Product Description: In 1891 Benjamin Harrison, the first president engaged in conservation, had to have this new area of public policy explained to him by members of the Boone and Crockett Club. This didn't take long, as he was only asked to sign a few papers setting aside federal timberland...read more

Product Description: Book by Graham, Jr., Otis L.

Product Description: Throughout America's history immigration policy has always been a controversial and complex topic, going to the heart of what it means to be American. Now, with terrorism as a new concern, Americans have begun to look closer at the effects of rising immigration and porous borders...read more

An interpretive, historical account of the concept, major models, and actual practice of national planning in the United States from the Great Depression to the 1970s, with speculation on future developments (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This volume of original essays tells the story of how the agenda of the environmental movement in America has changed from the time Rachel Carson sounded her famous clarion call in the early 1960s up to our current era when the "globalization" of environmental issues has affected both the severity of the problems we all face and the political difficulty of dealing with them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A narrative, built around the public life of the American people, this core text is designed for courses in modern US History, or the history of American since 1945. This text will be the most concise for this area of the market. Its goal is to help students understand the present by exploring issues of the past...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

"Japan has had one since before the Pacific War. Germany has always had one. Britain has had one after another. Shouldn't the United States get one?" Though hotly debated throughout the 1980s, this was the wrong question, leading to years of delay and confusion which persist to this day. The US already has an Industrial Policy, says Graham in this book. It is composed of many sector-specific policies of the federal government (such as airline deregulation and tariffs on Asian textiles), along with similar policies adopted in numerous states. These amount to a national Industrial Policy, but one which is uncoordinated and often harmful. This policy morass, which continues in the 1990s under George Bush despite the erosion of America's competitive position, owes much to a misunderstood history of government economic policy. Elements of both parties, but especially Reagan Republicans, have obscured our real choices with historical myths. What should the United States have done when the nation saw its industries rapidly becoming globally uncompetitive? What reforms do we need now, asks Graham, to redirect our public policies for competitive strength? Industrial policy reform is an important part of a public-private set of remedies, but it hinges upon an improved use of policy history and of historical perspective generally. He proposes an explicit if minimalist approach by the federal government that would pull together and reform our de facto industrial policies in order to equip the United States with the institutional capacity to formulate industrial interventions guided by continuous learning, strategic vision, and bipartisan participation by labour and management. "Losing Time" is important reading for policymakers, community leaders, academics involved in public policy, economics and history, and readers generally concerned about the future.

Product Description: Capable, decisive, and daring, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is admired worldwide as one of the greatest political figures of the 20th century. No modern leader of the United States has matched FDR in style or substance. Biographers, historians and political scientists offer views of Franklin D...read more

Product Description: The study of U.S. history has flourished in the Soviet Union during the last several years, with much research being published in Soviet journals.  Since those journals have very limited circulation in the West and since few U.S...read more

Product Description: Book by Graham, Otis L., Jr.

Analyzing the dynamics of reform in the early twentieth century, the author shows that the New Deal was not an inevitable by-product of the Progressive era