CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom
Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom (University of California Press) is Norman Finkelstein *87’s investigation into the Gaza Strip and…
The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics
John Quincy Adams has been relegated to the sidelines of our history books, remembered for an ineffective presidency during troubled…
Storming the Heavens: African Americans and the Early Struggle for the Right to Fly
Storming the Heavens (Black Classic Press) tells the story of how black pioneers like Bessie Coleman, John Robinson, and others…
The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett’s Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox
Gerald Horne ’70 writes about Claude Barnett, the founder of the Associated Negro Press, who, as an activist in journalism…
Ethics at the Edges of Law: Christian Moralists and American Legal Thought
So far, an interdisciplinary conversation between law and Christian thought exists, but it is centered in the legal academy. Cathleen…
Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit & the Figural Economy of American Industrialization
Princeton professor Judith Hamera argues that U.S. deindustrialization cannot be understood apart from issues of race. Unfinished Business (Oxford University…
Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain
In Tact (Princeton University Press), David Russell *11 argues that tact was an invention of the 19th century, when Britain…
Advice and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide
Economists sometimes overlook the human costs of best economic policy, while politicians often go to economists to reinforce their own…
Bluff
Bluff (Grove Atlantic) is about Natalie Webb, a card trick prodigy at age 17, who has been shunned by the…
Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming
Unfinished (Duke University Press) explores the concept of an anthropology of becoming, which examines how people’s becomings trouble or exceed…
Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity
David Frankfurter *90 offers a new model for analyzing the process of Christianization. He applies it in Christianizing Egypt (Princeton…
Tomorrowland: Scenarios for Law Firms Beyond the Horizon
Tomorrowland (CreateSpace) explores possible future scenarios for law firms, from maintaining status quo to a dramatic escalation in the war…
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
Bryan Caplan *97 argues that the primary function of education is not to give students skills that they will use…
How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
Seneca believed that it took a lifetime to learn how to die, and throughout his life, he returned to the…
The Essential Fictions
Essential Fictions (Northwestern University Press), translated by Val Vinokur *01, is a collection of 72 short stories by twentieth-century Russian…
Why Does Michelangelo Matter?: A Historian’s Questions About the Visual Arts
Theodore Rabb *61 has been asking what historians should learn from art since the ’70s, and he has argued that…
Harbor of Spies
Set in Havana during the American Civil War, Harbor of Spies (Lyons Press) is a historical novel about American naval…
You Had a Job for Life: Story of a Company Town
Jamie Sayen ’71 has spent years interviewing the residents of a New Hampshire town. The community’s paper mill had been…

















