New Political Science Titles from Penguin Random House

By Spenser Stevens | February 13 2024 | Political Science

Browse these new and notable titles for use in your Political Science courses. To request complimentary exam copies for course-use consideration, click here. 

One Nation Under Guns
How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
978-0-593-59431-5
This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s fathers did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms—and that this intentional distortion of the record is an urgent threat to democracy.
$28.00 US
Jan 30, 2024
Hardcover
288 Pages
Crown

2020
One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed
978-0-593-31948-2
A renowned sociologist and bestselling author examines a year of upheaval and conflict, showing how the pandemic and the crises it spawned reveal the true character of our societies: Who we are. What we value. Whose lives matter. A deeply reported, character-driven, unforgettable investigation of a time when nothing was certain and everything was at stake.
$32.00 US
Feb 13, 2024
Hardcover
464 Pages
Knopf

A Map of Future Ruins
On Borders and Belonging
978-0-593-54557-7

A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of migrations past is intimately linked to the exclusion and demonization of migrants today.

$28.00 US
Feb 13, 2024
Hardcover
272 Pages
Riverhead Books

Attack from Within
How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
978-1-64421-363-6

An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practical solutions that can be pursued to strengthen the public, media, and truth-based politics.

$35.00 US
Feb 27, 2024
Hardcover
384 Pages
Seven Stories Press

The Need for Roots
Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations Towards the Human Being
978-0-241-46797-8

French philosopher Simone Weil’s best known work that promotes mindful living and instructs readers how they can once again feel rooted, in a cultural and spiritual sense, to their environment.

$18.00 US
Feb 13, 2024
Paperback
288 Pages
Penguin Classics

The Entrepreneurial State
Debunking Public vs Private Sector Myths
978-0-593-65693-8
Award-winning economist Mariana Mazzucato’s famously incisive international bestseller debunking the pervasive myth of the inept state versus an innovative private sector—with a new preface by the author.
$18.00 US
Feb 06, 2024
Paperback
288 Pages
Penguin Books

Black Women Taught Us
An Intimate History of Black Feminism
978-0-593-24333-6
A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is what listening to Black women looks like—from a professor of political science and columnist for Teen Vogue.
$30.00 US
Jan 23, 2024
Hardcover
368 Pages
Random House

Our Ancient Faith
Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
978-0-593-53444-1
An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today—by best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize.
$30.00 US
Feb 06, 2024
Hardcover
272 Pages
Knopf