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How and why has government gotten bigger? “Should be a compulsory assignment for any seminar on modern political culture.” —The Journal of American History American government has evolved over the generations since the mid-nineteenth ...
Contains two hundred alphabetically arranged articles discussing subjects important to American government.
Hogan, Cross of Iron, 12–18; Blanche Wiesen Cook, The Declassified Eisenhower (New York: Penguin, 1981), 345–46. 7. Melvin Leffler, Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War (Stanford, ...
Introduction to American Government encourages students to think critically about current issues in politics and policy and to question how and why America has achieved its current position politically.