Write a book report on Jane McAlevey’s book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age. Your book report should be 8-9 typed pages long (double-spaced, one-inch margins). Overall, your book report should focus on the central argument(s) (thesis) of the book followed by a thorough description of evidence presented in the book to back up the author’s claims. In the introduction of the book report, you will identify the author’s thesis and explain it in your own words. You will include a brief introduction of the topic or the summary of the book to provide a meaningful context for the thesis statement. In your Introduction you will also tell the reader the three distinct pieces of evidence or cases—that is, the three chapters from McAlevey, each one is a case—that you will analyze in your report.
In the next section you will analyze the evidence—the three cases. I recommend providing a heading for each section (Ex: The Chicago Teacher’s Strike) to let the reader know in advance what case you are writing about. In these sections you will provide a review of the case and in the process you will engage the author’s central argument, and argue whether the evidence she has provided supports—or does not support—her central claim. You are also encouraged to bring in other concepts and theories we have used throughout the semester—such as disruption—and show how they help illuminate the case.
In the conclusion, provide an overall assessment of the evidence the author provided and whether it backs up the thesis.
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