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Political theorist Wendy Brown has argued recently that contemporary neoliberalism, with its relentless obsession on the economy, has all but undone the tenets of democracy. This book suggests one way of thinking out of the current moment, and it does so by looking to a perhaps unlikely figure: Niccolo Machiavelli. Ronald J. Schmidt, Jr. argues that if we imitate Machiavelli's interpretive method in reading The Prince and Discourses of Livy, w...

Jack Webb's Los Angeles, a Southern California paradise built on confidence games and real estate booms, swindlers and boondoggles, is indeed "the city." But it is not the only one, as Ronald Schmidt makes clear in this critical look at the little-examined foundation of L.A.'s political culture.

Jack Webb's Los Angles, a Southern California paradise built of confidence games and real estate booms, swindles and boondoggles, is indeed "the City." But it is not the only one, as Ronald Schmidt makes clear in this critical look at the little-examined foundation of L.A.'s political culture. Schmidt reveals how the political culture of Southern California is structured by over a century's worth of efforts to exhort citizens to emulate models...