{"product_id":"sovereign-settler-leaker-lie-atilla-hallsby-9780814259726","title":"Sovereign, Settler, Leaker, Lie: Forms of the Secret in US Political Rhetoric","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSovereign, Settler, Leaker, Lie, \u003c\/i\u003e Atilla Hallsby argues that secrets play a pivotal role in organizing political discourse in the United States. Hallsby takes up contemporary case studies-ranging from the Valerie Plame scandal during the George W. Bush presidency, to the use of Saul Alinsky's name as a partisan codeword for politicizing Obama's Blackness, to Chelsea Manning's public naming and outing-to show how dramatic revelations increasingly fail to produce meaningful change and instead reproduce entrenched racial, gendered, and colonial hierarchies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The core feature of these interlinked moments of crisis is the secret: a rhetorical patterning of political life organized by specific forms, each one lending a familiar shape to the shadows of American empire. These forms, theorized here as tropes, connect decades of secrets, linking the George W. Bush administration's War on Terror to the Trump-era reemergence of \"deep state\" conspiracy theories. As an extension of secrecy and surveillance studies, and with the aim of attaining a more accountable and just form of US governmentality, \u003ci\u003eSovereign, Settler, Leaker, Lie\u003c\/i\u003e explains how still-unfolding political realities in the United States emerged, transformed, and regenerate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Atilla Hallsby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814259723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814259726\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Atilla Hallsby","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48450320859391,"sku":"9780814259726","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0de27bf2-9c08-4b30-8361-4491a0eaecbf.jpg?v=1777267136","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sovereign-settler-leaker-lie-atilla-hallsby-9780814259726","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}