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  • Lincoln's Enduring Legacy

    Perspective from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment

    by Danny Adkison, John Barr, Byron Daynes, David Demaree, Gordon Henderson, David Mass, David Nordquest, Norman W. Provizer, Hyrum Salmond, Mary Elizabeth Stockwell0, James MacDonald1, Richard Striner2, Robert P. Watson3, Richard M. Yon5 ...
    Coming on the heels of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Lincoln's Enduring Legacy offers highly readable and accessible perspectives on Lincoln at 200 in terms of his impact on great leaders and thinkers and his place in American history. The book explores how Lincoln's words and deeds have influenced the pursuit of justice and freedom and the practice of democracy in the century and a ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • The M.E.Sharpe Library of Franklin D.Roosevelt Studies: v. 2

    Franklin D.Roosevelt and Congress - The New Deal and it's Aftermath

    by Nancy Beck Young, William D. Pederson, Byron W. Daynes ...
    This book assesses contrasting interpretations of President Roosevelt's relations with the Nye Committee. It explores the complexity confronting Rayburn in weighing the factors that influenced his actions during the New Deal portion of his near half century in Congress. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Moral Controversies in American Politics

    by Raymond Tatalovich, Byron W. Daynes, Theodore J. Lowi ...
    No area of public policymaking is more hotly debated than the use of government authority to enforce certain standards of behavior in areas of moral controversy. Now thoroughly revised and updated, this collection examines a variety of such policy areas - ranging from abortion and affirmative action to gay rights - including two new chapters on animal rights and hate crimes. In discussing each ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • The M.E.Sharpe Library of Franklin D.Roosevelt Studies

    Volume 1: Franklin D.Roosevelt and the Shaping of American Political Culture

    by Nancy Beck Young, William D. Pederson, Byron W. Daynes ...
    Although Roosevelt had no single plan to alter Congress's role, the incremental changes adopted during the New Deal transformed Congress. Examining the immediate reactions of groups in Congress and beyond, and the long-term effects, this study offers insights into a key period in US politics. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • American Politics and the Environment, Second Edition

    by Byron W. Daynes, Glen Sussman, Jonathan P. West ...
    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Changing our environmental policy has been at the forefront of many political discussions. But how can we make this change come about? In American Politics and the Environment, Second Edition, Byron W. Daynes, Glen Sussman and Jonathan P. West argue it is critical that we must understand the politics of environmental decision making and how political actors operate within political institutions. ... Read more

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  • Social Regulatory Policy

    Moral Controversies In American Politics

    by Raymond Tatalovich, Byron W. Daynes ...
    In this book, the authors propose an important variant of regulation—social regulatory policy—and explain how the six moral controversies about the policy (school prayer, pornography, crime, gun control, affirmative action, and abortion) are handled by the American political system. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Uncertain Justice

    The Roberts Court and the Constitution

    by Laurence Tribe, Joshua Matz ...
    "Illuminating. . . . [Tribe and Matz] offer well-crafted overviews of key cases decided by the Roberts Court [and] chart the Supreme Court's conservative path." — Chicago TribuneFrom Citizens United to its momentous rulings regarding Obamacare and gay marriage, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has profoundly affected American life. Yet the court remains a mysterious institution, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • Understanding American Politics, Second Edition

    by Stephen Brooks, J. Matthew Wilson, Douglas Koopman ...
    Understanding American Politics provides a unique introduction to the contemporary political landscape of the United States by using as its core organizing feature the idea of "American exceptionalism," a concept that is at least as old as Tocqueville's study of American democracy.The second edition of Understanding American Politics maintains the unique strengths of the first edition while ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • The First Civil Right

    How Liberals Built Prison America

    by Naomi Murakawa ...
    Series series Studies in Postwar American Political Development
    The explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century, and the racial transformation of the prison population from mostly white at mid-century to sixty-five percent black and Latino in the present day, is a trend that cannot easily be ignored. Many believe that this shift began with the "tough on crime" policies advocated by Republicans and southern ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Bakke Case

    Race, Education, and Affirmative Action

    by Howard Ball ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    Twice denied admission to a California medical school despite better grades and test scores than successful minority applicants, Allan Bakke took his grievance to court and set off a major controversy over affirmative action. Bakke claimed that he was a victim of reverse discrimination, and his case has been considered by many as the most important civil rights decision since the end of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Federalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mark J. Rozell, Clyde Wilcox ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Early Americans were suspicious of centralized authority and executive power. Casting away the yoke of England and its king, the founding fathers shared in this distrust as they set out to pen the Constitution. Weighing a need for consolidated leadership with a demand for states' rights, they established a large federal republic with limited dominion over the states, leaving most of the governing ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Disenfranchisement of Ex-Felons

    by Elizabeth Hull ...
    In the 2004 presidential election, 4,686,539 Americans—a population greater than the city of Los Angeles—were barred from the polls. In a country that has extended suffrage to virtually every other class of citizen, ex-felons are the sole segment of our population deemed unworthy to exercise what the Supreme Court has called "the right preservative of all other rights," the right to vote.The ... Read more

    $20.19 USD