Selected Publications
- The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State (W.W. Norton, 2016)
- American History Now with Eric Foner (Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2011)
- Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (Princeton, N.J.,: Princeton University Press, 2001, paperback 2002, second edition, 2015).
- “Prohibition in the United States, 1920-1933” in Ernesto Savona and Mark Kleinman, eds, Dual Markets: Comparative Approaches to Regulation (Springer, 2018), 207-219.
- “Port Huron and the Origins of the International New Left” in Nelson Lichtenstein and Richard Flacks, eds, The Port Huron Statement: Sources and Legacies of the New Left’s Founding (Pennsylvania University Press, 2014), 50-65.
- “The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti: A Global History” Journal of American History, 93 (March 2007), 1085-1115.
FRIAS Project
GARRISON NATION: The American Right, the Republican Party, and the Origins of Trumpism
Garrison Nation charts the history of the Right in the twentieth century United States, teasing out the deeper roots and origins of the ideas that led to the rise of Donald Trump. The book locates Donald Trump within a longer set of traditions by teasing out the ideas, organizations, and leaders of American illiberalism in the twentieth-and twenty-first centuries.
The book answers questions that matter deeply to contemporary U.S. politics: It explains how the neo-liberal script, consolidated by the Republican Party elite and shared by much of its base gave way to a nationalist and isolationist insurgence that has reoriented its political orientation. But it roots this shift deeply in the history of the twentieth century, including the broader historical configuration of ideas on the Right as well as the social and economic conditions that have given rise to particular kinds of rightwing insurgencies. To address these questions, the book provides a thick description of the history of rightwing politics in the United States in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.