The highly anticipated new edition of Michael J. Shapiro's Deforming American Political Thought offers an alternative to American historical imagination from the founding to the present using disparate disciplines and genres.

Michael J. Shapiro is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of political theory and philosophy, critical social theory, global politics, politics of media, politics of aesthetics, politics of culture, and indigenous politics.

1. Securing the American Ethnoscape: Official Surveys and Literary Interventions 2. The Micropolitics of Crime: Aesthetic Comprehension and the 'Brutality of Fact' 3. Deforming America's Western Imaginary 4. HBO's Two Frontiers: Deadwood and The Wire 5. Constructing America: Architectural Thought-Worlds 6. Composing America 7. Democracy's Risky Businesses: Pluralism and the Metapolitics of Aesthetics