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Radical Advocate
Ida B. Wells and the Road to Race and Gender Justice
University of Alabama Press
Pleasure and Pain in US Public Culture
University of Alabama Press
Unraveling the intricate dance of pleasure and pain in contemporary American culture
The Haunted West
Memory and Commemoration at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West
University of Alabama Press
An engrossing exploration of conflicting and complex narratives about the American West and its Native American heritage, violent colonial settlement, and natural history
Oligarchy in America
Power, Justice, and the Rule of the Few
By Luke Winslow
University of Alabama Press
A fascinating survey of the history of political and economic ideas in the US that have led to an increasingly entrenched ultra-rich class of oligarchs
The Way to Hell
Machiavelli for Catastrophic Times
By Nathan Crick
University of Alabama Press
An incisive and erudite survey of Machiavelli, the catastrophes of his times and ours, and his counsel for responding to an era of constant crises
The Way to Hell
Machiavelli for Catastrophic Times
By Nathan Crick
University of Alabama Press
An incisive and erudite survey of Machiavelli, the catastrophes of his times and ours, and his counsel for responding to an era of constant crises
Fitter, Happier
The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric
University of Alabama Press
Examines the complexity of public language about cancer, with a particular focus on the historical evolution of US cancer rhetorics during the twentieth century
The Case for Single Motherhood
Contemporary Maternal Identities and Family Formations
University of Alabama Press
Delves into the rhetorical work of elective single mothers (ESMs) in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries as they sought—and continue to seek—to legitimize their maternal identities and family formations
Dreamer Nation
Immigration, Activism, and Neoliberalism
University of Alabama Press
Illustrates how the Dreamer community was created rhetorically—in the discourse, messages, actions, and visual representations of undocumented youth
Tense Times
Rhetoric, Syntax, and Politics in US Crisis Culture
University of Alabama Press
How the syntax used in US political discourse creates the very crises it describes
Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch
The Sport's Power, Profit, and Discursive Politics
University of Alabama Press
A powerful cultural critique of soccer’s public rhetoric
Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch
The Sport’s Power, Profit, and Discursive Politics
University of Alabama Press
A powerful cultural critique of soccer’s public rhetoric
Geoengineering, Persuasion, and the Climate Crisis
A Geologic Rhetoric
University of Alabama Press
A rhetorical exploration of an underexamined side of climate change—the ongoing research into and development of geoengineering strategies