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  • George Washington and the Two-Term Precedent

    by David A. Yalof ...
    Series series Landmark Presidential Decisions
    One of the earliest and most consequential presidential decisions in American history was George Washington’s choice to step down after two terms in office, despite the fact that he would almost certainly have won a third term had he chosen to run. The example he intended to set—and the circumstances he faced at the time—tell a more complicated story of the true motives behind his decision to ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Enduring Democracy

    by Kenneth J. Dautrich, David A. Yalof, Christina E. Bejarano ...
    How can our history provide us with a roadmap to the future?The Enduring Democracy provides the essentials of American government, with a focus on placing current issues and debates into a historical perspective. By looking back, students can better understand the challenges and controversies characterizing American government today. This allows them to tap into those "lessons learned" to identify ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Teaching, Training, and Administration in Graduate Psychology Programs

    A Psychoanalytic Perspective

    by Marc Lubin, David L. Downing, Jed Yalof ...
    Teaching, Training, and Administration in Graduate Psychology Programs offers a unique contribution to literature by presenting psychoanalytic perspectives on the challenges of educating future psychologists. By integrating psychoanalytic theory with engaging cases and practical applications, the authors explore how psychoanalysis can foster a deeper understanding of the questions and decisions ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

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    How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution--and What It Means for Americans Today

    by Thomas J. Dilorenzo ...
    Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton--two of the most influential Founding Fathers--were also fierce rivals with two opposing political philosophies and two radically different visions for America.While Jefferson is better remembered today, it is actually Hamilton’s political legacy that has triumphed--a legacy that has subverted the Constitution and transformed the federal government into the ... Read more

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to U.S. Government and Politics

    by Franco Scardino ...
    The governed must know their governmentUnderstanding how our government functions and the political forces that influence it is vital for all Americans. As a comprehensive overview and history of the subject, this book is designed to help anyone interested in learning about our government and the origins of its complex inner workings, our political system, and key elements that have affected our ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Andrew Johnson

    The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865-1869

    by Annette Gordon-Reed ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the tale of the unwanted president who ran afoul of Congress over Reconstruction and was nearly removed from office.Andrew Johnson never expected to be president. But just six weeks after becoming Abraham Lincoln's vice president, the events at Ford's Theatre thrust him into the nation's highest office.Johnson faced a nearly impossible task—to succeed ... Read more

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  • No Democracy Lasts Forever

    How the Constitution Threatens the United States

    by Erwin Chemerinsky ...
    A groundbreaking work from one of America’s leading legal scholars, No Democracy Lasts Forever audaciously asserts that the only way a polarized America can avoid secession is to draft a new Constitution.The Constitution has become a threat to American democracy. Due to its inherent flaws—its treatment of race, dependence on a tainted Electoral College, a glaringly unrepresentative Senate, and the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Presidents and the Constitution

    A Living History

    by Ken Gormley ...
    How forty-four presidents have shaped power and the law: "Everything you ever wanted to know about the Supreme Court and the Presidency but were afraid to ask." —Nina Totenberg, NPR legal affairs correspondentIn this sweepingly ambitious volume, the nation's foremost experts on the American presidency and the U.S. Constitution join together to tell the intertwined stories of how each American ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Injustices

    The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted

    by Ian Millhiser ...
    Now with a new epilogue-- an unprecedented and unwavering history of the Supreme Court showing how its decisions have consistently favored the moneyed and powerful.Few American institutions have inflicted greater suffering on ordinary people than the Supreme Court of the United States. Since its inception, the justices of the Supreme Court have shaped a nation where children toiled in coal mines, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • U.S. Government and Politics, 2nd Edition

    by Franco Scardino ...
    Series series Idiot's Guides
    Do you really know how the U.S. government operates? Most Americans have simply forgotten what they learned in their high school government class. Providing an updated history and comprehensive overview, Idiot's Guides: U.S. Government & Politics, Second Edition, is written to help readers gain an understanding about the origins of the U.S government, in addition to its complex political system ... Read more

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  • The Lost Soul of the American Presidency

    The Decline into Demagoguery and the Prospects for Renewal

    by Stephen E. Knott ...
    The American presidency is not what it once was. Nor, Stephen F. Knott contends, what it was meant to be. Taking on an issue as timely as Donald Trump’s latest tweet and old as the American republic, the distinguished presidential scholar documents the devolution of the American presidency from the neutral, unifying office envisioned by the framers of the Constitution into the demagogic, partisan ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • 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

    $50.99 CAD