From a rising intersex activist in the Midwest, a candid memoir about growing up different and an inspiring story of self-discovery and self-acceptance. When Chris Arnone was born in Independence, Missouri, nobody could tell what sex he was. For the first few days of his life, until a chromosome test confirmed he was a boy, his parents called ......
Montesquieu and the Challenges of the American Founding
The most comprehensive account of Montesquieu's influence on the debates over the Constitution during the American founding. Few thinkers loom larger over the American founding than Montesquieu. The Framers repeatedly invoked his authority while drafting, debating, and ratifying the Constitution-yet the true depth and complexity of his influence ......
The Long War for the Supreme Court-and Why Republicans Are Currently Winning
An essential history of how both parties fought for control of the Supreme Court-and how Republicans have seized the advantage. In Supreme Control, leading Supreme Court scholar Lucas A. Powe, Jr. explains how the United States arrived at the Republican-dominated Roberts Court that is transforming constitutional law and reshaping everyday ......
From World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Who serves, who doesn't-and why it matters to every American. In Military Service and American Democracy, William A. Taylor traces the long and contentious evolution of how the United States has built and maintained its armed forces-from the first peacetime draft on the eve of World War II to beyond the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. ......
An authoritative history of American foreign policy-published for the nation's 250th anniversary-from a veteran scholar and teacher. The Great League of Peace and Power provides a lucid history of American foreign policy and international affairs from the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to its 250th anniversary in 2026. In this concise ......
How French Military Genius Shaped the American Civil War
This pioneering work is the first to examine Napoleon's influence on the Civil War through direct, battle-by-battle comparison. For the generation that fought the American Civil War, the wars of the early nineteenth century were not distant history-they were a professional guide. Military education at West Point and elsewhere immersed American ......
This collection reveals conscription as one of the most powerful-and coercive-tools of the modern state, a litmus test for the relationship between governments, militaries, and the people they claim to defend. Americans often view their military through the lens of confident exceptionalism-a belief that the challenges faced by other nations could ......
The full story behind the six words that reshaped Republican fiscal politics--and still haunt American governance today. "Read my lips: no new taxes." With that electrifying pledge at the 1988 Republican National Convention, George H. W. Bush sealed his nomination and unified a party. The promise became one of the most famous-and most ......
The full story behind the six words that reshaped Republican fiscal politics--and still haunt American governance today. "Read my lips: no new taxes." With that electrifying pledge at the 1988 Republican National Convention, George H. W. Bush sealed his nomination and unified a party. The promise became one of the most famous-and most ......
