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The Silent Guns of Two Octobers

Kennedy and Khrushchev Play the Double Game

New Edition, Updated

By Theodore Voorhees
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political History, History, American History

Far from the brink

Informing a Nation

The Newspaper Presidency of Thomas Jefferson

By Mel Laracey
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political History, History, American History

How a dynamic, controversially elected president used the media to promote his image and policies

The Silent Guns of Two Octobers

Kennedy and Khrushchev Play the Double Game

By Theodore Voorhees
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political History, History, American History

Far from the brink

An Independent Empire

Diplomacy & War in the Making of the United States

By Michael S. Kochin & Michael Taylor
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, History, American History, Political History

How the United States used methods of imperial diplomacy to recast itself into a global juggernaut

Zombie History

Lies About Our Past that Refuse to Die

By Peter Charles Hoffer
Subjects: History, American History, Political Science, American Politics

You can’t outrun it, but you can outsmart it

Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea

By Joshua Horwitz & Casey Anderson
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, American Studies, History, American History, Political Science, American Politics

Does the gun lobby threaten the democratic institutions safeguarding individual liberty in America?

The Rise of the Representative

Lawmakers and Constituents in Colonial America

By Peverill Squire
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Governance, History, American History
Series: Legislative Politics and Policy Making

Uncovers the roots of the American political system: the development of colonial representative assemblies
 

Politics, Faith, and the Making of American Judaism

By Peter Adams
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, History, American Religious History, Jewish Studies

The history of American Judaism in the years after the Civil War

Gerald R. Ford

An Honorable Life

By James Cannon
Contributions by Scott Cannon
Subjects: History, American History, Political Science, American Politics

A comprehensive narrative account of the life and presidency of Gerald Ford written by one of his closest advisers

Ambition, Competition, and Electoral Reform

The Politics of Congressional Elections Across Time

By Jamie L. Carson & Jason Matthew Roberts
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Governance, History, American History
Series: Legislative Politics and Policy Making

An original study of U.S. congressional elections and electoral institutions for 1872–1944 from a contemporary political science perspective

The Evolution of American Legislatures

Colonies, Territories, and States, 1619-2009

By Peverill Squire
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Governance, History, American History
Series: Legislative Politics and Policy Making

Squire offers a comprehensive history of legislatures, core institutions in American political development

A New England Prison Diary

Slander, Religion, and Markets in Early America

By Martin J. Hershock
Subjects: History, American History, Historical Methods and Theory, Political Science, American Politics

A microhistorical examination of early American culture

Three's A Crowd

The Dynamic of Third Parties, Ross Perot, and Republican Resurgence

By Walter J. Stone & Ronald B. Rapoport
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, History, American History

Reveals how the "dynamic of third parties" fuels the continuing evolution of our political system

Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform

Edited by Sanford F. Schram, Joe Brian Soss, and Richard Carl Fording
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political Methodology, African American Studies, History, American History

A searching and succinct restatement of the many ways race and American racial attitudes affect how we talk about the poor--and how we handle the problem of poverty relief

Between a River and a Mountain

The AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War

By Edmund F. Wehrle
Subjects: History, American History, Political Science, American Politics

Where Women Run

Gender and Party in the American States

By Kira Sanbonmatsu
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, History, American History, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Sociology

Where are the women candidates?

The New Imperial Presidency

Renewing Presidential Power after Watergate

By Andrew Rudalevige
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, History, American History
Series: Contemporary Political and Social Issues

Has the imperial presidency returned? This question has been on the minds of many contemporary political observers, as recent American administrations have aimed to consolidate power

Mr. Democrat

Jim Farley, the New Deal and the Making of Modern American Politics

By Daniel Mark Scroop
Subjects: History, American History, Political Science, American Politics, American Studies

The story of the 20th-century's most successful national party boss and one of the driving forces behind the New Deal

Ivory Towers and Nationalist Minds

Universities, Leadership, and the Development of the American State

By Mark Richard Nemec
Subjects: History, American History, Political Science, American Politics

The impact of American universities on the establishment of the American state

Equal Justice in the Balance

America's Legal Responses to the Emerging Terrorist Threat

By Raneta Lawson Mack & Michael J. Kelly
Subjects: Law, Political Science, American Politics, History, American History

An exacting look at American legal responses to terrorism, both before and after 9/11

With All Deliberate Speed

The Life of Philip Elman

By Norman I. Silber
Subjects: Law, Political Science, American Politics, Education, History, American History

A behind-the-scenes look at an unrecognized giant of American legal history and his role in the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education

Constituting Workers, Protecting Women

Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years

By Julie Lavonne Novkov
Subjects: Law, History, American History, Political Science, American Politics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies

Studies historical constitutional development in relation to protective laws for women in the U.S. during the Progressive Era and early New Deal years

The Politics of Purity

Harvey Washington Wiley and the Origins of Federal Food Policy

By Clayton Anderson Coppin & Jack C. High
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, History, American History, Economics, Business

Reveals how the Pure Food and Drugs Act was influenced by competition among government bureaus and commercial interests

Building the Cold War Consensus

The Political Economy of U.S. National Security Policy, 1949-51

By Benjamin Fordham
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, History, American History, American Politics

Explains the basis in domestic politics of the political consensus in support of large defense spending in the early stages of the Cold War

Time and Chance

Gerald Ford's Appointment with History

By James Cannon
Subjects: History, American History, Political Science, American Politics

A biography of President Gerald Ford by one of his closest advisers

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