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The Post-Cold War Presidency
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With the end of the Cold War, U.S. presidential leadership has become both more important and more difficult. Post-war periods have historically posed challenges to leadership, and this time around the long-time image of the Oleader of the free worldO has declined in the face of globalization and in...Read More

Government by the People, National Version, 20th Edition
Book Title Author(s) : James MacGregor Burns, J.W. Peltason, Thomas E. Cronin, David B. Magleby, David M. O'Brien, Paul C. Light
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For the Introduction to American Government or Introduction to American Politics courses. This is the most authoritative text for American Government. Always one step ahead of the competition. Government by the People continually sets the standards for other American Government texts by anticipatin...Read More

Essays in Honor of James MacGregor Burns
Book Title Author(s) : Michael R. Beschloss, Thomas E. Cronin
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The Modern Presidency
Book Title Author(s) : James P. Pfiffner
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THE MODERN PRESIDENCY is a concise, accessible and sophisticated text that uses cases to illustrate important aspects of presidential action and decision-making. Written by a top scholar on the presidency, and thoroughly updated through the summer of 2009 to include the presidency of Barack Obama, t...Read More

Congress and the People: Deliberative Democracy on Trial (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
Book Title Author(s) : Donald R. Wolfensberger
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Will some form of direct democracy supplant representative, deliberative government in the twenty-first century United States? That question is at the heart of Donald R. Wolfensberger's history of Congress and congressional reform, which runs back to the Constitution's creation of a popularly electe...Read More

The Paradoxes of the American Presidency
Book Title Author(s) : Thomas E. Cronin, Michael A. Genovese
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What, exactly, do Americans want from their president? A strong, innovative leader or someone who simply follows the will of the people? A president who insists on the ideals of a party or someone who builds bipartisan support? A president who exercises power forcefully or someone who establishes co...Read More

A History of Federal Crime Control Initiatives, 1960-1993
Book Title Author(s) : Nancy Marion
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This history of American crime policy at the federal level compiles and examines for the first time the record of recent presidential administrations in the area of crime control--their agendas and the legislation actually enacted by the Congress. Nancy Marion analyzes the relationship between polit...Read More

New Directions in the American Presidency (New Directions in American Politics)
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The study of the American presidency, both as a political institution and the men who have held the office, is one of the most fascinating and dynamic fields of study within American government. New Directions in the American Presidency takes a current look at the various issues facing the presidenc...Read More

Politics, Position, and Power: The Dynamics of Federal Organization
Book Title Author(s) : Harold Seidman
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The fifth edition of this classic text presents a concise study of the United States government in the 1990's, highlighting the constitutional implications of the current debate among anti-government revolutionaries, privatizers, and government reinventors about the governments purpose. It analyzes ...Read More

Presidency & the Law
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Political scandals have always demonstrated the capacity of our executive officials for self-inflicted injuries, and the Clinton administration was no exception. Unilateral war-making, claims of executive privilege and immunity, and last-minute pardons all tested the limits of presidential power, wh...Read More

 

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