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Edwin Amenta

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Soc professor @UCIrvine, new book at @PrincetonUPress, author at @UChicagoPress

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Rough Draft of History: A Century of US Social Movements in the News by me and @Haphazardsoc is out this week! We tell the story of how the news told the stories of US social movements in the 20th century and beyond. You can get it from @PrincetonUPress, but here’s a🧵version 1/
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Learn about the forgotten movement that helped give us Social Security! capitolweekly.net/the-townse…

The Townsend Plan: The forgotten movement that shaped Social Security - Capitol Weekly

CAPITOL WEEKLY PODCAST: In September 1933, in the depths of the Depression, Dr. Francis Townsend wrote a letter to the Long Beach Press-Telegram with an idea that would end the Depression and...

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Excited to have this research by Weijun Yuan, @HaphazardSoc, and me appear in @SF_Journal!
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Excited to see the book by me and @HaphazardSoc at the #PrincetonUPress booth! @ASAnews #ASA2022
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So, we'll be covering the implications of this WV v. EPA case by the Supreme Court this morning, limiting EPA's authority to act on climate change--at least under this section of the Clean Air Act. However, it does not go as far as it could have gone....
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Really fascinating interview with @EdwinAmenta and @HaphazardSoc. Can’t wait to read the book!
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Who's more gullible: Collins or people writing stories about how surprised she is that right-wing justices will make right-wing rulings? Kavanaugh Gave Private Assurances. Collins Says He ‘Misled’ Her. nytimes.com/2022/06/24/us/ro…
Kavanaugh Gave Private Assurances. Collins Says He ‘Misled’ Her. (Published 2022)

Kavanaugh Gave Private Assurances. Collins Says He ‘Misled’ Her. (Published 2022)

“I am a don’t-rock-the-boat kind of judge,” the justice told the senator in a discussion on Roe, according to notes from a meeting before his confirmation.

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Thanks to @caleb_zakarin for this great interview about Rough Draft of History by me @HaphazardSoc
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Thanks for reading! Thanks also to Weijun Yuan, Thomas Alan Elliott (chapter coauthors) and @leeannbanaszak, @KevinReuning Doug McAdam, Ira Katznelson, Paul Pierson, and James Monroe for kind words. press.princeton.edu/books/pa…

Rough Draft of History

A comprehensive account of the media's coverage of social movements in the United States

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Shoot--James Morone, obviously...
ICYMI: Why we have no gun control, abortion is threatened, and other preferences of the right are US policy.
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Out in the March 2022 @MobyJournal: “Why U.S. Conservative Movements Are Winning: It’s not Trump—It’s the Institutions.” meridian.allenpress.com/mobi… It compares the gains of U.S. conservative movements and lack thereof of progressive ones over 40+ years and explains why. 1/31🧵
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