books by Jonathan Rieder

books by Jonathan Rieder

books:

Jonathan Rieder

The Fractious Nation?: Unity and Division in Contemporary American Life

University of California Press, 2003

What are we to make of the speed with which the new climate of national solidarity emerged after September 11? Does it not look strange against a backdrop of the much-touted divisiveness of American life? In truth, The Fractious Nation? makes clear, the contrast of the time of divisiveness before and the time of unity that followed is much too ...

Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism

Jonathan Rieder

Harvard University Press, 2005

A great study of the role of race, class and culture
This is, to say the least, one of the greatest books ever published in regard to the recent political change we have seen. What is it that has led some former left-wing liberal New Deal Democrats to turn into conservative Democrats - and on occasion Republicans - who ...

The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jonathan Rieder

Belknap Press, 2008

How Dr. King spoke, and what he meant by what he said
The Word of the Lord is Upon Me is perhaps best described as a biography of the rhetoric of the century's greatest orator. Rieder mentions that part of the aim of the book is to reclaim the true Martin Luther King from the shallow appreciations of St. Martin that occur ...