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  • Boomburbs

    The Rise of America's Accidental Cities

    by Robert E. Lang, Jennifer B. LeFurgy ...
    Series series Insights: Critical Thinking on International Affairs
    A glance at a list of America's fastest growing ""cities"" reveals quite a surprise: most are really overgrown suburbs. Places such as Anaheim, California, Coral Springs, Florida, Naperville, Illinois, North Las Vegas, Nevada, and Plano, Texas, have swelled to big-city size with few people really noticing-including many of their ten million residents. These ""boomburbs"" are large, rapidly growing ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Blue Metros, Red States

    The Shifting Urban-Rural Divide in America's Swing States

    by David F. Damore, Robert E. Lang, Karen A. Danielsen ...
    Assessing where the red/blue political line lies in swing states and how it is shiftingDemocratic-leaning urban areas in states that otherwise lean Republican is an increasingly important phenomenon in American politics, one that will help shape elections and policy for decades to come. Blue Metros, Red States explores this phenomenon by analyzing demographic trends, voting patterns, economic data ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Megaregions

    Planning for Global Competitiveness

    by Adjo A. Amekudzi, Tridib Banerjee, Jason Barringer, Scott Cmapbell, Cheryl K. Contant, William Ankner, Norman Fainstein, Susan S. Fainstein, Richard Florida, Shirley Franklin, Robert E. Lang, Karen Leone de Nie, Thomas F. Luce, Michael D. Meye, Myron Orfield, Saskia Sassen, Jiawen Yang, Myungje Woo, Jessica L. Doyle, Andreas K. Faludi, Arthur C. Nelson, Dr. ...
    The concept of “the city” —as well as “the state” and “the nation state” —is passé, agree contributors to this insightful book. The new scale for considering economic strength and growth opportunities is “the megaregion,” a network of metropolitan centers and their surrounding areas that are spatially and functionally linked through environmental, economic, and infrastructure interactions.Recently ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

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  • Please Stop Helping Us

    How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

    by Jason L. Riley ...
    Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Origins of the Urban Crisis

    Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition

    by Thomas J. Sugrue ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    The reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Why Unions Matter

    by Michael D. Yates ...
    In this new edition of Why Unions Matter, Michael D. Yates shows why unions still matter. Unions mean better pay, benefits, and working conditions for their members; they force employers to treat employees with dignity and respect; and at their best, they provide a way for workers to make society both more democratic and egalitarian. Yates uses simple language, clear data, and engaging examples to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • American Poison

    How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise

    by Eduardo Porter ...
    A sweeping examination of how American racism has broken the country's social compact, eroded America's common goods, and damaged the lives of every American--and a heartfelt look at how these deep wounds might begin to heal.Compared to other industrialized nations, the United States is losing ground across nearly every indicator of social health. Its race problem, argues Eduardo Porter, is ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Outsider in the White House

    by Senator Bernie Sanders, John Nichols ...
    The political autobiography of the insurgent presidential candidateBernie Sanders’s campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized people all over the country, putting economic, racial, and social justice into the spotlight, and raising hopes that Americans can take their country back from the billionaires and change the course of history.In this book, Sanders tells the story of a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • American Babylon

    Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland

    by Robert O. Self ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    A gripping portrait of black power politics and the struggle for civil rights in postwar OaklandAs the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined. American Babylon tells this story through Oakland and ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Front Porch Politics

    The Forgotten Heyday of American Activism in the 1970s and 1980s

    by Michael Stewart Foley ...
    "Reading this book revives the spirit of civic action today for those who are unjustifiably forlorn about overcoming injustice."— Ralph NaderAn on-the-ground history of ordinary Americans who took to the streets when political issues became personalThe 1960s are widely seen as the high tide of political activism in the United States. According to this view, Americans retreated to the private realm ... Read more

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  • The Metropolitan Revolution

    The Rise of Post-Urban America

    by Jon Teaford ...
    Series series Columbia History of Urban Life
    In this absorbing history, Jon C. Teaford traces the dramatic evolution of American metropolitan life. At the end of World War II, the cities of the Northeast and the Midwest were bustling, racially and economically integrated areas frequented by suburban and urban dwellers alike. Yet since 1945, these cities have become peripheral to the lives of most Americans. "Edge cities" are now the dominant ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Diversity Explosion

    How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America

    by William H. Frey ...
    At its optimistic best, America has embraced its identity as the world's melting pot. Today it is on the cusp of becoming a country with no racial majority, and new minorities are poised to exert a profound impact on U.S. society, economy, and politics. The concept of a ""minority white"" may instill fear among some Americans, but William H. Frey, the man behind the demographic research, points ... Read more

    $21.99 USD