Fall 2018 Books for Courses in POLITICAL SCIENCE
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Fall 2018 books for courses in POLITICAL SCIENCE PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP PenguinRandomHouseEducation.com Education 2 POLITICAL SCIENCE JOHN LEWIS GADDIS On Grand Strategy Gaddis, who has taught on the topic at Yale University for al- most two decades, assesses grand strategic theory and prac- tice from the ancient world through World War II. Gaddis assesses grand strategic theory and practice in Herodotus, ucydides, Sun Tzu, Octavian/Augustus, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Elizabeth I, Philip II, the American Founding Fathers, Clausewitz, Tolstoy, Lincoln, Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and more “[T]he best education in grand strategy available in a sin- gle volume...a long walk with a single, delightful mind.... On Grand Strategy is a book that should be read by every American leader or would-be leader.”— John Nagl, e Wall Street Journal “An extraordinary treatise on the need to teach the prin- ciples of sound strategy to today’s leaders… e book…is a rich one. It makes sense of our world, but is also capable of beautifully cra ed pithy historical judgments…It is a book that cares about liberty, choice and a moral compass, that warns against the hubris of an angry Bonaparte on the turn in a Russian winter, against leaders who do not listen or learn. A training manual for our troubled times.” — e T i m e s (UK) Penguin Press Hardcover • 384 pages • 978-1-59420-351-0 • $26.00 ADAM TOOZE Crashed How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten- year a ermath) as a global event that directly led to the shockwaves being felt around the world today. “[A] monumental narrative history of 10 years that have reshaped our world…Crashed gives readers a detailed and superbly researched account of the origins and conse- quences of the wave of nancial crises that emanated from the core of the global nancial system from 2007. e prose is clear. e scholarship remarkable. Even people who have followed this story closely will learn a great deal.”—Martin Wolf, e Financial Times “An important and insightful work...combines an economic history with geopolitical analysis of the 2008 nancial crisis and the subsequent decade.” —Library Journal (starred review) Viking Hardcover • 720 pages • 978-0-670-02493-3 • $35.00 3 POLITICAL SCIENCE JAMES R. CLAPPER WITH TREY BROWN Facts and Fears Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence e former Director of National Intelligence’s candid and compelling account of the intelligence community’s successes —and failures—in facing some of the greatest threats to America. Clapper considers such controversial questions as, Is intelligence ethical? Is it moral to intercept communica- tions or to photograph closed societies from orbit? What are the limits of what we should be allowed to do? What protec- tions should we give to the private citizens of the world, not to mention our fellow Americans? Are there times when in- telligence o cers can lose credibility as unbiased reporters of hard truths by inserting themselves into policy decisions? Facts and Fears o ers a privileged look inside the U.S. intel- ligence community and, with the frankness and profession- alism for which James Clapper is known, addresses some of the most di cult challenges in our nation’s history. Viking Hardcover • 432 pages • 978-0-525-55864-4 • $30.00 MICHAEL V. HAYDEN The Assault on Intelligence American National Security in an Age of Lies A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President him- self, in a time when that community’s work has never been harder or more important. Many of the premises on which we have based our understanding of governance are now challenged, eroded, or simply gone and the American intel- ligence community is more at risk than is commonly under- stood, for every good reason. “ e more important, absorbing and disturbing aspect of Hayden’s book is the analysis from his professional perspec- tive of what Trump and Trumpism mean for the intelligence community. It is sober, nuanced and, quite frankly, scary as hell.”—Mark Galeotti, Washington Post “Hayden is a breezy and direct writer. He reduces complex issues of cyber and information warfare to essentials, and his polemic is leavened with humor and sympathy.”— e New York Times Penguin Press Hardcover • 304 pages • 978-0-525-55858-3 • $28.00 4 POLITICAL SCIENCE IAN BREMMER Us vs. Them The Failure of Globalism “Required reading to help repair a world in pieces and build a world at peace.” —António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General “A cogent analysis of the concurrent Trump/Brexit phenomena and a dire warning about what lies ahead...a lucid, provocative book.”—Kirkus Reviews “Few can beat Ian Bremmer in taking the pulse on the health of nations and the world. Here he dives into the divisions and disputes of the wave of protests and populism that gave the US Donald Trump and Europe Brexit.”—Carl Bildt, co- chair of European Council on Foreign Relations Portfolio Hardcover • 208 pages • 978-0-525-53318-4 • $27.00 RICHARD HAASS A World in Disarray American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order In this examination of a world increasingly de ned by disorder, Haass, the presi- dent of the Council on Foreign Relations, calls for an updated global operating system that re ects the reality that power is widely distributed. He argues that the world cannot have stability or prosperity without the United States, but that the United States cannot be a force for global stability and prosperity without its politi- cians and citizens reaching a new understanding. “A valuable primer on foreign policy: a primer that concerned citizens of all politi- cal persuasions...could bene t from reading.”—Michiko Kakutani, e New York Times Penguin Paperback • 368 pages • 978-0-399-56238-9 • $17.00 ALEXANDER KLIMBURG The Darkening Web The War for Cyberspace Blending anecdote with argument, Klimburg brings us face-to-face with the range of threats the struggle for cyberspace presents, from an apocalyptic scenario of debilitated civilian infrastructure to a 1984-like erosion of privacy and freedom of expression. e Darkening Web makes clear that the debate about the di erent aspirations for cyberspace is nothing short of a war over our global values. “A prescient and important book....Fascinating.”— e New York Review of Books “ is book is indispensable—not only for national security o cials…but for any reader seeking a strong grounding in this critically important material and what it means for our global future.”—Michael Cherto , former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Penguin Paperback • 448 pages • 978-0-7352-2283-0 • $18.00 ADMIRAL JAMES STAVRIDIS, USN (RET.) Sea Power The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans From one of the most admired admirals of his generation—and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO—comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world’s most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial element in our current geopolitical path. “Stavridis spent nearly four decades as a US Navy Sailor, and is well known as an important geopolitical thinker. In Sea Power both of those attributes come together in creating a must read for anyone seriously thinking about the world’s challenges in the 21st century.”—Admiral Bill McRaven, USN (Ret.), Chancellor, e University of Texas System, former Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command Penguin Paperback • 384 pages • 978-0-7352-2061-4 • $18.00 5 POLITICAL SCIENCE TA-NEHISI COATES We Were Eight Years in Power An American Tragedy In this collection of essays, the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me re ects on Barack Obama’s presidency, Donald Trump’s election, and the role that race played in both. “Coates’s always sharp commentary is particularly insightful as each day brings a new upset to the cultural and political landscape laid during the term of the na- tion’s rst black president....Coates is a crucial voice in the public discussion of race and equality, and readers will be eager for his take on where we stand now and w hy.” — Booklist (starred review) One World Hardcover • 400 pages • 978-0-399-59056-6 • $28.00 One World Paperback • 416 pages • 978-0-399-59057-3 • $18.00 • November 13, 2018 Instructor Guide Available CRAIG UNGER House of Trump, House of Putin The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafi a is essential book is crucial to understanding the real powers at play in the shad- ows of today’s world. A chilling story that begins in the 1970s, when Trump made his rst splash in the booming, money-drenched world of New York real estate, and ends with Trump’s inauguration as president of the United States, House of Trump, House of Putin o ers the rst comprehensive investigation into the decades-long relationship among Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian Ma a that ultimately helped win Trump the White House. Dutton Hardcover • 368 pages • 978-1-5247-4350-5 • $30.00 JOSHUA GREEN Devil’s Bargain Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump—the key to understanding the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history. Based on dozens of interviews conducted over six years, Green spins the master narrative of the 2016 campaign from its origins in the far fringes of right-wing politics and reality television to its culmination inside Trump’s penthouse on election night.