New Books in American Studies

Interviews with Scholars of America about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
3901
Victor Pickard, "Democracy Without Journalism?:...
The mainstream American news media are not really free at all, but have been pressed into service over more than a century to generate profits for a few rich owners bent on selling eyeballs and ears to advertisers...
48 min
3902
Barry C. Lynn, "Liberty From All Masters: The N...
Yet Americans are only now awakening to what is perhaps the gravest domestic threat to our liberties in a century—in the form of an extreme and fast-growing concentration of economic power. Monopolists today control almost every corner of the American economy...
55 min
3903
David Davis, "Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed ...
Out of the carnage of World War II comes an unforgettable tale about defying the odds and finding hope in the most harrowing of circumstances...
45 min
3904
John Yoo, "Defender in Chief: Donald Trump’s Fi...
Yoo argues that Trump has performed in a manner that the Constitution’s Framers would applaud.,,,
55 min
3905
Peter J. Thuesen, "Tornado God: American Religi...
Thuesen links the “numinous” religious experiences of Americans as they experienced the uniquely destructive weather phenomenon of the tornado....
48 min
3906
Joel S. Franks, "Asian American Basketball: A C...
What roles has the game played in the lives of individuals and communities of Asian Americans in the United States?
37 min
3907
John Lobell, "Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philo...
For everyone interested in the enduring appeal of Louis Kahn, this book demonstrates that a close look at how Kahn put his buildings together will reveal a deeply felt philosophy.
37 min
3908
Karlos K. Hill, "The Murder of Emmett Till: A G...
Hill tells the story of this crime, placing it in the context of both the African American experience and the practice of white supremacy...
61 min
3909
Felicia Angeja Viator, "To Live and Defy in LA:...
Viator describes how rap leapt across the continent from its New York roots in the mid-1980s and took hold in Los Angeles..
74 min
3910
Bonny H. Miller, "Augusta Browne: Composer and ...
Born around 1820, Augusta Browne was a pianist, organist, composer, music pedagogue, entrepreneur, music critic, and writer...
53 min
3911
Neil Shister, "Radical Ritual: How Burning Man ...
Shister contends that Burning Man is a significant player in the avant-garde, forging new social paradigms as liberal democracy unravels. Burning Man’s contribution to this new order is postmodern, a fusion of sixties humanism with state-of-the-art Silicon Valley wizardry...
58 min
3912
Sara Luna, "Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex a...
Sex, drugs, religion, and love are potent combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution zone in the city of Reynosa, across the border from Hidalgo, Texas...
38 min
3913
Anthony L. Gardner, "Stars with Stripes: The Es...
The EU-US partnership has its frustrations and failings, writes Tony Gardner...
39 min
3914
Ellen Wayland-Smith, "The Angel in the Marketpl...
Wayland-Smith follows the career of adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub who in the mid-twentieth century created the advertising campaigns selling consumer products to the average American housewife. More than products,,,
46 min
3915
Scott Laderman, "The 'Silent Majority' Speech: ...
On November 3, 1969 Richard M. Nixon addressed the nation in what would come to be known as “The Silent Majority Speech”...
66 min
3916
Simone C. Drake, "Are You Entertained?: Black P...
The authors offer an engaging and interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary black popular culture and how to think about this broad and diverse landscape, especially in relation to power, capitalism, gender identity, and presidential politics...
53 min
3917
Nadia Nurhussein, "Black Land: Imperial Ethiopi...
Nurhussein explores late nineteenth and twentieth century African American cultural engagement with and literary depictions of imperial Ethiopia...
37 min
3918
Dan Royles, "To Make the Wounded Whole: The Afr...
In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities...
69 min
3919
Heather Lende, "Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaska...
Heather Lende was one of the thousands of women inspired to take a more active role in politics during the past few years...
62 min
3920
Maria Hinojosa, "Once I Was You: A Memoir of Lo...
Maria shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago...
62 min
3921
Richard L. Hasen, "Election Meltdown: Dirty Tri...
As the 2020 presidential campaign begins to take shape, there is widespread distrust of the fairness and accuracy of American elections....
41 min
3922
Valerie Olson, "Into the Extreme: U.S. Environm...
What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it?
64 min
3923
Michael Walzer, "A Foreign Policy for the Left"...
What is "Left" foreign policy? Michael Walzer explains...
69 min
3924
Eric San Juan, "The Films of Martin Scorsese: G...
Few mainstream filmmakers have as pronounced a disregard for the supposed rules of filmmaking as Martin Scorsese...
58 min
3925
Spencer Critchley, "Patriots of Two Nations: Wh...
America is in a Cold Civil War, between people who see each other as threats to the country — but themselves as patriots. How can that be? They are patriots of two nations...
58 min