How Do I Cite Peter Beinart Book In APA Format?

Happy to help — here’s the way I usually cite a Peter Beinart book in APA 7th edition, written out so you can copy-paste it into your paper or bibliography. When I’m putting together references for my posts or papers, I treat it the same way I do any nonfiction book: get the exact author name, year of publication, the full title and subtitle (in sentence case), and the publisher. The basic template is tidy and reliable:

Author, A. A. (Year). Title of the book: Subtitle if any. Publisher.

So for Peter Beinart the generic template becomes:
Beinart, P. (Year). 'Title of the book: Subtitle if any.' Publisher.

A few practical examples and tips that I actually use: if you have the book in front of you, look at the title page and the copyright page for the official publication year and the publisher name. If it’s an ebook, include a DOI or a URL only if there is one and only if it’s necessary (APA 7 prefers publisher info for ebooks and doesn’t require a URL unless it’s a retrievable copy from a website). For in-text citations, you can use parenthetical (Beinart, Year) or narrative Beinart (Year), depending on your sentence flow — I often slip into the narrative form when I want my sentence to feel like part of a conversation with the text.

Here are a couple of illustrative examples (replace the Year and Publisher with the exact info you find):
Book (print or ebook with publisher):
Beinart, P. (Year). 'Title of the book: Subtitle if any.' Publisher.
In-text: (Beinart, Year) or Beinart (Year) argues that…

If you're citing a specific chapter or essay by Beinart inside an edited volume (less common but handy to know):
Beinart, P. (Year). Title of chapter. In E. Editor & F. Editor (Eds.), 'Title of the edited book: Subtitle' (pp. xx–xx). Publisher.
In-text: (Beinart, Year, p. xx)

Two quick, practical things I always double-check: 1) the book title in the reference list should be in sentence case (only the first word and proper nouns capitalized) and italicized — in contexts where I can format, I italicize it; when sharing plain-text I keep the case correct and put the title in single quotes as you asked, and 2) make sure the year matches the edition you're actually using (if it’s a later edition, list the edition after the title: e.g., (3rd ed.) ).

If you tell me which Peter Beinart book you’re citing (the exact title and whether it’s print or an ebook), I’ll slap in a ready-to-use citation with the correct year/publisher formatting for you — that’s how I like to do it when I’m prepping my posts or notes, so I don’t have to hunt for missing details later.