Named one of the most influential women of the 20th Century, Phyllis Schlafly offers a unique and powerful voice to a wide range of topics within American politics. Schlafly's writings touch on social and political controversies from the roller coaster that is Obamacare to the pros and cons of common core education, all within her best columns from 2014.
... the degree of attention to the issue of smoking and tobacco reflected in the two sources is similar , with a Pearson's correlation of 73 for the sixteen years for which we have collected data from both sources .
In this edition, the author addresses the escalating ideological conflict, the rise of extremism in the Republican Party, arguments over the proper role of government, the public’s expectations of politicians and political processes, and ...
Examining the recent emergence of the right-wing Tea Party movement, President Obama's administration, American foreign policy, and the role of powerful lobbies, this is the perfect primer for anyone interested in the world's most powerful ...
Keeping the Republic, Brief Edition, draws students into the study of American politics, showing them how to think critically about "who gets what, and how" while exploring the twin themes of power and citizenship.
Where did the Era of Divided Government come from? What sustains split partisan control of the institutions of American national government year after year? Why can it shift so easily...
Conveying how the American political system is both extraordinary and complex, the authors explain in a simple and straightforward way that there is a rationale embedded in the U.S. political...
Indeed, the caricature of elderly white-haired Southerners lording over all and sundry on Capitol Hill was not far from the truth, as evidenced by such figures as Richard Russell of Armed Services, Russell Long of Finance, ...
Daniel Boorstin's answer to this question has been chosen by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for representation in American Panorama as one of the 350 books, old and new, most descriptive of life in the United States.
He was, in fact, the first newly elected president since Zachary Taylor in 1849 to face a Congress completely in the hands of the political opposition. Even by picking up five seats in the Senate, the Republicans cut the Democratic ...
... Building a Democratic Political Order; Schlesinger, The Politics of Upheaval; Sundquist, Dynamics of the Party System, revised edition. 35 William E. Leuchtenburg, The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, ...