David Unger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3763411 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Unger |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Unger |
| SIGNATURE | UNGER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Labor educator at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies and an adjunct instructor at Empire State College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3246-7847 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. £34.95/$41.00. 640 pp
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In this fascinating and original book, Timothy Shenk reorganises the familiar narrative of American political history.Instead of chronicling great presidents or ideological turning points, he spotlights a succession of political figures he calls 'realigners'.Some are well known, such as James Madison, Theodore Roosevelt and Barack Obama; others less so, such as
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Silent Invasion: The Untold Story of the Trump Administration, Covid-19, and Preventing the Next Pandemic Before It’s Too LateDeborah Birx. New York: Harper, 2022. $29.99. 506 pp.Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the PresidencyPeter M. Shane. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022. £25.00/$29.95. 304 pp.Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 19…
From Mr. President
Charges of sedition, rebellion, and treason against Canales and Carvajal kept growing until it was impossible to read the whole transcript in one sitting. Fourteen substantiating witnesses swore un
From If You Saw Yourself through My Eyes
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market EraGary Gerstle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. £21.99/$27.95. 406 pp.Wildland: The Making of America’s FuryEvan Osnos. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. $30.00. 480 pp.The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam EraMark Atwood Lawrence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. £28.00/$35.00. 386 pp.The Wilson…
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Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic: The Deep State and the Unitary ExecutiveStephen Skowronek, John A. Dearborn and Desmond King. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. £18.99. 288 pp.After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World TransformedAndrew Bacevich. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2021. $26.99. 224 pp.The Plague Year: America in the Time of CovidLawrence Wright. New York: Knopf, 2021. $28.00. 336 pp.The Second Cold War: Carter, Reagan, an…
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Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American DemocracySuzanne Mettler and Robert C. Lieberman. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2020. $28.99. 304 pp.Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global SupremacyStephen Wertheim. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. £23.95/$29.95. 272 pp.States of Exception in American HistoryGary Gerstle and Joel Isaac, eds. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $30.00. 364 pp.The…
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The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern AmericaSarah R. Coleman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. £28.00/$35.00. 248 pp.Cry Havoc: Charlottesville and American Democracy Under SiegeMichael Signer. New York: PublicAffairs, 2020. $17.99. 400 pp.Our Founders’ Warning: The Age of Reason Meets the Age of TrumpStrobe Talbott. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2020. $24.99. 240 pp.Post-Cold War Revelations and t…
David Unger Replies
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We’re Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of AmericaJennifer M. Silva. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £16.99/$24.95. 206 pp.Manufacturing Decline: How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust BeltJason Hackworth. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. £25.00/$30.00. 316 pp.The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of ResentmentRory McVeigh and Kevin Estep. New York: Columbia…
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The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War VictoryAndrew Bacevich. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2020. $27.00. 224 pp.The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International RealitiesJohn J. Mearsheimer. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. $30.00. 313 pp.The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. PrimacyStephen M. Walt. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. £21.99/$28.00. 384 pp.Th…
Which Side Are We On
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Impeaching the President: Past, Present, and FutureAlan Hirsch. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2018. $14.95. 255 pp.Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s HeartlandJonathan M. Metzl. New York: Basic Books, 2019. $32.00. 342 pp.Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of AmericaJohn Sides, Michael Tesler and Lynn Vavreck. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,…
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Empire in Retreat: The Past, Present, and Future of the United StatesVictor Bulmer-Thomas. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. £25.00/$32.50. 459 pp.The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at PeaceDavid B. Woolner. New York: Basic Books, 2017. £25.00/$32.00. 349 pp.American Discontent: The Rise of Donald Trump and Decline of the Golden AgeJohn L. Campbell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. £18.99/$24.95. 220 pp.The Presidency of Barack Oba…
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American TragedyTa-Nehisi Coates. New York: One World, 2017. $28.00. 367 pp.Republic in Peril: American Empire and the Liberal TraditionDavid C. Hendrickson. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. $34.95. 287 pp.Foreign Service: Five Decades on the Frontlines of American DiplomacyJames F. Dobbins. Washington DC and Santa Monica, CA: Brookings Institution Press and The RAND Corporation, 2017. $29.99. 3…
Du feu sous les cendres
New York, fin des années 1980. Dans le Lower East Side, une poignée de musiciens venus du jazz et de l’improvisation travaillent à redonner vie à la musique de leurs aïeux, le klezmer, dont il ne reste que peu d’échos depuis la destruction des Juifs d’Europe. Sous l’égide de John Zorn, ils créent une communauté rugissante, donnant naissance à une scène : la Radical Jewish Culture. Aujourd’hui, cette musique revivifiée, mêlée à toutes les influenc…
Hombre de Paso/Just Passing through
The Peruvian Jewish author and poet Isaac Goldemberg aroused considerable attention with the publication several years ago of his first novel, The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner, which provided English readers with a glimpse into the life of the Jewish community of Peru. Now, with his new collection of poems, Just Passing Through (Hanover, N.H.: Ediciones del Norte, 198 I), Goldemberg attempts to bridge two cultures-Jewish and Inca-that are…
The Dark Room and Other Poems
Labor Aristocrats and Class Consciousness
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Labor Aristocrats and Class Consciousness
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The Dark Room and Other Poems
Hombre de Paso/Just Passing through
The Peruvian Jewish author and poet Isaac Goldemberg aroused considerable attention with the publication several years ago of his first novel, The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner, which provided English readers with a glimpse into the life of the Jewish community of Peru. Now, with his new collection of poems, Just Passing Through (Hanover, N.H.: Ediciones del Norte, 198 I), Goldemberg attempts to bridge two cultures-Jewish and Inca-that are…
Du feu sous les cendres
New York, fin des années 1980. Dans le Lower East Side, une poignée de musiciens venus du jazz et de l’improvisation travaillent à redonner vie à la musique de leurs aïeux, le klezmer, dont il ne reste que peu d’échos depuis la destruction des Juifs d’Europe. Sous l’égide de John Zorn, ils créent une communauté rugissante, donnant naissance à une scène : la Radical Jewish Culture. Aujourd’hui, cette musique revivifiée, mêlée à toutes les influenc…
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American TragedyTa-Nehisi Coates. New York: One World, 2017. $28.00. 367 pp.Republic in Peril: American Empire and the Liberal TraditionDavid C. Hendrickson. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. $34.95. 287 pp.Foreign Service: Five Decades on the Frontlines of American DiplomacyJames F. Dobbins. Washington DC and Santa Monica, CA: Brookings Institution Press and The RAND Corporation, 2017. $29.99. 3…
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Impeaching the President: Past, Present, and FutureAlan Hirsch. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2018. $14.95. 255 pp.Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s HeartlandJonathan M. Metzl. New York: Basic Books, 2019. $32.00. 342 pp.Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of AmericaJohn Sides, Michael Tesler and Lynn Vavreck. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,…
United States
Empire in Retreat: The Past, Present, and Future of the United StatesVictor Bulmer-Thomas. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. £25.00/$32.50. 459 pp.The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at PeaceDavid B. Woolner. New York: Basic Books, 2017. £25.00/$32.00. 349 pp.American Discontent: The Rise of Donald Trump and Decline of the Golden AgeJohn L. Campbell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. £18.99/$24.95. 220 pp.The Presidency of Barack Oba…
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We’re Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of AmericaJennifer M. Silva. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £16.99/$24.95. 206 pp.Manufacturing Decline: How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust BeltJason Hackworth. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. £25.00/$30.00. 316 pp.The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of ResentmentRory McVeigh and Kevin Estep. New York: Columbia…
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The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War VictoryAndrew Bacevich. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2020. $27.00. 224 pp.The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International RealitiesJohn J. Mearsheimer. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. $30.00. 313 pp.The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. PrimacyStephen M. Walt. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. £21.99/$28.00. 384 pp.Th…
Which Side Are We On
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Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American DemocracySuzanne Mettler and Robert C. Lieberman. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2020. $28.99. 304 pp.Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global SupremacyStephen Wertheim. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. £23.95/$29.95. 272 pp.States of Exception in American HistoryGary Gerstle and Joel Isaac, eds. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $30.00. 364 pp.The…
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The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern AmericaSarah R. Coleman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. £28.00/$35.00. 248 pp.Cry Havoc: Charlottesville and American Democracy Under SiegeMichael Signer. New York: PublicAffairs, 2020. $17.99. 400 pp.Our Founders’ Warning: The Age of Reason Meets the Age of TrumpStrobe Talbott. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2020. $24.99. 240 pp.Post-Cold War Revelations and t…
David Unger Replies
From Mr. President
Charges of sedition, rebellion, and treason against Canales and Carvajal kept growing until it was impossible to read the whole transcript in one sitting. Fourteen substantiating witnesses swore un
From If You Saw Yourself through My Eyes
United States
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market EraGary Gerstle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. £21.99/$27.95. 406 pp.Wildland: The Making of America’s FuryEvan Osnos. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. $30.00. 480 pp.The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam EraMark Atwood Lawrence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. £28.00/$35.00. 386 pp.The Wilson…
United States
Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic: The Deep State and the Unitary ExecutiveStephen Skowronek, John A. Dearborn and Desmond King. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. £18.99. 288 pp.After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World TransformedAndrew Bacevich. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2021. $26.99. 224 pp.The Plague Year: America in the Time of CovidLawrence Wright. New York: Knopf, 2021. $28.00. 336 pp.The Second Cold War: Carter, Reagan, an…
United States
In this fascinating and original book, Timothy Shenk reorganises the familiar narrative of American political history.Instead of chronicling great presidents or ideological turning points, he spotlights a succession of political figures he calls 'realigners'.Some are well known, such as James Madison, Theodore Roosevelt and Barack Obama; others less so, such as
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Silent Invasion: The Untold Story of the Trump Administration, Covid-19, and Preventing the Next Pandemic Before It’s Too LateDeborah Birx. New York: Harper, 2022. $29.99. 506 pp.Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the PresidencyPeter M. Shane. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022. £25.00/$29.95. 304 pp.Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 19…
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Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. £34.95/$41.00. 640 pp
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