Lexington Books imprint: 3858 books
Conservatism and the Kissinger–Mao Axis
Development of the Twin Global Orders
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Kissinger’s dual-purpose instrument of the US-China and US-Soviet détente was devised to achieve a stable balance of power in the contemporary world in the second half of the 1960s. Stimulated by both Kissinger’s doctrine and the historical novel, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Mao’s global...
Whiteness and Racialized Ethnic Groups in the United States
The Politics of Remembering
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Whiteness and Racialized Ethnic Groups in the United States, in order to account for the never ending discrimination toward racialized ethnic groups including First Nations, blacks, Chinese, and Mexicans, revisits the history of whiteness in the United States. It shows the difference between remembering...
The Caribbean Policy of the Ulysses S. Grant Administration
Foreshadowing an Informal Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
From 1869 to 1877, the United States found itself deeply involved in the Caribbean as Washington sought to replace European influence and colonialism with an informal American empire. The Ulysses S. Grant administration primarily dealt with an uprising in Spanish Cuba known as the Ten Years’ War...
Speechwriting in the Institutionalized Presidency
Whose Line Is It?
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
This book traces the evolution of the speechwriting process for presidents in the White House from the administration of Franklin Roosevelt to the present. While institutionalization of the speechwriting process has often been blamed for bland presidential rhetoric, this book draws out the many varied...
Imagining Iran
The Tragedy of Subaltern Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Thematically, this book problematizes Iranian official nationalism. It reviews how every modern Iranian regime since the constitutional revolution of the 1905-06 has failed to legitimize its official identity, resulting in the fall of five different regimes. The book details how the collapse of each...
Ending Racial Preferences
The Michigan Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
In 2006, Michigan voters banned affirmative action preferences in public contracting, education, and employment. The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI) vote was preceded by years of campaigning, legal maneuvers, media coverage, and public debate. Ending Racial Preferences: The Michigan Story...
Rumors That Changed the World
A History of Violence and Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
The aim of the book is to explore the social and cultural impact of rumor from Antiquity to the mid-1990s, examining it as one of the most important contributing factors to violence and discrimination. Usually defined as an unverified account that circulates from one person to another and refers to...
The Rhetoric of Supreme Court Women
From Obstacles to Options
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
The Supreme Court is one of the most traditional institutions in America that has been an exclusively male domain for almost two hundred years. From 1981 to 2010, four women were appointed to the Supreme Court for the first time in U.S. history. The Rhetoric of Supreme Court Women: From Obstacles...
by Thomas R. Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Covering the entire trajectory of his religious life, this meticulously researched book identifies the roots of political and social order in Pope Benedict XVI's philosophy and analyzes his views on the role of Christian faith in politics. Although not generally characterized as a political philosopher,...
Impartial Justice
The Real Supreme Court Cases that Define the Constitutional Right to a Neutral and Detached Decisionmaker
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
This book examines the right to a neutral and detached decisionmaker as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court. This right resides in the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment guarantees to procedural due process and in the Sixth Amendment’s promise of an impartial jury. Supreme...
American Fascism and the New Deal
The Associated Farmers of California and the Pro-Industrial Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
American Fascism and the New Deal demonstrate how fascist ideas gained popularity in the Associated Farmers of California during the 1930s and 40s. It shows that the politics of the intervening decades created economic and political policies that planted the seeds for these fascist ideas by forming...
Examining Human Rights Issues and the Democracy Project in Sub-Saharan Africa
A Theoretical Critique and Prospects for Progress in the Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing an impressive measure of economic revivalism that is driven by both national and international forces at the beginning of the twenty-first century. That political and business leaders in the region are determined that development in this millennium will not mimic...
by Joyce A. Baugh, John D. Burrow, Mark S. Hurwitz
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
This book examines the criminal justice decisions of the Rehnquist Court era through analyses of individual justices' contributions to the development of law and policy. The Rehnquist Court era (1986-2005) produced a period of opportunity for the U.S. Supreme Court's judicial conservatives to reshape...
United City, Divided Memories?
Cold War Legacies in Contemporary Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
United City, Divided Memories? focuses on the basic question of how Berlin today deals with three specific Cold War-era legacies: the presence of the four Great Powers, the East German Stasi, and the Berlin Wall. Dirk Verheyen looks at monuments, museums, and memorial sites as illustrations of Berlin's...