March 1, 1994
- Senate rejects a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
September 27, 1994
- More than 350 Republican congressional candidates signed the
''Contract with America,'' a 10-point platform they pledged to
enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the U.S. House: reduce
federal taxes, balance the budget, dismantle social welfare
programs established during six decades of mostly Democratic rule
in Congress.
November 8, 1994
- Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives
for the first time in 40 years and won a majority in the Senate in
midterm elections; led by Representative Newt Gingrich of Georgia
who became speaker of the House; every bill incorporated in the
Contract with America (except term-limits constitutional
amendment) passed within the first 100 days of the 104th Congress.
January 7, 1997
- Newt Gingrich became the first Republican re-elected House
speaker in 68 years.
February 27, 1998
- With the approval of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's House of
Lords agreed to end 1,000 years of male preference by giving a
monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as a
first-born son.
March 23, 1998
- The Supreme Court ruled that term limits for state lawmakers are
constitutional.
December 20, 1999
- The Vermont Supreme Court ruled that homosexual couples are
entitled to the same benefits and protections as wedded couples of
the opposite sex.
July 1, 2000
- Vermont's civil unions law went into effect, granting gay
couples most of the rights, benefits, and responsibilities of
marriage.
November 7, 2000
- Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first first lady to win
public office, defeating Republican Rick Lazio for a U.S. Senate
seat from New York.
May 24, 2001
- Democrats gained control of the U.S. Senate for the first time
since 1994 when Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont abandoned the
Republican Party and declared himself an independent.
June 6, 2001
- Democrats assumed control of the U.S. Senate after Sen. James
Jeffords's defection from Republican Party.
September 6, 2002
- Meeting outside Washington D.C., for only the second time since
1800, Congress convened in New York to pay homage to the victims
and heroes of Sept. 11, 2001.
November 14, 2002 - Nancy
Pelosi of California was elected to succeed Richard Gephardt, who
chose to step down, as leader of the Democratic Party in the U.S.
House of Representatives; first woman to be named leader of either
party in either house of Congress.
January 21, 2003
- The Census Bureau announced that Hispanics had surpassed
blacks as America's largest minority group.
November 18, 2003 - The
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled 4-3 that the state
constitution guarantees gay couples the right to marry.
February 12, 2004
- Defying a California law, San Francisco officials began
performing weddings for same-sex couples.
July 14, 2004
- The Senate voted 50-48 against a constitutional amendment
banning gay marriage.
August 12, 2004
- The California Supreme Court voided the nearly 4,000 same-sex
marriages sanctioned in San Francisco earlier in the year.
November 7, 2006
- Democrats gained control of the Senate and House of Representatives for the
first time in 12 years in midterm elections; Deval Patrick, Justice Department's
top civil rights lawyer under President Clinton, was elected
Governor of Massachusetts; second black politician in American
history elected Governor (November 7, 1989 - L. Douglas Wilder won
the governor's race in Virginia, becoming the nation's first
elected black governor);
November 16, 2006
- Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was unanimously elected by her Democratic
peers as speaker when Congress convenes in January, 2007. First
woman ever elected Speaker of the House.
January 4, 2007
- Democrats took control of both houses of Congress for the first
time in a dozen years and elected the first woman in history to be
speaker of the House of the 110th Congress. Representative Nancy
Pelosi of California took the speaker’s gavel from Representative
John A. Boehner of Ohio, the Republican leader, whom she defeated
by a vote of 233 to 202, the 31-seat margin of the new Democratic
majority. The floor and the packed galleries erupted in cheers
when the vote was announced.
(Constitution), Richard B. Morris (1985).
Witnesses at the Creation: Hamilton, Madison, Jay, and the
Constitution. (New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston,
279 p.). Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804; Madison, James,
1751-1836; Jay, John, 1745-1829; United States. Constitution;
United States--Politics and government--1783-1789.
(Constitution), Catherine Drinker Bowen; with a new
introduction by Henry Steele Commager (1986).
Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional
Convention, May to September, 1787. (New York, NY:
Book-of-the-Month Club, 346 p.). United States. Constitutional
Convention (1787); Constitutional history--United States.
(Constitution), Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier
(1986).
Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787.
(New York, NY: Random House, 331 p.). United States.
Constitutional Convention (1787); Constitutional
conventions--United States; Constitutional history--United States.
Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787
to write a document that would create a country and change a
world.
(Constitution), Clinton Rossiter (1987).
1787: The Grand Convention. (New York, NY: Norton, 443 p.
[orig. pub. 1966]). United States. Constitutional Convention
(1787); Constitutional history--United States.
(Constitution), Akhil Reed Amar (2005).
America’s Constitution: A Biography. (New York, NY: Random
House, 657 p.). Yale Law School Faculty. Constitutional
history--United States. What the Constitution says and why the
Constitution says it.
(Constitution), David O. Stewart (2007).
The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Wrote the U.S. Constitution.
(New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 349 p.). Constitutional Lawyer.
United States. Constitutional Convention (1787); United States.
Constitution--Signers--Biography; Constitutional history--United
States; Constitutional conventions--United States--History--18th
century. Delegates struggled for four months
toward consensus -- often reluctantly -- to write a flawed but
living and breathing document that could define and evolve with
the nation.
Richard H. Abbott (1986). The Republican Party and the
South, 1855-1877: The First Southern Strategy. (Chapel Hill,
NC: University of North Carolina Press, 303 p.). Republican Party
(U.S. : 1854- ) -- History -- 19th century; Reconstruction;
Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865; Southern
States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.
Catherine Allgor
(2000).
Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help
Build a City and a Government. (Charlottesville, VA:
University of Virginia Press, 299 p.). Women in
politics--Washington (D.C.)--History--19th century; Upper class
women--Washington (D.C.)--History--19th century;
Entertaining--Washington (D.C.)--History--19th century; Washington
(D.C.)--History--19th century; Washington (D.C.)--Politics and
government--19th century; Washington (D.C.)--Social life and
customs--19th century.
Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin (2000).
Rude
Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century.
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 316 p.).
Elections--United States--History--19th century; Political
participation--United States--History--19th century; Political
culture--United States--History--19th century; United
States--Politics and government--19th century.
Stephen Ansolabehere, Shanto Iyengar (1995).
Going Negative:
How Attack Ads Shrink and Polarize the Electorate. (New
York, NY: Free Press, 243 p.). Professor of Political Science
(MIT); Professor of Political Science and Communication Studies (UCLA)Advertising,
Political; Advertising, Political -- United States; Political
campaigns -- United States; Negativism.
Matt Bai (2007).
The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake
Democratic Politics. (New York, NY: Penguin Press, 316
p.). Democratic Party (U.S.); Progressivism (United States
politics); United States--Politics and government--2001-.
Follows
power brokers as Howard Dean, billionaire George Soros, union leader Andy Stern, blogger Markos Moulitsas, leaders of moveon.org
as they vie for control of the new Democratic landscape.
Bernard Bailyn (1968).
The Origins of American Politics.
(New York, NY: Knopf, 161 p.). United States--Politics and
government--To 1775.
Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot (1999).
Social Security: The
Phony Crisis. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 175
p.). Social security--United States--Finance.
Dan Balz and Ronald Brownstein (1996).
Storming the Gates: Protest Politics and the Republican Revival.
(Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 424 p.). Republican Party (U.S. :
1854- ); Liberalism--United States; United States--Politics and
government--1945-1989; United States--Politics and
government--1989-.
Ed. Jack Beatty (2004).
Pols: Great Writers on American Politicians from Bryan to Reagan.
(New York, NY: Public Affairs, 463 p.). Senior Editor (Atlantic
Monthly). Politicians--United States--Anecdotes; United
States--Politics and government--20th century--Anecdotes.
Some of America's greatest political
biographers on a century of its most notable politicians.
Herman Belz (2000).
A New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and Freedmen’s
Rights, 1861 to 1866. (New York, NY: Fordham University
Press, 199 p.). Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History; African
Americans--Civil rights--History. How laws,
policies and constitutional amendments defining and protecting the
personal liberty and civil rights of the country’s African
American population were adopted during the Civil War.
W. Lance Bennett, Regina G. Lawrence, and Steven Livingston
(2007).
When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq
to Katrina. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 222
p.). Professor of Political Science, Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor
of Communication (University of Washington); Associate Professor
of Political Science in the Hatfield School of Government at
(Portland State University); Associate Professor in the School of
Media and Public Affairs and the Elliott School of International
Affairs (George Washington University). Government and the
press--United States--History--21st century; Press and
politics--United States--History--21st century;
Journalism--Objectivity--United States--History--21st century.
Reporters’ dependence on
official sources disastrously thwarts coverage of dissenting
voices from outside the beltway: 1) why the mainstream press neglected to cover
considerable evidence against the presence of weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq; 2) refreshingly critical reporting on
Hurricane Katrina.
Carol Berkin (2002).
A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution.
(New York, NY: Harcourt, 310 p.). Professor of American History
(CUNY). United States. Constitutional Convention (1787); United
States. Constitution--Signers; Statesmen--United
States--History--18th century; Constitutional history--United
States; United States--Politics and government--1783-1789.
Bruce Bimber (2003).
Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of
Political Power. (New York, NY: Cambridge University
Press, 268 p.). Information society--Political aspects--United
States; Information technology--Political aspects--United States;
Internet--Political aspects--United States; Political
participation--United States--Computer network resources;
Democracy--United States; Communication--Political aspects--United
States.
Earl Black and Merle Black (2002).
The Rise of Southern Republicans. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 442 p.). Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- );
Southern States--Politics and government--1951-.
Robert H. Bork (1996).
Slouching Towards Gomorah: Modern
Liberalism and American Decline. (New York, NY: Reagan Books,
382 p.). Senior Fellow at American Enterprise Institute.
Liberalism--United States; Social values--United States; United
States--Social conditions--1980-.
James Bovard (2006).
Attention Deficit Democracy. (New York, NY: Palgrave
Macmillan, 291 p.). Democracy; Democracy--United States; United
States--Politics and government--2001-. Citizenry
pays less attention to facts, less capable of
judging when rights and liberties are under attack.
Catherine Drinker Bowen (1966).
Miracle at Philadelphia; The Story of the Constitutional
Convention, May to September, 1787. (Boston, MA: Little,
Brown, 346 p.). United States. Constitutional Convention (1787).
H. W. Brands (2001).
The Strange Death of American
Liberalism. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 200 p.).
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989; Liberalism
-- United States -- History -- 20th century; Political culture --
United States -- History -- 20th century. Liberalism - domestic
reformism.
Mary C. Brennan (1995).
Turning Right in the Sixties: The Conservative Capture of the GOP.
(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 210 p.).
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Conservatism--United States;
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
Richard D. Brown (1996).
The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in
America, 1650-1870. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North
Carolina Press, 252 p.). Professor of History (University of
Connecticut). Political science--United States--History; Political
socialization--United States--History; Freedom of
information--United States--History; Civics--Study and
teaching--United States--History.
Ronald Brownstein (2007).
The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed
Washington and Polarized America. (New York, NY: Penguin
Press, 496 p.). National Political Correspondent and Columnist
(Los Angeles Times). Political parties--United States; Political
culture--United States; Opposition (Political science)--United
States; Divided government--United States; United States--Politics
and government--2001-. Analysis of the
forces that have made this era in American politics as divisive
and bitterly partisan as any since the Civil War; diagnosis of the electoral, demographic, and
institutional forces that have brought such change over the
American political landscape, pulling politics to the margins and
leaving precious little common ground for compromise.
Charles W. Calhoun (2006).
Conceiving a New Republic: The Republican Party and the Southern
Question, 1869-1900. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of
Kansas, 347 p.). Professor of History (East Carolina University).
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History--19th century;
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Republicanism--United
States--History--19th century; Southern States--Politics and
government--1865-1950; United States--Politics and
government--1865-1900.
Angus Campbell, Donald E. Stokes and Others (1960). The
American Voter. (New York, NY: Wiley, 573 p.). Stokes -
Professor of Politics and Public Affairs (Princeton). Elections --
United States.
Bryan Caplan (2006).
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad
Policies. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 280
p.). Associate Professor of Economics (George Mason University).
Economic policy; Democracy; Political sociology; Representative
government and representation; Rationalism.
Greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched
special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular
misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by
ordinary voters.
Jonathan D. Chambers (1941).
Dictators; An Introductory
Study in the Social Origins of Dictatorship. (New York, NY: T.
Nelson and Sons Ltd., 222 p.). Dictators; Despotism.
Elisabeth S. Clemens (1997).
The People's Lobby:
Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics
in the United States, 1890-1925. (Chicago, IL: University of
Chicago Press, 459 p.). Lobbying--United States--History; Pressure
groups--United States--History; Organizational change--United
States--History; Social institutions--United States--History;
Institution building--History; United States--Politics and
government--1865-1933.
Gail Collins (1998).
Scorpion Tongues: The Irresistable
History of Gossip in American Politics. (San Diego, CA:
Harcourt Brace, 338 p.). Gossip--Political aspects--United
States--History; Political corruption--United States--History;
United States--Politics and government.
Matthew Continetti (2006).
The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine.
(New York, NY: Doubleday, 288 p.). Staff Rriter (Weekly Standard).
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Conservatism--United States;
Lobbyists--United States; Political corruption--United States;
United States--Politics and government--1993-2001; United
States--Politics and government--2001-. How
a group of self-styled Republican reformers succumbed to
temptations of power, became worse than Democrats they had been
elected to replace.
Donald T. Critchlow (2007).
The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political
History. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 368
p.). Professor of History (Saint Louis University). Republican
Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Conservatism--United States--History;
United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.
GOP Right over the last sixty years - how
deeply held beliefs about the nature of the individual and the
good society are translated into political power.
Richard N. Current (1955).
Daniel Webster and the Rise of
National Conservatism. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 215 p.).
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852.
Rixchard Darman (1996).
Who’s in Control?: Polar Politics and the Sensible Center.
(New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 384 p.). Right and left
(Political science); United States--Politics and
government--1981-1989; United States--Politics and
government--1989-1993; United States--Politics and
government--1993-2001.
Richard Davis (2005).
Politics Online: Blogs, Chatrooms, and Discussion Groups in
American Democracy. (New York, NY: Routledge, 164 p.).
Professor of Political Science (Brigham Young University).
Political participation--Technological innovations--United States;
United States--Politics and government--Weblogs; United
States--Politics and government--Online chat groups; United
States--Politics and government--Electronic discussion groups.
James Deakin (1966).
The Lobbyists. (Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 309
p.). White House Correspondent (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).
Lobbying--United States; United States--Politics and
government--1945-1989.
John W. Dean (2006).
Conservatives Without Conscience. (New York, NY: Viking,
246 p.). Ex–Nixon White House Counsel and Watergate
Whistle-Blower. Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- );
Conservatism--United States; United States--Politics and
government--2001-. Highlights specific right-wing-driven GOP
policies, probes the conservative mind, identifies
recurring qualities (unbridled viciousness toward those
daring to disagree with them, big business
favoritism that costs taxpayers billions); identifies specific
examples (how court packing is seeking to form a judiciary that
is activist by its very nature, how religious piety is producing
politics run amok, how concealed indifference to the founding
principles of liberty and equality is pushing America further and
further from its constitutional foundations). Republican Party, a
noble political party corrupted by its current leaders who cloak
their actions in moral superiority while packaging their programs
as blatant propaganda.
--- (2007).
Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative,
Executive, and Judicial Branches. (New York, NY: Viking,
332 p.). Ex–Nixon White House Counsel and Watergate
Whistle-Blower. Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Public
administration--United States; Federal government--United States;
Conservatism--United States; United States--Politics and
government--2001-. Dysfunctional chaos, institutional damage that the Republican
Party and its core conservatives have inflicted on the federal
government. Traces decline of all three branches of
government through the presidencies of
Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II. Asks what, if anything,
can and should politically moderate citizens do to combat the
extremism, authoritarianism, incompetence, and increasing focus on
divisive wedge issues of so many of today’s conservative
politicians?
Stephen P. Depoe (1994).
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and the
Ideological History of American Liberalism. (Tuscaloosa, AL:
University of Alabama Press, 192 p.). Schlesinger, Arthur Meier,
1917- ; Liberalism--United States--History--20th century; United
States--Historiography. Series: Studies in rhetoric and
communication.
Donald Dewey (2007).
The Art of Ill Will: The Story of American Political Cartoons.
(New York, NY: New York University Press, 251 p.). American wit
and humor, Pictorial--History; United States--Politics and
government--Caricatures and cartoons. Comprehensive history of
American political cartooning, from the colonial period to
contemporary cartoonists; artists’ uncanny ability to encapsulate
the essence of a situation and to steer the public mood with a
single drawing and caption.
Larry Diamond (2008).
The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle To Build Free Societies
Throughout the World. (New York, NY: Times Books/Henry
Holt and Company, 448 p.). Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
(Stanford University). Democracy; Democratization.
1974 - nearly
three-quarters of all countries were dictatorships; 2007 - more
than half were democracies; arrogance and inconsistency have
undermined America’s aspirations to promote democracy; urges
vigorous support of good governance (rule of law, security,
protection of individual rights, shared economic prosperity), free
civic organizations.
Tom Domke and Gerry Lange (1996).
The Conservative's
Dictionary. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Griffin, 134 p.).
Conservatism--United States--Humor; Political satire, American;
American wit and humor, Pictorial; United States--Politics and
government--1993-2001--Humor; United States--Politics and
government--1993-2001--Caricatures and cartoons.
Edited and with an introduction by Arthur P. Dudden (1875).
Pardon us, Mr. President!: American Humor on Politics. (South
Brunswick: A.S. Barnes, 613 p. [rev., expanded 1962 ed.]).
American wit and humor; United States--Politics and
government--Humor.
Foster R. Dulles (1955).
America's Rise to World Power,
1898-1954. (New York, NY: Harper, 314 p.). World
politics--20th century; United States--Foreign relations--20th
century.
Ed. Susan Dunn (2006).
Something That Will Surprise the World: The Essential Writings of
the Founding Fathers. (New York, NY: Basic Books, 470 p.).
Professor of Humanities (Williams College). Founding Fathers of
the United States--Archives; United States--Politics and
government--1775-1783--Sources; United States--Politics and
government--1783-1809--Sources; United States--Politics and
government--1809-1817--Sources. Contents: George Washington --
Alexander Hamilton -- John Adams -- Thomas Jefferson -- James
Madison. Most important speeches, letters,
writings of Founding Fathers.
Nina J. Easton (2000).
Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade.
(New York, NY: Simon & Schuste, 463 p.). Washington Bureau
Chief (Fortune magazine). Republican Party (U.S. : 1854-
)--Biography; Politicians--United States--Biography;
Politicians--United States--History--20th century;
Conservatism--United States--History--20th century; Right and left
(Political science); United States--Politics and
government--1945-1989; United States--Politics and
government--1989-. Young conservative
activists who arrived on campus in the 1970s in rebellion against
everything "sixties" and went on to overturn the political
dynamics of the country in the 1980s and 1990s.
Murray Edelman (1964).
The Symbolic Uses of Politics.
(Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 201 p.). Professor of
Political Science (University of Wisconsin). Political psychology;
Symbolism in politics.
--- (1971).
Politics as Symbolic Action; Mass Arousal and
Quiescence. (Chicago, Il: Markham Pub. Co., 188 p.). Professor
of Political Science (University of Wisconsin). Political
psychology; Symbolism in politics; Violence.
Thomas Byrne Edsall with Mary D. Edsall (1991).
Chain
Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American
Politics. (New York, NY: Norton, 339 p.). Republican Party
(U.S. : 1854- )--History--20th century; Presidents--United
States--Election--History--20th century; Political
campaigns--United States--History--20th century; Taxation--United
States--History--20th century; United States--Race relations.
Mickey Edwards (2008).
Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement
Got Lost--and How It Can Find Its Way Back. (New York, NY:
Oxford University Press, 230 p.). Former Republican Congressman,
Former National Chairman of the American Conservative Union,
Founding Trustee of the Heritage Foundation. Republican Party
(U.S. : 1854- )--History--21st century; Conservatism--United
States; Executive-legislative relations--United
States--History--21st century; United States--Politics and
government--2001-. Conservatism turned upside down. Conservative
movement drew its inspiration directly from the United States
Constitution, overriding belief in individual
liberty and limited government; taken over by people
who abet an imperial presidency, have gutted the system of
checks and balances, abandoned due process, and trampled upon our
cherished civil liberties, endorse
unprecedented assertions of government power, recognize few limits
on what government can do.
Joseph J. Ellis (2000).
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary
Generation. (New York, NY: Knopf, 288 p.). Statesmen--United
States--Biography--Anecdotes; Presidents--United
States--Biography--Anecdotes; United
States--History--1783-1815--Anecdotes; United States--Politics and
government--1783-1809--Anecdotes.
M. Stanton Evans (1968).
The Future of Conservatism; from Taft to Reagan and Beyond.
(New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 304 p.). Republican
Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Conservatism--United States; United
States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
Jasmine Farrier (2004).
Passing the Buck: Congress, the Budget, and Deficits.
(Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 284 p.). Assistant
Professor of Political Science (University of Louisville). United
States. Congress--Reform; United States. Congress--Powers and
duties; Budget--United States; Budget process--United States;
Finance, Public--United States.
Bruce L. Felknor (1992).
Political Mischief: Smear,
Sabotage, and Reform in U.S. Elections. (New York, NY: Praeger,
290 p.). Political campaigns--United States--History; Advertising,
Political--United States--History; Political corruption--United
States--History; Political ethics--United States--History; Libel
and slander--United States--History.
Roger A. Fischer (1996).
Them Damned Pictures: Explorations
in American Political Cartoon Art. (North Haven, CT: Archon
Books, 253 p.). Caricatures and cartoons--Political
aspects--United States; American wit and humor, Pictorial; United
States--Politics and government--19th century--Caricatures and
cartoons; United States--Politics and government--20th
century--Caricatures and cartoons.
George Fisher; introduction by Ernest Dumas (1993).
The Best
of Fisher : 28 Years of Editorial Cartoons from Faubus to Clinton.
(Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 259 p.). American
wit and humor, Pictorial; United States--Politics and
government--1945-1989--Caricatures and cartoons; United
States--Politics and government--1989-1993--Caricatures and
cartoons; Arkansas--Politics and government--1951- --Caricatures
and cartoons.
Eric Foner (1970).
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The
Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War. (New
York, NY: Oxford University Press, 353 p.). Republican Party (U.S.
: 1854- ); United States--Politics and government--1849-1861;
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes. Revision of
the author's thesis, Columbia University.
Robert Booth Fowler (2000).
Enduring Liberalism: American
Political Thought Since the 1960s. (Lawrence, KS:
University Press of Kansas, 331 p.). Professor of Political
Science (University of Wisconsin). Liberalism--United
States--History--20th century; Consensus (Social sciences)--United
States--History--20th century; Political science--United
States--History--20th century.
Thomas Frank (2004).
What's the Matter with Kansas?: How
Conservatives Won the Heart of America. (New York, NY:
Metropolitan Books, 306 p.). Conservatism--Kansas;
Kansas--Politics and government--1951-.
eds. Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle (1989).
The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980.
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 311 p.). New Deal,
1933-1939; United States--Politics and government--1933-1945;
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
David Frum (1994).
Dead Right. (New York, NY: Basic
Books, 230 p.). Conservatism--United States; United
States--Politics and government--1945-1989; United
States--Politics and government--1989-.
--- (1996).
What's Right: The New Conservative Majority and
the Remaking of America. (New York, NY: Basic Books, 208 p.).
Conservatism--United States; United States--Politics and
government--1989-.
Francis Fukuyama (2006).
America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the
Neoconservative Legacy. (New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 240 p.). Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International
Political Economy and Director of the International Development
Program at the School of Advanced International Studies (Johns
Hopkins University). Conservatism--United States; United
States--Military policy; Iraq War, 2003- ; Hegemony--United
States; Democracy; International relations; United States--Foreign
relations--2001-. In its decision to invade
Iraq, the Bush administration failed in its stewardship of
American foreign policy.
John Fund (2004).
Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy.
(San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books,, 173 p.). Elections--Corrupt
practices--United States; Political corruption--United States;
United States--Politics and government.
John G. Geer (2006).
In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns.
(Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press,, 201 p.). Professor of
Political Science (Vanderbilt University). Campaign
management--United States; Advertising, Political--United States;
Political campaigns--United States; Presidents--United
States--Election--History; Negativism.
Author argues that when political candidates attack each other,
raise doubts about each other’s views and qualifications, voters
benefit.
Liette Gidlow (2004).
The Big Vote: Gender, Consumer Culture, and the Politics of
Exclusion, 1890s-1920s. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 260 p.). Assistant Professor of History (Bowling
Green State University). Political participation--United States;
Voting--United States; Women in politics--United States.
Roots of low voter turnout lay in the 1920s;
Get-Out-the-Vote campaigns were part of an important
transformation of political culture in the early twentieth
century.
William E. Gienapp (1987).
The Origins of the Republican
Party, 1852-1856. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 564
p.). Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History; Political
parties--United States--History--19th century; Elections--United
States--History--19th century; United States--Politics and
government--1853-1857.
George F. Gilder and Bruce K. Chapman (1966). The Party That
Lost Its Head. (New York, NY: Knopf, 331 p.). Republican Party
(U.S. : 1854- ); United States--Politics and
government--1961-1963; United States--Politics and
government--1963-1969.
Steven M. Gillon (1987).
Politics and Vision: The ADA and American Liberalism, 1947-1985.
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 289 p.). Americans for
Democratic Action; Liberalism--United States--History--20th
century; United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
Todd Gitlin (2007).
The Bulldozer and the Big Tent: Blind Republicans, Lame Democrats,
and the Recovery of American Ideals. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley,
327 p.). Professor of Journalism and Sociology (Columbia
University). Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946- ; Republican
Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Conservatism--United States; Right and left
(Political science); United States--Politics and government.
How the conservative movement rose and fell;
crucial dynamic through which movements gain or lose political
power; argues that Democrats will have to bite the bullet and
unite under a big tent.
Lewis L. Gould (2003).
Grand Old Party: A History of the
Republicans. (New York, NY: Random House, 597 p.). Barker
Centennial Professor of History Emeritus (University of Texas). Republican
Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History.
--- (2005).
The Most Exclusive Club: A History of the Modern United States
Senate. (New York, NY: Basic Books, 416 p.). Barker
Centennial Professor of History Emeritus (University of Texas).
United States. Congress. Senate--History--20th century.
William B. Greider (1992).
Who Will Tell the People: The
Betrayal of American Democracy. (New York, NY: Simon &
Schuster, 464 p.). Political participation--United States;
Democracy--United States; Representative government and
representation--United States; Pressure groups--United States;
Political corruption--United States; United States--Politics and
government--1989-1993.
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson (2005).
Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American
Democracy. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 272 p.).
Peter Strauss Family Associate Professor of Political Science
(Yale University); Professor of Political Science, Avice Saint
Chair in Public Policy, (University of California, Berkeley).
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Conservatism--United States.
Alonzo L. Hamby (1992).
Liberalism and Its Challengers: From
F.D.R. to Bush. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 431 p.
[2nd ed.]). Teaches American History (Ohio University).
Liberalism--United States--History--20th century;
Politicians--United States--Biography; Presidents--United
States--Biography; United States--Politics and government--20th
century.
Leon A. Harris (1964).
The Fine Art of Political Wit: Being
a Lively Guide to the Artistic Invective, Elegant Epithet, and
Polished Impromptus as well as the Gallant and Graceful Worldly
Wit of Various British & American Politicians from the 18th
Century through Our Own Days of Grace; A Handbook for Piercing the Poltical Epidermis of Opponents. (New York, NY: Dutton, 288
p.). Biographer and Former Department Store Executive. English wit
and humor--History and criticism; American wit and humor--History
and criticism; Great Britain--Politics and government--Humor;
United States--Politics and government--Humor.
Louis Hartz with an introduction by Tom Wicker (1991).
The
Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American
Political Thought Since the Revolution. (San Diego, CA:
Harrcourt Brace Jovanovich, 329 p. [orig. pub. 1955]).
Liberalism--United States--History; United
States--History--Philosophy; United States--Politics and
government.
Dorothy Healey and Maurice Isserman (1990).
Dorothy Healey
Remembers a Life in the American Communist Party. (New York,
NY: Oxford University Press, 263 p.). Professor of History
(Hamilton College). Healey, Dorothy; Communists--United
States--Biography.
Chris Hedges (2007).
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.
(New York, NY: Free Press, 272 p.). Son of a Presbyterian
Minister, Graduate of Harvard Divinity School, Pulitzer
Prize-Winning Correspondent (New York Times, has reported from
more than 50 countries over the last 20 years). Fascism--United
States; Fundamentalism--United States; Conservatism--Religious
aspects--Christianity. Author challenges the Christian Right's
religious legitimacy, argues that at its core it is a mass
movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for open
society; examines the movement's
origins, its driving motivations, its dark ideological
underpinnings; argues that the movement currently resembles the
young fascist movements in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and
'30s.
Jacob Heilbrunn (2008).
They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons. (New
York, NY: Doubleday, 319 p.). Former member of the Los Angeles
Times editorial board, Former Senior Editor (New Republic).
Conservatism--United States--History; Political culture--United
States--History--20th century; United States--Politics and
government--1945-1989; United States--Politics and
government--1989-; United States--Foreign relations--Islamic
countries; Islamic countries--Foreign relations--United States.
Government officials, pundits, and think-tank denizens
who make up this controversial movement, in the larger context of the
decades-long battle between liberals and conservatives, first over
communism, now over the war on terrorism, intellectual mavericks, with a fiery prophetic
temperament and a rhetoric that sets them apart from
both liberals and traditional conservatives.
Diane J. Heith (2004).
Polling To Govern: Public Opinion and Presidential Leadership.
(Stanford, CA: Stanford Law and Politics, 194 p.).
Presidents--United States--Decision making; Political
leadership--United States; Public opinion--United States.
Pendleton Herring (1966). The Politics of Democracy;
American Parties in Action. (New York, NY: Norton, 468 p. [new
ed.]). Former President, Social Science Research Council.
Political parties--United States; Politics, Practical; United
States--Politics and government.
Stephen Hess; with a new introduction by the author (1997).
America's Political Dynasties. (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction
Publishers, 742 p. [orig. pub. 1966]). Political Scientist.
Politicians--United States--Family relationships;
Politicians--United States--Biography; United States--Biography;
United States--Politics and government. Definitive book on
political royalty.
Stephen Hess and Milton Kaplan (1975).
The Ungentlemanly
Art: A History of American Political Cartoons. (New York, NY:
Macmillan, 252 p. [rev. ed.]). American wit and humor,
Pictorial--History; Political cartoons; United States--Politics
and government--Caricatures and cartoons.
Stephen Hess and Sandy Northrop (1996).
Drawn & Quartered:
The History of American Political Cartoons. (Montgomery, AL:
Elliott & Clark Pub., 164 p.). Political cartoons--United
States--History--19th century; Political cartoons--United
States--History--20th century; American wit and humor, Pictorial;
United States--Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons.
Jerome L. Himmelstein (1990).
To the Right: The
Transformation of American Conservatism. (Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press, 290 p.). Conservatism--United
States--History--20th century; United States--Politics and
government--1945-1989.
Godfrey Hodgson (1976).
America in Our Time: From World War II to Nixon: What Happened and
Why. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 564 p.). Associate
Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute (University of
Oxford). United States--Social conditions--1960-1980; United
States--Civilization--1945- ; United States--Politics and
government--1945-1989; United States--Foreign
relations--1945-1989.
--- (1996).
The World Turned Right Side Up: A
History of the Conservative Ascendancy in America.
(Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 365 p.). Associate Fellow at the
Rothermere American Institute (University of Oxford).
Conservatism--United States; United States--Politics and
government--1945-1989; United States--Politics and
government--1989-.
Richard Hofstadter (1969).
The Idea of a Party System; The
Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840.
(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 280 p.). Political
parties--United States.
Richard Hofstadter. With a foreword by Christopher Lasch
(1974).
The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made
It. (New York, NY: Vintage Books, 501 p. [orig. pub. 1948]).
United States--Politics and government; United States--Biography.
Michael F. Holt (1990).
Forging a Majority: The Formation of the Republican Party in
Pittsburgh, 1848-1860. (Pittsburgh, PA: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 408 p. [orig. pub. 1969]). Professor of American
History (University of Virginia). Republican Party (Pittsburgh,
Pa.)--History--19th century.
--- (1992).
Political Parties and American Political Development: From the Age
of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln. (Baton Rouge, LA:
Louisiana State University Press, 365 p.). Professor of American
History (University of Virginia). Political parties--United
States--History--19th century; United States--Politics and
government--1815-1861.
--- (1999).
The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics
and the Onset of the Civil War. (New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 1,248,p.). Professor of American History
(University of Virginia). Whig Party (U.S.)--History. 1834 -
opponents of Andrew Jackson organized the Whig Party; party's demise in the 1850s.
Woody Holton (2007).
Americans and the Origins of the Constitution.
(New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 384 p.). Associate Professor of
History (University of Richmond). Constitutional history--United
States. History of the average Americans who
challenged the framers of the Constitution and forced on them the
revisions that produced the venerated document.
John Hostettler and Brian P. Block (2001).
Voting in
Britain: A History of the Parliamentary Franchise. (Chichester,
UK: Barry Rose, 461 p.). Suffrage -- History -- Great Britain.
Daniel Walker Howe (1979).
The Political Culture of the American Whigs. (Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,: Chicago : University of Chicago
Press,, 404 p.). Professor of History and Chairman of the
Department of History (University of California, Los Angeles).
Whig Party (U.S.); United States--Politics and
government--1783-1865. Their party rivals - Jacksonian Democrats;
spokesmen for a heritage of political culture received from
Anglo-American tradition and passed on, with adaptations, to the
Whigs' Republican successors.
Hugh Howard (2007).
Houses of the Founding Fathers. (New York, NY: Artisan,
354 p.). Statesmen--Homes and haunts--United States;
Politicians--Homes and haunts--United States; Historic
buildings--United States; Dwellings--United States;
Statesmen--United States--Biography; Politicians--United
States--Biography; Statesmen--Family relationships--United States;
Politicians--Family relationships--United States; United
States--History, Local; United States--Biography.
Tour of forty stately eighteenth-century
houses; look at the private lives of the men whose ideas ignited
an insurrection against England; mansions of Jefferson,
Washington, Adams, Hamilton, homes of many other signers of
Declaration of Independence or the Constitution.
Maurice Isserman (1987).
If I Had a Hammer--: The Death of
the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left. (New York, NY:
Basic Books, 259 p.). Professor of History (Hamilton College).
Radicalism--United States; College students--United
States--Political activity; United States--Politics and
government--1945-1989.
eds. Shanto Iyengar, Richard Reeves (1997).
Do the Media
Govern?: Politicians, Voters, and Reporters in America.
(Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 463 p.). Mass
media--Political aspects--United States; Press and
politics--United States; Journalism--Political aspects--United
States.
Meg Jacobs (2004).
Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century
America. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 349
p.). Associate Professor of American History (MIT). Income
distribution--United States--History--20th century; Purchasing
power--United States--History--20th century; Consumption
(Economics)--United States--History--20th century; United
States--Politics and government--20th century; United
States--Economic conditions--20th century.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1992).
Dirty Politics: Deception,
Distraction, and Democracy. (New York, NY: Oxford University
Press, 335 p.). Professor, Annenberg School of Communication
(University of Pennsylvania). Advertising, Political; Advertising,
Political--United States; Communication in politics; Communication
in politics--United States; Criticism, Personal.
Richard J. Jensen, with the assistance of Steven L. Piott and
Christopher C. Gibbs (1983).
Grass Roots Politics: Parties,
Issues, and Voters, 1854-1983. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
180 p.). Political parties -- United States -- History; Voting --
United States -- History; United States -- Politics and government
-- 19th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th
century. Series Grass roots perspectives on American history.
Calvin Jillson (2004).
Pursuing the American Dream: Opportunity and Exclusion over Four
Centuries. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 347
p.). Professor of Political Science (Southern Methodist
University). National characteristics, American; American Dream;
United States--Politics and government--Philosophy; United
States--Civilization.
Calvin Jillson, Rick K. Wilson (1994).
Congressional Dynamics: Structure, Coordination, and Choice in the
First American Congress, 1774-1789. (Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press, 375 p.). Professor of Political Science
(Southern Methodist University); Professor of Political Science
(Rice University). United States. Continental Congress; United
States--Politics and government--1775-1783; United
States--Politics and government--1783-1789.
Haynes Johnson (2005).
The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism. (Orlando,
FL: Harcourt. McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; United States.
Congress. Senate--Biography; Legislators--United
States--Biography; Anti-communist movements--United
States--History--20th century; Terrorism--Government
policy--United States; Presidents--United States--Election--2004;
Political culture--United States; United States--Politics and
government--1945-1953; United States--Politics and
government--1953-1961; United States--Politics and
government--2001-.
Walter Johnson (1963).
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; Presidents
and the People Since 1929. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 394
p.). Presidents--United States; United States--Politics and
government--1929-1933; United States--Foreign relations--20th
century.
John B. Judis (2000).
The Paradox of American Democracy:
Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of the Public Trust.
(New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 305 p.). Senior Editor (New
Republic). Political participation -- United States -- History --
20th century; Democracy -- United States -- History -- 20th
century; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Michael A. Kahn and H.L. Pohlman (2003).
May It Amuse the Court: Editorial Cartoons of the Supreme Court
and the Constitution. (Athens, GA: Hill Street Press, 252
p.). Senior Partner and Head of Litigation at Folger Levin & Kahn;
Chair of the Political Science Department at Dickinson College.
United States. Supreme Court--Caricatures and cartoons;
Constitutional history--United States--Caricatures and cartoons;
American wit and humor, Pictorial.
Michael Kazin (1995).
The Populist Persuasion: An American
History. (New York, NY: Basic Books, 381 p.). Teaches History
(Georgetown University). Populism--United States--History; United
States--Politics and government--1865-1933; United
States--Politics and government--20th century.
Brian Kelly (1992).
Adventures in Porkland: How Washington Wastes Your Money and Why
They Won’t Stop. (New York, NY: Villard Books, 271 p.).
Budget--United States; Waste in government spending--United
States; Patronage, Political--United States.
Frank R. Kent (1928).
The Democratic Party: A History.
(New York, NY: The Century Co., 568 p.). Democratic Party (U.S.)
-- History; United States -- Politics and government.
ed.Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball (1999).
The Betrayal of
Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped
Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control.
(Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 248 p.). Editor and Managing Editor,
respectively, of The New Criterion. Liberalism--United States.
Irving Kristol (1983).
Reflections of a Neoconservative:
Looking Back, Looking Ahead. (New York, NY: Basic Books, 336
p.). Conservatism; Political science; Economics; World
politics--1945-.
Everett Carl Ladd, Jr. (1993). The American Polity: The
People and Their Government. (New York, NY: Norton, 534 p.
[5th ed.]). Polling Expert, Professor of Political Science,
Executive Director of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
(University of Connecticut), Director of Institute for Social
Inquiry (polling group). United States--Politics and government.
Eric Lane and Michael Oreskes (2007).
The Genius of America: How the Constitution Saved Our Country--and
Why It Can Again. (New York : Bloomsbury: New York :
Bloomsbury, 296 p.). Professor of Law at Hofstra University School
of Law; Executive Editor of the International Herald Tribune.
United States. Constitution--History; United States. Constitution;
Constitutional history--United States; Constitutional
history--United States; United States--Politics and government;
United States--History--21st century. How our near failure to create
a loosely knit nation led the framers to devise a system that
takes human nature into account; how
we have weathered crises in the past, from early attempts at
political tyranny to the Civil War; Constitution’s effectiveness: great consensus (from Roosevelt’s New Deal through
Johnson’s Great Society), division (from Reagan through George W.
Bush).
Edward J. Larson and Michael P. Winship (2005).
The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History: From the Notes
of James Madison. (New York, NY: Modern Library, 229 p.).
Russell Professor of History and Talmadge Professor of Law
(University of Georgia); Professor of History (University of
Georgia). United States. Constitutional Convention (1787); United
States. Constitution; Constitutional history--United States.
How the Constitution came to be, from the
opening statements to the final votes.
Thomas C. Leonard (1986).
The Power of the Press: The Birth
of American Political Reporting. (New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 273 p.). Former Associate Dean (School of
Journalism, Berkeley). Press and politics--United States--History.
Peter Levine (2007).
The Future of Democracy: Developing the Next Generation of
American Citizens. (Medford, MA: Tufts University Press,
184 p.). Director of CIRCLE, the Center for Information and
Research on Civic Learning and Education. Youth--United
States--Political activity; Political participation--United
States; Social participation--United States; Democracy--United
States; Youth development--United States. Causes, symptoms, and repercussions of
young Americans' lack of skills and opportunities they need to
participate in politics or address public means whereby America can confront and reverse
it.
Anthony Lewis (2007).
Freedom for the Thought that We Hate: A Biography of the First
Amendment. (New York, NY: Perseus Books Group, 221 p.).
Freedom of speech--United States; Freedom of the press--United
States. How right of free expression evolved
- hard choices, heroic (and some less heroic) judges, and
fascinating and eccentric defendants who forced the legal system
to come face-to-face with one of America's great founding ideas;
Supreme Court did not begin to recognize this right until 1919.
Brink Lindsey (2007).
The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America’s
Politics and Culture. (New York, NY: Collins, 400 p.).
Head of Research (Cato Institute). United States--Social
conditions--1945- ; United States--Civilization--1945- ; United
States--Politics and government--2001-.
Tumult of racial and gender politics, the rise of the
counterculture, and the conservative revolution of the 1980s and
1990s are portrayed in an entirely new light; how and why the
contemporary ideologies of left and right emerged in response to
the novel challenges of mass prosperity.
Seymour Martin Lipset (1981).
Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics Johns Hopkins
University Press, 586 p. [exp. ed.; orig. pub. 1960]). Democracy; Elections;
Voting; Political parties--United States; Labor unions--United
States; United States--Politics and government.
Sociology of
voting.
Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks (2000).
It Didn't
Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States. (New
York, NY: Norton, 379 p.). Professor of Political Science
(University of North Carolina). Socialism--United States--History.
M. G. Lord; foreword by Bill Mauldin (1982).
Mean Sheets:
Political Cartoons. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 143 p.).
American wit and humor, Pictorial; United States--Politics and
government--1981-1989--Caricatures and cartoons; United
States--Politics and government--1977-1981--Caricatures and
cartoons.
Ranan R. Lurie; foreword by Harry Reasoner (1975).
Pardon
Me, Mr. President! (New York, NY: Quadrangle/New York Times
Book Co., 224 p.). World politics--1965-1975--Caricatures and
cartoons; American wit and humor, Pictorial; United
States--Politics and government--1974-1977--Caricatures and
cartoons; United States--Politics and
government--1969-1974--Caricatures and cartoons.
Pauline Maier (1997).
American Scripture: Making the
Declaration of Independence. (New York, NY: Knopf, 304 p.).
United States. Declaration of Independence; United
States--Politics and government--1775-1783.
Brian Mann (2006).
Welcome to the Homeland: A Journey to the Rural Heart of America’s
Conservative Revolution. (Hanover, NH: Steerforth Press,
288 p.). Reporter. Editor for North Country Public Radio,
Commentator for Mountain Lake Public Television. Republican Party
(U.S. : 1854- ); Conservatism--United States; Rural-urban
relations--United States; Politics and culture--United States;
Culture conflict--United States; United States--Politics and
government--1989-. Professed liberal set out
to cover the so-called "red state culture"; strives to understand
what motivates the conservative rural and exurban mindset.
Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein (2006).
The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How To Get
It Back on Track. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press,
288 p.).
United States. Congress; United States. Congress--Reform.
Examine 40 years of uninterrupted Democratic control of the House
and stunning midterm election victory of 1994 that propelled
Republicans into the majority in both House and Senate; reveal
that byproduct was weakened institution bitterly divided between
parties; highlight dramatic shift in Congress from highly
decentralized, committee-based institution into much more
regimented one in which party increasingly trumps committee; claim
that resultant changes in the policy process (1) demise of regular
order, 2) decline of deliberation, 3) weakening of system of
checks and balances) have compromised role of Congress in American
Constitutional system; argue that legislative process has been
bent to serve immediate presidential interests, have often
resulted in poorly crafted and stealthily passed laws; conclude
that strong majority leadership in Congress led not to a vigorous
exertion of congressional authority but to a general passivity in
the face of executive power.
Doug Marlette; [foreword by Jules Feiffer] (1980). Drawing
Blood: Political Cartoons. (Washington, DC: Graphic Press, 172
p.). World politics--1975-1985--Caricatures and cartoons; American
wit and humor, Pictorial; United States--Politics and
government--1977-1981--Caricatures and cartoons; United
States--Politics and government--1981-1989--Caricatures and
cartoons.
John F. Martin (1979).
Civil Rights and the Crisis of
Liberalism: The Democratic Party, 1945-1976. (Boulder, CO:
Westview Press, 301 p.). Democratic Party (U.S.);
Liberalism--United States; Civil rights--United States; United
States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
Allen J Matusow (1984).
The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s.
(New York, NY: Harper & Row, 542 p.). Liberalism--United
States--History--20th century; United States--Politics and
government--1961-1963; United States--Politics and
government--1963-1969.
George H. Mayer (1967).
The Republican Party, 1854-1966.
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 563 p.). Republican Party
(U.S.)--History.
Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal (2006).
Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches.
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 240 p.). Professor of Politics and
Public Affairs and Academic Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs (Princeton University); Professor
of Political Science (University of California, San Diego);
Professor of Politics (New York University) and Visiting Scholar
at the Russell Sage Foundation. Equality--United States;
Polarization (Social sciences); Income distribution--United
States; United States--Politics and government--2001-.
Increasing polarization has been closely
accompanied by fundamental social and economic changes--most
notably, a parallel rise in income inequality.
Terry McAuliffe; with Steve Kettmann (2007).
What a Party!: My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates,
Donors, Activists, Alligators, and Other Wild Animals.
(New York, NY: Thomas Dunne Books, 416 p.). Former Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, Legendary Fund-Raiser, Confidant of
Presidents. McAuliffe, Terry; Clinton, Bill, 1946- --Friends and
associates; Democratic Party (U.S.)--Biography; Political
consultants--United States--Biography; Presidents--United
States--Staff--Biography; Political campaigns--United States;
United States--Politics and government--1993-2001; United
States--Politics and government--2001-. Most successful
fund-raiser in political history, heavyweight Democratic
strategist and leader, chairman of the Democratic National
Committee from 2001 to 2005, pulled DNC out of debt for the first
time in its history.
Walter A McDougall (2008).
Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877.
(New York, NY: Harper, 787 p.). Professor of History (University
of Pennsylvania). United States--History--1815-1861; United
States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United
States--History--1865-1898. From conflagration that consumed Lower Manhattan in 1835 to the
climactic centennial year of 1876 - saga of the American
people’s continuous self-reinvention (from the inauguration of
President Andrew Jackson through the eras of Manifest Destiny,
Civil War, and Reconstruction, America’s first failed crusade to
put "freedom on the march" through regime change and nation
building). American epic as lived by Germans and Irish,
Catholics and Jews, as well as people of British Protestant and
African American stock; an epic in which Mormon prophet Joseph
Smith, showman P. T. Barnum, and circus clown Dan Rice figure as
prominently as Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Henry Ward
Beecher; in which railroad management and land speculation prove
as gripping as Indian wars.
David McKean (2004).
Tommy the Cork: Washington's Ultimate Insider from Roosevelt to
Reagan. (Hanover, NH: Steerforth Press, 368 p.). Chief of
Staff (Sen. John Kerry). Corcoran, Thomas G.; Political
consultants--United States--Biography; United States--Politics and
government--1933-1953; United States--Politics and
government--1945-1989.
Jon Meacham (2006).
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a
Nation. (New York, NY: Random House, 399 p.). Managing
Editor (Newsweek). Religion and politics--United States--History;
Christianity and politics--United States--History; National
characteristics, American; United States--Religion; United
States--History--Religious aspects--Christianity. Summary:
How the Founding Fathers viewed
faith, how they ultimately created a nation in which belief in God
is a matter of choice.
John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge (2004).
The Right
Nation: Conservative Power in America. (New York, NY: Penguin,
450 p.). Editors, The Economist. Conservatism--United
States--History--20th century; Right and left (Political
science)--History--20th century; United States--Politics and
government--20th century.
Sara Miles (2001).
How To Hack a Party Line: The Democrats
and Silicon Valley. (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
246 p.). Democratic Party (Calif.); Business and
politics--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County);
Computer industry--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara
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County, Calif.)--Politics and government.
Dana Milbank (2008). Homo Politicus: The Strange and
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and customs. Contents: Status : brahmins and untouchables --
Kinship -- Hunting and gathering -- Mythology and folklore --
Norms and deviancy -- Shamanism -- Aggression -- Taboo --
Festivals & social rituals -- Human sacrifice -- Fertility rites &
mating behaviors -- Cult of the choreutai.
John J. Miller (1998).
The Unmaking of Americans: How Multiculturalism Has Undermined the
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Former Fellow at the Conservative Heritage Foundation.
Multiculturalism--United States; Americanization.
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Collins Fellow (State University of New York at Albany). McGovern,
George S. (George Stanley), 1922- ; Democratic Party (U.S.);
Liberalism--United States; Presidents--United
States--Election--1972. McGovern's crushing defeat
in 1972 election produced an identity crisis
for liberals torn between their convictions and the political
calculations required to win elections-a dilemma for Democrats
that has never gone away.
H. Wayne Morgan (1969).
From Hayes to McKinley; National Party Politics, 1877-1896.
(Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 618 p.). Political
parties--United States--History; United States--Politics and
government--1865-1900.
Jim Morin; foreword by Pat Oliphant (1991).
Line of Fire:
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United States--Politics and government--1989-1993--Caricatures and
cartoons; United States--Politics and
government--1981-1989--Caricatures and cartoons.
Allan Nevins and Frank Weitenkampf; With 100 reproductions of
cartoons (1975).
A Century of Political Cartoons: Caricature in
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States--Politics and government--19th century--Caricatures and
cartoons.
Roy F. Nichols (1967).
The Invention of the American
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Political parties -- United States.
Jack Ohman (1987).
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American wit and humor, Pictorial; United States--Politics and
government--1981-1989--Caricatures and cartoons.
Pat Oliphant (1987).
Up to There in Alligators: More
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American wit and humor, Pictorial; United States--Politics and
government--1981-1989--Caricatures and cartoons.
--- (1989). What Those People Need Is a Puppy!: More
Cartoons. (Kansas City, MO: Andrews and McMeel, 176 p.).
American wit and humor, Pictorial; World
politics--1985-1995--Caricatures and cartoons; United
States--Politics and government--1981-1989--Caricatures and
cartoons; United States--Politics and
government--1989-1993--Caricatures and cartoons.
--- (1993).
Why Do I Feel Uneasy?: More Cartoons.
(Kansas City, MO: Andrews and McMeel, 159 p.). American wit and
humor, Pictorial; United States--Politics and
government--1993-2001--Caricatures and cartoons.
--- (1994).
Waiting for the Other Shoe To Drop--: More
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American wit and humor, Pictorial; United States--Politics and
government--1993-2001--Caricatures and cartoons.
--- (1995).
Off to the Revolution: More Cartoons.
(Kansas City, MO: Andrews and McMeel, 160 p.). United
States--Politics and government--1993-2001--Caricatures and
cartoons; American wit and humor, Pictorial; Editorial
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--- (1997).
So That's Where They Came From. (Kansas
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humor, Pictorial; Editorial cartoons--United States; United
States--Politics and government--1993-2001--Caricatures and
cartoons.
--- (2000).
Now We're Going To Have To Spray for Politicians.
(Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Pub., 159 p.). American wit and
humor, Pictorial; Editorial cartoons--United States; United
States--Politics and government--1993-2001--Caricatures and
cartoons.
--- (2001).
When We Can't See the Forest for the Bushes.
(Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Pub., 128 p.). American wit and
humor, Pictorial; Editorial cartoons--United States; United
States--Politics and government--2001---Caricatures and cartoons;
United States--Politics and government--1993-2001--Caricatures and
cartoons.
Pat Oliphant and Dain Dunston (1996).
101 Things To Do with
a Conservative. (Kansas City, MO: Andrews and McMeel, 101 p.).
Conservatism--United States--Caricatures and cartoons; American
wit and humor, Pictorial; United States--Politics and
government--1993-2001--Caricatures and cartoons.
Pat Oliphant; foreword by David Hume Kennerly (1984).
The
Year of Living Perilously: More Cartoons. (Kansas City, MO:
Andrews, McMeel & Parker, 176 p.). American wit and humor,
Pictorial; United States--Politics and
government--1981-1989--Caricatures and cartoons.
Herbert S. Parmet (1976).
The Democrats: The Years After FDR.
(New York, NY: Macmillan, 371 p.). Democratic Party (U.S.); United
States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
Kathi Paton and Bill Plympton (1984).
Polls Apart: How To
Tell a Democrat from a Republican. (Garden City, NY:
Doubleday, 96 p.). Democratic Party (U.S.)--Caricatures and
cartoons; Republican Party (U.S. : 1845- )--Caricatures and
cartoons; American wit and humor, Pictorial; United
States--Politics and government--1945-1989--Caricatures and
cartoons.
James T. Patterson (2005).
Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore.
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 448 p.). Professor of
History (Brown University). United States--History--1969-
Thomas E. Patterson (2002).
The Vanishing Voter: Public
Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty. (New York, NY: Knopf,
154 p.). Voting--United States. Outgrowth of "Vanishing Voter
Project" at Harvard (weekly interviews with samples of Americans
(80,000 people).
Rick Perlstein (2001).
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and
the Unmaking of the American Consensus. (New York, NY: Hill
and Wang, 671 p.). Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909- ;
Conservatism--United States--History--20th century;
Presidents--United States--Election--1964; United States--Politics
and government--1953-1961; United States--Politics and
government--1961-1963; United States--Politics and
government--1963-1969.
Peter G. Peterson (2004).
Running on Empty: How the
Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and
What Americans Can Do about It. (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 242 p.). Chairman, Blackstone Group. Budget deficits
-- United States; Budget -- United States; Government spending
policy -- United States; Fiscal policy -- United States;
Entitlement spending -- United States.
Kevin B. Phillips (1969).
The Emerging Republican Majority.
(New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 482 p.). Republican Party
(U.S. : 1854-); Voting -- United State; United States -- Politics
and government -- 1945-1989; African Americans -- Politics and
government.
Kevin B. Phillips (2006).
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion,
Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century. (New York,
NY: Viking, 480 p.). Oil - dependence, Religion -- radical;
national debt. Brink of disaster, axis of
ills: 1) global over-reach, 2) militant religion, 3) resource
problems, 4) ballooning debt.
Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward (1988).
Why
Americans Don't Vote: Turnout Decline in the United States,
1960-1984. (New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 325 p.).
Professors (City University and Columbia). Voting--United
States--Abstention; Poor--United States--Political activity; Voter
registration--United States.
--- (2000).
Why Americans Still Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want It That
Way. (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 348 p.). Voting--United
States--Abstention; Poor--United States--Political activity; Voter
registration--United States.
Keith Ian Polakoff (1981).
Political Parties in American
History. (New York, NY: Wiley, 480 p.). Political
parties--United States--History.
Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal (1997).
Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll Call Voting.
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 297 p.). Professor of
Political Science (University of California, San Diego); Professor
of Politics (New York University) and Visiting Scholar at the
Russell Sage Foundation. United States. Congress--Voting--History;
Ideology--United States--History; Pressure groups--United
States--History. Roll call voting patterns have maintained a core
stability based on two great issues: 1) extent of government
regulation of, intervention in, the economy; 2) race.
Charles Press (1981). The Political Cartoon.
(Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 395 p.).
Political cartoons--History; Wit and humor, Pictorial; American
wit and humor, Pictorial; United States--Politics and
government--Caricatures and cartoons.
Ronald Radosh (1996).
Divided They Fell: The Demise of the
Democratic Party, 1964-1996. (New York, NY: Free Press, 298
p.). Political Analyst, Professional Historian. Democratic Party
(U.S.); United States--Politics and government--1945-1989; United
States--Politics and government--1989-.
Nicol C. Rae (1989).
The Decline and Fall of the Liberal
Republicans: From 1952 to the Present. (New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 273 p.). Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- );
Liberalism--United States; United States--Politics and
government--1945-1989.
--- (1994).
Southern Democrats. (New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 208 p.). Democratic Party (U.S.); Southern
States--Politics and government--1951- ; United States--Politics
and government--1945-1989; United States--Politics and
government--1989-.
Eric Redman; with a new foreword by Richard E. Neustadt and a
new postscript by the author (2001).
The Dance of Legislation. (Seattle, WA: University of
Washington Press, 317 p. [orig. pub. 1973]). Member of Senator
Warren Magnuson's Staff (2 years). Legislation--United States.
Classic description of the legislative process.
Drafting, passing of legislation-S.4106,
National Health Service Bill-with all the maneuvers, plots,
counterplots, frustrations, triumphs, and sheer work and
dedication involved.
Alfred S. Regnery (2008).
Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism. (New
York, NY: Threshold Editions, 448 p.). Publisher of The American
Spectator. Conservatism--United States--History--20th century;
Conservatism--United States--History; United States--Politics and
government--20th century; United States--Politics and
government--2001-; United States--Politics and government. sears.
Development of the conservative movement from 1945 to the present;
how in the years prior to and just post World War II, expanding
government power at home and the expanding Communist empire abroad
inspired conservatives to band together to fight these threats.
Robert V. Remini (2006).
The House: The History of the House of Representatives.
(New York, NY: Smithsonian Books, 614 p.). United States.
Congress. House--History. Traces development of this
American institution from struggling, nascent
body to venerable powerhouse; shows brilliance of constitutional
elasticity and the dangers inherent in it.
Alasdair Roberts (2006).
Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age.
(New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 322 p.). Associate
Professor of Public Administration in the Maxwell School of
Citizenship and Public Affairs (Syracuse University). Official
secrets; Freedom of information; Transparency in government;
Government information. Evolution of the
trend toward governmental openness, problem of selfish bureaucrats
trying to hide embarrassing information by showing how such
powerful trends as privatization, globalization, and the
"networking" of security agencies are complicating the fight
against secrecy.
James Oliver Robertson (1983). No Third Choice: Progressives
in Republican Politics, 1916-1921. (New York, NY: Garland
Pub., 351 p.). Republican Party (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century;
United States -- Politics and government -- 1913-1921;
Progressivism (United States politics).
Corey Robin (2004).
Fear: The History of a Political Idea.
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 336 p.). Teaches Political
Science (Brooklyn College, City University of New York). Political
theory; Fear--Political aspects.
Ed. Jerry Robinson (1981). The 1970s, Best Political
Cartoons of the Decade. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 192 p.).
World politics--1965-1975--Caricatures and cartoons; World
politics--1975-1985--Caricatures and cartoons.
Jeffrey Rose (2006).
The Most Democratic Branch: How the Courts Serve America.
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 256 p.). Legal Affairs
Editor (The New Republic). United States. Supreme Court; Political
questions and judicial power--United States; Courts--United
States; Judges--United States--History. Federal courts
by and large have reflected the opinions of the mainstream; most
successful when Supreme Court defers to the constitutional views
of the American people.
Steven Rosefielde, D. Quinn Mills (2007).
Masters of Illusion: American Leadership in the Media Age.
(New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 540 p.). Professor of
Economics (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill); Albert J.
Weatherhead, Jr. Chair in Business Administration (Harvard
Business School). Government information--United States; political
culture--United States; national security--United States; United
States--Politics and government. Authors use
a theory of economic systems to gauge present and future global
conflicts; see the challenges as posed sequentially by terrorism,
Russia, China, and the European Union.
Theodore Rosenof (2003).
Realignment: The Theory That Changed the Way We Think about
American Politics. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers, 231 p.). Voting--United States; Elections--United
States; Political science--United States.
Mark J. Rozell, Clyde Wilcox, David Madland (2005).
Interest Groups in American Campaigns: The New Face of
Electioneering. (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 196 p. [2nd
ed.]). Pressure groups--United States; Lobbying--United States;
Political campaigns--United States; United States--Politics and
government--20th century; United States--Politics and
government--21st century.
Robert Allen Rutland (1995).
The Democrats: From Jefferson
to Clinton. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 263
p.). Democratic Party (U.S.) -- History.
--- (1996).
The Republicans: From Lincoln to Bush.
(Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 277 p.). Republican
Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- History.
Larry J. Sabato (1984).
PAC Power: Inside the World of Political Action Committees.
(New York, NY: Norton, 251 p.). Campaign funds--United States;
Political action committees--United States.
Dominic Sandbrook (2004).
Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism.
(New York, NY: Knopf, 397 p.). McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916- ; United
States. Congress. Senate--Biography; Legislators--United
States--Biography; Liberalism--United States--History--20th
century; United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
Richard M. Scammon and Ben J. Wattenberg; with a new
Introduction (1992).
The Real Majority. (New York, NY:
Primus, 356 p. [orig. pub. 1970]). Influential Political Analyst
and Elections Analyst. Elections--United States; Public
opinion--United States.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1949).
The Vital Center; The
Politics of Freedom. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 274 p.).
Founding Member of Americans for Democratic Action.
Totalitarianism; Communism; Liberalism; United States--Politics
and government--1901-1953.
Douglas Schoen (2007).
The Power of the Vote: Electing Presidents, Overthrowing
Dictators, and Promoting Democracy Around the World. (New
York, NY: Morrow, 416 p.). Political Sstrategist, Coinventor of
the Overnight Poll. Campaign strategy; campaign consultants;
Elections; Voter registration--United States. How modern elections
have been transformed in the past quarter-century—and how those
changes have changed politics, in America and around the world.
Karl Schriftgiesser (1973).
This Was Normalcy; An Account of
Party Politics During Twelve Republican Years: 1920-1932. (New
York, NY: Oriole Editions, 325 p. [orig. pub. 1948]). Republican
Party (U.S. : 1854- ); United States--Politics and
government--1919-1933.
Robert E. Shalhope (1990).
The Roots of Democracy: American Thought and Culture, 1760-1800.
(Boston, MA: Twayne, 190 p.). George Lynn Cross Professor of
History (University of Oklahoma). Political science--United
States--History--18th century; Political culture--United
States--History--18th century; United States--Civilization--To
1783; United States--Civilization--1783-1865.
Joe Sharpnack (1996).
What America Wants, America Gets:
Notes from the G.O.P. "Revolution" and Other Scary Stuff. (Las
Colinas, TX: Ide House, 118 p.). American wit and humor,
Pictorial; Editorial cartoons--United States; United
States--Politics and government--1993-2001--Caricatures and
cartoons.
Joel H. Silbey (1985).
The Partisan Imperative: The Dynamics of American Politics Before
the Civil War. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 234
p.). President White Professor of History (Cornell University).
United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.
--- (1991).
The American Political Nation, 1838-1893. (Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press, 348 p.). President White Professor of
History (Cornell University). United States--Politics and
government--19th century. Political parties were the dominant
dynamic force at work structuring and directing the political
world.
Hedrick Smith (1988).
The Power Game: How Washington Works. (New York, NY:
Random House, 793 p.). Politicians--United States; Power (Social
sciences); United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
Mark A. Smith (2000).
American Business and Political Power:
Public Opinion, Elections, and Democracy. (Chicago, IL:
University of Chicago Press, 245 p.). Business and
politics--United States; Public opinion--United States; Power
(Social sciences)--United States; Pressure groups--United States;
Lobbying--United States.
Frank J. Sorauf (1992).
Inside Campaign Finance: Myths and
Realities. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 274 p.).
Regents’ Professor of Political Science (University of Minnesota).
Campaign funds--United States.
Jane Shadel Spillman (1989).
White House Glassware: Two Centuries of Presidential Entertaining.
(Washington, DC: Published by the White House Historical
Association in cooperation with the National Geographic Society
and the Corning Museum of Glass, 148 p.). White House (Washington,
D.C.); Glassware--United States--History.
Alan Stamaty (1983).
Washingtoon. (New York, NY: Congdon
& Weed, 141 p.). American wit and humor, Pictorial; United
States--Politics and government--1945-1989--Caricatures and
cartoons.
--- (1986).
More Washingtoons. (New York, NY: Prentice
Hall Press, 96 p.). United States--Politics and
government--1981-1989--Caricatures and cartoons; American wit and
humor, Pictorial.
Ray Suarez (2006).
The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America. (New
York, NY: Rayo, 326 p.). Senior Correspondent, The Jim Lehrer New
Hour. Christianity and politics--United States; Religion and
state--United States; Religion and politics--United States;
Religious right--United States; Conservatism--Religious
aspects--Christianity; Democracy--Religious aspects--Christianity;
United States--Politics and government--2001-.
Way Americans worship, how organized
religion and politics intersect in America, and how this powerful
collision is transforming the current and future American mind.
Andrew Sullivan (2006).
The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It: How To Get It Back.
(New York, NY: HarperCollins. Essayist for Time magazine,
columnist for The Sunday Times of London, Senior Editor at The New
Republic. Conservatism--United States; Fundamentalism--United
States; United States--Politics and government--2001-.
Impassioned call to rescue conservatism from
the excesses of the Republican far right, which risks making the
GOP the first fundamentally religious party in American history.
Barry Sussman (1988).
What Americans Really Think: And Why
Our Politicians Pay No Attention. (New York, NY: Pantheon
Books, 278 p.). Public opinion -- United States; United States --
Politics and government -- 1981- -- Public opinion; United States
-- Economic conditions -- 1981- -- Public opinion; United States
-- Social conditions -- 1980- -- Public opinion; Public opinion
polls.
Tom Toles (1991).
At Least Our Bombs Are Getting Smarter: A
Cartoon Preview of the 1990's. (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books,
133 p.). American wit and humor, Pictorial; United
States--Politics and government--1989-1993--Caricatures and
cartoons; United States--Politics and
government--1981-1989--Caricatures and cartoons.
--- (1993).
My Elected Representatives Went to Washington:
Cartoons. (Kansas City, MO: Andrews and McMeel, 128 p.).
American wit and humor, Pictorial; United States--Politics and
government--1989-1993--Caricatures and cartoons.
Tom Toles; foreword by Jeff MacNelly (1985).
The Taxpayer's
New Clothes. ( Kansas City, MO: Andrews, McMeel & Parker, 128
p.). American wit and humor, Pictorial; United States--Politics
and government--1981-1989--Caricatures and cartoons.
Steve Vogel (2007).
The Pentagon: A History. (New York, NY: Random House, 656
p.). Veteran Military Reporter (The Washington Post). Pentagon
(Va.)--History; United States--Dept. of
Defense--Procurement--History; Public buildings--United
States--Design and construction--History--20th century;
Buildings--Repair and reconstruction--History.
Creation of the Pentagon in 17 whirlwind
months during World War II - one of the great construction
feats in American history, involving a tremendous mobilization of
manpower, resources, and minds.
Dan Wasserman; foreword by Jim Hightower (1995).
Paper Cuts:
The American Political Scene from Bush to Newt. (Chicago, IL:
Ivan R. Dee, 160 p.). Editorial cartoons--Massachusetts--Boston;
American wit and humor, Pictorial; United States--Politics and
government--1989-1993--Caricatures and cartoons; United
States--Politics and government--1993-2001--Caricatures and
cartoons.
Dan Wasserman; introduction by Pat Oliphant (1987).
We've
Been Framed!: Cartoons. (Boston, MA: Faber & Faber, 128 p.).
American wit and humor, Pictorial; United States--Politics and
government--1981-1989--Caricatures and cartoons.
Drew Westen (2007).
The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of
the Nation. (New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 457 p.).
Presidents--United States--Election--Psychological aspects;
Political campaigns--United States--Psychological aspects;
Voting--United States--Psychological aspects; Political
parties--United States--Platforms; Political psychology;
Emotions--Political aspects; United States--Politics and
government--1989-; United States--Politics and
government--1945-1989. Political primer,
with cautionary tales drawn from the emotionally-challenged
Michael Dukakis, Al Gore and John Kerry campaigns.
Robert H. Wiebe (1995).
Self-rule: A Cultural History of
American Democracy. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press,
321 p.). Professor (Northwestern University). Political
culture--United States--History; United States--Politics and
government.
Clyde Wilcox (2000).
Onward Christian Soldiers?: The Religious Right in American
Politics. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 194 p.).
Christianity and politics--United States--History--20th century;
Religious right--United States; United States--Politics and
government--1945-1989; United States--Politics and
government--1989-; United States--Church history--20th century.
Sean Wilentz (2005).
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. (New
York, NY: Norton, 992 p.). George Henry Davis '86 Professor of
History, Director of the Program in American Studies (Princeton
University). Presidents--United States--History--18th century;
Presidents--United States--History--19th century;
Politicians--United States--History--18th century;
Politicians--United States--History--19th century;
Democracy--United States--History--18th century; Democracy--United
States--History--19th century; United States--Politics and
government--1783-1865.
Garry Wills (1979).
Confessions of a Conservative.
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 231 p.). Wills, Garry, 1934- ;
Conservatism; Political scientists--United States--Biography.
James Q. Wilson (1995).
Political Organizations.
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 359 p. [orig. pub.
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--- (2003).
American Government. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 463 p.
[6th ed.]). United States--Politics and government.
James Q. Wilson, John J. DiIulio, Jr. (2001).
American
Government: Institutions and Policies. (Boston, MA: Houghton
Mifflin, 624 p. [8th ed.]). United States--Politics and
government.
Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais (2008).
Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American
Politics. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,,
336 p.). Executive Director of the Center for Telecom Management
at the Marshall School of Business (University of Southern
California); Vice President of Entertainment Research at the Frank
N. Magid Associates (communications research). Political
participation--Technological innovations--United States; Online
social networks--Political aspects--United States; Blogs--Political
aspects--United States; Voting research--United States; Political
parties--United States; United States--Politics and government--Blogs;
United States--Politics and government--2001-.
Generational
theory. America's demand for change in 2008 election will cause
another periodic political makeover (five previous makeovers,
happens every four decades, last in 1968). Two types of
realignments: 1) "idealist" - put into motion forty years ago
(1968) by the Baby Boomer Generation, produce, among other things,
a political emphasis on divisive social issues and governmental
gridlock; 2) "civic" (2008) - produced by the famous GI or
"Greatest" Generation in the 1930s tend to produce societal unity,
increased attention to and successful resolution of basic economic
and foreign policy issues, and institution-building.
Jules Witcover (2003).
Party of the People: The Democrats, A
History. (New York, NY: Random House, 848 p.). Columnist
(Baltimore Sun). Democratic Party (U.S.)--History.
Gordon S. Wood (1998).
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. (Chapel
Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 653 p.). Alva O. Way
University Professor of History (Brown University). Political
science--United States--History; United
States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
--- (2006).
Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different.
(New York, NY: Penguin Press, 336 p.). Alva O. Way University
Professor of History (Brown University). Statesmen--United
States--Biography; Revolutionaries--United States--Biography;
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Biography; United
States--Politics and government--1775-1783.
Character as
a lived reality - first generation in history that was
self-consciously self-made, men who understood the arc of lives,
as of nations, as being one of moral progress.
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100 Milestone Documents in American History
www.OurDocuments.gov
To help us think, talk and teach about the rights and
responsibilities of citizens in our democracy, we invite you to
explore 100 milestone documents of American history. These
documents reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and our
future, and mostly our commitment as a nation to continue to
strive to "form a more perfect union."
American National Election Studies [pdf]
http://www.electionstudies.org/
Established in 1977 by the National Science Foundation. American
National Election Studies (ANES) provides important information
about public opinion in the United States along with sophisticated
election databases that will be useful to policy makers and social
scientists. Along the left-hand side of their site visitors will
find the "Reference Library" area, along with the "Data Center",
and the equally important "Help Center". A good place to start
looking around here is the "Guide to Public Opinion" area. Here
visitors are afforded immediate access to tables and graphs that
display the "ebb and flow of public opinion, electoral behavior,
and choice in American politics over time." The tables and graphs
contain data from 1948 through 2004, and they cover everything
from partisanship to political involvement. Further along, the
"Reference Library" area contains both pilot study and technical
reports that may be of greater interest to academics.
Additionally, there is a section where visitors can sign up to
receive email updates.
American Political Development
http://www.americanpoliticaldevelopment.org/home.htm This new site for scholars of American political development, "the
interdisciplinary study of the deep historical roots of politics
in the United States," is in its nascent stages but promises to
grow. The site is a collaborative venture between the Miller
Center for Public Affairs' American Political Development Program
and the scholars of the American Political History Initiative and
hopes to function as a gateway to resources in the field for
scholars and researchers. The main section of the site at present
is the APD Town Square section, which offers categorized links to
new publications, journals, announcements, and reviews. This
section will also feature periodic live Webcasts, the most recent
of which was Tuesday's "Battle for the Ballot Box: National
Election Reform in American Political Development," The site also
offers a page of links to related sites and a section entitled Who
We Are, which gives a brief overview of the field and information
on the site's developers. In the future, the Electronic Classroom
section will be a boon to instructors as it will contain syllabi,
exam questions, assignments, and other teaching resources.
American Political History On-Line
http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/pol-gl.htm
Guide was prepared with support from the National Endowment for
Humanities, the Center for Global Partnership of the Japan
Foundation, the University of Illinois, RPI, the Gilder-Lehrman
Foundation, the Luce Foundation, and the Robert H. Michel Civic
Education Grants sponsored by The Dirksen Congressional Center.
Richard Jensen is a scholar with many books and articles; he was
professor of history for over 35 years at several schools,
including the University of Illinois, Harvard, Michigan, West
Point, and Moscow State University.
American Political Items Collectors
http://apic.us/ Organized in 1945 to encourage the collection, preservation and
study of Political Americana, APIC is a non-profit membership
organization dedicated to the study and preservation of materials
relating to political campaigns of the United States of America.
Members of APIC are collectors of campaign material who wish to
improve their collections and their understanding of candidates
and issues that form our political heritage.
The American Political Science Association [pdf]
http://www.apsanet.org/
APSA was founded in 1903, and currently serves over 15000 members
in over 80 countries. "About" section provides information about
the organization, along with an answer to the question "What is
Political Science?" APSA Journals area affords visitors the
opportunity to sample some articles from recent issues, such as
"What China Will Want: The Future Intentions of a Rising Power"
and "The Future of Election Reform in the States". "Teaching"
section contains resources on pedagogy that include syllabi,
service learning assessments, and links to sites that contain
additional resources that can be used in the classroom.
A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns, 1787-1825
http://elmer.lib.tufts.edu:8080/aas_portal/index.xq
Ever wonder about the results of the 1823 election for the
position of lieutenant governor in Connecticut? Maybe so, maybe
not, but it's hard not to get excited about this very ambitious
site dedicated to American election results. Assembling all of
this data has been a decades-long process, and much of this work
was done by Philip J. Lampi, an expert in the area of early
American politics. This ongoing project represents collaboration
between the American Antiquarian Society and Tufts University
Digital Collection and Archives. With funding from the National
Endowment for the Humanities, the project will eventually include
data from all 25 states that existed during this time period.
First-time visitors to the site may wish to read over some of the
introductory materials in the "About" section. After that, they
can navigate over to the "Quick Search" function, or they can also
browse by candidate, office, year, or state. Finally, visitors can
also take a look at their data entry progress area, and they may
also wish to download data for offline analysis.
The A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science
http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/interference/a-to-z-guide-to-political.html
Descriptions of several situations in which "scientists who work
for and advise the federal government [in the 21st century] have
seen their work manipulated, suppressed, [and] distorted." Also
includes a link to a list from December 2006 of "names of more
than 10,000 scientists of all backgrounds from all 50 states --
including 52 Nobel Laureates" who "signed a scientist statement on
scientific integrity, denouncing political interference in
science." From the Union of Concerned Scientists.
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: The Federalist
Papers
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed.htm
Complete collection of the 85 articles urging the citizens of New
York to ratify the new United States Constitution. They were
written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, and
were first published from October 1787 to August 1788. From the
Lillian Goldman Law Library in Memory of Sol Goldman at Yale Law
School.
Ballot Measure Database
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/legismgt/elect/dbintro.htm
Database of state ballot measures, covering the current election
and selected elections back to the early 1900s. Search by state,
topic area, date, and election type (general, primary, or
special). Entries include ballot number, title, status, and
summary, when available. From the National Conference of State
Legislatures (NCSL).
Bill of Rights Institute
www.billofrightsinstitute.org
Founded in September 1999, the mission of the Bill of Rights
Institute is to educate young people about the words and ideas of
America's Founders, the liberties guaranteed in our Founding
documents, and how our Founding principles continue to affect and
shape a free society.
Bureau of the Public Debt
http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov "The Bureau of Public Debt [of the U.S. Department of the
Treasury] is responsible for the accounting for and reporting of
the debt in accordance with statutory direction." This site
explains the difference between the public deficit and debt
("accumulated deficits plus accumulated off-budget surpluses"). It
includes a FAQ, information about government securities (such as
savings bonds and Treasury bills), fraudulent schemes involving
alleged U.S. securities, and related material.
Capitol Hill History Project
http://www.capitolhillhistory.org/
The Capitol Hill Community Foundation has established the Ruth Ann
Overbeck Capitol Hill History Project in order to give the
neighborhood a better knowledge of its past and a deeper
understanding of the everyday lives of its citizens. The Overbeck
Project captures the history of this community, thriving
residential neighborhood, a small town within a large city, by
recording the recollections of its longtime residents and
preserving other records of its fascinating past.
(Caucuses) How Do Caucuses Work?
http://people.howstuffworks.com/question721.htm
This essay explains how caucuses work, and outlines the
differences between presidential primaries and caucuses, which are
both "a means for each political party to let voters nationwide
select their party's presidential nominee." The Iowa caucus (the
first of the presidential election year) is used as an example.
Includes links to further information about the U.S. presidential
election system. From HowStuffWorks.
(Caucuses) Iowa Caucus 2008
http://www.iowacaucus.org/
Official website for the Iowa Caucus, in which political party
members gather in January to make policy decisions and to select
candidates, and which is the earliest step in the electoral
process for U.S. presidential candidates. Provides background
about the caucus (such as how the caucuses began, how they work,
and how Iowa gained its first-in-the-nation status) and links to
candidate websites. Also includes links to facts about Iowa.
Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and
Engagement (Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and
Public Service, Tufts University)
http://www.civicyouth.org/
CIRCLE "conducts research on the civic and political engagement of
Americans between the ages of 15 and 25." Its website features
quick facts on youth voting, civic education, trends (by race,
ethnicity, and gender), youth demographics, non-college youth, and
community service. Also includes fact sheets, reports, data sets,
and links to related sites.
Congress in the Classroom
http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_programs_CongressClassroom.htm
National, award-winning education program now in its 16th year.
Developed and sponsored by The Dirksen Congressional Center, the
workshop is dedicated to the exchange of ideas and information on
teaching about Congress.
Congress.org
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/
A tool for increasing voter participation, this nonpartisan site
allows you to track the status of appropriation bills (so far only
one has passed both House and Senate), follow key votes, write
your federal, state and local representatives or post messages to
them online, and see what actions have been proposed by a variety
of groups.
Constitution Finder
http://confinder.richmond.edu
"This database offers constitutions, charters, amendments, and
other related documents [for countries around the world]. Nations
of the world are linked to their constitutional text posted
somewhere on the Internet." Browsable by country. Includes links
to texts in languages other than English. From the University of
Richmond School of Law.
Conversations on the Constitution [Macromedia
Flash Player]
http://www.abanet.org/publiced/conversations/constitution/
Website created by the American Bar Association. As its mission
statement declares, "This project is designed to further dialogue
in schools and in the workplace about American constitutional
principles and values." Within the site, visitors can peruse a
list of topics, such as war powers, the establishment of religion,
and cruel and unusual punishment. Each area has a brief overview
of each topic, and then three "starter" questions. These starter
questions feature a list of specific queries, accompanied by brief
illustrations (such as political cartoons and the like) that can
be used at the dinner table, the boardroom table, or just about
any table. Finally, interested parties can also take a few
interactive tests on such areas as Supreme Court rulings and
students’ rights in the classroom.
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html
An electronic collection of current and historical United States
government documents which define the American democracy. These
legislative and legal, regulatory, presidential, demographic, and
economic documents are selected and authenticated by the
Government Printing Office's GPO Access service. Includes the Bill
of Rights, Constitution, Federalist Papers, and statistical
reference sources. Subjects: Government publications; United
States.
C-Span
http://c-span.org/
C-SPAN is a private, non-profit company, created in 1979 by the
cable television industry as a public service. Our mission is to
provide public access to the political process. C-SPAN receives no
government funding; operations are funded by fees paid by cable
and satellite affiliates who carry C-SPAN programming.
C-SPAN: American Political Archive
http://www.c-span.org/apa/homepage.asp?
\Cat=Series&Code=APA&ShowVidNum= 6&Rot_Cat_CD=APA&Rot_HT=206&Rot_WD=
&ShowVidDays=60&ShowVidDesc=&ArchiveDays=30 The site contains a wide variety of unique audio programs culled
from materials at the National Archives, presidential libraries,
the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress and other sources. One
place to start is by listening to any one of the oral histories
recorded by different members of Congress who served in World War
II or Vietnam, such as former Senator Max Cleland or
Representative Sam Johnson. Visitors will want to peruse the
archived programs, which include those on Indira Gandhi, Medal of
Honor recipients, and stories from the Iraq War. Visitors will
definitely want to take a look at a 1967 interview with former
President Dwight Eisenhower in which he talks about his time at
Columbia University and his memories of a wide range of prominent
figures in American history, such as George Meany.
Enduring Outrage: Editorial Cartoons by Herblock
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/herblock-home.html
Enduring Outrage: Editorial Cartoons by Herblock Legendary
political cartoonist Herb Block left no pressing issue (or
political party) unturned during his long career, which spanned
most of the 20th century. Along the way, he picked up three
Pulitzer Prizes, including one in 1973 that he won with his
Washington Post colleagues for their coverage of the Watergate
scandal. In 2002, the Herb Block Foundation donated over 14,000 of
his original drawings and more than 50,000 preparatory sketches to
the Library of Congress. A very small, yet excellent, selection of
some of those renderings may be viewed at this site, which
complements an in situ exhibit at the American Treasures Gallery
in Washington, D.C. The drawings here include several that deal
with the nuclear power plant disaster at Chernobyl, the Republican
Party’s so-called "Contract with America" in the 1990s, and
television campaign advertisements. Each drawing is accompanied by
a brief explanation of the work, along with specific information
on when each cartoon originally appeared. A timeline of Herb
Block’s life and a checklist of objects that are included in the
exhibit round out the site. The site might also be well used by
political science and government in order to complement more
traditional classroom materials.
The Equal Rights Amendment
http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/
Site about the continuing viability of the Equal Rights Amendment
(ERA), "first proposed in 1923 [and] still not part of the U.S.
Constitution. The ERA has been ratified by 35 of the necessary 38
states." Features history, a FAQ, discussion of strategy for
passage, links to current legislation, and related material. A
project of the Alice Paul Institute in collaboration with the ERA
Task Force of the National Council of Women's Organizations.
Documents from the Continental Congress and the
Constitutional Convention (1774 -1789)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/continental/ The Continental Congress Broadside Collection (253 titles) and the
Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (21 titles) contain
274 documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting
and ratification of the Constitution. Items include extracts of
the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee
reports, treaties, and early printed versions of the United States
Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Most broadsides
are one page in length; others range from 1 to 28 pages. A number
of these items contain manuscript annotations not recorded
elsewhere that offer insight into the delicate process of creating
consensus. In many cases, multiple copies bearing manuscript
annotations are available to compare and contrast.
ExpectMore.gov
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/expectmore/
The Office of Management and Budget allows you to explore its
performance appraisals of government programs by performance
level, by topic, or by keyword. Each entry contains a summary of
the appraisals and the improvement plan.
FactCheck.Org (Annenberg Political Fact Check)
http://factcheck.org/ Annenberg Political Fact Check is a project of the Annenberg
Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania -
established by publisher and philanthropist Walter Annenberg in
1994 to create a community of scholars within the University of
Pennsylvania that would address public policy issues at the local,
state, and federal levels. A nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer
advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception
and confusion in U.S. politics - monitor the factual accuracy of
what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV
ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases. Our goal is
to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship,
and to increase public knowledge and understanding.
Federal Judicial Center [pdf]
http://www.fjc.gov/public/home.nsf
Created by an act of Congress in 1967, the Federal Judicial Center
has served as a clearinghouse of information about the federal
court system for four decades: court system, its history, and its
judges. From its homepage, visitors can go to one of the primary
sections: "Federal Judicial History" (contains biographies of
federal judges since 1789, the histories of individual courts, and
summaries of landmark decisions), "Publications & Videos", and
"Educational Programs & Materials". In the "Publications & Videos"
area, visitors can use the search engine to look for specific
items of interest, or they can also browse the archive’s contents
by subject or by date of publication.
Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History
Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training"
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/diplomacy/
Window into the lives of American diplomats. Transcripts of
interviews with U.S. diplomatic personnel capture their
experiences, motivations, critiques, personal analyses and private
thoughts. These elements are crucial to understanding the full
story of the creation of a structure of stable relationships that
maintained world peace and protected U.S. interests and values.
Getting the Message Out! National Political Campaign
Materials, 1840-1860 [Real Player]
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/message/
Round about the middle of the 19th century, many politicians
relied on the time-honored practices of broadsheets, barn-sized
advertisements, newspaper endorsements, and other such forms of
promotion to get the word out about their campaigns. This website,
created by the Northern Illinois University Libraries, provides a
close examination of this national popular political culture from
1840 to 1860 through images of the period, along with a few lively
recordings of campaign songs of the day. Visitors will want to
start by reading over some of the campaign histories, which offer
brief synopses of the candidates and the major issues they
grappled with at the time. Additionally, there are brief
biographies of each major candidate (such as James K. Polk and
James Gillespie Birney). After getting up to speed, visitors will
want to browse through the different multimedia offerings here,
and they should definitely listen to some of the catchy political
jingles. Some that should not be missed include the ever-popular
"A Bumper Around Now My Hearties!" and "Come to the Contest".
History of the Federal Judiciary
http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/index_bdy!
OpenPage&BaseTarget=sitecontent
Portion of the Federal Judicial Center’s Web Page presents basic
reference information about the history of the federal courts and
the judges who have served on those courts since 1789. It was
compiled by the Federal Judicial History Office in furtherance of
the Federal Judicial Center’s statutory mandate to "conduct,
coordinate, and encourage programs relating to the history of the
judicial branch of the United States government." The history
section of the Center’s Web page presents six topical links.
The History of the Supreme Court [pd]
http://www.historyofsupremecourt.org/
While some citizens may find the United States Supreme Court to be
a distant institution, nothing could be farther from the truth.
During its annual sessions, the Court addresses a myriad of issues
of immediate and enduring importance, including eminent domain,
freedom of expression, the death penalty, and so on. With funding
from New York Life, this very thorough website was created to
complement a major television series on the history of the Supreme
Court that will soon appear on PBS. The site's materials were
written by educators from across the country, and they present the
institution's history thematically, thereby making it easier to
use in the classroom. Within each one of the site's sections,
users will find essays and teaching materials on gender equality,
social rights, personal liberties, and equal access to schools.
The site also includes a very nice interactive timeline of
landmark cases handed down since 1792. Finally, the site also
includes a searchable encyclopedia of terms and court cases of
note.
History of the United States Capitol
http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/capitol/index.html Change and growth have ultimately been the threads that bind the
Capitol's history together. As the nation grew, so did Congress
and the Capitol. As a result, the Capitol has been a continual
work in progress for more than 200 years. This history site was
created by architectural historian William C. Allen and is
sponsored by the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S.
Senate. This document contains elaborate photos and 12 chapters
that chronicles the design and politics of the U.S. Capitol from
the beginning of its construction in 1793 to the present.
Teachers, students, architects, and historians will find this site
to be a rich and intriguing source of information.
IBM
Center for the Business of Government
http://www.businessofgovernment.or
The IBM Center for The Business of Government connects public
management research with practice. Since 1998, we have helped
public sector executives improve the effectiveness of government
with practical ideas and original thinking. We sponsor independent
research by top minds in academe and the non-profit sector, and we
create opportunities for dialogue on a broad range of public
management topics. Center has awarded nearly 300 research stipends
to leading public management researchers in the academic and
non-profit communities that have resulted in over 200 reports;
publications focus on the major management issues facing all
governments today: e-government, financial management, human
capital management, managing for performance and results,
market-based government, and innovation, collaboration and
transformation; Center produces The Business of Government Hour -
an interview program with government executives who are changing
the way government does business (has interviewed over 275
government executives about their careers, agency accomplishments
and management, and the future of government in the 21st Century -
Deputy Secretaries, Under Secretaries, Chief Financial Offi cers,
Chief Information Officers, Chief Operating Officers, and
Commissioners from a range of federal agencies as well as state
and local government executives).
Images
of American Political History
http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/ More than 500 public domain images in the field of American
political history are here. These range from reproductions of art
from colonial times to scanned photographs from the present day.
Search for images by keyword, or browse by time period or general
topic. The images are in JPEG format, with thumbnail previews
linked to full-sized images. From the Teaching Politics site at
the College of New Jersey. Subjects: United States -- Politics and
government -- Pictorial works | United States -- History --
Pictorial works.
Legislative History Process
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/legchart.html
List of United States Political Appointments That Crossed
Party Lines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._political_appointments_
that_crossed_party_lines
This list includes only: executive branch appointees, appointed by
the President; independent agency appointees.
MAPLight.org [pdf] -
http://www.maplight.org/
Iinnovative database brings together three unique data sets: bill
texts, legislative voting records, and supporting and opposing
interests for each bill. This data allows users to determine the
contributions given by interests supporting and opposing each bill
and the average donations given to legislators voting "Yes" and
"No" on each bill. Currently, MAPLight.org covers the California
Legislature and the U.S. Congress and first-time visitors may wish
to start by watching the six-minute introductory video which
explains all of the bells and whistles on the site. After that,
visitors can click on either the "California" or the "U.S.
Congress" sections of the site to learn about current voting
patterns related to interest groups (such as teachers unions and
the health insurance industry), legislators, and pending bills.
Moving on, the site also offers up a presidential money race
widget that can be customized in a variety of ways. Visitors may
also wish to sign up to receive email updates and they are also
welcome to send along feedback.
Museum of Democracy
http://www.museumofdemocracy.com/
Unprecedented opportunity to view political history through the
lens of the largest collection of political and campaign
memorabilia ever assembled. The core of the collection is the
Jordan Wright Collection. Consisting of more than 1.2 million
individual items, this collection contains important pieces
beginning with the George Washington presidency and includes
material from every candidate in every presidential campaign
since. The collection includes buttons, pendants, correspondence,
speeches, clothing, dolls, recordings, film and video that cover
the entire history of American political campaigns. From the
original flag that flew at George Washington’s first inauguration
to computerized video from the 2004 race, this collection breathes
life into the history of politics in America.
The National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/index.html
Of all documents and materials created in the course of business
conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1%-3% are
so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by
us forever. Those valuable records are preserved and are available
to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your
family’s history, need to prove a veteran’s military service, or
are researching an historical topic that interests you.
National Governors Association
http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga With the wide range of issues that confront and bedevil even the
most experienced state governor it makes sense that there is a
bipartisan organization that offers some coherence to the shared
problems confronting many such leaders. Based in Washington DC,
the National Governors Association (NGA), serves as the collective
voice of these elected officials and also oversees the NGA Center
for Best Practices, which focuses on state innovations and best
practices on a wide range of policy issues. On their webpage,
visitors can learn about the latest actions taken by the NGA, read
opinion articles from various governors, and take a glance at the
different policy initiatives underway in different states, such as
Arkansas’s Governor Mike Huckabee’s "Healthy America". Visitors
will definitely want to take a look at the publications area of
the Center for Best Practices where they will find something of
value contained within a host of sections, including those that
deal with workforce retention and information technology.
National Voting Rights Museum and Institute
http://selmavotingrightsmuseum.org/
The civil rights struggle in Selma, Alabama did not begin or end
at the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965. The events of that
day had their embryonic start at the beginning of the birth of our
nation and continues today in efforts to remove all barriers to
achieve freedom from tyranny and oppression. The revolutionary
actions which were the basis for the establishment of democracy in
America provide the basis for the respect and love for the rights
of persons, both human and civil. It is in this tradition of
respect for freedom and the rights of persons, including the right
to vote, that was the impetus for the founding of the National
Voting Rights Museum & Institute.
Political Advertising - University of Iowa Communication
Studies Resources
http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/pol_ads.html
Links to current articles on political advertising, and relevant
web sites.
Political Arithmetik - Where Numbers and Politics Meet
http://politicalarithmetik.blogspot.com/
Blog by Charles Franklin, a professor at University of Wisconsin,
who teaches statistical analysis of polls, public opinion and
election results. He helps people understand issues like political
bias in poll samples and questions, and provides historical
context for current data.
Political Assassination: The Violent Side of American
Political Life
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/assassinations.cfm
This essay discusses the history and timing of political
assassinations and assassination attempts in the U.S. The site
notes that nine presidents have been the objects of assassination
attempts, as have been one president-elect, three presidential
candidates, eight governors, and many other political figures. "No
other country with a population of over 50 million has had as high
a number of political assassinations or attempted assassinations."
From the University of Houston.
Politics and Prose - Bookstore and Coffeehouse
http://www.politics-prose.com/
Politics and Tech Tools - Blogs, Aggregators and Tracking
Tools
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/oct06/Gordon-Murnane.shtml
Librarian Laura Gordon-Murnane provides an excellent review, with
links, of the top liberal and conservative blogs, candidate blogs,
official party blogs, and local political blogs.
Politifact
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/
A project of the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly.
In the months ahead, the news staffs of both organizations will
examine major claims by presidential candidates and rule on their
veracity: 1) Truth-O-Meter will help voters sort fact from fiction
in the campaign; 2) Attack File analyzes the truth behind attacks
on candidates and provides supporting links. The site is browsable
by candidates and issues.
PollingReport.com
http://www.pollingreport.com/
Everyone likes polls, even if they don’t always like the results.
There are a number of ways to keep tabs on recent and informative
polls, PollingReport.com is one of the most comprehensive ways to
do so online. Users can look over the site’s primary thematic
areas ("Elections", "National Security", and "In the News").
Within each thematic area, visitors can look over the results of
recent polls, read the questions asked of participants, and learn
about each poll’s methodology and sample size. The site doesn’t
have a search engine, but it doesn’t take much time to look
through the contents. The site has a number of paid
subscription services.
Political Feeds
http://www.political-humor.net/
Directory of political feeds for Australia, Canada, the UK, Asia,
and the US, including political humor, local and state government,
blogs from all parts of the political spectrum, and more.
The Politico
http://www.politico.com
This online news site has "the mission of covering the politics of
Capitol Hill and of the presidential campaign, and the business of
Washington lobbying and advocacy." Includes news, opinion pieces,
photos, blogs, and other material about Congress, politicians, the
2008 presidential election, and other political topics. From the
publishers of the free Politico print newspaper available in the
Washington, DC area.
Quinnipiac University Polling Institute [pdf] http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x271.xml
Quinnipiac University's Polling Institute is perhaps one of the
best known polling centers in the United States, and its work is
frequently cited by major media outlets. Staff members at the
Institute are also called upon to offer commentary on the voting
habits and preferences of a broad swath of the American public.
Visitors to their site can start their journey by clicking on the
"Releases by State" area on the left-hand side of the homepage.
Here they will find the results of recent polls conducted at the
state and national level. From there, visitors will want to visit
the "Polling Regional Definitions" where they can learn about how
each state is divided up for polling purposes. Also, the site
allows users to search all of their press releases by area (such
as individual states or "swing states") and timeframe.
Angus Reid Global Scan: Election Tracker
http://www.angus-reid.com/tracker/
This site "monitors democratic conditions around the world, by
reviewing background information, assessing the latest campaign
news and events, describing trends in voting intention, and
reporting on the outcome of a particular ballot." From Angus Reid
Consultants, a polling company.
Secretaries of Defense
http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/secdef_histories/
Biographies of U.S. secretaries of defense from 1947 to the
present, including Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Caspar
Weinberger, William Cohen, Les Aspin, George Marshall, and others.
The essays cover the life events leading up to each person's time
in office, and highlights of their careers in the position. From
the U.S. Department of Defense.
Secretaries of State, 1789-2005
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/po/1682.htm
Seven Ways To Find Local Political Blogs
http://www.personaldemocracy.com/node/1140
What's going on in state and local politics. Also state-by-state
blogroll at Governing's blog, The 13th Floor.
Signers of the Declaration
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/declaration/
This series of essays covers topics related to the signing of the
Declaration of Independence, including historic sites and
buildings associated with the signing, and biographical sketches
of the signers of the Declaration, such as John Adams, Samuel
Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, and Thomas Jefferson.
Provides text and history of the Declaration and suggested
reading. Based on a book that was issued by the National Park
Service in observance of the U.S. bicentennial.
Society for History in the Federal Government
http://www.shfg.org/
Founded in 1979 as a non-profit professional organization to
promote study and broad understanding of the history of the United
States Government and to serve as the voice of the federal
historical community. To achieve its goals, the Society brings
together historians, archivists, archaeologists, curators,
librarians, editors, preservationists, and others interested in
government history.
State Capitol Building Histories
http://www.cupola.com/html/bldgstru/statecap/cap01.htm
Chronicles the rich and often colorful architectural history of
the American State Capitol Buildings.
Stateline.org
http://www.stateline.org
Online since January 1999, Stateline.org continues to serve as a
fine resource for those with a penchant for state government and
various developments that bear directly on all 50 states. Funded
by The Pew Charitable Trusts, the site now includes a host of new
and improved features. From their well-designed homepage, visitors
can view a list of top stories and read original content as well
as news reports created by Stateline.org staff writers. Those
persons looking for coverage on specific topics will want to look
through their list of issues, which include education, elections,
homeland security, and transportation. The staff members have also
created an online archive of governors’ addresses from their
respective states dating back to 2000. The site is rounded out by
the inclusion of their fine annual report "State of the States".
The Thicket, at State Legislatures
http://ncsl.typepad.com/the_thicket/
The Thicket is a blog about the state legislative institution and
federalism written by and for legislative junkies. Contributors
are among the nation's foremost statehouse observers at the
National Conference of State Legislatures. Part of the mission of
State Legislatures magazine and NCSL's Trust for Representative
Democracy. State Legislatures is the national magazine of state
government and policy, published 10 times a year by NCSL. The
Trust for Representative Democracy is a grassroots campaign to
strengthen understanding and support for American democratic
institutions.
Third Parties in American Politics: Rich
History, Many Roles
http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2004&m=August&x=20040830165442frllehctim0.307461
2004 interview with Professor J. David Gillespie covers the role
of third parties in American politics. Topics include constraints
on third-party participation, media coverage of third parties, and
specific third parties such as the Anti-Masonic Party of the early
1800s, the Progressive Party (Bull Moose Party) from the early
1900s, and the Reform Party, which was founded by Ross Perot in
the 1990s. From the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of
International Information Programs.
What Is the History of "Third Parties" in the United
States?
http://www.thisnation.com/question/042.html
An introduction to the types of third parties in U.S. government
and politics. Features a table listing parties, third party
presidential candidates, voting percentages, and electoral votes.
Parties listed include Free Soil, Populist, Progressive (Bull
Moose), American Independent, Reform, and Green. From a company
that publishes an online American government and politics
textbook.
UK Prime Ministers and Politics Timeline and
Bios
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/pm_and_pol_tl.shtml
From Sir Robert Walpole, Whig, (1721 - 1742) through Margaret
Thatcher, Conservative, (1979 - 1990).
UK prime Miniisters and Politics and Timelines
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/primeministers_pol/
index.shtml
Scandals, conflicts, collusion and corruption - political journey
through nearly 300 years of high ideals and low cunning from Tony
Blair to Robert Walpole (first man to hold prime ministerial
powers).
University of Oklahoma Political Communication Center
http://www.ou.edu/pccenter/
University of Oklahoma Political Communication Center in the
Department of Communication is recognized nationally and
internationally as a major resource for political research;
additionally, it is committed to contributing to the analysis of
political communication, and to the historical preservation of our
political discourse. The Political Communication Center houses the
Julian P. Kanter Political Commercial Archive, a repository with
the largest and most comprehensive collection of political
broadcast advertising in the world. With more than 80,000
commercials, the archive includes political advertisements dating
back to 1936 for radio and 1950 for television. The purpose of the
archive is to preserve these valuable historical materials and to
make them available for scholarly research and professional use.
VoterWatch
http://www.voterwatch.org/
"Nonpartisan nonprofit organization" has created this searchable
database of videos of Congress at work. Browse by date or topic,
or search by keyword of member of Congress or both.
Voting
http://www.sci.wsu.edu/math/Lessons/Voting/
This site explains how votes are interpreted when one political
candidate does not win a majority in an election. Topics addressed
include plurality, run-offs, and the Borda method (named after
18th century Jean-Charles de Borda), a ranking system which
assigns a certain number of points to each place. Includes
examples. From the Washington State University Department of
Mathematics.