Russell Cobb

Aug 5, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Russell Cobb |Rowan Jacobsen |Deborah Levy |Déborah Levy |Dubravka Ugresic

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Aug 1, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Talia Lavin |Russell Cobb |Rowan Jacobsen |Deborah Levy |Déborah Levy

Talia Lavin. Legacy Lit, $30 (288p) ISBN 978-0-306-82919-2The Christian far right is eviscerating children’s welfare in order to raise up an army of “soldiers... instructed in a totalistic environment,” according to this eye-opening account. Journalist Lavin (Culture Warlords) begins by recapping the past several decades of the Christian nationalist movement in America in an attempt to explain mainline Christianity’s embrace of Donald Trump’s authoritarianism.

Aug 1, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Nathan Robinson |Russell Cobb |Rowan Jacobsen |Deborah Levy |Déborah Levy

The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the WorldSafeguarding democracy, the long-standing stated aim of American foreign policy, is actually cover for America’s desire to control other countries’ resources, according to this blistering polemic.

Jul 30, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Russell Cobb |Rowan Jacobsen |Deborah Levy |Déborah Levy |Dubravka Ugresic

Kelsey Johnson. Basic, $32.50 (416p) ISBN 978-1-5416-0436-0In this mind-bending inquiry, Johnson (Constellations for Kids), an astronomy professor at the University of Virginia, investigates unanswered questions about the universe.

Jul 30, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Russell Cobb |Rowan Jacobsen |Deborah Levy |Déborah Levy |Dubravka Ugresic

Ryann Liebenthal. Dey Street, $29.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-358-35396-6Journalist Liebenthal debuts with a trenchant examination of how higher education became unaffordable for all but the wealthiest Americans. Tracing the origins of the issue to the 1944 GI Bill, she suggests the law established a harmful precedent that the best way to broaden access to higher education is to help students pay high tuition costs, rather than legislating costs down.