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Political Science

Tulis Jeffrey K., Mellow Nicole

ISBN: PB: 9780226515328, ISBN: HB: 9780226515298, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

American politics is typically a story about winners. The fading away of defeated politicians and political movements is a feature of American politics that ensures political stability and a peaceful transition of power. But American history has also...

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Political Science

Law

Legislative Style

Bernhard William, Sulkin Tracy

ISBN: PB: 9780226510286, ISBN: HB: 9780226510149, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 line drawings, 26 tables

Once elected, members of Congress face difficult decisions about how to allocate their time and effort. On which issues should they focus? What is the right balance between working in one's district and on Capitol Hill? How much should they engage wi...

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Europe

Less You Know, Better You Sleep Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship Under Yeltsin and Putin

Satter David

ISBN: PB: 9780300230727, Yale University Press, October 2017
240 pp., 21x14 cm

<p>In December 2013, David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War. The Moscow Times said it was not surprising he was expelled, "it was surprising it took so long". Satter is known in Russi...

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Political Science

Losing an Enemy Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy

Parsi Trita

ISBN: HB: 9780300218169, Yale University Press, September 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The definitive book on Obama's historic nuclear deal with Iran from the author of the "Foreign Affairs Best Book" on the Middle East in 2012. This timely book focuses on President Obama's deeply considered strategy toward Iran's nuclear program and...

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America

Loving and Leaving Washington Reflections on Public Service

Yochelson John

ISBN: HB: 9781612348247, Casemate, Potomac Books, September 2016
296 pp., 23x15 cm

John Yochelson was seventeen when he first heard President Kennedy's call, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country". Responding to the call to public service, he had a front-row seat from the mid-1970s through...

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Political Science

History

Legitimizing Science National and Global Public (1800-2010)

Franzmann Andreas, Munte Peter, Jansen Axel

ISBN: PB: 9783593504872, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
300 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm, 8 halftones and 8 line drawings

Since the founding in 1660 of the Royal Society, London, scientists engaging in experimental research have sought to establish a base for exploratory work in communities and their political institutions. This connection between science and the nation...

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Political Science

Legislating in the Dark Information and Power in the House of Representatives

Curry James M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226281711, ISBN: HB: 9780226281681, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 figures, 17 tables

The 2009 financial stimulus bill ran to more than 1,100 pages, yet it wasn't even given to Congress in its final form until thirteen hours before debate was set to begin, and it was passed twenty-eight hours later. How are representatives expected to...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Leon Blum Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist

Birnbaum Pierre

ISBN: HB: 9780300189803, Yale University Press, July 2015
232 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Leon Blum (1872-1950) was many things: a socialist and political activist, leader of the Popular Front; a dedicated statesman who served as France's prime minister three times; a hero who courageously opposed anti-Semitism, Nazi aggression, and the p...

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Lies, Passions, and Illusions The Democratic Imagination in the Twentieth Century

Furet Francois

ISBN: HB: 9780226114491, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
128 pp., 17.7x12.7 cm, 1 halftone

Francois Furet needs little introduction. Widely considered one of the leading historians of the French Revolution, he was a maverick for his time, shining a critical light on the entrenched Marxist interpretations that prevailed during the mid-twent...

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Literary Criticism

Political Science

Listening to the Loom Essays on Literature, Politics and Violence

Nagaraj D. R.

ISBN: HB: 9780857421920, Seagull Books, February 2014
392 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Listening to the Loom" brings to light a previously unknown body of ideas and essays from renowned Indian Dalit scholar D. R. Nagaraj, representing his most important writings on literature, politics, and violence. Comprised of thirteen pieces – the...

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