| Description |
viii, 184 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
Revised versions of lectures delivered at Oxford University. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foundation stones of present discontents: the American political nation, 1776-1945 / Joel H. Silbey -- Our country: the shaping of America from Roosevelt to Clinton / Michael Barone -- Separating to govern: the American way / Charles O. Jones -- Mayor Daley and modern democracy: what we should have learned from Chicago in the 1950s / Alan Ehrenhalt -- Issue evolution in postwar American politics: old certainties and fresh tensions / Edward G. Carmines, Geoffrey C. Layman -- The cultural revolution of 1994: Newt Gingrich, the Republican party, and the third great awakening / Thomas B. Edsall -- "We are all Southern Democrats now": the shape of American politics in the very late twentieth century / Byron E. Shafer. |
| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government.
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| ISBN |
156643050X (pbk.) |
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9781566430500 (pbk.) |
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