Chronicle of Higher Education Most Influential Book of the Last 20 Years

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Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality by Elizabeth A. Armstrong
2018
Age of Fracture by Daniel T. Rodgers
2018
The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick by Jessica Riskin
2016
Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship by Aimee Meredith Cox
2015
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
2015
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
2015
The History Manifesto by Jo Guldi
2014
What Art Is by Arthur C. Danto
2013
Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America by Jonathan Levy
2012
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
2011
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
2010
War Powers: How the Imperial Presidency Hijacked the Constitution by Peter Irons
2005
A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey
2005
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby
2003
Truth and truthfulness: an essay in genealogy by Bernard Williams
2002
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
2002
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam
2000
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio Damasio
1999
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy E. Roberts
1997
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement by Kimberlé Crenshaw
1995
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