The Institutional Presidency : Organizing and Managing the White House from FDR to Clinton

John P. Burke
Paperback - $48.95

When Franklin Roosevelt decided his administration needed a large executive staff, he instituted dramatic and lasting changes in the federal bureaucracy and in the very nature of the presidency. Today, no president can govern without an enormous Whit ...

Race, Religion and Politics

Fred Butler
Paperback - $29.95

Have the American people departed from the path the Founding Fathers envisioned? This history of American politics explores the influence of race and religion on the issues, the choice of candidates, and the effects on our culture.

World Politics, 1945 - 2000

Peter Calvocoressi
Paperback - $81.95

An easily accessible and complete one volume reference covering the fast changing world of politics since World War II.

• "The book compels admiration for its thoroughness, its scope, the masterly ordering of its immense material"---"The Sunda ...

The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume IV

Clayborne Carson
Hardcover - $117.95

Acclaimed by Ebony magazine as "one of those rare publishing events that generate as much excitement in the cloistered confines of the academy as they do in the general public", The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. chronicles one of the twentieth ce ...

From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich : Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994

Dan T. Carter
Paperback - $44.95

In this penetrating survey of the last three decades, Dan T. Carter examines race as an issue in presidential politics. Drawing on his broad knowledge of recent political history, he traces the "counterrevolutionary" response to the civil rights move ...

Semi-Detached Idealists : The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1854-1945

Martin Ceadel
Hardcover - $456.95

Covering all significant peace associations and campaigns, this work is the first comprehensive and authoritative study of Great Britain's efforts to not merely prevent war but to abolish it. It is based on an extensive use of archival as well as pri ...

From Subjects to Citizens Ppr.

Sarah Chambers
Paperback - $63.95

Offering a corrective to previous views of Spanish-American independence, this book shows how political culture in Peru was dramatically transformed in this period of transition and how the popular classes as well as elites played crucial roles in th ...

The Latino Threat : Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation

Leo R. Chavez
Hardcover - $117.95

Directly opposing ideas constructed and perpetuated by pundits and the media at large, "The Latino Threat" challenges the suggestion that Latino immigrants are unwilling to integrate and reveals that citizenship is not just about legal definitions, b ...

The Latino Threat : Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation

Leo R. Chavez
Paperback - $38.95

Directly opposing ideas constructed and perpetuated by pundits and the media at large, "The Latino Threat" challenges the suggestion that Latino immigrants are unwilling to integrate and reveals that citizenship is not just about legal definitions, b ...

Rethinking Camelot : JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture

Noam Chomsky
Paperback - $23.95