CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America
The Left Behind (Princeton University Press) argues that resentment toward the federal government in rural communities comes not from primarily…
The Going: A Meditation on Jewish Law
Leon Wiener Dow ’91 reflects on Jewish law and intertwines his personal experience in The Going (Palgrave Macmillan). The book…
The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta
Kushanava Choudhury ’00 immigrated to the United States with his parents at age 12, but after graduating from college, he…
The One-Bottle Cocktail
Cocktails can be difficult to make, especially when they require obscure liquors. The One-Bottle Cocktail (Ten Speed Press) is a…
Three-Text Edition of Thomas Hobbes’s Political Theory: The Elements of Law, De Cive and Leviathan
Three-Text Edition of Thomas Hobbes’s Political Theory (Cambridge University Press) has, for the first time, printed the Leviathan alongside Hobbes’…
The Away Game: The Epic Search for Soccer’s Next Superstars
Led by the scout who launched Lionel Messi’s career, Football Dreams, a program designed to discover soccer stars, holds tryouts…
Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation
Unscripted America (Oxford University Press) is a study of how colonists in North America struggled to understand, translate, and interpret…
The Presidency of Barack Obama
Barack Obama’s historic election as the first African American president seemed to usher in a new era, and Woodrow Wilson…
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…
