University Press Week Blog Tour, Day Two: #TurnItUP Politics

The book world is groaning under the weight of books about politics. Yet most of them are just dressed up opinion. What university press books on politics have to offer is much better: data and serious analysis.

• The University of Chicago Press highlights their incredible group of recent books that, taken together, offer far more insight into what’s going on with American politics than a thousand pop politics books could ever provide.
• Georgetown University Press  provides readers with some resources.
• A post from Teachers College Press will feature a list of books on politics and education.
• Q&A with Michael Lazzarra, author of Civil Obedience (Critical Human Rights series) about how dictatorships are supported by civilian complicity is posted from the University of Wisconsin Press.
• Rutgers University Press highlights three recent politics books: The Politics of Fame by Eric Burns and the reissues of classics Democracy Ancient and Modern by M.I. Finley and Echoes of the Marseillaise by Eric Hobsbawn.
• UBC Press will describe their new Women’s Suffrage and the Struggle for Democracy series.
• Over at LSU Press, there’s a post about their new list dealing with contemporary social justice issues, pegged to Jim Crow’s Last Stand and the recent state vote to ban non-unanimous criminal jury verdicts.
• An interview with Dick Simpson and Betty O’Shaughnessy, authors of Winning Elections in the 21st Century can be found courtesy of the University of Kansas Press.
• Harriet Kim provides a selection of interesting politics titles that she recently brought back into print as part of the Heritage Book Project at the University of Toronto Press.
• A spotlight on two recent additions to our Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South series that focus on defining the white southern identity through politics can be found at the University of Georgia Press.
• Last, but not least, The University of Virginia Press is publishing an updated edition of Trump’s First in time for second anniversary of inauguration. They’re looking ahead to that book for a post and tie it into the just-decided midterms.