Examining how the US government works, this book covers concepts, principles and structures. The authors concentrate on making students think critically about how democracy in America functions and examine how the US government compares with those in other countries.
American Government 3e
American Government: Origins, Institutions, and Public Policy
American Government: The Essentials
Introduction to American Government
American Government: Institutions and Policies
The book provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of American Government and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them.
Contains two hundred alphabetically arranged articles discussing subjects important to American government.
How and why has government gotten bigger? “Should be a compulsory assignment for any seminar on modern political culture.” —The Journal of American History American government has evolved over the generations since the mid-nineteenth ...
Elizabeth Monroe was known as " la belle Americaine " for her role in saving the wife of Marquis de Lafayette , Madame Lafayette , in France from death by guillotine . The Monroes had traveled abroad during the French Revolution because ...
Hogan, Cross of Iron, 12–18; Blanche Wiesen Cook, The Declassified Eisenhower (New York: Penguin, 1981), 345–46. 7. Melvin Leffler, Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War (Stanford, ...