In Exporting American Dreams, Mary L. Dudziak recounts with poignancy and power the untold story of Thurgood Marshall's work in Africa, and his friendship with Kenya independence leaders, including Tom Mboya and Jomo Kenyatta
Book Blog: Exporting American Dreams
Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
"Impressively researched and vividly written. . . . Convincingly demonstrates how Cold War pressures both empowered and constrained the civil rights movement's quest to build a more just America." Rogers M. Smith author of Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History
"Groundbreaking."--American Lawyer
"Dudziak's book will inspire a reconsideration of postwar civil rights history."--Alex Lubin, American Quarterly
September 11 in History
"I am exhilarated by the collective wisdom, creativity, and insight of this unusual yet riveting distillation of perspectives on September 11."—Bruce Lawrence, author of Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence
Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders
"By weaving together colorful and contentious strands of culture, history and law, these essays make a compelling argument that "it is in its bleeding borders that law itself, and with it American identity, is constructed, contested, and made meaningful." Harvard Law Review
Work-in-Progress:
How War Made America: A Twentieth Century History (under contract with Oxford University Press)