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Books
Dahl, Robert. Who Governs? New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1961.
…an influential book in American political science by Robert Dahl. It was published in 1961 by Yale University Press. Dahl’s work is a case study of political power and representation in New Haven, Connecticut.[1] It is widely considered one of the great works of empirical political science of the twentieth century. -Amazon
Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1955.
Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century, is widely considered the greatest work of history ever written. -Amazon
Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf. Munchen: F. Eher, 1933.
The angry ranting of an obscure, small-party politician, the first volume of Mein Kampf was virtually ignored when it was originally published in 1925. Likewise the second volume, which appeared in 1926. The book details Hitler’s childhood, the “betrayal” of Germany in World War I, the desire for revenge against France, the need for lebensraum for the German people, and the means by which the National Socialist party can gain power. It also includes Hitler’s racist agenda and his glorification of the “Aryan” race. The few outside the Nazi party who read it dismissed it as nonsense, not believing that anyone could–or would–carry out its radical, terrorist programs. As Hitler and the Nazis gained power, first party members and then the general public were pressured to buy the book. By the time Hitler became chancellor of the Third Reich in 1933, the book stood atop the German bestseller lists. Had the book been taken seriously when it was first published, perhaps the 20th century would have been very different. -Amazon
Hamilton, Charles V. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Political Biography of an American Dilemma. New York: Atheneum, 1991.
In this authoritative biography of the congressman and civil rights activist Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Prof. Hamilton reassesses the man’s unique and complex place in American history. As the senior pastor of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church, Powell led protests against segregation and discrimination during the Great Depression. Through persistent effort and skillful politicking, Powell was elected to Congress in 1944 and continued his efforts on behalf of blacks during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. Following Kennedy’s election, Powell gained the chairmanship of the House Committee on Education and Labor, but the remaining years of his life were filled with accusations, family problems, and the loss of his supporters. -Amazon
Melville, Herman. The Confidence Man: His Masquerade. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.
Onboard the Fidèle, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. In quick succession he assumes numerous guises – from a legless beggar and a worldly businessman to a collector for charitable causes and a ‘cosmopolitan’ gentleman, who simply swindles a barber out of the price of a shave…Set on April Fool’s Day, The Confidence-Man (1857) is an engaging comedy of masquerades, digressions and shifting identity, and a devastating satire on the American dream. -Amazon
McQuaid, Kim. Uneasy Partners: Big Business in American Politics, 1945-1990. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
In Uneasy Partners, McQuaid surveys the close ties that have formed between big business and government in the period from World War II to the present.; Government needs business, McQuaid explains, to make and implement key economic and business-related decisions. Business needs government to gain advantages over labor and markets. The defining characteristics of this business-government relationship form the focal point for the book’s chapters. -OCLC Firstsearch
Perlstein, Rick. The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
The best-selling author of Nixonland presents a portrait of the United States during the turbulent political and economic upheavals of the 1970s, covering events ranging from the Arab oil embargo and the era of Patty Hearst to the collapse of the South Vietnamese government and the rise of Ronald Reagan. -OCLC
Schlesinger, Arthur M. A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
Schlesinger’s close relationship with JFK, as a politician and as a friend, has resulted in this authoritative yet intimate account in which the president “walks through the pages, from first to last, alert, alive, amused and amusing” (John Kenneth Galbraith). -Amazon
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1969.
Tocqueville looked to the flourishing deomcratic system in America as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, believing that the egalitarian ideals it enshrined reflected the spirit of the age and even divine will. His study of the strengths and weaknesses of an evolving democratic society has been quoted by every American president since Eisenhower, and remains a key point of reference for any discussion of the American nation or the democratic system. -Amazon
Uris, Leon. Exodus. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958.
Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies–the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era. -Amazon
Articles
Gilens, Martin, and Benjamin I. Page. “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens.”. Perspectives on Politics 12.3 (2014): 564-81. ProQuest. Web. 28 July 2016.
Larner, John W. “Judging the Kitchen Debate.” OAH Magazine of History 2.1 (1986): 25-27. Web. Link below.
Peschek, Joseph G. “C. Wright Mills And American Democracy C. Wright Mills And American Democracy.” New Political Science 30.3 (2008): 393-403. Academic Search Complete. Web. 27 July 2016.
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