Product Description: Contents: Preface; Introduction; Charles Evans Hughes and the Campaign of 1916, Betty Glad; John W. Davis and 1924, William H. Harbaugh; Personal Grieving and Political Defeat: The Case of Calvin Coolidge, C. Knight Aldrich; Lessons from the 1932 Reelection Campaign of Herbert Hoover, George Nash; Wendell Wilkie, 1940, William Wemple and Kenneth W...read more

Product Description: The Myth of the Modern Presidency is a major contribution to how we ought to think about the American presidency, especially its constitutional roots and historical development. It forcefully challenges the reigning paradigm of the 'modern presidency,' arguing that all the essential elements of the post-FDR presidency were present in the constitutional design of the framers and were exhibited in practice well before the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: This is the first volume in a new series for the Miller Center and includes chapters from several well-known authors and professors, including Hans J. Morgenthau, Kevin Phillips, Norman Graebner, Michael Riccards, Merrill Peterson, Ralph Ketcham, Alf Mapp, Mortimer Sellers, and Garrett Sheldon...read more

Product Description: Brimming with data and examples from the historic 2008 election and laced with previews of 2012, the thirteenth edition of this classic text offers a complete overview of the presidential election process from the earliest straw polls and fundraisers to final voter turnout and exit interviews...read more

Product Description: The second of two reports on a RAND study, "Analytic Architecture for Joint Staff Decision Support Activities." The earlier report, MR-511-JS, sought to identify architectures, including the strategy-to-tasks (STT) framework, that could provide an efficient structure and a common tableau...read more

The controversial Espiscopal bishop of Newark shows how the Gospel stories--a collection of Jewish midrashic tales--have been misinterpreted for centuries as accounts of actual events because of an ignorance of the Jewish foundation behind the texts. Reprint. AB. NYT.

Product Description: This widely adopted text provides a balanced, comprehensive introduction to American government. It always reflects recent events which have had an impact on the political process. The text material and pedagogy encourage the student to think about how our government works and how to get involved...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

When a gun-wielding Hopi kachina dancer and his gang rob the Durango stagecoach, Longarm joins the posse--along with a feisty lady reporter from England--to search the ancient cliff dwellings of the Mesa Verde

Product Description: As the oil shortages, inflation, and unemployment of the 1970s disrupted American lives and the Watergate scandal rocked the presidency, faith in the future of the nation and its leaders was severely damaged. This volume, which is the product of a unique collaboration of distinguished scholars from history and political science, offers a probing analysis of the causes, processes, and consequences of this erosion of faith in public solutions to our country's problems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Surveys the constitutional history of the United States from the end of World War I, emphasizing the effects of crucial issues on Supreme Court rulings and American institutions

Having organized neighborhood discussion groups before World War I, Follett traces the dynamics she noticed in these forums and develops some core concepts useful for those working on questions of public deliberation today. She also shows how deliberation informs debates that raged in political theory during her own era. She discusses the works of pluralists (Harold Laski), idealists (T. H. Green and Bernard Bosanquet), and pragmatists (William James) and makes important arguments about the relationship between socialism and democracy. Her work is marked by rigorous thinking about the implications of democratic principles as they relate to political and socioeconomic organization.This book articulates the formation of a "new state" growing out of the local activities of citizens and renews the American idea of "federalism" in order to balance local activities and national purposes. By doing this, Follett leaves us with a pathbreaking work that demands more attention today. With preliminary essays by Benjamin Barber and Jane Mansbridge, plus a historical introduction provided by Kevin Mattson, this reissued edition will be of use to scholars and activists who are currently working on issues of democratic participation, civic education, and public deliberation. (view table of contents)

Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics presents a collection of papers analyzing the political systems of ten nations. It intends to provoke a conscious effort to compare, and investigate, the public choice of comparative politics. There have been many publications by public choice scholars, and many more by researchers who are at least sympathetic to the public choice perspective, yet little of this work has been integrated into the main stream of comparative political science literature. This work, however, presents an empirically oriented study of the politics, bureaucratic organization, and regulated economies of particular nations in the canon of the comparativist. It therefore provides a public choice view at the level of nations, not of systems. This compendium of work on comparative politics meets two criteria: In every case, a model of human behavior or institutional impact is specified; Also in every case, this model is confronted with data appropriate for evaluating whether this model is useful for understanding politics in one or more nations. (view table of contents)

The controversial Episcopal bishop shows how the Gospel stories have been misinterpreted for centuries as accounts of actual events, due to an ignorance of the Jewish foundation behind the texts

The former president shares his life in correspondence, diary entries, memos, and other writings, from his letter home as an eighteen-year-old Navy pilot during World War II to one written to his children on the eve of Desert Storm