The depth of Hoover’s scholarship is reflected in the numerous books published by our fellows on a broad variety of topics and issues. This timely and prodigious output offers insight on the most pressing issues in public policy. The books published this year by the fellows feature a range of topics, including patents, globalism, and national security.
Check out this selection of books published by Hoover scholars in 2021:
Disruptive Strategies: The Military Campaigns of Ascendant Powers and Their Rivals
by David Berkey via Hoover Institution Press
Friday, January 1, 2021
Historians analyze military campaigns between dominant states and the rising powers who challenge them, from the ancient era to a hypothetical future.
In the Wake of Empire: Anti-Bolshevik Russia in International Affairs, 1917–1920
by Anatol Shmelev via Hoover Institution Press
Friday, January 1, 2021
An examination of Russia’s place in international affairs in the years after the fall of the Russian Empire, when the anti-Bolshevik “Whites” fought to maintain a “Great, United Russia.”
Unshackled: Freeing America’s K–12 Education System
by Clint Bolick and Kate J. Hardiman via Hoover Institution Press
Friday, January 1, 2021
How should we design a K–12 school system for the 21st century? Unshackled explores how to leverage decentralization, school choice, and technology to further freedom and flexibility in education.
Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali via HarperCollins Publishers
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe’s cities? No one in a position of power wants to admit that the problem is linked to the arrival of several million migrants—most of them young men—from Muslim-majority countries.
Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change
by Terry Anderson via Hoover Institution Press
Thursday, April 1, 2021
This volume features seven essays exploring different ways market forces can help governments and populations adapt to the environmental and economic effects of climate change.
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
by Niall Ferguson via Penguin Press
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Doom is the lesson of history that this country—indeed the West as a whole—urgently needs to learn, if we want to handle the next crisis better, and to avoid the ultimate doom of irreversible decline.
Negotiating the New START Treaty
by Rose Gottemoeller via Cambria Press
Saturday, May 15, 2021
Rose Gottemoeller, the US chief negotiator of the New START treaty—and the first woman to lead a major nuclear arms negotiation—delivers in this book an invaluable insider’s account of the negotiations between the US and Russian delegations in Geneva in 2009 and 2010. It also examines the crucially important discussions about the treaty between President Barack Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev, and it describes the tough negotiations Gottemoeller and her team went through to gain the support of the Senate for the treaty. And importantly, at a time when the US Congress stands deeply divided, it tells the story of how, in a previous time of partisan division, Republicans and Democrats came together to ratify a treaty to safeguard the future of all Americans.
A Round of Golf with My Father: The New Psychology of Exploring Your Past to Make Peace with Your Present
by William Damon via Templeton Press
Monday, June 7, 2021
Viewing our past through the eyes of maturity can reveal insights that our younger selves could not see. Lessons that eluded us become apparent. Encounters that once felt like misfortunes now become understood as valued parts of who we are. We realize what we’ve learned and what we have to teach. And we’re encouraged to chart a future that is rich with purpose.
The Battle over Patents: History and Politics of Innovation
edited by Stephen Haber and Naomi R. Lamoreaux via Oxford University Press
Friday, August 20, 2021
An examination of how the patent system works, imperfections and all, to incentivize innovation
The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
by Victor Davis Hanson via Basic Books
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
The New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Trump explains the decline and fall of the once cherished idea of American citizenship.
Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons
by Herbert Lin via Stanford University Press
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
The technology controlling US nuclear weapons predates the internet. Updating the technology for the digital era is necessary, but it comes with the risk that anything digital can be hacked. Moreover, using new systems for both nuclear and non-nuclear operations will lead to levels of nuclear risk hardly imagined before. This book is the first to confront these risks comprehensively.
The Drift: Stopping America’s Slide to Socialism
by Kevin Hassett via Regnery Publishing
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Economic advisor Kevin Hassett calls on all Americans to reject being bullied into silence by socialist agendas and the political elite.
The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III
by Andrew Roberts via Viking
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his old age. The truth is much more nuanced and fascinating—and will completely change the way readers and historians view his reign and legacy.
A Plague upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America
by Scott W. Atlas via Bombardier Books
Friday, December 7, 2021
What really happened behind the scenes at the Trump White House during the COVID pandemic?
