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Challenges your students to engage with, think about, and debate American Government and Politics using the most state-of-the-art and engaging program for teaching the course.

By The People: Debating American Government, Fifth Edition, presents essential content in a compelling story geared for today's students. Through each edition, this text has built on this successful approach to engage students in the rich and important debates of our times. Now powered by the Oxford Insight® Study Guide and additional digitals learning tools, this book helps students to become thoughtful and informed citizens. The accompanyin...

America may be one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet its citizens have lower life expectancy, more infant mortalities, and higher adolescent death rates than those in most other advanced industrial nations--and even some developing countries. In Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair a distinguished group of health policy experts pointedly examines this troubling paradox, as they chart the stark disparities in health and wealth in the United S...

American politics today is in an uproar: loud, angry, and bitter, bristling with us-versus-them. This is not exactly new. The history of our political life is teeming with nastiness, violence, intolerance, and cheating. Yet we can sense that there is something genuinely different about the current turmoil. Politics has turned tribal in an unprecedented way.What changed? The answer, according to renowned political scientist James Morone, lies i...

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America may be one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet its citizens have lower life expectancy, more infant mortalities, and higher adolescent death rates than those in most other advanced industrial nations--and even some developing countries. In Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair a distinguished group of health policy experts pointedly examines this troubling paradox, as they chart the stark disparities in health and wealth in the United S...

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In this volume Morone offers his own answer to the conundrum of American political culture: It is a perpetual work in progress. Each essay in The Devils We Know takes up a different aspect of the creative conflicts that shape America. Ranging from Huck Finn to Obamacare, Morone explores the ways in which culture interacts with other forces--most notably the rules and organizations that channel collective choices.

Is there an American culture? Certainly, says James Morone. Americans are fighting over it now. In this volume Morone offers his own answer to the conundrum of American political culture: It is a perpetual work in progress. Each essay in The Devils We Know takes up a different aspect of the creative conflicts that shape America.

This extraordinary retelling of American political history shows that--despite the clear separation of church and state--religion lies at the heart of American politics."This is American history the way I like it, prodigiously researched and vivaciously told. Mr. Morone has a knack for peeling off veneers, for locating the surprising fact, for adopting the unexpected and illuminating slant. He is a rarity, a scholar who is never boring."--Trac...