USD Author Session III: America’s 250th: Recommended Reading

Three USD Political Science and International Relations Professors will give a book review of work that helps us think about the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. 

• Panelists:

  • Casey Dominguez, PhD | Political Science and International Relations

  • Cory Gooding, PhD | Political Science and International Relations

  • Timothy Wyman McCarty, PhD | Political Science and International Relations

• Host: Noelle Norton, PhD | Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

Books from the recommended reading list will be for sale after the panel.

• Baldwin, James. 1963. The Fire Next Time. New York: M. Joseph.
• De Tocqueville, Alexis. 2006. Democracy in America. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics.
• Douglass, Frederick. 2016. The Essential Frederick Douglass. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing.
• Levitsky, Steven, and Daniel Ziblatt. 2019. How Democracies Die. New York: Crown.
• Levitsky, Steven, and Daniel Ziblatt. 2023. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point. New York: Crown.
• Niebuhr, Reinhold. 2011. The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

The KPBS San Diego Book Festival is a free, public event for book lovers of all ages. It is brought to you by KPBS and presented by the University of San Diego. 

For more information and to register, visit kpbs.org/sdbookfestival.