This accessible paperback introduces readers to the basics of American government, structured around democracy as an ideal toward which we continually strive. It prepares readers to be good citizens, armed with the information they will need to follow politics and make educated choices about leaders, policies, and actions. Thematically organized and comprehensive, it emphasizes a global perspective and offers insight on issues of diversity and the struggles of various groups in the advance toward democracy. Cases and real-world examples reflect current trends and events. For an educated understanding of how to put the concept of democracy into current political context.

Approaching Democracy, Fourth Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Bruce Allen Murphy

Politics & Government

Pearson College Div

This concise paperback introduces the basics of American government, structured around democracy as an ideal toward which we continually strive. Thematically organized, it prepares readers to review events in the context of this goal. This book prepares readers to be good citizens, armed with the information they will need to follow politics and make educated choices about leaders, policies, and actions.   Cases and real-world examples reflect current trends and events such as: Tom Ridge and the Homeland Security Council, the War on Terrorism and Anti-Terrorism Bill, Anthrax and the US Postal Service, Dick Cheney as the new VP, Census 2000, the Enron scandal, Military tribunals, Senator Jeffords party switch, the Supreme Court and the 2000 Presidential Election, 2002 Congressional elections, governments in the Islamic world, and much more. Topics also address the multiple processes of formulating, implementing, and evaluating public policy and the democratic ideal.   For anyone wanting to arm themselves with the information needed to make educated political decisions and choices.

Approaching Democracy

Larry Berman

PRENTICE/HALL

Approaching Democracy (Subscription)

Larry A. Berman

Pearson Education Limited

1983. Anchor Books Edition Published by Anchor Press/Doubleday & Company, Inc., 473 pages. 1 lb 12 oz. (Trade Paperback).The Brandeis/Frankfurter Connection: The Secret Political Activities of Two Supreme Court Justices by Bruce Allen Murphy. Politics, Law, History, Zionists, ISBN#0385183747.

The Brandeis/Frankfurter connection: The secret political activities of two Supreme Court justices

Rules & Procedures

Anchor Books

Portraits of American Politics: A Reader

Houghton/Mifflin

Captures the saga of a brilliant career gone sour in a chronicle of the nation's first Jewish Supreme Court Justice, who was forced to resign in disgrace, and examines newly acquired evidence concerning the case

FORTAS: The Rise and Ruin of a Supreme Court Justice

William Morrow & Co.

Book by Larry Berman, Bruce Allen Murphy, Mona Field

American Government and California State Governmen

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