Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society.

Arlie Hochschild is best known for her contributions to the domestic division of labor (The Second Shift), emotional labor (The Managed Heart), the rationalization of the home (Time Bind), the commodification of private life (The Commercialization of Intimate Life, The Outsourced Self). In her latest book, Strangers in Their Own Land, Hochschild takes her notion of “feeling rules” to Louisiana, exploring the emotional foundations of right wing politics (The Tea Party and support for Donald Trump) by studying divergent responses to one of the most pressing issues facing the region – environmental pollution. On the basis of her fieldwork, conducted between 2011 and 2016, Hochschild advances the “deep story” of supporters of the American right: “…the shifting moral qualifications for the American Dream had turned them into strangers in their own land, afraid, resentful, displaced, and dismissed by the very people who were, they felt, cutting in line.”

Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving "welfare queens" and "strapping young bucks" buying T-bone steaks with food stamps. In trumpeting these tales of welfare run amok, Reagan never needed to mention race, because he was blowing a dog whistle: sending a message about racial minorities inaudible on one level, but clearly heard on another. In doing so, he tapped into a long political tradition that started with George Wallace and Richard Nixon, and is more relevant than ever in the age of the Tea Party and the first black president.
In Dog Whistle Politics, Ian Haney López offers a sweeping account of how politicians and plutocrats deploy veiled racial appeals to persuade white voters to support policies that favor the extremely rich yet threaten their own interests. Dog whistle appeals generate middle-class enthusiasm for political candidates who promise to crack down on crime, curb undocumented immigration, and protect the heartland against Islamic infiltration, but ultimately vote to slash taxes for the rich, give corporations regulatory control over industry and financial markets, and aggressively curtail social services. White voters, convinced by powerful interests that minorities are their true enemies, fail to see the connection between the political agendas they support and the surging wealth inequality that takes an increasing toll on their lives. The tactic continues at full force, with the Republican Party using racial provocations to drum up enthusiasm for weakening unions and public pensions, defunding public schools, and opposing health care reform.
Rejecting any simple story of malevolent and obvious racism, Haney López links as never before the two central themes that dominate American politics today: the decline of the middle class and the Republican Party's increasing reliance on white voters. Dog Whistle Politics will generate a lively and much-needed debate about how racial politics has destabilized the American middle class -- white and nonwhite members alike.

In his seminal work The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel Huntington argued provocatively and presciently that with the end of the cold war, "civilizations" were replacing ideologies as the new fault lines in international politics. Now in his controversial new work, Who Are We?, Huntington focuses on an identity crisis closer to home as he examines the impact other civilizations and their values are having on our own country. America was founded by British settlers who brought with them a distinct culture, says Huntington, including the English language, Protestant values, individualism, religious commitment, and respect for law. The waves of immigrants that later came to the United States gradually accepted these values and assimilated into America's Anglo-Protestant culture. More recently, however, our national identity has been eroded by the problems of assimilating massive numbers of primarily Hispanic immigrants and challenged by issues such as bilingualism, multiculturalism, the devaluation of citizenship, and the "denationalization" of American elites. September 11 brought a revival of American patriotism and a renewal of American identity, but already there are signs that this revival is fading. Huntington argues the need for us to reassert the core values that make us Americans. Timely and thought-provoking, Who Are We? is an important book that is certain to shape our national conversation about who we are.

Publisher Comments:
The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today. It has fired the imagination of a public ripe for change.
Synopsis:
The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today. It has fired the imagination of a public ripe for change.
Contents
Foreword by Saul Bellow
Preface
Introduction: Our Virtue
PART ONE. STUDENTS
The Clean Slate
Boob
Music
Relationships
Self-Centeredness
Equality
Race
Sex
Separateness
Divorce
Love
Eros
PART TWO. NIHILISM, AMERICAN STYLE
The German Connection
Two Revolutions and Two States of Nature
The Serf
Creativity
Culture
Values
The Nietzscheanization of the Left or Vice Versa
Our Ignorance
PART THREE. THE UNIVERSITY
From Socrates' Apology to Heidegger's Rektoratsrede
Tocqueville on Democratic Intellectual Life
The Relation Between Thought and Civil Society
The Philosophic Experience
The Enlightenment Transformation
Swift's Doubts
Rousseau's Radicalization and the German University
The Sixties
The Student and the University
Liberal Education
The Decomposition of the University
The Disciplines
Conclusion
Index

The public intellectual, as a person and ideal, has a long and storied history. Writing in venues like the New Republic and Commentary, such intellectuals were always expected to opine on a broad array of topics, from foreign policy to literature to economics. Yet in recent years a new kind of thinker has supplanted that archetype: the thought leader. Equipped with one big idea, thought leaders focus their energies on TED talks rather than highbrow periodicals.
How did this shift happen? In The Ideas Industry, Daniel W. Drezner points to the roles of political polarization, heightened inequality, and eroding trust in authority as ushering in the change. In contrast to public intellectuals, thought leaders gain fame as single-idea merchants. Their ideas are often laudable and highly ambitious: ending global poverty by 2025, for example. But instead of a class composed of university professors and freelance intellectuals debating in highbrow magazines, thought leaders often work through institutions that are closed to the public. They are more immune to criticism--and in this century, the criticism of public intellectuals also counts for less.
Three equally important factors that have reshaped the world of ideas have been waning trust in expertise, increasing political polarization and plutocracy. The erosion of trust has lowered the barriers to entry in the marketplace of ideas. Thought leaders don't need doctorates or fellowships to advance their arguments. Polarization is hardly a new phenomenon in the world of ideas, but in contrast to their predecessors, today's intellectuals are more likely to enjoy the support of ideologically friendly private funders and be housed in ideologically-driven think tanks. Increasing inequality as a key driver of this shift: more than ever before, contemporary plutocrats fund intellectuals and idea factories that generate arguments that align with their own. But, while there are certainly some downsides to the contemporary ideas industry, Drezner argues that it is very good at broadcasting ideas widely and reaching large audiences of people hungry for new thinking. Both fair-minded and trenchant, The Ideas Industry will reshape our understanding of contemporary public intellectual life in America and the West.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN"
"You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist
"A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal
"Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility.
But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance’s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history.
A deeply moving memoir with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters.
Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers including Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, and Marcel Proust.
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her inventiveness, and her ability to capture the mind in overdrive. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon) and "one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). This volume contains all her stories to date, from the acclaimed Break It Down (1986) to the 2007 National book Award finalist Varieties of Disturbance.

On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, drawn by hunger and loneliness and risk, and finds himself ensnared in a relationship in which lust leads to mutual predation, and tenderness can transform into violence. As he struggles to reconcile his longing with the anguish it creates, he’s forced to grapple with his own fraught history, the world of his southern childhood where to be queer was to be a pariah. There are unnerving similarities between his past and the foreign country he finds himself in, a country whose geography and griefs he discovers as he learns more of Mitko’s own narrative, his private history of illness, exploitation, and want.
What Belongs to You is a stunning debut novel of desire and its consequences. With lyric intensity and startling eroticism, Garth Greenwell has created an indelible story about the ways in which our pasts and cultures, our scars and shames can shape who we are and determine how we love.

The highly anticipated U.S. Supreme Court decision in Fisher v. University of Texas placed a greater onus on higher education institutions to provide evidence supporting the need for affirmative action policies on their respective campuses. It is now more critical than ever that institutional leaders and scholars understand the evidence in support of race consideration in admissions as well as the challenges of the post-Fisher landscape.
This important volume shares information documented for the Fisher case and provides empirical evidence to help inform scholarly conversation and institutions’ decisions regarding race-conscious practices in higher education. With contributions from scholars and experts involved in the Fisher case, this edited volume documents and shares lessons learned from the collaborative efforts of the social science, educational, and legal communities. Affirmative Action and Racial Equity is a critical resource for higher education scholars and administrators to understand the nuances of the affirmative action legal debate and to identify the challenges and potential strategies toward racial equity and inclusion moving forward.

我们终此一生，就是要摆脱他人的期待，找到真正的自己。
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莉迪亚死了，可他们还不知道。
莉迪亚是家中老二，李先生和李太太的掌上明珠，她遗传了母亲的蓝眼睛和父亲的黑头发。父母深信，莉迪亚一定能实现他们无法实现的梦想。莉迪亚的尸体被发现后，她的父亲内疚不已，母亲则一心报复。莉迪亚的哥哥觉得，隔壁的坏小子铁定脱不了关系，只有莉迪亚的妹妹看得一清二楚，而且，她很可能是唯一知道真相的人……
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关于爱与失去，以及我从未告诉你的秘密
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就是她！征服欧美文坛的华裔作家！
凭借处女作夺得2014美国亚马逊年度最佳图书第1名
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即使我们熟知身边有这类故事，也从来没在美国小说中见过，起码，在伍绮诗之前，没有谁处理过这类故事。这部小说写的是成为“异类”的那种负担与压力，这种负担与压力，通常会摧毁一个人，而不是塑造一个人。
——《纽约时报书评》
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2014美国亚马逊年度最佳图书第一名——《无声告白》探索了身份危机、人生成就、种族、性别、家庭以及个人道路。并且，这本小说没有任何一处落笔是粗疏的。我唯一担心的是，我对《无声告白》的刻骨崇拜，会导致读者对这本书抱有太高的期待。但这本书就是好得这么极致！深情力透纸背，刺痛你心，用词精准而克制，文风温婉而细腻。
——美国亚马逊编辑推荐语
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爆发力惊人的处女作,笔触闪烁着散文的美感与精准，观察与洞见则像社会学家一样深刻。伍绮诗的小说从第一页开始就吸引住了读者，我们迫不及待要了解莉迪亚之死背后的故事……而小说最终揭示的真相，振聋发聩。
——《赫芬顿邮报》
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情节展开极为机智，处处撩动你的情绪……伍绮诗用扣人心弦、精彩得让人拍手叫好的故事，讲述了一个关于性别与种族的严肃主题。这样严肃的主题竟然可以被剖析得如此透彻，而且故事的节奏，竟然还可以越来越快，越来越惊心动魄，直到最后真相大白，好像有阳光铺满房间。
——《奥普拉》
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伍绮诗这部处女作，令人惊叹地包容了各种复杂情绪，以一种罕见的洞察力，表达了文化与文化之间的冲突，时代与时代之间的冲突，而这种表达，完全是一位精通写作的大师的杰出手笔。伍绮诗值得期待。
——《书目》
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这部情感真挚、充沛的处女作小说，是以一个年轻女孩的死亡开始的。莉迪亚，生于上世纪七十年代美国的一个混血家庭，被给予无限厚望和父母的憧憬，她不幸的少女生活没有任何一盎司的陈词滥调。伍绮诗的行文，是如此准确和敏锐，她刻画的人物入木三分。
——《出版人周刊》
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一部温柔的小说处女作……这部小说可能会触发无数的悲伤，关于每个人内心深处的秘密以及一个悲剧是如何影响了一个家族的故事。
——《TIMEOUT 纽约》
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在这本书中，伍绮诗深入地谱写和揭晓了詹姆斯一家的秘密……这些隐藏已久，安静而具有爆炸性的真相，加之种族和性别等议题的探讨，慢慢地带领读者见识到伍绮诗文字的多愁善感和引人入胜，直至读到最后一页，深深的触动仍在心间回荡。伍绮诗的首部小说，情感复杂，仿佛一股吸引人的强劲水流，拖着你随着急流向前，直到抵达最后的秘密。
——《科克斯书评》
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异常优秀，非常完整的一部处女作……这个故事令人心痛，伍绮诗非常巧妙地将这部复杂、跨越多个年代小说的线索串联在一起。《无声告白》是一部难得的佳作，独具魅力，她深入写出了这个美国家庭里每个人内心的秘密。读完的时候，仍让人泪流不止。
——《洛杉矶时报》
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神奇！感人！感情充沛，描述准确！围绕身份焦虑和巨大悲恸，作者出色地、漂亮地展开了故事……本书会和每一个人取得共鸣，只要你曾经向家人撒过哪怕一个微不足道的小谎。
——《波士顿环球报》
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一个动人的故事，对于生为女儿们的书中女性来说，文化之间的隔阂与差异是人生中的第一道课题。
——《Vogue》
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我对《无声告白》爱不释手……伍绮诗的笔触细腻、观察敏锐，对李家每一位成员的描摹，对他们种族差异问题的深入挖掘，以及搜寻杀害家中二女莉迪亚真凶的线索，一直读到最后一页，都让我紧扣心弦。
——《纽约时报》畅销书作家第一名，《就说你和他们一样》作者乌文•阿克潘
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既是一部扣人心弦的推理作品，也是一次对这个混种家庭的深度剖析。伍绮诗的这部处女作，张力十足，余味久久不散。
——《娱乐周刊》
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这不仅是一个关于爱和失去的故事，这还是一个美丽而让人难以忘怀的，讲述一位少女如何努力去寻找自己的人生意义的故事。
——《书道》
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性别、种族、父母未竟的野心压在子女的肩头，对以上这些，本书进行了深刻而细腻的反思……伍绮诗巧妙的、令人信服地揭示，某种程度上，有些误解，永远无法消弭。
——《旧金山记事报》
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读完了还久久沉浸在故事里面。16岁少女的死亡让她的家人们开始怀疑——她究竟在过一种什么样的生活？这部处女作让人想起了《可爱的骨头》。
——《嘉人》
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感人至深，大师手笔。伍绮诗没有给她笔下角色任何俗套而轻松的未来，也没有给她的读者任何虚假的希望。她给的是真实的希望。
——《安娜堡观察员》杂志
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冷静，激烈……这个家庭逐步暴露了它深藏的秘密，你不由自主被这一家人深深吸引……
——《密苏里人》
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伍绮诗极有技巧，她将这个悲剧的每个微小线头都捡拾了起来，顺着这些线头，牵出了很多秘密，诸多真相纷至沓来，酸楚而最终令人振奋。
——《娱乐周刊》编辑评论语
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伍绮诗这部处女作的第一个章节有些阅读难度，一个家庭的大女儿死了，这个情节，对那些追逐快感的读者而言，可能是个挑战。但是，马上，随之而来的，就是密集而紧凑的各种转折——这个家庭的成员们，彼此都深藏着太多从未诉说的秘密。这绝对是我今年最爱的一本小说。
——美国《大观》杂志

With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence.

Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president’s first years in office.

從美國建國歷程、宗教傳統、政治體制、與商業精神中，探詢美國的反智根源。
「這是美國史學史上一部傳世的傑作……是想瞭解今天美國的人所必須閱讀的一本書。」－－余英時
「本書內容不但深深吸引我，也解答了我在美國生活時心中所累積的若干疑問，真的有恍然大悟的感覺。」----本書譯者、台大政治系教授陳思賢
從文藝復興、啟蒙運動開始，近代文明就一直是以理性思辨與知識探索為前進的動力，並締造了輝煌的成果。到了當代，美國又以其發達的學術、科技與物質生活為其佼佼者，特別反映在它擁有傲視全球的頂尖大學與最多的諾貝爾獎桂冠之上。然而，另一方面，美國文化在世人心中卻少以精緻、優雅聞名，訴諸實用與庶民品味的大眾化商品與娛樂才見其所長。近年來小布希的窮兵黷武、川普的粗暴的言論與政策更讓世人驚見美國文化中「反智」的一面，美國社會層出不窮的民粹與暴力事件也令人憂心忡忡。
二十世紀中知名的美國公共知識分子理察．霍夫士達特是少數最早注意到美國文化中的「反智」現象的學者之一。作為哥倫比亞大學美國史教授，他深深感受到美國人對純粹的學術－－包含深厚的人文學養、抽象的理性思辨、審慎的推敲論證等等－－的漠視甚至是敵視，尤其是五〇年代以反共為名卻動輒以知識分子為標把的麥卡錫主義，更另人痛心疾首。他於是於一九六三年出版了這本結合了思想史、社會史、與政治史的《美國的反智傳統》。
《美國的反智傳統》指出，「反智」不只是一時的民粹現象，也未必只是理盲躁動，它反映了美國人在特殊歷史與文化背景中形成的傳統。作為一個脫離英國而獨立的新興國家，美國人往往視過往的歷史為落後、腐敗、封建貴族對平民的剝削的累積。基督教在美國蔚為主流的福音教派與振奮派推崇教友發自內心的感動以及與上帝的直接溝通，而揚棄在神學、教儀上的鑽研。傑弗遜、亞當斯、富蘭克林等建國先賢雖然具備偉大的心智，但對平等的堅持使得美國政治很快轉向以純樸、勤奮、踏實而沒有受過高等教育訓練的庶民百姓為主體，哈佛、普林斯頓等東岸名校出身的仕紳則變貶為懦弱、空想、不務實的理論派。對科技的崇拜、對進步的期盼，以及蓬勃的商業文化更將美國的基礎教育導向培育具有實用價值的技能，而輕視博雅的人文薰陶……
霍氏作為偉大的史學家，其傑出之處不僅在於對「反智」做了有系統性與歷史深度的耙梳，更在於他固然一面嚴加批判民粹、保守、反動、極右的思維，卻也試圖挖掘其背後深層的文化與社會背景，予以同情性的理解。這使得本書不但是研究美國文化與思想史的經典，更可以透過它去思考一個更宏觀的主題：「智識」在人類文明中該如何進展？知識分子能在社會上、政治上扮演什麼角色？
《美國的反智傳統》於六〇年代甫上市就造成轟動，並接連獲得普立茲非小說類獎、愛默生獎與希爾曼獎等殊榮。當代華人史學泰斗余英時先生於1975年撰寫的〈反智論與中國傳統〉即是受到本書的啟發。半個多世紀後本書中文版終於上市，讀者將可見其歷久彌新、經得起時代考驗的深厚史學造詣。
專文推薦
1. 余英時
2. 苑舉正（台大哲學系教授）
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1. 楊 照（作家）
2. 嚴震生（政大國關中心研究員）
「這是美國史學史上一部傳世的傑作……是想瞭解今天美國的人所必須閱讀的一本書。」－－余英時
「本書內容不但深深吸引我，也解答了我在美國生活時心中所累積的若干疑問，真的有恍然大悟的感覺。」----本書譯者、台大政治系教授陳思賢

There’s no question that Americans are bitterly divided by politics. But in Partisans and Partners, Josh Pacewicz finds that our traditional understanding of red/blue, right/left, urban/rural division is too simplistic.
Wheels-down in Iowa—that most important of primary states—Pacewicz looks to two cities, one traditionally Democratic, the other traditionally Republican, and finds that younger voters are rejecting older-timers’ strict political affiliations. A paradox is emerging—as the dividing lines between America’s political parties have sharpened, Americans are at the same time growing distrustful of traditional party politics in favor of becoming apolitical or embracing outside-the-beltway candidates. Pacewicz sees this change coming not from politicians and voters, but from the fundamental reorganization of the community institutions in which political parties have traditionally been rooted. Weaving together major themes in American political history—including globalization, the decline of organized labor, loss of locally owned industries, uneven economic development, and the emergence of grassroots populist movements—Partisans and Partners is a timely and comprehensive analysis of American politics as it happens on the ground.
REVIEW QUOTES
Andrew Abbott, University of Chicago
“A tale of two cities, and through them, of the tidal shifts of American politics in the last forty years. Based on years of painstaking field work as well as on archival and documentary analysis, the book develops a whole new approach to theorizing American political life. This will be one of the definitive American political ethnographies, right up there with Robert Dahl’s Who Governs?”
Nina Eliasoph, University of Southern California
“This superb study of the transformations of local political power in the United States over the past forty years doubles as a beautiful, tender, and evocative portrait of two whole ways of life, and triples as a set of answers to the most burning political questions of the day. Local politicians, party members, scholars of politics and culture, nonprofit managers, voters: everyone should read this book! By bringing poetry, science, and history to bear on our country—and world’s—most urgent political and social questions, Partisans and Partners ought to become a classic.”

The Land of Too Much presents a simple but powerful hypothesis that addresses three questions: Why does the United States have more poverty than any other developed country? Why did it experience an attack on state intervention starting in the 1980s, known today as the neoliberal revolution? And why did it recently suffer the greatest economic meltdown in seventy-five years? Although the United States is often considered a liberal, laissez-faire state, Monica Prasad marshals convincing evidence to the contrary. Indeed, she argues that a strong tradition of government intervention undermined the development of a European-style welfare state. The demand-side theory of comparative political economy she develops here explains how and why this happened. Her argument begins in the late nineteenth century, when America's explosive economic growth overwhelmed world markets, causing price declines everywhere. While European countries adopted protectionist policies in response, in the United States lower prices spurred an agrarian movement that rearranged the political landscape. The federal government instituted progressive taxation and a series of strict financial regulations that ironically resulted in more freely available credit. As European countries developed growth models focused on investment and exports, the United States developed a growth model based on consumption. These large-scale interventions led to economic growth that met citizen needs through private credit rather than through social welfare policies. Among the outcomes have been higher poverty, a backlash against taxation and regulation, and a housing bubble fueled by "mortgage Keynesianism." This book will launch a thousand debates.

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California, where he struggled with drug addiction and then in New York, where he discovered a long forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital, we see how his engagement with patients comes to define his life.
With unbridled honesty and humor, Sacks shows us that the same energy that drives his physical passions — weightlifting and swimming—also drives his cerebral passions. He writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America; his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and scientists—Thom Gunn, A.R. Luria, W.H. Auden, Francis Crick — who influenced him. On the Move is the story of a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer — and of the man who illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human.

Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at forty-eight years old, having spent decades in San Francisco, he craved change. Grieving over the death of his partner, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city's incessant rhythms, the sight of the Empire State Building against the night sky, and New Yorkers themselves, kindred souls that Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, encountered on late-night strolls with his camera.
And he unexpectedly fell in love again, with his friend and neighbor, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks, whose exuberance--"I don't so much fear death as I do wasting life," he tells Hayes early on--is captured in funny and touching vignettes throughout. What emerges is a portrait of Sacks at his most personal and endearing, from falling in love for the first time at age seventy-five to facing illness and death (Sacks died of cancer in August 2015). Insomniac City is both a meditation on grief and a celebration of life. Filled with Hayes's distinctive street photos of everyday New Yorkers, the book is a love song to the city and to all who have felt the particular magic and solace it offers.

In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters two decades after their first meeting.
No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as “a love letter, an invocation . . . an exceptionally beautiful book” (Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review). Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Award–winning film starring Timothée Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student with whom he falls in love.
In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and changes his life forever.
Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.
Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional nuances that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies.