Product Description: A supplemental text for courses on Interest Groups, American Political Parties, Campaigns and Elections, and Women and Politics, and other Women's Studies courses. Filling the gap in knowledge about women's political action committees (PACs), this useful text examines the attitudes, priorities, and motivations of individuals who contribute significant amounts of money to the political scene...read more

Product Description: This compelling autobiography recounts his parents' immigration to the United States, the family's battles with tuberculosis, and political activism.

A personal account of the author's rise from poverty in the segregated South to a distinguished role as one of this century's most outspoken political activists recounts his experiences with racism in the halls of Harvard and in the powerful town of Washington, D.C. Reprint.

Product Description: This study examines the narrated life experiences of 11 African American intellectual-activists. An intellectual-activist is defined as a person whose education has provided him or her with a body of knowledge to which he/she is continually adding (intellectual self) and who works daily for, or has a career dedicated to, the betterment of African American people (activist self)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: By 1990, there were over 4000 Political Action Committees (PACs) active and visible in the USA. This study covers various perspectives of PACs - size, contribution strategies, access to Washington information networks and issues - by means of diverse case studies.

Product Description: Ronald Reagan started it, back in 1977. George Bush perfected the art in 1988. In the 1980s and 1990s, Democrats as well as Republicans running for President (or thinking of doing so), have followed Reagan's lead in establishing pre-candidacy PACs as a way of raising more money faster, without the regulatory rigours laid down by Congress and the Federal Election Commission...read more

Product Description: Book by Makinson, Larry

Product Description: Excellent insight on Congress and Politicians

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