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Heathen: Religion and Race in American History	Gin Lum, Kathryn	HARDCOVER	05/17/2022	$35.00	Not yet available
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity	McCarraher, Eugene	PAPERBACK	04/05/2022	$27.95	Not yet available
The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power	Black, Megan	PAPERBACK	02/15/2022	$27.95
The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy	Fishkin, Joseph Forbath, William E.	HARDCOVER	02/08/2022	$39.95
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology	Redman, Samuel J.	HARDCOVER	10/26/2021	$39.95
The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics	Breyer, Stephen	HARDCOVER	09/14/2021	$19.95
Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court	Burton, Orville Vernon Derfner, Armand	HARDCOVER	05/31/2021	$35.00
Racism in America: A Reader		EBOOK (PDF, EPUB, MOBI)	08/04/2020	$0.00	View Download Options »
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?	Keyssar, Alexander	HARDCOVER	07/31/2020	$35.00
Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States	Kraut, Julia Rose	HARDCOVER	07/21/2020	$36.00
Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings about Technology, from the Telegraph to Twitter	Fernandez, Luke Matt, Susan J.	PAPERBACK	07/07/2020	$21.00
Shields of the Republic: The Triumph and Peril of America’s Alliances	Rapp-Hooper, Mira	HARDCOVER	06/09/2020	$27.95
Christian: The Politics of a Word in America	Bowman, Matthew	PAPERBACK	04/07/2020	$21.00
Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition	Brundage, W. Fitzhugh	PAPERBACK	03/10/2020	$19.95
The Embattled Vote in America: From the Founding to the Present	Lichtman, Allan J.	PAPERBACK	02/18/2020	$19.95
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity	McCarraher, Eugene	HARDCOVER	11/12/2019	$39.95
City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present	Krieger, Alex	HARDCOVER	10/29/2019	$35.00
The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery	McElya, Micki	PAPERBACK	05/13/2019	$20.00
Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings about Technology, from the Telegraph to Twitter	Fernandez, Luke Matt, Susan J.	HARDCOVER	05/01/2019	$35.00
Democracy: A Case Study	Moss, David A.	PAPERBACK	03/11/2019	$21.00
Lord Cornwallis Is Dead: The Struggle for Democracy in the United States and India	Slate, Nico	HARDCOVER	02/11/2019	$41.00
Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform	Lake, Marilyn	HARDCOVER	01/07/2019	$37.00
Prophecy without Contempt: Religious Discourse in the Public Square	Kaveny, Cathleen	PAPERBACK	11/19/2018	$30.00
Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition	Brundage, W. Fitzhugh	HARDCOVER	11/12/2018	$35.00
The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States	Berlin, Ira	PAPERBACK	11/05/2018	$17.00
The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power	Black, Megan	HARDCOVER	10/01/2018	$42.00
The Embattled Vote in America: From the Founding to the Present	Lichtman, Allan J.	HARDCOVER	09/10/2018	$27.95
We the People, Volume 3: The Civil Rights Revolution	Ackerman, Bruce	PAPERBACK	07/09/2018	$24.00
Inferno: An Anatomy of American Punishment	Ferguson, Robert A.	PAPERBACK	06/04/2018	$30.00
Christian: The Politics of a Word in America	Bowman, Matthew	HARDCOVER	04/02/2018	$29.95
Other Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions	White, Christopher G.	HARDCOVER	03/16/2018	$38.00
How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy	Baradaran, Mehrsa	PAPERBACK	03/12/2018	$22.00
After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene	Purdy, Jedediah	PAPERBACK	02/19/2018	$21.00
Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony	Schake, Kori	HARDCOVER	11/27/2017	$33.00
Constitutional Coup: Privatization’s Threat to the American Republic	Michaels, Jon D.	HARDCOVER	10/23/2017	$40.00
The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life	Cook, Eli	HARDCOVER	09/25/2017	$40.00
The Origin of Others	Morrison, Toni	HARDCOVER	09/18/2017	$22.95
American Niceness: A Cultural History	Bramen, Carrie Tirado	HARDCOVER	08/14/2017	$48.00
Corporations and American Democracy	Lamoreaux, Naomi R. Novak, William J.	HARDCOVER	05/08/2017	$38.00
Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America	Frank, Nathaniel	HARDCOVER	04/24/2017	$40.00
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition	Bailyn, Bernard	PAPERBACK	04/19/2017	$25.00
About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America	Sanger, Carol	HARDCOVER	03/27/2017	$29.95
Preparing for War: The Emergence of the Modern U.S. Army, 1815–1917	Clark, J. P.	HARDCOVER	01/02/2017	$42.00
Vanishing America: Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation	Powell, Miles A.	HARDCOVER	11/14/2016	$43.00
Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment	Steiker, Carol S. Steiker, Jordan M.	HARDCOVER	11/07/2016	$29.95
The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery	McElya, Micki	HARDCOVER	08/15/2016	$29.95
Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United	Teachout, Zephyr	PAPERBACK	05/09/2016	$21.00
The Dream of the Great American Novel	Buell, Lawrence	PAPERBACK	05/09/2016	$30.00
The Mormon Jesus: A Biography	Turner, John G.	HARDCOVER	04/25/2016	$31.00
Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor	Goff, Lisa	HARDCOVER	04/25/2016	$40.00

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The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics, by Stephen Breyer, from Harvard University Press

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