Michael J. Shapiro is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and the author of numerous books, most recently¿Politics and Time.

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. The Insistence of the Sublime1
1. When the Earth Moves: Toward a Political Sublime  13
2. The Racial Sublime  41
3. The Nuclear Sublime  68
4. The Industrial Sublime  101
5. The 9/11 Terror Sublime  133
Afterword. It's All About Duration  169
Notes  173
Bibliography  193
Index  209

Michael J. Shapiro is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and the author of numerous books, most recently Politics and Time.