New Faculty Books: January and February 2025

Jan. 7, 2025
In Defense of Partisanship by Julian E Zelizer

In Defense of Partisanship

By Julian Zelizer
January 14, 2025

“Contravening conventional wisdom, Zelizer offers a spirited defense of parties and partisanship.” —Frances Lee, Princeton University

Partisanship is a dirty word in American politics. If there is one issue on which almost everyone in our divided country seems to agree, it’s the belief that the intense loyalty within the electorate toward Democrats and Republicans is the source of our democratic ills—division, dysfunction, distrust, and disinformation. The possibilities that responsible partisanship can offer were at the heart of an important intellectual tradition that flourished in the 1950s and 1960s, one which was institutionalized through a sweeping set of congressional reforms in the 1970s and 1980s. Read more about In Defense of Partisanship.

Greedy Science by Michael D. Gordin

Greedy Science: Creating Knowledge, Making Money, and Being Famous in the 1980s

Edited by Michael D. Gordin and W. Patrick McCray

On the transformative role of greed in global science and technology during the 1980s.

In the 1980s, a transformative era emerged where profit-driven motives and an entrepreneurial spirit dominated scientific research and technological innovation. This collection of essays, edited by Michael D. Gordin and W. Patrick McCray, examines how greed reshaped the global scientific community through the relentless pursuit of money, fame, and celebrity. Read more about Greedy Science.

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