Product Description: (Middle School & High School) This high-impact program offers students a strong introduction to government, citizenship, and the American economic and legal systems. An accessible narrative and compelling design work hand-in-hand with interactive technology, study guides, and activity-based resources to motivate students to actively participate in government...read more

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Product Description: This collection of lively vignettes presents an account of the people in government. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: THE CORE presents the "nuts and bolts" of American politics, written in a style that's sure to capture and keep student interest--the perfect alternative to mammoth conventional texts. At 320 pages, THE CORE is a perfect choice for professors who like to use a number of different books in this course...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Originally published by Winthrop Publishers, Inc. in 1974, this volume concentrates upon the role of major political institutions in policy-making: interest groups, political parties, the presidency, Congress, courts, and the bureaucracy, covering both the formal and the informal context within which these institutions operate...read more

Explores the inner offices of senators and congressmen, congressional staff conferences, and the private meetings where crucial strategies are planned