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POLITICAL SCIENCE BOOKS FOR COURSES 2012 - 2013 PENGUIN GROUP USA POLITICAL SCIENCE 2012 GENERAL WORKS AND ANTHOLOGIES 1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 34 Negotiation and Diplomacy 35 AMERICAN GOVERNMENT 1 Leadership 36 General Works, Anthologies, and Reference 1 Military Campaigns and Strategy 36 Electoral Politics 3 State and Local Politics 5 POLITICAL ECONOMY 39 The White House 5 The Judiciary and Criminal Justice 7 POLITICAL THEORY 43 American Diplomacy and Foreign Policy 9 Ancient 43 Social Change 12 Modern 45 Politics of Gender and Sexuality 15 American 48 Labor 16 Decision Making 49 Health, Education, and Welfare 17 America’s Founding Fathers 50 Media and Technology 19 POLITICS OF THE ENVIRONMENT 51 Religion and Politics 21 REFERENCE 54 COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT 22 General Works 22 MAPS AND ATLASES 54 Africa 22 INDEX 56 Britain and Ireland 24 France, Spain, Italy, and Greece 25 COLLEGE FACULTY Germany, Northern, and Eastern Europe 26 INFORMATION SERVICE (CFIS) 60 Russia 28 Middle East 28 SCHOOL AND PERSONAL COPY Central and South Asia 30 ORDER FORM 61 China 31 EXAMINATION COPY Japan and East Asia 32 ORDER FORM 62 Southeast Asia 32 Latin America and the Caribbean 33 PENGUIN GROUP USA To order examination or personal copies of any of Penguin Group USA the titles listed in this catalog, please complete the Academic Marketing appropriate form at the back of the catalog. 375 Hudson Street New York, NY 10014 For personal service, adoption assistance, and complimentary exam copies, please sign up for our www.penguin.com/academic College Faculty Information Service at: www.penguin.com/facinfo PenGuin CiviC CLAssiCs Penguin Civic Classics is a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor Richard Beeman, author of The Penguin Guide to the U.S. Constitution, draws to- gether the great texts of American civic life, including the founding documents, pivotal historical speeches, and important Supreme Court decisions, to create a timely and informative mini-library of perennially vital issues. American Political Supreme Court Decisions Speeches EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAY M. FEINMAN EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TERRY GOLWAY Legal expert Jay M. Feinman introduces and American Political Speeches includes the best selects some of the most important Supreme American rhetoric from men and women Court Decisions of all time, which touch on the who were able to move the nation with words. very foundations of American society. These Includes Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther cases cover a vast array of issues, from the pow- King, Jr., William Jennings Bryan, Abraham ers of government and freedom of speech to Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roos- freedom of religion and civil liberties. evelt, Ronald Reagan, and many more. 176 pages • 978-0-14-312199-2 • $12.00 208 pages • 978-0-14-312195-4 • $12.00 Abraham Lincoln Thomas Paine Lincoln Speeches EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION Common Sense BY ALLEN C. GUELZO INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD BEEMAN Abraham Lincoln endowed all of his rhetoric Published anonymously in 1776, six months with vigor and moral energy, no matter the before the Declaration of Independence, subject: the duty of the citizenry, the com- Common Sense was a radical and impassioned ing of freedom, the meaning of governance, call for America to free itself and set up an in- the evils of slavery, the value of progress. The dependent republican government. Savagely speeches selected for this volume by Lincoln attacking hereditary kingship and aristocratic expert Allen C. Guelzo are a testament to our institutions, Paine urged a new beginning for history and a window into the mind of one of his adopted country in which personal free- America’s greatest leaders. dom and social equality would be upheld and 208 pages • 978-0-14-312198-5 • $12.00 economic and cultural progress encouraged. 176 pages • 978-0-14-312200-5 • $12.00 Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay The Declaration of The Federalist Papers Independence and the EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION United States Constitution BY RICHARD BEEMAN ANNOTATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION Written at a time when furious arguments BY RICHARD BEEMAN were raging about the best way to govern No citizen of the United States should be America, The Federalist Papers had the im- without the Declaration and the Constitu- mediate practical aim of persuading New tion, the most important documents in the Yorkers to accept the newly drafted Consti- nation’s history. Richard Beeman’s annota- tution in 1787. Beeman’s analysis helps clarify tions and modernizing commentary make the goals, at once separate and in concert, these foundational and indispensable texts of Madison, Hamilton, and Jay during their approachable for all, showing why they re- writing, and his selections show the array of main at the core of modern American life. issues—both philosophical and policy-spe- 176 pages • 978-0-14-312196-1 • $12.00 cific—covered by this body of work. 208 pages • 978-0-14-312197-8 • $12.00 PenGuin CiviC CLAssiCs iii GENERAL WORKS Paul Starobin Hugh Brogan FIVE ROADS TO THE FUTURE THE PENGUIN HISTORY OF THE USA AND ANTHOLOGIES Power in the Next Global Age Revised Edition “This closely researched and closely reported “A superb piece of work...written with grace work provides a set of guideposts for our and style.”—The Sunday Times (London). David Aaronovitch rapidly changing and resetting times.”— Captures the dynamic events and person- VOODOO HISTORIES Richard Florida, University of Toronto. “A alities that shaped the nation’s triumphant The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in meticulously researched and up-to-the- progress to global superpower. Shaping Modern History minute analysis of the United States’ role Penguin • 752 pp. • 978-0-14-025255-2 • $18.00 “Meticulous in its research, forensic in its in global politics, culture and society.” reasoning, robust in its argument, and often —Publishers Weekly. hilarious in its debunking, Voodoo Histories Published in hardcover as After America. is a highly entertaining rumble with the cen- Penguin • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-311736-0 • $16.00 tury’s major conspiracy theorists and their theories”—John Lahr. Riverhead • 416 pp. • 978-1-59448-498-8 • $16.00 Author is a recipient of the George Orwell Prize AMERICAN GOVERNMENT for political journalism Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot GENERAL WORKS, ANTHOLOGIES, THE NUMBERS GAME AND REFERENCE The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, in Politics, and in Life THE U.S. CONSTITUTION “A reliable guide to a treacherous subject, giv- FOR EVERYONE ing its readers the mental ammunition to make An accessible study aid and illustrated guide sense of official claims.”—The Economist. Gotham • 192 pp. • 978-1-592-40485-8 • $16.00 to the Constitution and all 27 amendments. Perigee • 64 pp. • 978-0-399-51305-3 • $8.95 An Economist Best Book of the Year H. W. Brands f AMERICAN DREAMS Zlata Filopovi´c Bernard Bailyn, editor THE DEBATE ON THE CONSTITUTION The United States Since 1945 and Melanie Challenger, editors An incisive chronicle of the events and trends STOLEN VOICES: Young People’s War Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle that guided—and sometimes misguided—our Diaries, from World War I to Iraq nation over the last seven decades. “In a par- Foreword by former U.N. over Ratification “This documentary history is an excellent tisan age dominated by ‘people’s history’ and Under-Secretary-General Olara A. Otunnu ‘patriot’s history,’ Brands has taken on the “One of Zlata’s gifts lies in throwing a human collection.”—Library Journal. Chronology, bio- graphical notes, index, appendices. formidable task of writing a concise, balanced light on intolerable events.”—San Francisco account of America since World War II.”—San Chronicle. Volume I: September 1787 to February 1788 Library of America Francisco Chronicle. Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-303871-9 • $15.00 1,214 pp. • 978-0-940450-42-4 • $35.00 Penguin • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-311955-5 • $17.00 Also available: Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Wartime Sarajevo 978-0-14-303687-6 Volume II: January to August 1788 Library of America Bryan Burrough 1,216 pp. • 978-0-940450-64-6 • $35.00 THE BIG RICH: The Rise and Fall Jeff Greenfield of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes f THEN EVERYTHING CHANGED See Political Economy, page 40 Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan “Shrewdly written...riveting.”—The New Floyd G. Cullop, editor York Times. “Fascinating reinterpretations.”— THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Booklist. and CONSTITUTION OF THE Berkley • 448 pp. • 978-0-425-24533-0 • $16.00 UNITED STATES New Introduction and Notes by the editor The ideal introduction for students, aspiring Brian MacArthur, editor citizens, and general readers. Includes quiz- THE PENGUIN BOOK OF zes and study questions for each section. TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPEECHES Signet Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-451-53130-8 • $5.95 Revised Edition More than 140 of the great speeches that have shaped this century. Dinesh D’Souza Penguin • 560 pp. • 978-0-14-028500-0 • $17.00 WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT AMERICA “A thoughtful discussion of the character and THE PENGUIN BOOK historical significance of the United States.” OF HISTORIC SPEECHES —The New York Times. From ancient times to the 20th century, the Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-200301-5 • $15.00 most inspiring, eloquent, and important Richard Beeman f THE PENGUIN GUIDE TO THE UNITED speeches. John Farmer Penguin • 528 pp. • 978-0-14-017619-3 • $17.00 STATES CONSTITUTION THE GROUND TRUTH: The Untold Story A Fully Annotated Declaration of of America Under Attack on 9/11 Independence, U.S. Constitution and Mark Mazower “With keen analytical insight, Farmer rips the f Amendments, and Selections from GOVERNING THE WORLD lid off of many mysteries pertaining to both The Federalist Papers The Rise and Fall of an Idea, the 9/11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina.