Political Science
LAST COWBOYS: A PIONEER FAMILY IN THE NEW WEST
Written by Branch, John
For generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders--some call them the most successful rodeo family in history.
HOW ALL POLITICS BECAME REPRODUCTIVE POLITICS: FROM WELFARE REFORM TO FORECLOSURE TO TRUMP
Written by Briggs, Laura
Today all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump, our current political crisis is above all about reproduction. Households are where we face our economic realities as social safety nets get cut and wages decline.
PEACEMAKERS: LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM TWENTIETH-CENTURY STATESMANSHIP
Written by Jentleson, Bruce W
Those questions are at the heart of The Peacemakers, a kind of global edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage.
VANITY FAIR'S SCHOOLS FOR SCANDAL
Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter shares a definitive, provocative collection of the magazine's finest dispatches on the political, sexual, and administrative scandals that have swept our nation's campuses. Vanity Fair's Schools for Scandal, edited by Graydon Carter, with an introduction by Cullen Murphy, brings together the magazine's finest reporting on the scand
WHAT HAPPENED
Written by Clinton, Hillary Rodham
A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AND NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net.
MAKING TROUBLE
Written by Segal, Lynne
What happens when angry young rebels become wary older women, raging in a leaner, meaner time: a time which exalts only the "new," when the ruling orthodoxy daily disparages everything associated with the "old"?
NO LESS THAN MYSTIC: A HISTORY OF LENIN AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION FOR A 21ST-CENTURY LEFT
Written by Medhurst, John
Published in the centenary year of the 1917 Russian Revolution, No Less Than Mystic is a fresh and iconoclastic history of Lenin and the Bolsheviks for a generation uninterested in Cold War ideologies and stereotypes.
GLOBAL REFUGEE CRISIS: HOW SHOULD WE RESPOND?: THE MUNK DEBATES
Written by Steyn, Mark
The world is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. Over 300,000 are dead in Syria, and one and half million are either injured or disabled. Four and a half million people are trying to flee the country. And Syria is just one of a growing number of failed or failing states in the Middle East and North Africa.
COLOR OF LAW: A FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF HOW OUR GOVERNMENT SEGREGATED AMERICA
Written by Rothstein, Richard
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation--that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies.
POLITICIANS AND THE EGALITARIANS: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF AMERICAN POLITICS
Written by Wilentz, Sean
"There are two keys to unlocking the secrets of American politics and American political history." So begins The Politicians & the Egalitarians, Princeton historian Sean Wilentz's bold new work of history.
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