Yale University Press: 2009 books
America's Congress
Actions in the Public Sphere, James Madison Through Newt Gingrich
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
To understand American politics and government, we need to recognize not only that members of Congress are agents of societal interests and preferences but also that they act with a certain degree of autonomy and consequence in the country’s public sphere. In this illuminating book, a distinguished...
Good Italy, Bad Italy
Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Not long ago Italy was Europe's highly touted emerging economy, a society that blended dynamism and super-fast growth with a lifestyle that was the envy of all. Now it is viewed as a major threat to the future of the Euro, indeed to the European Union as a whole. Italy's political system is shorn of...
by Mr. Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, Kyrill M. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The Secret World of American Communism (1995), filled with revelations about Communist party covert operations in the United States, created an international sensation. Now the American authors of that book, along with Soviet archivist Kyrill M. Anderson, offer a second volume of profound social, political,...
Black Banners of ISIS
The Roots of the New Caliphate
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A medieval Islam historian’s incisive portrait of ISIS, revealing the group’s deep ideological and intellectual roots in the earliest days of Islam With tremendous speed, the Islamic State has moved from the margins to the center of life in the Middle East. Despite recent setbacks, its ability to...
A Single Roll of the Dice
Obama's Diplomacy with Iran
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Have the diplomatic efforts of the Obama administration toward Iran failed? Was the Bush administration's emphasis on military intervention, refusal to negotiate, and pursuit of regime change a better approach? How can the United States best address the ongoing turmoil in Tehran? This book provides a...
Syria
The Fall of the House of Assad; New Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
In this timely book, David Lesch-one of the only Westerners well acquainted with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad-sheds new light on the ophthalmologist-turned-tyrant and how his regime has failed his country. For this updated edition, Lesch has added an epilogue that discusses the formation of the...
Losing an Enemy
Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The definitive book on Obama’s historic nuclear deal with Iran from the author of the Foreign Affairs Best Book on the Middle East in 2012This timely book focuses on President Obama’s deeply considered strategy toward Iran’s nuclear program and reveals how the historic agreement of 2015 broke...
by Ms. Jo Tuckman
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
In 2000, Mexico's long invincible Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost the presidential election to Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN). The ensuing changeover—after 71 years of PRI dominance—was hailed as the beginning of a new era of hope for Mexico. Yet the promises of the...
The Literary Churchill
Author, Reader, Actor
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
This strikingly original book introduces a Winston Churchill we have not known before. Award-winning author Jonathan Rose explores in tandem Churchill’s careers as statesman and author, revealing the profound influence of literature and theater on Churchill’s personal, carefully composed grand story...
by Michael Wayne
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Scientific research has now established that race should be understood as a social construct, not a true biological division of humanity. In Imagining Black America, Michael Wayne explores the construction and reconstruction of black America from the arrival of the first Africans in Jamestown in 1619...
by Jeffrey Herf
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Jeffrey Herf, a leading scholar in the field, offers the most extensive examination to date of Nazi propaganda activities targeting Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East during World War II and the Holocaust. He draws extensively on previously unused and little-known archival resources, including the...
An Argument Open to All
Reading "The Federalist" in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
In An Argument Open to All, renowned legal scholar Sanford Levinson takes a novel approach to what is perhaps America’s most famous political tract. Rather than concern himself with the authors as historical figures, or how The Federalist helps us understand the original intent of the framers of...
Grounds for Dreaming
Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Known as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California’s Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the...