Historian Brenda Wineapple discusses her new book The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a New Nation.
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Money Against Democracy
How neoliberals captured the machinery of the state to keep citizens from regulating markets
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Hobsbawm, Unrepentant
A new biography connects the life and work of the great radical historian of capitalism.
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The Courage to Defy Brutality
The case of a black Army veteran that spurred a South Carolina federal judge to defy his state’s white supremacist power structure
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Getting Angry at the Right Targets in the Right Way
Catharsis is good, but effectiveness matters more.Â
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The 2016 Election Was Ultimately About One Big Thing
A new book argues it was a struggle over identity.
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Why New Social Movements Are Different
A new book from social reformer Jai Sen explores the international age of protest.
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Democracy and Its Discontents
Three authors engage with the threats to a liberal society.
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Where the Republican Party Began
Sidney Blumenthal’s new volume in his biography of Lincoln explores the role of leadership in the remaking of American politics in the 1850s.
