Book interviews tagged America
GIANTS: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
- ISBN: 978 0 446 58009 0
- featured in: Douglass’s and Lincoln’s intertwined story of change and self-making is the nation’s storyDecember 5, 2008
Bad for Democracy: How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People
- ISBN: 978 0 8166 5677 6
- featured in: Unitary Executive is a controversial corporate model where the CEO is also the Chair of the BoardDecember 23, 2008
The Toothpick: Technology and Culture
- ISBN: 978 0 307 27943 9
- featured in: The story of the toothpick industry is the story of American industryJanuary 2, 2009
Total Cure: The Antidote to the Health Care Crisis
- ISBN: 978 0 674 03210 1
- featured in: To change the health care system, combine the collective action potential of government with the flexibility and innovation of well-designed marketsJanuary 6, 2009
Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and Silent Cinema
- ISBN: 978 0 8223 4201 4 paper
- featured in: Silent cinema makes visible the ambivalence around modern technologies and traffic in early twentieth century AmericaJanuary 9, 2009
Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (revised and updated edition)
- ISBN: 978 0 8166 5494 9
- featured in: The line between culture and politics is exceptionally fluid—if it exists at allJanuary 20, 2009
Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos
- ISBN: 978 0 8078 3216 5
- featured in: Metaphors are vital to understanding the North American relationship with CubaMarch 3, 2009
Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
- ISBN: 978 0 262 53306 5 pb
- featured in: Freedom makes control possible, necessary, and never enoughMarch 17, 2009
Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles
- ISBN: 978 0 8122 4117 4
- featured in: On the fraught relationship between art and Los Angeles politicsMarch 20, 2009
Weather Matters: An American Cultural History since 1900
- ISBN: 978 0 7006 1611 4
- featured in: How we perceive, manage, and market the weatherApril 10, 2009
Selling the American Way: U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War
- ISBN: 978 0 8122 4082 5
- featured in: What role international perceptions of democratic capitalism had in the collapse of communismApril 14, 2009
Fresh: A Perishable History
- ISBN: 978 0 674 03291 0
- featured in: The farther we get from our food, the more we want to know that it’s really freshApril 17, 2009
Trucking Country: The Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy
- ISBN: 978 0691135823
- featured in: America through a political, social, and cultural history of truckingMay 1, 2009
Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century
- ISBN: 978 0 8122 4077 1 hb
- featured in: Smart government can create decent social housingMay 18, 2009
Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown
- ISBN: 978 0 19 534205 5
- featured in: Appreciating what we might call the feminist mainstreamMay 29, 2009
The Death of the American Trial
- ISBN: 978 0226081267
- featured in: An appeal to all Americans
June 1, 2009
Global California: Rising to the Cosmopolitan Challenge
- ISBN: 978 0804762267 hb
- featured in: California at the boundary between international and domestic affairsJune 8, 2009
Your Brain on Latino Comics: From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez
- ISBN: 978 0292719347 hb
- featured in: The Latino comic book in the United States todayJune 10, 2009
The American 1930s: A Literary History
- ISBN: 978 0521734318
- featured in: Against the simplification of history
June 12, 2009
Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity
- ISBN: 978 0520255203
- featured in: Approaching art history in a more ethical, interdisciplinary wayJune 17, 2009
The Co-Presidency of Bush and Cheney
- ISBN: 978 0804758185
- featured in: Dick Cheney was not vice- but co-president of the United StatesJune 22, 2009
Foreclosed: High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining of America’s Mortgage Market
- ISBN: 978 0 8014 4772 3
- featured in: Sound mortgage markets require a mixed-economy approachJune 24, 2009
Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education
- ISBN: 978 0801890536
- featured in: Higher education has a central role in determining the future not just within individual families but also for entire nationsJuly 1, 2009
Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War
- ISBN: 978 0 231 14896 2 hb
- featured in: On Russia, with an open mind
July 10, 2009
The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession
- ISBN: 978 0803224599
- featured in: About turning the judgment of truth-telling over to a machineJuly 13, 2009
Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men Through American History
- ISBN: 978 0 8078 5945 2
- featured in: Remain vigilant about the continuing mysteries of sexJuly 29, 2009
Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940
- ISBN: 978 0226322438
- featured in: Mapping the relationship between racial formation and sexual classification in the United StatesAugust 5, 2009
Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations
- ISBN: 978 0226033648 hb
- featured in: On the role of “shareholder” governments that own multilateral development banksAugust 17, 2009
The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
- ISBN: 978 0674033191
- featured in: Institutions are the medium of collective human endeavorSeptember 7, 2009
Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism
- ISBN: 978 0231520089 hb
- featured in: 9/11 in American filmmaking
September 9, 2009
The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers and the Lessons of Anti-Communism
- ISBN: 978 0674032583
- featured in: Even in a simple color scheme, there is no red without blue and no blue without redSeptember 11, 2009
Newlyweds on Tour: Honeymooning in Nineteenth-Century America
- ISBN: 978 1584657736
- featured in: The honeymoon helped to consummate the romance of consumptionSeptember 28, 2009
Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap
- ISBN: 978 0 7006 1547 6 hb
- featured in: Laypeople will be surprised by the very diversity of the hip-hop communitySeptember 30, 2009
Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York
- ISBN: 978 0812241600
- featured in: Market booms, whether in the 1740s or in the 1990s, are largely imaginaryOctober 2, 2009
Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women
- ISBN: 978 0 691 13818 3
- featured in: Reflection on the necessity to depoliticize the veilOctober 5, 2009
Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America
- ISBN: 978 0 226 29865 8
- featured in: On the history, logic, and morality of consumer activismOctober 26, 2009
To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
- ISBN: 978 0674033221
- featured in: Wal-Mart as a Christian pro-capitalist social movementNovember 4, 2009
A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America
- ISBN: 978 0231129220
- featured in: A North American—not just American—history of Japanese confinementNovember 6, 2009
Living Weapons: Biological Warfare and International Security
- ISBN: 978 0801447686
- featured in: A comprehensive analysis of the unique security challenges of biological weaponsNovember 23, 2009
At Home in the Law: How the Domestic Violence Revolution is Transforming Privacy
- ISBN: 978 0300113983
- featured in: The legal idea of home is being transformed, and it mattersDecember 4, 2009
