About Sean Byrnes

Sean T. Byrnes is a writer, teacher, and historian who lives in middle Tennessee. He is the author of Disunited Nations: US Foreign Policy, Anti-Americanism, and the Rise of the New Right, from LSU Press. He’s currently working on two books. One under contract with Bloomsbury entitled "The United States and the Ends of Empire: Decolonization, Hierarchy, and World Order since 1776" and another with LSU entitled "No Guarantee: The Family Assistance Plan and the Transformation of American Politics, 1968-1972". In addition to hosting with the New Books Network his work has also appeared in Jacobin and International Journal.

Sean T. Byrnes is a writer, teacher, and historian who lives in middle Tennessee. He is the author of Disunited Nations: US Foreign Policy, Anti-Americanism, and the Rise of the New Right, from LSU Press. Tweet at him @ByrnesSean.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Sean:

Timothy Shenk, "Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy" (FSG, 2022)

December 8, 2022

Realigners

Timothy Shenk
Hosted by Sean Byrnes

These days it seems that nobody is satisfied with American democracy. Critics across the ideological spectrum warn that the country is heading toward …

Matthew Specter, "The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States" (Stanford UP, 2022)

June 16, 2022

The Atlantic Realists

Matthew Specter
Hosted by Sean Byrnes

In The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States (Stanford UP, 2022), intellectual historian…