance 83 6. The Citizen Labor Energy Coalition 103 7. The National Labor Committee 122 8. The Political Strategy and Social Bases of the Dissident Unions 147 PART 3: THE PAST AND FUTURE OF LABOR-LIBERAL POLITICS 9. Toward, and Beyond, 1995 165 10. The Labor-Liberal Coalition: Retrospect and Prospect 191 Appendix 213 Notes 215 Index 261
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University of Notre Dame Press Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law in New
Book SynopsisThis is the first focused study on the relationship between the use of national courts to pursue retrospective justice and the construction of viable democracies. Included in this interdisciplinary volume are fascinating, detailed essays on the experiences of eight countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, and South Africa. According to the contributors, the most important lesson for leaders of new democracies, who are wrestling with the human rights abuses of past dictatorships, is that they have many options.Democratizing regimes are well-advised to be attentive to the significant political, ethical, and legal constraints that may limit their ability to achieve retribution for past wrongs. On prudential ground alone, some fledgling regimes will have no choice but to restrain their desire for punishment in the interest of political survival. However, it would be incorrect to think that all new democracies are therefore bereft of the political anTrade Review“This exceptional collection of eight case studies succeeds by presenting an analysis based on primary source materials. . . . Political scientists, legal scholars, historians, comparativists, and human rights experts will profit from studying the successes and failures of eight fragile democracies that have tested varied responses to crimes against humanity. . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice“McAdams’ book contains case studies from three countries in Latin America—Chile, Bolivia and Argentina—four from Europe (Hungary, Poland, East Germany and Greece) and South Africa. All of them are extremely interesting.” —Democratization“In their striving for legal objectivity, these essays are illuminating.” —The Cambridge Quarterly"Th[is] book offers a good testing ground for theory as applied to fact. It should serve as both a stimulating introduction for the novice and a valuable addition to the bookshelves of experts." —The American Journal of International Law
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University of Notre Dame Press The Limits of Liberalism
Book SynopsisIn The Limits of Liberalism, Mark T. Mitchell argues that a rejection of tradition is both philosophically incoherent and politically harmful. This false conception of tradition helps to facilitate both liberal cosmopolitanism and identity politics. The incoherencies are revealed through an investigation of the works of Michael Oakeshott, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Michael Polanyi.Mitchell demonstrates that the rejection of tradition as an epistemic necessity has produced a false conception of the human personthe liberal selfwhich in turn has produced a false conception of freedom. This book identifies why most modern thinkers have denied the essential role of tradition and explains how tradition can be restored to its proper place.Oakeshott, MacIntyre, and Polanyi all, in various ways, emphasize the necessity of tradition, and although these thinkers approach tradition in different ways, Mitchell finds useful elements within each to build an argument for a reconstTrade Review"This is a very good book and a welcome voice in a time when, it seems, both reason and tradition are being relegated to the sidelines. The general argument of the book is presented with a kind of clarity that is rare in political theory. The argument of the book is complicated, but Mitchell makes it seem easy. His prose is clear, his argument always easy to follow. Mitchell's expertise is abundantly evident."—Richard Avramenko, University of Wisconsin-Madison"Mark Mitchell traces the intellectual genealogy of the part of modernity that he classifies as 'liberal cosmopolitanism' and focuses on its rejection of tradition. The book's focus is to identify why modernity rejected tradition and how tradition can be restored to its proper place in human understanding. The book deals with a large historical and philosophical topic that will be discussed for generations." —Michael Federici, Middle Tennessee State University" 'Liberalism,' long subject to critical analysis, has come under more serious scrutiny in the aftermath of the 2016 elections and the weakening of the so-called liberal world order. Mitchell’s book, unlike so many others, is not polemical. It focuses on the impoverished understandings of knowledge in the liberal age, and implores us to return to richer alternatives illuminated by Oakeshott, MacIntyre, and Polanyi. Having considered what they offer, Mitchell ends by offering us a way out of the fierce and untenable position between an implausible cosmopolitanism and a dangerous tribalism—namely, humane localism. This is not only a superb work of scholarship, it is living political theory for the problems we face today." —Joshua Mitchell, Georgetown University“Don’t be fooled by the title: This book is a desperately needed defense of reason, science, and liberty against the competing irrationalisms of the Left and Right. Drawing on the rich arguments of neglected or marginalized thinkers like Michael Polanyi and Alasdair MacIntyre, Mitchell persuasively shows why care for tradition cannot be left to sentimentalists, but requires our highest philosophical, political, and human attention.” —Nathan Schlueter, Hillsdale College“The book deserves to be read not only for its interesting meditations on the thinkers mentioned above but also because, like Deneen’s [Why Liberalism Failed], it provocatively updates an important and perennial challenge to liberalism, thus providing a very liberal reason to read it!” —Choice “In The Limits of Liberalism, Mitchell laments how liberalism facilitates the abandonment of place and tradition, in which the autonomous individual senses no obligation to her homeland or even her family, but rather is a citizen of the world committed to personal consumption and identity politics. . . . [Mitchell has] offered [a] forceful critique of liberalism.” —Law & Liberty"Mitchell has written a deep and compelling account of the school of thought that defends tradition. It will long be a resource for conservatives and others who want to understand how tradition can represent an alternative to modern rationality that both recognizes objective truth and our personal rootedness, which paradoxically is what gives us the means to understand that truth." —The American Conservative“As it stands,The Limits of Liberalism is a compelling and worthwhile contribution to the ongoing intellectual debate over the future of political life in the West—and it undoubtedly belongs on any philosophical conservative’s reading list.” —PatheosTable of ContentsIntroduction: Surveying the Landscape and Defining Terms 1. The Seventeenth-Century Denigration of Tradition and a Nineteenth-Century Response 2. Michael Oakeshott and the Epistemic Role of Tradition 3. Alasdair MacIntyre’s Tradition-Constituted Inquiry 4. Michael Polanyi and Role of Tacit Knowledge 5. The Incoherence of Liberalism and the Response of Tradition Afterward: A Conservatism Worth Conserving or Conservatism as Stewardship Bibliography
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Yale University Press The Two Moralities
Book SynopsisThe most complete picture to date of the moral worlds of the political left and right and how their different views relate to specific political issuesTrade Review“This cogent, brilliant book reveals the morality at both ends of the political spectrum. Janoff-Bulman is one of the smartest people in the room, and she says we need both. Listening to her might save our democracy.”—Susan T. Fiske, author of Social Cognition“Ronnie Janoff-Bulman expertly debunks recent canards in moral psychology: that liberals are more individualistic than conservatives; that conservative morality is broader or more extensive than liberal morality; and that we, as a society, can hope to succeed on the basis of a social order that is lacking in social justice.”—John T. Jost, author of Left & Right: The Psychological Significance of a Political Distinction“What’s the fundamental difference between conservatives and liberals? Ronnie Janoff-Bulman delivers a cogent, evidence-based answer that challenges the received wisdom and dissipates the partisan fog—an illuminating book.”—Joshua Greene, author of Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
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Yale University Press Fragile Victory
Book SynopsisHow the history of liberal order and democratic politics since the 1930s explains ongoing threats to democracy and international orderTrade Review“Cronin wisely reminds us that the fates of democracy at home and the liberal international order abroad have long been intertwined—and that we should not complacently assume either is a default setting in the uncertain days ahead.”—M. E. Sarotte, author of Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate“The peace and prosperity of the postwar decades seems inevitable today, but this book shows how precarious it really was. The lingering disputes of the period laid the foundations for our current disorder. Fragile Victory offers a compelling account of the sources of current international conflict and potentially pathways forward for the United States and its allies. Everyone concerned about the future of peace and democracy should read this powerful book.”—Jeremi Suri, author of Civil War By Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy“Cronin shows how the post–Cold War global liberal order was always contingent and uncertain. By the early 2000s it was already under serious threat. And the most momentous challenges to liberalism and democracy came from within the democratic states themselves.”—Odd Arne Westad, author of The Cold War: A World History
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Yale University Press The Newspaper Axis
Book SynopsisHow six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War IITrade Review“A damning indictment against six of the most powerful English-language publishers of the World War II era. . . . The parallels with today’s right-wing media, on both sides of the Atlantic, are unavoidable.”—Matthew Pressman, Washington Post“Reminds readers that nationalist press outlets that disseminate fake news, praise foreign autocrats, and practice dog-whistle politics are nothing new.”—Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs“A first-rate work of history.”—Ben Yagoda, Wall Street JournalA Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022“Fascinating. . . . Engagingly written and full of interesting details which presage the future course of transatlantic right-wing politics. . . . The book’s . . . strength is that it takes popular newspapers seriously, demonstrating that, even if their style often seems frivolous, their influence on the course of history is anything but.”—Aaron Ackerley, History TodayWinner of the Sperber Book Prize, administered by Fordham University “An eye-opening, wonderfully researched, deftly written account of the impact six reactionary media barons had on the political culture of Great Britain and the United States on the eve of and during World War II. This timely study fills a huge gap in the history of twentieth-century media and politics.”—Brooke L. Blower, author of Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars“A fascinating and original study that brings a collective lens to the influence of mass circulation press barons during an important period of world history.”—Everette E. Dennis, Northwestern University“Kathryn Olmsted’s deeply insightful narrative reveals the immense power enemies of liberal internationalism wielded on both sides of the Atlantic. The Newspaper Axis is a landmark in the political history of journalism.”—Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party“A salutary lesson about what happens when media barons dominate the dissemination of news.”—Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, author of The Nazi Spy Ring in America: Hitler’s Agents, the FBI, and the Case that Stirred a Nation“Kathryn Olmsted’s powerful book shows how the right-wing media in the United States and Great Britain helped to popularize fascist dictators and undermine efforts to bring them down. The Newspaper Axis is an eye-opening and compelling book for anyone who wants to understand the origins of the right-wing media today.”—Jeremi Suri, author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office
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Yale University Press A World after Liberalism
Book SynopsisA bracing account of liberalism’s most radical critics introducing one of the most controversial movements of the twentieth centuryTrade Review“Powerful. . . . Bracing. . . . Part of the book’s eerie relevance comes from the role Russia plays throughout.”—Ezra Klein, New York Times“Fascinating.”—G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs“Electric to read in this moment, and I strongly recommend.”—Ezra Klein, on Twitter“Substantive, very well written. . . . Rich and provocative.”—Daniel J. Mahoney, Law & Liberty“The radical right promises its followers fellowship and collective distinction as opposed to anonymity and alienation. It urges a heroic struggle rather than comfort, security, and ediocrity. How we respond to these thinkers will depend on how well we understand them. With this in mind, Rose is shining a much-needed light.”—Alejandro Castrillón, Journal of Social and Political Philosophy“‘I get bored by reading people who are allies,’ liberal Isaiah Berlin once remarked. ‘What is interesting is to read the enemy, because the enemy penetrates the defences.’ Even for those more suspicious than Matthew Rose of once peripheral twentieth-century sages of the far right, this book is useful reading, for transatlantic politics are leading more people to revive these idiosyncratic but interesting reactionaries. Rose draws his portraits well; more every day, his gallery is worth the visit.”—Samuel Moyn, Yale University“This is one of the best discussions of the extreme right’s intellectual foundations that I have ever read. It provides a balanced, thoughtful approach to a movement that we must take very seriously.”—George Hawley, author of Making Sense of the Alt-Right“This book changed the way I think about radical right wing politics in America and Europe. Matthew Rose’s subjects rarely appear in conventional histories of conservative thought, but his nuanced, humane analysis shows that anyone who wants to understand today’s alt-right and the populist backlash against liberalism needs to take them seriously.”—Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill“The five thinkers surveyed in this even-tempered book lie far outside the orbit of conventional liberal thought. But no liberal, progressive or conservative, can afford to ignore the challenge they pose. Anyone who wants to understand the origin and appeal of the alt-right needs to start here.”—Anthony Kronman, author of The Assault on American Excellence“A fascinating read. I could not put it down. Rose tells the story of a transnational radical right, which is far more intelligent and worldly than the liberal-left claims.”—Tamir Bar-on, Tecnológico de Monterrey, School of Social Sciences and Government
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Yale University Press Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes
Book SynopsisA rediscovery of patriotism as a virtue in line with the core values of democracy in an extremist ageTrade Review“Smith superbly illuminates the distinctiveness of the American idea of patriotism and reminds us of how important patriotism is, and how essential to making America better.”—Leslie Lenkowsky, Wall Street Journal“Like you perhaps, I still regard myself as an extremely patriotic person. Which is why I so admired . . . Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes. It explained my emotion to me, as it might yours to you.”—David Brooks, New York Times“Smith has drawn intelligent distinctions. . . . [His] book will help prevent patriotism from fading to something only dimly remembered.” —George Will, Washington Post“It’s a brave man who takes on the vital and necessary task of defining and defending patriotism from the left. Professor Steven Smith rises to the challenge, making a nuanced but forceful case in concise and compelling prose.”—Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World“Steven B. Smith brings a wonderful blend of learning and lucidity to the most important question of the day: What does it mean to be American? At a time when Trumpian conservatives have revived the ethno-nationalism that runs like a dark stain throughout our history, and when many progressives regard the nation’s founding principles as little more than hypocrisies, Smith’s appeal to a patriotism of liberalism is as refreshing as it is vital.”—Robert Kagan, author of The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World“In contrast to those who see only a choice between xenophobic nationalism or radical anti-Americanism, Steven B. Smith shows how American patriotism can be a partnership in pursuit of a more perfect union. A valuable book that blends cosmopolitan learning with a deep understanding of what is best in America.”—Rogers Smith, author of That Is Not Who We Are! Populism and Peoplehood“Steven Smith decouples patriotism from nationalism and reclaims a viable conception of patriotism from its critics on the left and right. Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes is a clearly written, historically informed, and utterly necessary book for our troubled times.”—William A. Galston, Brookings Institution
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University of California Press The Social Origins of Political Regionalism
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University of California Press Are We Rich Yet
Book SynopsisAn in-depth history of how finance remade everyday life in Thatcher's Britain. Are We Rich Yet? tells the story of the financialization of British society. During the 1980s and 1990s, financial markets became part of daily life for many Britons as the practice of investing moved away from the offices of the City of London, onto Britain's high streets, and into people's homes. The Conservative Party claimed this shift as evidence that capital ownership was in the process of being democratized. In practice, investing became more institutionalized than ever in late-twentieth-century Britain: inclusion frequently meant tying one's fortunes to the credit, insurance, pension, and mortgage industries to maintain independence from state-run support systems. In tracing the rise of a consumer-oriented mass investment culture, historian Amy Edwards explains how the financial became such a central part of British society, not only economically and politically, but socially and culturally, toTrade Review"One consequence of depicting neoliberalism as the product of a multifaceted process involving many actors and causal factors is that the prospect of undertaking meaningful reform starts to look daunting. But Edwards shows us that the central difficulty is a cultural one: we have been taught for many years to live our lives as consumers rather than citizens." * London Review of Books *"Taken as a whole, Edwards’ reconnaissance into this area is a masterly mix of disciplines, approaches and sources that will reward many re-readings. The revolution of habits and outlooks that was the hallmark of the 1980s do require those sensitive cross-disciplinary approaches: Edwards shows others how it should be done." * Contemporary British History *"This book is an excellent addition to the history of stock market investment in the UK during the past 50 or so years. It gives needed coverage to important but overlooked topics such as shareholder perks and OTC traders." * EH.net *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. “A Wonderful Growth”: Investment Culture from 1840 to 1980 2. Over the Counter: Speculation and the Small Investor 3. Shopping for Shares: The Rise of Financial Consumerism 4. “The Moneymen’s Sunday Sermon”: The Making of a Mass-Market Financial Advice Industry 5. Yuppies: Finance and Investment in Popular Culture 6. Are We Rich Yet? Investment Clubs and Investor Activism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Identity Trap
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Lloyd George
Book SynopsisAssesses the main features of Lloyd George's career from his early days when he established a reputation as a fiery radical, his work as a social reformer, his stance vis-a-vis the Boer War, his career during World War I and his work in the peace-making process, and his later years out of office.Trade Review"Comes as near as anything can to consensus estimate of uniquely contentious subject." "But for the compactness founded upon wide research, it is admirable." Literary Review "Carrying already an enviable reputation as the leading authority on Lloyd George's complex relationship with the British labour movement, Professor Wrigley now moves throught the whole span of his subject's career, from the era of Gladstonian Liberalism to the crises of the Second World War, with assuredness and insight. A thorough command of the existing secondary literature is complemented by the skilled use of illustrative material from primary sources." "A great strength of this slim volume is its accessibility, it can be read with profit by the under-graduate audience for whom it is designed." History "This book is a comprehensive biographical essay which surveys all aspects of Lloyd George's career. An historical introduction is followed by five chapters which successfully combine thematic and chronological approaches to the statesman's life." "This is a reliable, balanced and well-written book, giving a good overview of recent research." "An excellent introductin for students." David PowellTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. The Welsh Nonconformist Politician. 3. From Old Style Radical to New Liberal. 4. From 'Pro-Boer' to 'The Man Who Won the War'. 5. A Fit World and a Fit Land to Live in?. 6. Lloyd George and the Liberal Party. 7. The Welsh Wizard. Bibliography. Index.
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Harvard University Press Only Paradoxes to Offer
Book SynopsisWhen feminists argued for political rights in the context of liberal democracy, they insisted that the differences between men and women were irrelevant for citizenship. Yet by acting on behalf of women, they introduced the very idea of difference they sought to eliminate. Scott reads feminist history in terms of this paradox.Trade ReviewIn her subtle and provocative new book, Joan Scott convincingly argues that the exclusion of women was central to the logic of French republicanism in the 19th century, and she traces the workings of this logic through the eyes of its most persistent feminist critics. -- Joshua Cole * Village Voice Literary Supplement *Readers of this book will enjoy discovering (or rediscovering) four compelling women, while marveling at how the terms of earlier feminism are at once familiar and strange. Rather than taking the category of women for granted as the subject of feminist discourse and politics, Scott argues that feminist agency is itself profoundly paradoxical...[T]his book contributes a probing intellectual history of the central questions in modern feminist thought which will also add much to contemporary feminist inquiry. -- Joan B. Landes * American Political Science Review *Joan Scott's tour de force is written with clarity, grace, humor, trenchant knowledge, imagination, and a sense of the politically extravagant...After Scott's brilliant book, none of us will be able to read French feminism in the same way again. -- Judith Butler, University of California, BerkeleyIt is the sense of feminism as dynamic, searching, inventive, historically specific, and often divided against itself, rather than abstract, timeless, or doctrinaire, that gives this story its spin. -- Laura Englestein, Princeton UniversityA feminist's history of feminist history, one that is likely to shape the debate not simply over the history of gender but over the larger questions of political and cultural history. -- Mark Poster, University of California, IrvineThose interested in feminism, postmodernism, historiography, and/or the fundamental assumptions that sustain contemporary political debates will find this book richly rewarding. Philosophers of science concerned with the methodological production of facticity will find this work exemplary of the contributions of postmodernism to the construction of the past. -- Mary Hawkesworth * Canadian Philosophical Reviews *Only Paradoxes to Offer is a valuable and stimulating book which synthesises a number of theoretical issues and applies them in original ways to specific historical contexts. It will be of great value to scholars engaged in feminist critical theory, women's studies and French history. -- Felicia Gordon * Women's Philosophy Review [UK] *The four feminists examined in this book all had differing ideas about [the] problem of women's 'equality' or 'difference', ideas that Scott clearly shows to be a product of the dominant political discourses of their time...[Only Paradoxes to Offer] is successful and important in its exposure of the internal contradictions, dilemmas and 'obsessive repetitions' of the feminist experience. -- Jane Freedman * Modern and Contemporary France [UK] *Table of ContentsPreface Rereading the History of Feminism The Uses of Imagination: Olympe de Gouges in the French Revolution The Duties of the Citizen: Jeanne Deroin in the Revolution of 1848 The Rights of "the Social": Hubertine Auclert and the Politics of the Third Republic The Radical Individualism of Madeleine Pelletier Citizens but Not Individuals: The Vote and After Notes Index
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Princeton University Press Covenants without Swords
Book SynopsisExamines an enduring tension within liberal theory: that between many liberals' professed commitment to universal equality on the one hand, and their historic support for the politics of hierarchy and empire on the other.Trade Review"Morefield has provided a sure-handed and tightly argued account of a body of liberal thought whose failings had unfortunate effects on world politics and whose paradoxes continue to be instructive."--Jennifer Pitts, Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE: Oxford Liberalism and the Return of Patriarchy 24 CHAPTER TWO: An "Oddly Transposed" Liberalism 55 CHAPTER THREE: Mind, Spirit, and Liberalism in the World 96 CHAPTER FOUR: Nationhood, World Order, and the "One Great City of Men and Gods" 136 CHAPTER FIVE: Sovereignty and the Liberal Shadow 175 CHAPTER SIX: Liberal Community and the Lure of Empire 205 Bibliography 231 Index 249
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Princeton University Press The Conscience of a Conservative
Book SynopsisWritten at the height of the Cold War and in the wake of America's greatest experiment with big government, the New Deal, this book puts forward an argument for the value and importance of conservative principles - freedom, foremost among them - in contemporary political life.Trade Review"The book lays out, clearly and succinctly, [Goldwater's] uncompromising views. Goldwater held freedom as the highest value in American society: freedom from law, freedom from government, freedom from anybody else's vision but your own. You can argue with him on the particulars, but there's something compelling about his quintessentially American notion of self-reliance."--David Ulin, Los Angeles Times "The new Conscience of a Conservative takes what might be called the 'anti-fusionist' side in the Goldwater wars...The Conscience of a Conservative continues to be read today because it isn't a political tract, a soulless campaign book of the sort generated by every other modern presidential effort."--Daniel McCarthy, The American Conservative Praise for the original edition: "Goldwater's conservatism is not isolationism, nor is it a cold-blooded commitment to the 'haves' as against the 'have-nots.' It is the creed of a fighter who has both a warm heart and a clear mind."--John Chamberlain, Wall Street Journal Praise for the original edition: "There is more harsh fact and hard sense in this slight book than will emerge from all of the chatter of this year's session of Congress... Sen. Goldwater is one of a handful of authentic conservatives... [H]e has the clarity of courage and the courage of clarity."--George Morgenstern, Chicago Tribune "It is good that C.C. Goldwater brings us this new edition. It directs new attention to a political figure who, though fiery, was never mean-spirited or unfairly partisan."--Max J. Skidmore, European LegacyTable of ContentsGeneral Editor's Introduction vii Foreword by George F. Will ix Preface xxi Chapter 1: The Conscience of a Conservative 1 Chapter 2: The Perils of Power 7 Chapter 3: States' Rights 17 Chapter 4: And Civil Rights 25 Chapter 5: Freedom for the Farmer 33 Chapter 6: Freedom for Labor 39 Chapter 7: Taxes and Spending 53 Chapter 8: The Welfare State 63 Chapter 9: Some Notes on Education 71 Chapter 10: The Soviet Menace 81 Afterword by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 121 Index 139
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Princeton University Press Putting Liberalism in Its Place
Book SynopsisArgues that political order is founded not on contract but on sacrifice. This book draws on philosophy, cultural theory, American constitutional law, religious and literary studies, and political psychology to advance political theory.Trade Review"[This] is a beautifully written meditation on the sources of political meaning that cannot be justified by rational argumentation. It challenges the reader to acknowledge that politics is a fundamentally amoral enterprise that resembles romantic love more than rational debate."--Margaret Kohn, Political Theory "Paul W. Kahn's outstanding book alluringly explains the perplexity of liberalism in its post-September 11 situation."--Samuel Moyn, Ethics and International Affairs "Putting Liberalism in Its Place is a real success. It is learned, clear, forceful, and loaded with quotable lines. Most importantly, it takes a much needed shot across the bow of academic liberal theory."--Dan Silver, Foundations of Political Theory "This intriguing book is filled with challenging ideas and supplies some missing ingredients of the intellectual groundwork of liberalism."--James Magee, Law and Politics Book Review "Paul W. Kahn ... argue[s] that liberal theory lacks the conceptual resources to understand political life... Kahn sees liberalism as a philosophy for a postmodern condition, which may be emerging in Europe, where the state may be losing its grip on the moral imagination and 'politics [is] stripped of the political.' The book offers a provocative argument and is well written."--Choice "As a critique of liberal assumptions about human nature and political theory and as a thoughtful essay on political theology and evil, Kahn's analyses initiate discussions that should be continued."--Shalom Carmy, Hebraic Political StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Putting Liberalism in Its Place 1 PART I: CULTURAL STUDY AND LIBERALISM 29 Chapter 1: The Architecture of the Liberal World 33 Chapter 2: A Brief Genealogy of American Liberalism 66 Chapter 3: The Instabilities of Liberalism 113 PART II: LOVE AND POLITICS 143 Chapter 4: The Faculties of the Soul: Beyond Reason and Interest 145 Chapter 5: The Erotic Body 183 Chapter 6: The Autonomy of the Political in the Modern Nation-State 228 Conclusion: The Future of the Nation-State 291 Index 315
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Princeton University Press Reordering the World Essays on Liberalism and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bell's masterful study represents one of the best efforts yet to untangle the many ideological and political knots that bind liberalism and imperialism."--G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs "In what is a preeminent study of the social and political construction of the world, Bell goes way beyond the typical discussions by demonstrating the shifting definitions of empire and the political ramifications of conquest. In a detailed historical and political analysis of colonial interventions in human history, he meticulously 'unpicks' the connections that lie at the heart of both imperialism and human freedom. It is indeed a brilliant amalgam of history and politics, thought-provoking and relevant at a juncture when the nation and its concept are subjects of passionate, wide-reaching debate and of profound interest to sociologists and postcolonial theorists."--Shelley Walia, Frontline "In this collection of articles and essays, Bell achieves an impressive synthesis of liberal political thought and British ideologies of empire."--ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi 1. Introduction: Reordering the World 1 Political Thought and Empire 3 Structure of the Book 8 Part I: Frames 2. The Dream Machine: On Liberalism and Empire 19 Languages of Empire 20 Intertextual Empire: Writing Liberal Imperialism 26 On Settler Colonialism 32 The Tyranny of the Canon 48 3. What Is Liberalism? 62 Constructing Liberalism: Scholarly Purposes and Interpretive Protocols 65 A Summative Conception 69 Liberalism before Locke 73 Wars of Position: Consolidating Liberalism 81 Conclusion: Conscripts of Liberalism 90 4. Ideologies of Empire 91 Imperial Imaginaries 94 Ideologies of Justification 101 Ideologies of Governance 106 Ideologies of Resistance 110 Conclusions 115 Part II: Themes 5. Escape Velocity: Ancient History and the Empire of Time 119 The Time of Empire: Narratives of Decline and Fall 121 Harnessing the Time Spirit: On Imperial Progress 132 The Transfiguration of Empire 141 6. The Idea of a Patriot Queen? The Monarchy, the Constitution, and the Iconographic Order of Greater Britain, 1860-1900 148 Constitutional Patriotism and the Monarchy 152 Civic Republicanism and the Colonial Order 160 Conclusions 165 7. Imagined Spaces: Nation, State, and Territory in the British Colonial Empire, 1860-1914 166 Salvaging Empire 168 Remaking the People 173 Translocalism: Expanding the Public 178 Conclusions 181 8. The Project for a New Anglo Century: Race, Space, and Global Order 182 Empire, Nation, State: On Greater Britain 183 The Reunion of the Race: On Anglo-America 189 Afterlives of Empire: Anglo-America and Global Governance 196 Millennial Dreams, or, Back to the Future 204 Part III: Thinkers 9. John Stuart Mill on Colonies 211 On Systematic Colonization: From Domestic to Global 214 Colonial Autonomy, Character, and Civilization 224 Melancholic Colonialism and the Pathos of Distance 229 Conclusions 236 10. International Society in Victorian Political Thought: T. H. Green, Herbert Spencer, and Henry Sidgwick With Casper Sylvest 237 Progress, Justice, and Order: On Liberal Internationalism 239 International Society: Green, Spencer, Sidgwick 243 Civilization, Empire, and the Limits of International Morality 258 Conclusions 264 11. John Robert Seeley and the Political Theology of Empire 265 Enthusiasm for Humanity 268 On Nationalist Cosmopolitanism 276 Expanding England: Democracy, Federalism, and the World-State 281 Empire as Polychronicon: India and Ireland 290 12. Republican Imperialism: J. A. Froude and the Virtue of Empire 297 John Stuart Mill and Liberal Civilizing Imperialism 299 Republican Themes in Victorian Political Thought 302 J. A. Froude and the Pathologies of the Moderns 307 Dreaming of Rome: The Uses of History and the Future of "Oceana" 311 Conclusions 319 13. Alter Orbis: E. A. Freeman on Empire and Racial Destiny 321 Palimpsest: A World of Worlds 323 The "Dark Abyss": Freeman on Imperial Federation 327 On Racial Solidarity 334 14. Democracy and Empire: J. A. Hobson, L. T. Hobhouse, and the Crisis of Liberalism 341 Confronting Modernity 342 Hobhouse and the Ironies of Liberal History 345 Hobson and the Crisis of Liberalism 354 Conclusions 361 15. Coda: (De)Colonizing Liberalism 363 Bibliography 373 Index 431
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Princeton University Press Red State Religion
Book SynopsisNo state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas. To understand red state politics, Kansas is the place. It is also the place to understand red state religion. This title tells the story of religiously motivated political activism in Kansas from territorial days to the present.Trade ReviewFinalist for the 2013 Christianity Today Awards in Christianity and Culture "Robert Wuthnow, a brilliant sociologist of religion and himself a native of Kansas, gives us a careful sociological history of the intertwining of religion and politics in this quintessential red state... In Wuthnow's nuanced and careful study, Kansans come across less as hayseeds or off-the-wall moralizers than as pragmatic conservatives, committed to traditional families and fiscal conservatism. They are skeptical of big government and dedicated to preserving simple and vital virtues. Wuthnow has penned a 'must read' book for those who would understand--and not just caricature--red state religion and how it intertwines with politics."--John A. Coleman, America "With the publication of Red State Religion, we profit greatly from a majestically comprehensive account of Kansas' history. In turn, we get a truer story, one that inspires a less ideological reading of the state, perhaps freeing Kansans themselves from any notion of how they must think--or vote."--Alexander Heffner, Philadelphia Inquirer "[Red State Religion] thoughtfully and compassionately explores the rich and complex political and religious history of the place."--Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Christian Century "Red State Religion is a model of clarity and is surely one of the best books available on the intersection of religion and politics."--Al Menendez, Voice of Reason "Elegantly written, passionately argued, and deeply researched, Red State Religion challenges our basic assumptions about the influence of the Religious Right in particular, and the role of religion in American politics more generally."--Andrew Preston, Journal of Ecclesiastical History "[Wuthnow] takes Kansas state conservatism seriously in grounding his conclusions in archival research rather than journalistic sensationalism."--Choice "Wuthnow does an excellent job tracing the development of religious institutions in the state."--James E. Sherow, Great Plains Research "Red State Religion is an ambitious, comprehensive, and rigorous study that provides a thoughtful corrective to past efforts to portray what's the matter with Kansas."--Finbarr Curtis, ReligionTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface ix Prologue 1 Murder at the Glenwood 10 Chapter 1:. Piety on the Plains 17 Abraham Lincoln in Kansas 18 Establishing a Civic Order 29 Public Religion 35 Serving the Community 42 Church Expansion 47 Cooperation and Competition 57 Chapter 2:. An Evolving Political Style 67 Prairie Politics 72 Populism and Religious Politics 79 Protesting against Inequality 90 A Divided Party 95 Law and Order 101 For the Children 104 Chapter 3:. Redefining the Heartland 110 Harvest of Progress 112 Consolidation and Expansion 117 Forward-looking Initiatives 124 Church and State 130 Hunkering Down 134 Fundamentalism and the Great Depression 142 Simian Peasants 152 Novel Movements 162 Chapter 4:. Quiet Conservatism 169 Grassroots Resentments 171 The Senator from Pendergast 183 Hometown Religion 187 I Like Ike 200 A Well-Qualified Catholic 208 Chapter 5:. An Era of Restructuring 215 Stirrings on the Right 217 From Desegregation to Black Power 229 Nixon at Kansas State 241 Division in the Churches 252 Chapter 6:. The Religious Right 267 Mobilization on the Right 269 Government Is the Problem 279 The War in Wichita 287 Shifting the Focus 294 Questioning Evolution 303 Chapter 7:. Continuing the Struggle 312 The Churches and Activist Networks 314 Electing George W. Bush 321 Regulating Abortion 326 The Campaign against Gay Marriage 330 Evolution Revisited 338 The Death of Dr. Tiller 347 Swatches of Purple 354 Epilogue 361 Notes 371 Selected Bibliography 445 Index 465
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Princeton University Press Masters of the Universe Hayek Friedman and the
Book SynopsisBased on archival research and interviews with leading participants in the movement, this title traces the ascendancy of neoliberalism from the academy of interwar Europe to supremacy under Reagan and Thatcher and in the decades since.Trade ReviewFinalist for the 2014 Presidents' Book Award, Western Social Science Association Shortlisted for the 2012 Gladstone Prize, Royal Historical Society "[I]ntelligent."--Kenneth Minogue, Wall Street Journal "In impressive fashion, Jones analyzes the impact of free market economics and deregulation on political leaders in Washington, D.C., and London since the 1970s... [A]nyone intrigued by the intersection of economic theory and political affairs will appreciate this learned, detailed book."--Publishers Weekly "A cerebral, pertinent exegesis on the thinking behind the rise of the New Right... [A] valuable study that helps flesh out the caricature of conservatives as only believing 'greed is good.'"--Kirkus Reviews "[I]mportant... [A] beguilingly erudite old-fashioned read."--Stephen Matchett, Australian "Stedman Jones ... describes the scene with remarkable accuracy, including its financial underpinning and its ties with conservatism."--Karen Horn, Standpoint "Mr. Stedman Jones offers a novel and comprehensive history of neoliberalism. It is tarred neither by a reverence for the heroes, nor by caricature, for he is a fair and nuanced writer. This is a bold biography of a great idea."--Economist "[A] lucid, richly detailed examination of the evolution of the free market ideology since the end of World War II."--Glenn C. Altschuler, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "[A] good read... The deep history of neo-liberal thought is fascinating."--Andrew Hilton, Financial World "Clearly written and relevant to a wide audience."--Daniel Ben-Ami, Financial Times Wealth "Masters of the Universe is a firm brief for the independent, causal power of ideas to shape history... [It] does much to help explain the aftermath of 2008 and the ways in which political responses that might have defined another era seem unthinkable in ours."--Jennifer Burns, American Prospect "His lengthy exposition of the views shared by these outstanding economists might encourage many to pay attention to their works."--Alejandro Chafuen, Forbes "This is a timely history of the Anglo-American love affair with the market and the origins of the current economic crisis."--Keith Richmond, Tribune (U.K.) "[T]his is an insightful, substantive historical account of the Anglo-American political economy underpinning the conservative economic agendas of the Thatcher and Reagan administrations."--Choice "Jones gives us the best kind of intellectual history, showing the interplay of ideas, ideology and nascent political movements. The book should be lauded for illustrating that the history of ideas is not straightforward, and a big idea can be bent towards something that its originators might not have imagined."--Joel Campbell, International Affairs "[T]his ambitious book is one of the very best histories we have of the development of neoliberal ideas and ideology before the era of Thatcher and Reagan."--W. Elliot Brownlee, Journal of American History "[A] terrific book."--Enlightened EconomistTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Timeline xi List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 The Three Phases of Neoliberalism 6 Neoliberalism and History 10 Transatlantic Neoliberal Politics 15 1. The Postwar Settlement 21 2. The 1940s: The Emergence of the Neoliberal Critique 30 Karl Popper and "The Open Society" 37 Ludwig von Mises and "Bureaucracy" 49 Friedrich Hayek and "The Road to Serfdom" 57 The Mont Pelerin Society and "The Intellectuals and Socialism" 73 3. The Rising Tide: Neoliberal Ideas in the Postwar Period 85 The Two Chicago Schools: Henry Simons, Milton Friedman, and Neoliberalism 89 The Enlightenment, Adam Smith and Neoliberalism 100 Economic and Political Freedom: Milton Friedman and Cold War Neoliberalism 111 The German Economic Miracle: Neoliberalism and the Soziale Marktwirtschaft 121 Regulatory Capture, Public Choice, and Rational Choice Theory 126 4. A Transatlantic Network: Think Tanks and the Ideological Entrepreneurs 134 The United States in the 1950s: Fusionism and the Cold War 138 British Conservatism in the 1950s 147 Neoliberal Organization in the 1950s and 1960s 152 The Second Wave: Free Market Think Tanks in the 1970s 161 Neoliberal Journalists and Politicians 173 Breakthrough? 178 5. Keynesianism and the Emergence of Monetarism, 1945-71 180 Keynes and Keynesianism 182 "A Little Local Difficulty": Enoch Powell's Monetarism 190 American Economic Policy in the 1960s 197 Milton Friedman's Monetarism 201 The Gathering Storm 212 6. Economic Strategy: The Neoliberal Breakthrough, 1971-84 215 The Slow Collapse of the Postwar Boom, 1964-71 217 Stagflation and Wage and Price Policies 225 The Heath Interregnum and the Neoliberal Alternative 230 The Left Turns to Monetarism, 1: Callaghan, Healey, and the IMF Crisis 241 The Left Turns to Monetarism, 2: Jimmy Carter and Paul Volcker's Federal Reserve 247 Thatcherite Economic Strategy 254 Reaganomics 263 Conclusion 269 7. Neoliberalism Applied? The Transformation of Affordable Housing and Urban Policy in the United States and Britain, 1945-2000 273 Postwar Low-Income Housing and Urban Policy in the United States 278 Postwar Low-Income Housing and Urban Policy in Britain 288 Jimmy Carter and the Limits of Government 295 Property-Owning Democracy and Individual Freedom: Housing and Neoliberal Ideas 297 The Reagan Administration 304 Council House Privatization: The Right to Buy Scheme 308 Transatlantic Transmissions: Reagan's Enterprise Zones 315 Hope VI, Urban Regeneration, and the Third Way 321 Conclusion 325 Conclusion - The Legacy of Transatlantic Neoliberalism: Faith-Based Policy 329 Parallelisms: The Place of Transatlantic Neoliberal Politics in History 333 The Apotheosis of Neoliberalism? 338 Reason-Based Policymaking 343 Notes 347 Index 391
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Princeton University Press Racial Realignment
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Racial Realignment is a genuinely illuminating book."--Rich Yeselson, DissentTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments xi Chapter 1 Introduction 1 PART 1 TRANSFORMING AMERICAN LIBERALISM Chapter 2 Race: The Early New Deal's Blind Spot 27 Chapter 3 Transforming Liberalism, 1933-1940 45 Chapter 4 Liberalism Transformed: The Early Civil Rights Movement and the "Liberal Lobby" 81 PART 2 REALIGNMENT FROM BELOW: VOTERS AND MIDLEVEL PARTY ACTORS Chapter 5 Civil Rights and New Deal Liberalism in the Mass Public 101 Chapter 6 The African American Realignment and New Deal Liberalism 129 Chapter 7 State Parties and the Civil Rights Realignment 150 Chapter 8 Beyond the Roll Call: The Congressional Realignment 176 PART 3 THE NATIONAL PARTIES RESPOND Chapter 9 Facing a Changing Party: Democratic Elites and Civil Rights 211 Chapter 10 Lincoln's Party No More: The Transformation of the GOP 237 Chapter 11 Conclusions 271 Notes 287 Index 351
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Princeton University Press Racial Realignment
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Racial Realignment is a genuinely illuminating book."--Rich Yeselson, DissentTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments xi Chapter 1 Introduction 1 PART 1 TRANSFORMING AMERICAN LIBERALISM Chapter 2 Race: The Early New Deal's Blind Spot 27 Chapter 3 Transforming Liberalism, 1933-1940 45 Chapter 4 Liberalism Transformed: The Early Civil Rights Movement and the "Liberal Lobby" 81 PART 2 REALIGNMENT FROM BELOW: VOTERS AND MIDLEVEL PARTY ACTORS Chapter 5 Civil Rights and New Deal Liberalism in the Mass Public 101 Chapter 6 The African American Realignment and New Deal Liberalism 129 Chapter 7 State Parties and the Civil Rights Realignment 150 Chapter 8 Beyond the Roll Call: The Congressional Realignment 176 PART 3 THE NATIONAL PARTIES RESPOND Chapter 9 Facing a Changing Party: Democratic Elites and Civil Rights 211 Chapter 10 Lincoln's Party No More: The Transformation of the GOP 237 Chapter 11 Conclusions 271 Notes 287 Index 351
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Princeton University Press Liberal Leviathan
Book SynopsisIn the second half of the twentieth century, the United States engaged in the most ambitious and far-reaching liberal order building the world had yet seen. This liberal international order has been one of the most successful in history in providing security and prosperity to more people. But in the last decade, the American-led order has been trouTrade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011: Top 25 Books "[A]mbitious and thought-provoking."--Gideon Rachman, Financial Times "International orders guide how major powers interact with one another and with less powerful states: how they cooperate and compete in trade and security and when and why they respect one another's sovereignty. Ikenberry's important book tackles this complex subject, giving readers a deep understanding of the factors that determine the type of international order... Liberal Leviathan is a valuable guide to understanding the factors that will determine its eventual shape."--Foreign Affairs "Liberal Leviathan is a brilliant inquisition into the nature of international order, politics of unipolarity, and substance of United States foreign policy... Drawing equally on international relations theory, history, and political theory, Liberal Leviathan offers a probing analysis into the challenges to the current U.S.-led international order and its likely future."--David A. Lake, Global Governance "This is a valuable work of international relations theory."--Choice "Liberal Leviathan is a great review of the state of the art of broad and narrow Realist and liberal theories being discussed in American academia."--Cesar de Prado, International Affairs "His book lucidly explains how the end of the Cold War allowed the U.S.-dominated Western system to expand to the rest of the world. Ikenberry's account has an intuitive appeal. There's always more than enough chaos to argue that the world is in crisis ... he writes thoughtfully about the challenge of integrating rising powers into global governance... As a clear and informed synthesis of the existing scholarship on global governance, this book is a success."--David Bosco, American Prospect "Ikenberry's book is a cogently developed argument that builds upon his previous writings and will be a point of reference for the 'international liberal' literature."--Jakub J. Grygiel, Claremont Review of Books "[T]he sheer breadth of the work, the clarity of the presentation ... and the synthesis of an extraordinary amount of theoretical and historical literature will make the volume an important resource for students and scholars for a very long time."--James M. McCormick, Perspectives on Politics "Ikenberry impresses with his range of concerns, by his drive to formulate clear and parsimonious propositions about interstate relations, and by the pains he takes to express himself with clarity and precision. He announces his lines of argument, develops them, repeats them, and for good measure cross references them."--Michael H. Hunt, Political Science Quarterly "The book elaborates on how America crafted and created 'cooperative security'--arguably the most important innovation in national security in the 20th century."--Wang Yong, Shanghai DailyTable of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xvii Chapter One: Crisis of the Old Order 1 Part One: Theoretical Foundations 33 Chapter Two: Power and the Varieties of Order 35 Chapter Three: Power and Strategies of Rule 79 Chapter Four: Unipolarity and Its Consequences 119 Part Two: Historical Origins and Trajectories of Change 157 Chapter Five: The Rise of the American System 159 Chapter Six: The Great Transformation and the Failure of Illiberal Hegemony 221 Chapter Seven: Dilemmas and Pathways of Liberal International Order 279 Chapter Eight: Conclusion: The Durability of Liberal International Order 333 Index 361
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Princeton University Press Dont Blame Us
Book SynopsisDon't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in modern American political culture. Focusing on the suburbs along the hiTrade Review"Don't Blame Us is a very readable and informative book."--Choice "This brilliantly argued and beautifully written book was ... eye-opening for me both as a scholar and a product of the world Geismer reveals in all of its complexity."--Elise Lemire, New England Quarterly "[An] exhaustively researched, compelling book... Geismer presents a fresh and much-needed portrait of a middle-class white suburbia n the most Democratic of states--Massachusetts--that forces us to reconsider easy teleological narratives of liberal 'decline' and conservative ascendancy."--Jonathan Bell, American Historical Review "[A] provocative and well-researched book... Broad scope and impressive relevance... Particularly impressive about Don't Blame Us is the way Geismer so thoroughly considers the many factors that went into the making of what might be termed the American urban crisis."--Kenneth T. Jackson, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 Part I Suburban Activism 1 No Ordinary Suburbs 19 2 Good Neighbors 43 3 A Multiracial World 71 4 Grappling with Growth 97 5 Political Action for Peace 123 Part II Massachusetts Liberals 6 A New Center 149 7 Open Suburbs vs. Open Space 173 8 Tightening the Belt 199 9 No One Home to Answer the Phone 227 10 From Taxachusetts to the Massachusetts Miracle 251 Epilogue 281 Notes 289 Index 357
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Princeton University Press Red State Religion
Book SynopsisNo state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas. To understand red state politics, Kansas is the place. It is also the place to understand red state religion. This title tells the story of religiously motivated political activism in Kansas from territorial days to the present.Trade ReviewFinalist for the 2013 Christianity Today Awards in Christianity and Culture "Robert Wuthnow, a brilliant sociologist of religion and himself a native of Kansas, gives us a careful sociological history of the intertwining of religion and politics in this quintessential red state... In Wuthnow's nuanced and careful study, Kansans come across less as hayseeds or off-the-wall moralizers than as pragmatic conservatives, committed to traditional families and fiscal conservatism. They are skeptical of big government and dedicated to preserving simple and vital virtues. Wuthnow has penned a 'must read' book for those who would understand--and not just caricature--red state religion and how it intertwines with politics."--John A. Coleman, America "With the publication of Red State Religion, we profit greatly from a majestically comprehensive account of Kansas' history. In turn, we get a truer story, one that inspires a less ideological reading of the state, perhaps freeing Kansans themselves from any notion of how they must think--or vote."--Alexander Heffner, Philadelphia Inquirer "[Red State Religion] thoughtfully and compassionately explores the rich and complex political and religious history of the place."--Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Christian Century "Red State Religion is a model of clarity and is surely one of the best books available on the intersection of religion and politics."--Al Menendez, Voice of Reason "Elegantly written, passionately argued, and deeply researched, Red State Religion challenges our basic assumptions about the influence of the Religious Right in particular, and the role of religion in American politics more generally."--Andrew Preston, Journal of Ecclesiastical History "[Wuthnow] takes Kansas state conservatism seriously in grounding his conclusions in archival research rather than journalistic sensationalism."--Choice "Wuthnow does an excellent job tracing the development of religious institutions in the state."--James E. Sherow, Great Plains Research "Red State Religion is an ambitious, comprehensive, and rigorous study that provides a thoughtful corrective to past efforts to portray what's the matter with Kansas."--Finbarr Curtis, ReligionTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface ix Prologue 1 Murder at the Glenwood 10 Chapter 1:. Piety on the Plains 17 Abraham Lincoln in Kansas 18 Establishing a Civic Order 29 Public Religion 35 Serving the Community 42 Church Expansion 47 Cooperation and Competition 57 Chapter 2:. An Evolving Political Style 67 Prairie Politics 72 Populism and Religious Politics 79 Protesting against Inequality 90 A Divided Party 95 Law and Order 101 For the Children 104 Chapter 3:. Redefining the Heartland 110 Harvest of Progress 112 Consolidation and Expansion 117 Forward-looking Initiatives 124 Church and State 130 Hunkering Down 134 Fundamentalism and the Great Depression 142 Simian Peasants 152 Novel Movements 162 Chapter 4:. Quiet Conservatism 169 Grassroots Resentments 171 The Senator from Pendergast 183 Hometown Religion 187 I Like Ike 200 A Well-Qualified Catholic 208 Chapter 5:. An Era of Restructuring 215 Stirrings on the Right 217 From Desegregation to Black Power 229 Nixon at Kansas State 241 Division in the Churches 252 Chapter 6:. The Religious Right 267 Mobilization on the Right 269 Government Is the Problem 279 The War in Wichita 287 Shifting the Focus 294 Questioning Evolution 303 Chapter 7:. Continuing the Struggle 312 The Churches and Activist Networks 314 Electing George W. Bush 321 Regulating Abortion 326 The Campaign against Gay Marriage 330 Evolution Revisited 338 The Death of Dr. Tiller 347 Swatches of Purple 354 Epilogue 361 Notes 371 Selected Bibliography 445 Index 465
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