Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were not the first to engage in a head-of-state ideological partnership across the Atlantic, says Sykes (political science, American). She describes the relationshi
Placing an ideal of participatory democracy against the notion of democratic realism, Miroff (political science, State U. of New York) looks at the leadership styles of John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, El
Seeks to understand how 19th-century Americans answered the question of how people should participate in politics, focusing on the political culture of the urban North during the turbulent Jacksonian
Provides a critical introduction to important conceptions of international justice, spanning 2,500 years of intellectual history to show how older traditions of political philosophy remain relevant to
A biography of a remarkable officer who rose from obscurity to become one of LBJ's Army Chiefs of Staff during the Vietnam War. Johnson survived almost four years as a POW under the Japanese during WW
Focusing on the founding of the French Fifth Republic and the drafting of its constitution, the author compares the nations' divergent approaches to executive, legislative, and judicial power; indepen
Endlessly pursued but ever elusive, Moby-Dick roams freely throughout the American imagination. A fathomless source for literary exploration, Melville's masterpiece has also inspired a stunning array
Constitutional theory, Earl Maltz argues, has reached a critical impasse marked by a largely unproductive stalemate between originalists and nonoriginalists regarding the proper role of judicial revi
