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Foreign Rights: Available Now: Current EventsBaghdad Bulletin by Dave Enders An Intellectual in Public by Alan Wolfe More Secure, Less Free? by Mark Sidel The New Imperial Presidency by Andrew Rudalevige The One-State Solution by Virginia Tilley Private Guns, Public Health by David Hemenway Slaves to Fashion by Robert J.S. Ross Baghdad BulletinDave Enders Rights: World* Baghdad Bulletin is a street-level account of the war and turbulent post-war period as seen through the eyes of a 23-year-old independent journalist with no support, no press passes, no ticket home. When he began his harrowing trip across the Iraqi desert to Baghdad to report on the war, 23-year-old David Enders' only journalistic experience was as editor of the Michigan Daily, the student newspaper at his alma mater, the University of Michigan. Drawn in the aftermath of 9/11 to explore his family's Lebanese roots, he had been enrolled at the American University of Beirut. From a brief but fascinating interlude among Arab and American students in Beirut during the American runup to war, Baghdad Bulletin tells Enders' story of his decision to go to Baghdad, where he opened the only English-language newspaper completely written, printed and distributed in Iraq during the war. Young, courageous and anti-authoritarian, David Enders is the first reporter to provide a frank, street-level account of the war as experienced by ordinary Iraqis. Deprived of the press credentials that gave his embedded colleagues access to press conferences and officially-sanitized information, Enders tells the story of a different war, outside the Green Zone. It is a story in which the struggle of everyday life is interspersed with moments of sheer terror and bizarre absurdity: an American tank trains its 25-mm gun on his head from 50 feet; a troupe of European clowns wreak merry havoc in an Iraqi police station. Dave Enders was editor of the late lamented Baghdad Bulletin, the only English-language newspaper to be printed in Baghdad during the war. He has worked as a stringer for numerous American and Arab newspapers. Spring 2005 *United Kingdom rights are not available. An Intellectual in PublicAlan Wolfe Rights: World "One of the country's most wide-ranging and distinguished intellectuals. . . ." In this new collection of essays spanning seven years of contributions to The New Republic, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly and other prominent publications, Alan Wolfe displays the courage necessary to write honestly—yet free of ideology, cant, and piety—about the things Americans take seriously. Wolfe thinks big; indeed, the table of contents of Intellectual in Public is a round up of some of the issues that concern us most: country, god, race, sex, consumer culture, and the Left and the Right. Beginning and ending the book are new essays that deal with the public intellectual's role, with the introduction describing how Wolfe believes that role ought to be filled. An Intellectual in Public is not only a demonstration of Wolfe's fierce independence, but a model for his belief that severely ideological thinking is inappropriate for some of our most difficult problems, and that neither the right nor the left can speak for all of America. Alan Wolfe is Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life and also Professor of Political Science at Boston College. He is the author of over a dozen books, including One Nation After All: What Americans Really Think About God, Country, Family Racism, Welfare, Immigration, Homosexuality, Work, The Right, The Left and Each Other. November 2004 More Secure, Less Free? Antiterrorism Policy and Civil Liberties after September 11Mark Sidel Rights: World Unlike earlier books published shortly after the September 11 attacks that focus on the Patriot Act, More Secure, Less Free? covers the Patriot Act but goes well beyond, analyzing Total Information Awareness, Terrorist Information and Prevention System (TIPS), Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System II (CAPPS II), and a number of other "second wave" antiterror initiatives. It's also the first book of its kind to go beyond federal measures to explain the devolution of antiterror policies to the states, and now to the military as well. Author Mark Sidel discusses the continuing debates on antiterror law at the state level, with a focus on the important states of New York, California, and Michigan, and explains how the military-through an informant program known as "Eagle Eyes"-is now taking a direct hand in domestic antiterror efforts. The volume also discusses and analyzes crucially important aspects of American antiterror policy that have been largely ignored in other volumes and discusses the effects of antiterror policy on the American academic world and the American nonprofit sector, for example. And it provides the first comparative perspectives on U.S. antiterror policy yet published in an American volume, discussing antiterror initiatives in Great Britain, Australia, and India and contrasting those to the American experience. More Secure, Less Free? is important and essential reading for anyone interested in an analytical perspective on American antiterror policy since September 11 that goes well beyond the Patriot Act. Mark Sidel is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Iowa and a research scholar at the University's Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. October 2004 The New Imperial Presidency: Presidential Power in the World After WatergateAndrew Rudalevige Rights: World Thirty years ago, the twin legacies of Vietnam and Watergate spurred a movement to rein in the almost unconstrained power of the American presidency. A new regime of laws, court orders and administrative measures was devised to control what the historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. memorably dubbed "the imperial presidency." Historian Andrew Rudalevige's new book shows us that the imperial presidency is alive and well in America. This compact, highly-readable book traces the new era from the expiration of the Independent Counsel Act in the late 1990s. Next comes the use of executive orders to circumvent Congressional approval. This compelling story reaches its climax after 9/11, with passage of the USA PATRIOT Act, Congress's writing of a blank check for war with Iraq, and the expansive redefinitions of executive privilege and national security. In these and so many other ways, Rudalevige shows us how the White House has gradually reclaimed many of the imperial prerogatives lost during the reformist 1970s. The New Imperial Presidency is the blow-by-blow story of the resurgence of the American president in the post-Watergate era. It is a book which dares to ask whether the complexity of modern times has made strong leadership—the imperial presidency—inevitable: a question with takes us to the very heart of democracy. Fall 2005 The One-State SolutionVirginia Tilley Rights: World* Based on her influential essay in the London Review of Books, this short book by Virginia Tilley offers a tightly-focused analysis of the Israel/Palestinian conflict, describing how a complex network of geographical, regional and national interests—political, economic, military, historical, cultural—have locked Israel into perpetual conflict with the Palestinian intifadah. Tilley's taut prose dramatically and passionately illustrates the doomed nature of the Israeli enterprise, concluding that the only solution may lie in a thorough reconception of Zionism and its goals, and movement toward a more inclusive vision of the state of Israel. Virginia Tilley is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Fall 2005 *United Kingdom rights are not available. Private Guns, Public HealthDavid Hemenway Rights: World On an average day in the United States, guns are used to kill almost eighty people, and to wound nearly three hundred more. If any other consumer product had this sort of disastrous effect, the public outcry would be deafening; yet when it comes to guns such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of supposedly high American rates of violence. Private Guns, Public Health explodes that myth and many more, revealing the advantages of treating gun violence as a consumer safety and public health problem. David Hemenway fair-mindedly and authoritatively demonstrates how a public-health approach—which emphasizes prevention over punishment, and which has been so successful in reducing the rates of injury and death from infectious disease, car accidents, and tobacco consumption—can be applied to gun violence. Hemenway uncovers the complex connections between guns and self-defense, gun violence and schools, gun prevalence and homicide, and more. Finally, he outlines a policy course that would significantly reduce gun-related injury and death. With its bold new public-health approach to guns, Private Guns, Public Health marks a shift in our understanding of guns that will—finally—point us toward a solution. David Hemenway is Professor of Health Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Director of Harvard's Injury Control Research Center and Youth Violence Prevention Center. A former Pew Fellow on Injury Control, he has been a Senior Soros Justice Fellow and held a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. April 2004 Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New SweatshopsRobert J.S. Ross Rights: World Just as Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed exposed the plight of the working poor in America, Slaves to Fashion is both a lesson in American business history and a warning about one of the most important issues facing the global capital economy: the reappearance of the sweatshop. In vivid detail supported by carefully researched evidence, author Robert J. S. Ross traces the twentieth-century fall and tragic rebirth of sweatshop conditions in the American apparel industry. He explains the new sweatshops as a product of unregulated global capitalism and associated deregulation, union erosion, and exploitation of undocumented workers. Using historical material and economic and social data, the author shows that after a brief thirty-five years of fair practices, the U.S. apparel business has once again sunk to shameful abuse and exploitation. Refreshingly jargon-free but documented in depth, Slaves to Fashion is the only work to estimate the size of the sweatshop problem and to systematically show its impact on apparel workers' wages. It is also unique in its analysis of the budgets and personnel used in enforcing the Fair Labor Standards Act. Anyone who is concerned about this urgent social and economic topic and wants to go beyond the headlines should read this important and timely contribution to the rising debate on low-wage factory labor. Robert J. S. Ross is Professor of Sociology, Clark University. He is an expert in the area of sweatshops and globalization. He is an activist academic who travels and lectures extensively and has published numerous related articles. October 2004 |
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