Catch HUP author Philip Kasinitz (Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age, co-published with the Russell Sage Foundation) speaking about his work on second-generation immigrants at the Brooklyn Public Library's Dweck Center (directions) this Saturday, May 10, at 4pm.
Do it, say Bruce Schulman and Julian Zelizer, co-editors of Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, in a new op-ed piece for our friends at the History News Network.
At a time when many focus on how to combat China's rise as a world power, there are others who wonder what it might mean for us to enjoy a cooperative relationship with the newly ascendant nation. Among them is Lindsay Waters, HUP's Executive Editor for the Humanities, who for ten years has been traveling to China to forge links with those Chinese scholars who truly have their fingers on the pulse of the transformations shaking their country. The Boston Globe's "Brainiac" blog interviewed Waters on his efforts, and why being a "friend of China" does not mean giving the Chinese government a pass on the human rights issues that shock many here in the West.
The standard explanation for the rise of conservatism in the US is the "backlash theory," which posits a hard-right turn among important segments of the American electorate in response to the sudden liberalization of American culture that took place during the 1960s. But a new book edited by Bruce Schulman and Julian Zelizer shows us that it's not quite as simple as all that. In Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, a select group of top scholars make the case that it's the 1970s, not the 60s, that is the crucial decade for the rise of conservatism. Essays like Bethany E. Moreton's "Make Payroll, Not War," Alice O'Connor's "Financing the Counterrevolution," and Jeremi Suri's "Détente and Its Discontents" show us in detail how the forces of conservatism responded to the events of the day and rose to the top of American politics. Popmatters calls Rightward Bound "a highly important and useful study, and one that offers scholars a new way of grasping conservatism." If you want to go a little deeper than the backlash theory, Rightward Bound is the place to start.
A quick round-up of coverage of Jonathan Rieder's The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr., coinciding with the sad anniversary of Dr. King's assassination in Memphis. We've got reviews from the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, and a revealing interview with Rieder in Pine Magazine.
The always-witty New York magazine reviews the new HBO series "John Adams," opining in the process that "anyone who’s dipped into the thousand letters that passed between John and Abigail during their 54 years of marriage knows that Abigail was at least as smart as James Madison." Well what they didn't tell you was that those very letters are available in toto from your friends at HUP, in a brand-new edition titled My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams. The book has been a smash; check out the HUP page for extra features including audio interviews and essays from the editors.
So says Princeton University professor Julian Zelizer, in an op-ed co-authored with his colleague Sean Wilentz in Sunday's Washington Post "Opinion" section. Zelizer is the co-editor of Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, a penetrating and provocative portrait of a critical decade in American history drawn by some of the foremost scholars of a period whose historical interpretation is taking shape before our eyes.
A new audio interview up at the National Review Online website features Donald Critchlow, author of The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History, discussing his contention that the rise of the conservative movement constitutes the most significant post-WWII development in American politics, as well as the National Review's signal role in fostering that development.
Or so says the editorial board at the Los Angles Times, in their "We wish ..." article for 2008:
We wish ... That the current and incoming national security advisor and secretaries of State, Defense and Homeland Security read Michael Levi's "On Nuclear Terrorism" and make it a top priority to ensure that everything that can be done to foil a nuclear attack by terrorists is being done.
We here at HUP wish exactly the same thing!
Happy New Year, everyone.
Donald Critchlow, author of The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History, spoke about his book last Thursday at The Heritage Foundation in Washington DC, who have put audio and video feeds of the lecture up on their website. If you missed it, see also the review of The Conservative Ascendancy that appeared in the November 18 issue of the New York Times Book Review.
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