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Impassioned politics: New research on the role of emotions in political life - Marlene Sokolon, Political Emotions: Aristotle and the Symphony of Reason and Emotion (New York: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006), 217 pages. ISBN 978-0875803616. Hardcover, $38.00. - Rebecca Kingston and Leonard Ferry, ed., Bringing the Passions Back In (Vancouver Canada: University of British Colombia Press, 2008), 268 pages. ISBN 978-0774814102. Paperback, $34.95. - Drew Westen, The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation, (New York: Public Affairs, 2008), 475 pages. ISBN 978-1586485733. Paperback, $15.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Lauren K. Hall
Lauren K. Hall*
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Department of Political Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, 92 Lomb Drive, Rochester, NY 14623 lxhgpt@rit.edu
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , September 2009 , pp. 84 - 89
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