Books, Nonfiction, Government, State & Local Government

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Kaylene Johnson, Cassandra Campbell (Narrator)
Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment on Its Ear
by Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc. (CD)

Sarah Palin, a hockey mom and small town mayor, thought her dream of making a difference in the male-dominated realm of Alaska politics was over when she clashed with the state chairman of her Republican Party and went head to head with the powerful Republican governor. In 2006, she became a long-shot candidate for governor, demanding a higher ethical standard in state government. Then fate intervened. Her populist reform message suddenly became front-page news when a major political scandal rocked Alaska politics, Alaskans began listening to her, and they liked what they heard.

Fareed Zakaria
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, Revised Edition
by W. W. Norton (Paperback)

differently."—Washington PostA modern classic that uses historical analysis to shed light on the present, The Future of Freedom is, as the Chicago Tribune put it, "essential reading for anyone worried about the promotion and preservation of liberty." Hailed by the New York Times as "brave and ambitious...updated Tocqueville," it enjoyed extended stays on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller lists and has been translated into eighteen languages. Prescient in laying out the distinction between democracy and liberty, the book now contains a new afterword on the United States's occupation of Iraq."Intensely provocative and valuable," according to BusinessWeek, with an easy command of history, philosophy, and current affairs, The Future of Freedom calls for a restoration of the balance between liberty and democracy and shows how politics and government can be made effective and relevant for our time. This new edition includes a new afterword on ...

Barry M Goldwater
The Conscience of a Conservative
by Victor Pub. Co (Hardcover)

In 1960, Barry Goldwater set forth his brief manifesto in The Conscience of a Conservative. Written at the height of the Cold War and in the wake of America's greatest experiment with big government, the New Deal, Goldwater's message was not only remarkable, but radical. He argued for the value and importance of conservative principles--freedom, foremost among them--in contemporary political life. Using the principles he espoused in this concise but powerful book, Goldwater fundamentally altered the political landscape of his day--and ours.

Ralph Ketcham
The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates (Mentor)
by Signet (Paperback)

The dissenting opinions of Patrick Henry and others who saw the Constitution as a threat to our hard-won rights and liberties. Edited and introduced by Ralph Ketcham.

Roger H Davidson
Congress and its members
by CQ Press (Unknown Binding)

The tension between Congress as a lawmaking institution and Congress as a collection of re-election-minded politicians has proven to be a powerful and effective way to understand Congress and the legislative process. Over nine editions, thousands of students have benefited from Davidson and Oleszek's tightly organized framework, as well as from their engaging and vivid narrative. Helping students understand the institution's evolution, Congress and Its Members paints broad brush strokes, while effectively showing enough color and detail to ground students in important concepts. Each chapter of the tenth edition will feature new analysis of the most recent and important scholarship. While the authors discuss the overall position and prospects for congressional government, they will include up-to-the-minute details on: the 2004 congressional elections and ongoing party realignment indicating Republican dominance for the foreseeable future; the state ...

Thomas E. Patterson
The American Democracy
by McGraw-Hill Inc.,US (Paperback)

In the two years that have passed since the second edition of THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, our nation has witnessed a tremendous amount of conflict both at home and abroad. This Election Edition contains coverage of the 1996 campaigns, conventions, and elections. Today's college students are not only reading history - they're watching it happen, and certainly no academic discipline is changing faster than political science. THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY is a text that helps students keep pace with those changes by challenging them to think about how today's issues affect the institutions and processes of government in the United States. The text has been thoroughly updated to include the latest scholarship and the most recent political developments, including the 1994 elections, the Republican-controlled Congress, the new federalism, welfare reform measures, the immigration controversy, the National Performance Review and other effects to "downsize" governmental administration, regulatory ...

John Kingdon
Agendas, Alternatives and Public Policies
by TBS The Book Service Ltd (Paperback)

Re-issued as part of the "Longman Classics in Political Science" series, Kingdon's renowned work features a new Foreword exploring the book's historical and enduring contributions. Kingdon's landmark work on agenda setting and policy formation is now offered in a Longman Classics Edition. This enduring work of original research, drawn from interviews with people in the U.S. federal government over the course of four years, examines the questions of how issues get to be issues for legislators. The book grapples with the questions: How do subjects come to officials' attention? How are the alternatives from which they choose generated? How is the governmental agenda set? Why does an idea's time come when it does? Hailed as one of the finest books about public policy- making, and winner of the 1994 Aaron Wildavsky Award, this book's rich detail and engaging prose make it a text that both students and instructors will savor.

James MacGregor Burns, David O'Brien, J. W. Peltason, David B. Magleby, ...
Government by the People, 2001-2002 (Brief 4th Edition)
by Prentice Hall (Paperback)

KEY BENFIT: This comprehensive, classic book takes readers from on-lookers to participants. Government by the People lets them see democracy as the participatory government that it is. Covers 2000 Presidential Election, constitutional democracy, political culture and ideology, campaigns and elections, the Presidency, the judiciary, and much more. Explains how Congress and the President work together. For anyone interested in American Government.

Kathryn Kraemer Troutman, Kathryn K. Troutman, Michael Singer Dobson
Federal Resume Guidebook
by Jist Publishing (Paperback)

Leads you through the complexities of finding and analyzing job announcements; writing federal resumes for both human and scanner eyes and packaging your resume to meet both federal and vacancy announcement criteria. Softcover.

Karen O'Connor, Larry J. Sabato
Essentials of American Government: Continuity and Change
by Allyn & Bacon (Paperback)

Guided by the belief that students must first understand how American government developed to fully understand the issues facing the United States in the 21st century, O'Connor/Sabato Essentials of American Government offers the strongest coverage of history and current events of any brief college textbook devoted to the fundamentals of American politics. This 14-chapter best-selling book provides the historical context students need to understand American government and the most crucial and controversial issues affecting the nation, but in an abbreviated format.

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