Best Sellers inPolitics–Law

November 2008 to date as identified by YBP Library Services

-- Library Journal, 09/17/2009

1) Case for Big Government
Madrick, Jeff
Princeton University Press
2009. ISBN 0691123314 [9780691123318]. $22.95

2) And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America
Berry, Mary Frances
Knopf
2009. ISBN 0307263207 [9780307263209]. $30

3) What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America
Pascoe, Peggy
Oxford University Press
2009. ISBN 0195094638 [9780195094633]. $34.95

4) Speaking Up: The Unintended Costs of Free Speech in Public Schools
Dupre, Anne Proffitt
Harvard University Press
2009. ISBN 0674031148 [9780674031142]. $29.95

5) Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell
Lombardo, Paul A.
Johns Hopkins University Press
2008. ISBN 0801890101 [9780801890109]. $29.95

6) Constitution of Many Minds: Why the Founding Document Doesn’t Mean What It Meant Before
Sunstein, Cass R.
Princeton University Press
2009. ISBN 0691133379 [9780691133379]. $27.95

7) Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
Lessig, Lawrence
Penguin Group (USA)
2008. ISBN 1594201722 [9781594201721]. $25.95

8) Darfur and the Crime of Genocide
Hagan, John
Cambridge University Press
2008. ISBN 052151567X [9780521515672]. $85

9) Courting Change: Queer Parents, Judges, and the Transformation of American Family Law
Richman, Kimberly D.
New York University Press
2009. ISBN 0814775950 [9780814775950]. $39

10) Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
Boyle, James
Yale University Press
2008. ISBN 0300137400 [9780300137408]. $28.50

11) Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy’s Future
Gilligan, Carol
Cambridge University Press
2009. ISBN 0521898986 [9780521898980]. $29.99

12) Future of Liberalism
Wolfe, Alan
Alfred A. Knopf
2009. ISBN 030726677X [9780307266774]. $25.95

13) Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush
Rodman, Peter W.
Knopf
2009. ISBN 0307269795 [9780307269799]. $27.95

14) Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea
Horwitz, Joshua
University of Michigan Press
2009. ISBN 0472115723 [9780472115723]. $65

15) Necessary Engagement: Reinventing America’s Relations with the Muslim World
Nakhleh, Emile A.
Princeton University Press
2009. ISBN 0691135258 [9780691135250]. $26.95

16) Minerva’s Owl: The Tradition of Western Political Thought
Abramson, Jeffrey B.
Harvard University Press
2009. ISBN 0674032659 [9780674032651]. $29.95

17) Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
Beeman, Richard R.
Random House
2009. ISBN 1400065704 [9781400065707]. $30

18) Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect
Rahe, Paul Anthony
Yale University Press
2009. ISBN 030014492X [9780300144925]. $38

19) The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789–2008
Powe, Lucas A., Jr.
Harvard University Press
2009. ISBN 0674032675 [9780674032675]. $29.95

20) The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-First Century
Ikenberry, G. John
Princeton University Press
2009. ISBN 0691139695 [9780691139692]. $24.95