Ranked #1
Patricia Roberts-Miller, "Demagoguery and Democracy" (The Experiment, 2017)
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25 Nov 2019
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42mins
Ranked #2
Aleksandr Dugin, "Political Platonism: The Philosophy of Politics" (Arktos, 2019)
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Aleksandr Dugin’s Political Platonism: The Philosophy of Politics (Arktos, 2019) offers a seminal analysis of the contem... Read more
19 Mar 2020
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1hr 29mins
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John Sides, Michael Tesler, Lynn Vavreck, "Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America" (Princeton UP, 2018)
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3 Dec 2018
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David Dayen, "Fat Cat: The Steve Mnuchin Story" (Strong Arm Press, 2018)
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Mickey and Dick Flacks, "Making History/Making Blintzes: How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
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H. Suzanne Woods and L. A. Hahner, "Make America Meme Again: The Rhetoric of the Alt-Right" (Peter Lang, 2019)
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On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the St... Read more
2 Jan 2020
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Ashley Jardina, "White Identity Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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One of the themes of the era of Donald Trump is whiteness and white identity. From his first steps into the public eye, ... Read more
27 Dec 2018
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Daniel HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes, "Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
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Dan HoSang and Joe Lowndes’ new book,Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity (... Read more
10 Jun 2019
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Annie Lowrey, “Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World” (Crown, 2018)
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How can we end the scourge of poverty? How we can sustain ourselves once robots eliminate the need for many jobs? Annie ... Read more
8 Aug 2018
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Timothy J. Lombardo, “Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
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President Donald Trump is not sui generis. Populist impulses and political actors have been pulsating in the American so... Read more
10 Aug 2018
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Eric Blanc, "Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics" (Verso, 2019)
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Eric Blanc is the author of Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics(Verso, 2019). Blanc i... Read more
9 Jul 2019
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23mins
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Patricia O'Toole, "The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made" (Simon and Schuster, 2018)
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10 Dec 2018
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38mins
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Daniel Denvir, "All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It" (Verso, 2020)
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It is often said that with the election of Donald Trump nativism was raised from the dead. After all, here was a preside... Read more
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Joshua D. Farrington, "Black Republicans and the Transformation of the GOP" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
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Reflecting on his fifty-year effort to steer the Grand Old Party toward black voters, Memphis power broker George W. Lee... Read more
19 Aug 2019
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1hr 17mins
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Roger Biles, “Mayor Harold Washington: Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago” (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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Harold Washington’s election as mayor of Chicago in 1983 sent a shockwave through the politics of America’s third larges... Read more
5 Jul 2018
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1hr 2mins
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Pat Garofalo, "The Billionaire Boondoggle: How Our Politicians Let Corporations and Bigwigs Steal Our Money and Jobs" (Thomas Dunne, 2019)
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13 Mar 2019
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Aram Gousouzian, "The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America" (UNC Press, 2019)
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The endlessly fascinating 1968 presidential race transformed American politics in ways that are still being felt. Aram G... Read more
14 May 2019
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33mins
Ranked #18
Claudrena N. Harold, "Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequity" (U Virginia Press, 2018)
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10 Aug 2019
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58mins
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Ronald J. Schmidt, Jr., "Reading Politics with Machiavelli" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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28 Mar 2019
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45mins
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Robin Truth Goodman, "The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
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