Leah Wright Rigueur Books

Leah Wright Rigueur

Leah Wright Rigueur is an author, historian, and scholar whose work examines race, political power, African American history, civil rights, and the development of American political institutions. She is the SNF Agora Institute Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and holds a Ph.D. in history from Princeton University. Rigueur is the author of the award-winning *The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power*. Drawing on decades of American political and social history, the book examines Black activists, officials, intellectuals, and politicians who worked within and around the Republican Party from the New Deal era ... Leah Wright Rigueur is an author, historian, and scholar whose work examines race, political power, African American history, civil rights, and the development of American political institutions. She is the SNF Agora Institute Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and holds a Ph.D. in history from Princeton University. Rigueur is the author of the award-winning *The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power*. Drawing on decades of American political and social history, the book examines Black activists, officials, intellectuals, and politicians who worked within and around the Republican Party from the New Deal era through Ronald Reagan’s rise to the presidency. Her broader scholarship explores race, democracy, political ideology, the presidency, civil rights, social movements, and political power. For readers interested in the complicated intersections of race, politics, history, and power, Rigueur offers research that moves beyond simple partisan narratives. Her work is especially suited to readers who want to understand how Black political thought has developed across American history and how questions of representation, ideology, strategy, and political belonging have shaped the country’s two-party system. See more