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Political Science

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In Contempt

Defending Free Speech, Defeating HUAC

By Ed Yellin & Jean Fagan Yellin
Subjects: Memoir, History, American History, Political Science, Judicial Politics

How an American Family Went to the Supreme Court with a First Amendment Defense and Beat HUAC

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

The Harvest of American Racism

The Political Meaning of Violence in the Summer of 1967

Edited by Robert Shellow
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, African American Studies, Class Studies, Sociology, Political Science, Political History

In print for the first time--the document that the Kerner Commission did not want to see released

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
 

The Poverty Law Canon

Exploring the Major Cases

By Ezra Rosser & Marie Failinger
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Class Studies, Political Science, Public Policy, History, American History
Series: Class : Culture

Engaging narratives that move beyond the final opinions of the Supreme Court to reveal the people and stories behind key poverty-law cases of the last 50 years

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

Taking Trade to the Streets

The Lost History of Public Efforts to Shape Globalization

By Susan Ariel Aaronson
Subjects: Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, History, American History, Political Science, Political Economy

Traces the history of civil society involvement in the international trade debate

To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face

Libertarian Political Violence and the Origins of the Militia Movement

By Robert H Churchill
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, Political Science

Did a long-standing and libertarian understanding of the American Revolution create the perfect climate for the militia movement in the United States?

Grassroots at the Gateway

Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75

By Clarence Lang
Subjects: History, American History, African American Studies, Class Studies, Political Science, American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Offers a new conceptualization of black workingclass participation in the civil rights movement

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 Price of Racial Reconciliation

By Ronald Walters
Subjects: African American Studies, History, American History, Law, Political Science, Race and Politics, African Studies
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

Presents the conceptual difficulties involved in the project of racial reconciliation by a comparative analysis of South African Truth and Reconciliation and the demand for Reparations in the United States

Beyond Busing

Reflections on Urban Segregation, the Courts, and Equal Opportunity

By Paul R. Dimond
Subjects: Political Science, History, American History, Law

Discusses the landmark school and housing desegregation cases of the 1970s

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

Deadly Dust

Silicosis and the On-Going Struggle to Protect Workers' Health

New and expanded edition

By David Rosner & Gerald Markowitz
Subjects: Health & Medicine, History, American History, Political Science, Public Policy
Series: Conversations in Medicine and Society

A new and expanded edition of the authors' pivotal examination of the national silicosis crisis

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