June 21, 2019: AmericanStudies Beach Reads: Recent Books by FSU Colleagues

[I’ve got some very talented friends and colleagues. So for this year’s annual Beach Reads series, I wanted to highlight works by friends old and new and colleagues at FSU (I’m a poet and I don’t know it!). Leading up to one of my favorite crowd-sourced posts of the year, so make sure to share your Beach Read nominations, please!]I’ve highlighted lots of books by my talented FSU colleagues over the years, and recently shared Michael Hoberman’s latest as part of my Jewish American series. Well, we’re a prolific bunch, with interests and publication records as varied as our disciplines, so here are a few additional, recent FSU books worth adding to your beach bag:1)      Josh Spero’s Middle Powers and Regional Influence: Critical Foreign Policy Junctures for Poland, South Korea, and Bolivia (2018) 2)      Walter Jeffko’s Contemporary Ethical Issues: A Personalist Perspective (New 2018 edition)3)      Katherine Rye Jewell’s Dollars for Dixie: Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century (2017)Crowd-sourced post this weekend,BenPS. So one more time: What are you bringing to the beach this year or would you recommend we bring?