Jonathan Weiler – Jill Grinberg Literary Management

Jonathan Weiler

Jonathan Weiler is a professor and author of four books: Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics (winner of the Philip Converse Award from the American Political Science Association), Prius or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America’s Great Divide (co-authored with Marc Hetherington), Human Rights in Russia: A Darker Side of Reform and Divorce: A Love Story. He received his PhD in political science from UNC Chapel Hill, where he is Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Chair of Global Studies, and teaches courses on economic globalization, sports and globalization, and human rights.

Agent

Jill Grinberg

Prius or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America’s Great Divide

What’s in your garage: a Prius or a pickup? What’s in your coffee cup: Starbucks or Dunkin’ Donuts? What about your pet: cat or dog? As award-winning political scholars Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler explain, even our smallest choices speak volumes about us—especially when it comes to our personalities and our politics. Liberals and conservatives seem to occupy different worlds because we have fundamentally different worldviews: systems of values that can be quickly diagnosed with a handful of simple parenting questions, but which shape our lives and decisions in the most elemental ways. If we’re to overcome our seemingly intractable differences, Hetherington and Weiler show, we must first learn to master the psychological impulses that give rise to them, and to understand how politicians manipulate our mindsets for their own benefit.

Drawing on groundbreaking original research, Prius or Pickup? is an incisive, illuminating study of the fracturing of the American mind.

Praise for Prius or Pickup?

“A fascinating way to look at the fracturing of a nation presumed to be united… [Prius or Pickup?] speaks volumes about how we divide along many fronts, not least of them political.” –Kirkus

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Publication Date

October 9, 2018

Age Category

Adult

Genre

Nonfiction/Politics

Rights

JGLM

Divorce: A Love Story

What does happily ever after look like when your love story begins with divorce? In this one-of-a-kind joint memoir, Jonathan Weiler and Anne Menkens tell the story of how their relationship continued to evolve and how they co-parented their daughter once they decided their marriage was no longer working. With honesty and humor, Jonathan and Anne explain how they worked through the struggles that accompany a failed romance in order to be the kinds of parents, separately and together, that they knew their daughter needed.

While divorce is a painful experience for many, the authors suggest that divorced parents are not fated to an unhappy, conflict-ridden existence. Instead, they can become the people and parents they want to be and find their best selves, even as the relationship that was supposed to define who they are is no more.

Divorce: A Love Story, combines an in-depth account of the dynamics of Jonathan and Anne’s relationship, the therapy process that led them to break up and the partnership they formed after their marriage ended. Their story shows that divorce need not prevent loving, committed parents from working together to make sure their children receive the love, support and positive family environment every child needs.

Praise for Divorce: A Love Story

“An astonishingly honest and soul-baring book about the hard work of relationships.” –Amazon.com

“This is a wonderful book about how to be in relationship as parents and friends when your romantic relationship has ended. It is an inspiring story with wisdom for all parents, married or divorced. All children benefit when their parents make sure to take care of their own feelings and needs and not put their conflict or unmet needs on their children.” –Amazon.com