David Greenberg
How an image-obsessed president transformed the way we think about politics and politicians.More
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
Authorized Edition
Nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, and along the banks of the Potomoc, the United States suffered the single largest loss of life from an enemy attack on its soil.
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J. Tobin Grant
Playing Politics, a rational-choice workbook of sixteen games, is designed to help students understand the logic behind political decision-making, from creating a constitution to formulating foreign policy.More
Dana Priest
Walk with America's generals, grunts, and Green Berets through the maze of unconventional wars and unsettled peace.More
Scott H. Ainsworth
Analyzing Interest Groups explores the various contexts in which
interest groups operate (from each branch of government to electoral
and grassroots politics) and offers a wide range of examples (from the
experiences of early farm groups, to the modern experiences of groups
like the NAACP, Greenpeace, and the NRA), providing knowledge necessary
to analyze these groups.More
Benjamin Ginsberg, Martin Shefter
Third Edition
As scandals increasingly dominate the political agenda, Benjamin Ginsberg and Martin Shefter argue in this illuminating book, the United States is entering an era of postelectoral politics, with media revelations, congressional investigations, and judicial proceedings replacing elections as the primary tools of political competition.More
Mark Crispin Miller
"A particularly astute analysis of the television coverage of the campaign, the election, and the political aftermath."—NewsdayMore
Benjamin R. Barber
Ideas and the presidency flirt with each other, but can they really get along?More
Philip D. Zelikow
Aspen Policy Books is a series of brief books devoted to developing new thinking on U.S. national security, cooperative measures to reduce conflict, and international polices of the United States from national defense strategy to issues of international political economy. The books are collections of "memos to the president" on one of these selected global policy issues.More
Theda Skocpol
An eye-opening look at how America’s social policy has been hijacked by a rhetoric of extremes.More
Philip D. Zelikow, Robert B. Zoellick
Aspen Policy Books is a series of brief books devoted to developing new thinking on U.S. national security, cooperative measures to reduce conflict, and international polices of the United States from national defense strategy to issues of international political economy. The books are collections of "memos to the president" on one of these selected global policy issues.More
Philip D. Zelikow, Robert B. Zoellick
Aspen Policy Books is a series of brief books devoted to developing new thinking on U.S. national security, cooperative measures to reduce conflict, and international polices of the United States from national defense strategy to issues of international political economy. The books are collections of "memos to the president" on one of these selected global policy issues.More
William T. Bianco
An ideal supplement in any introductory course, American Politics:
Strategy and Choice analyzes American politics through the lens of
individuals making rational choices within a set of rules and
institutions.More
Michael C. Munger
This readable and comprehensive introduction to the principles of public-policy analysis is the first book to integrate the tools students need to analyze policies with the common sense they need to understand how real policies are made.More
Philip D. Zelikow, Robert B. Zoellick
A new text in the Aspen policy series, this brief book encourages new thinking about U.S. national security, conflict reduction, and international policy.More