Argues that the "class perspective" has become a political straightjacket, which obstructs understanding of contemporary social, cultural and political processe

The poignant, “powerful” (The Boston Globe) look at how to appreciate life from an extraordinary professor who teaches about death: “Poetic passages and a

Michael K. Rosenow investigates working people's beliefs, rituals of dying, and the politics of death by honing in on three overarching questions: How did worke

Examines both the legal and illegal uses of the death penalty in American history.

This book addresses what is perhaps the most salient issue in American politics today: the decline of the middle class. It is this single issue that drove the o