A-20 ★ SUGGESTED READING
Christianson, Scott. With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America
(1998). A full- scale study of the history of imprisonment in the United
States and its recent dramatic expansion.
Foner, Nancy. From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immi-
gration (2000). Studies the new immigration of the 1980s and 1990s and
considers how it does and does not differ from earlier waves of newcomers.
Friedman, Thomas L. The Lexus and the Olive Tree (1999). An influential
account of globalization and its economic promise.
Hodgson, Godfrey. More Equal than Others: America from Nixon to the New Cen-
tury (2004). A survey of recent American history that identifies growing
inequality as a major trend of these years.
Johnson, Haynes. The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years (2001). A sympa-
thetic account of Clinton’s presidency.
Katz, Michael B. The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State
(2001). Presents the history of welfare policy, with attention to the origins
and impact of Clinton’s welfare reform.
Levitas, Daniel. The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical
Right (2003). A careful study of right- wing extremism of the 1990s.
Lichtenstein, Nelson. The Retail Revolution: How Wal- Mart Created a Brave New
World of Business (2009). How Wal- Mart became the largest employer in the
United States and one of the most profitable.
Phillips, Kevin. Wealth and Democracy (2002). A critique of the influence of
money on American politics.
Power, Samantha. A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (2002).
Discusses genocides of the 1990s and the problem of the appropriate
American response.
Roberts, Sam. Who We Are Now: The Changing Face of America in the Twenty- First
Century (2004). A social portrait of the American people based on the 2000
Census.
Smelser, Neil J., and Jeffrey C. Alexander. Diversity and Its Discontents: Cultural
Conflict and Common Ground in Contemporary American Society (1999).
Describes the new social diversity of the 1990s and the cultural and politi-
cal tensions arising from it.
Spence, Michael. The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a
Multispeed World (2011). A Nobel Prize– winning economist examines the
impact of globalization on jobs and incomes in the United States.
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