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Discusses the process of White House domestic policymaking through the experiences of former presidential advisers and the expertise of leading presidency scholars to explain how policies reflect and

In chronicling American mobilization, Koistinen reveals how representatives of industry and the armed services expanded upon their growing prewar ties to shape policies for harnessing the economy, and

Claasen (modern history, international relations, and politics, Massey University, New Zealand) covers every aspect of Hitler's northern campaign from the 1940 invasion until the war's end, and shows

McJimsey (history, Iowa State University) describes the successes and failures of FDR's twelve-year presidency an administration beginning in the depression, spanning the second World War, and generat

Assesses Johnson's effectiveness as a president and significance in American history by examining his use of presidential power, his role in Reconstruction, domestic development, and foreign affairs f

A scholarly, interpretive survey of the events, conditions, and personalities of the second president's four-year administration, reassessing his stature as president and his contribution to the offic

A study that testifies to Kansas's natural abundance presents forty-six stunning color landscapes and seventeen evocative essays that are complemented by sidebars featuring facts about wildlife and we

Exploring the phenomenon of Americans' fascination with wild and inaccessible places, Kroll shows how seven explorers helped create and perpetuate the idea of an ocean wilderness by applying terrestri

Katherine Jellison gives us a comprehensive cultural history of American weddings since World War II, examining the development of our precise and expensive standards for celebrating weddings and the

Currently about 45 million Americans do not have adequate health insurance, and they probably have the myths of rugged individualism and laissez-faire capitalism to blame. Fingiello (history emeritu

Written primarily by American political scientists and historians, 14 essays reassess the Reagan presidency and its legacy in important areas of national policy, with the exception of an introductory

Interpreting architecture from a sociopolitical perspective, a professor at Virginia Tech's Center for Public Administration and Policy and author of The Social Meaning of Civil Space examines the d

Hosmer (history and American Indian studies, U. of Wyoming) shows that by selectively incorporating elements of American capitalism into their lives, the Menominees in Wisconsin and the British Columb

The US Constitution recognizes the president as the sole legal head of the executive branch. Despite this constitutional authority, the president's actual control over administration varies significantly in practice from one president to the next. Presidential Control over Administration provides a new approach for studying the presidency and policymaking that centers on this critical and often overlooked historical variable. To explain the different configurations of presidential control over administration that recur throughout history--collapse, innovation, stabilization, and constraint--O'Brien develops a new theory that incorporates historical variation in a combination of key restrictions such as time, knowledge, and the structure of government as well as key incentives such as providing acceptable performance and implementing preferred policies. O'Brien then tests the argument by tracing the policymaking process in the domain of public finance across nearly a century of history,

"What happens to their social and political attitudes when African Americans become better educated, more affluent, and move to wealthy, largely white suburbs? In this study of affluent African Americ

Provides illumination on the film and its reputation, examining how the film was made, marketed, and recieved, chronicling every step in the production process from its original conception to distribu

Offers a concise array of the key concepts, history, evolution and importance of American law, through brief narratives and portraits, from the Salem witchcraft trials, through the divisive debates ov

Explores recent findings in brain research, the mind-body relationship and consciousness studies to offer an introduction to what is termed "conscious life" and provides fresh insights into life after

Describes the 121st New York Infantry regiment in the Civil War, led by the legendary Emory Upton, and details their battles throughout the war and the decorations its soldiers received.

The author explores how presidential travel has reflected and shaped the changing relationship between American presidents and the American people in a study that takes readers along on presidential j

Explores the FBI's history of operational failures, overrated abilities, and frequent use of wiretaps, buggings, and breaks-ins in a study that assesses how the FBI's extralegal activities have underm

Examines speculation about the cause of his death and the charges of espionage made against Harry Dexter White, a high-ranking Treasury official in both the Roosevelt and Truman administrations.

Orr (political science and urban studies, Brown University) examines why school reform has been difficult to achieve in Baltimore, revealing the struggles of civic leaders and the limitations placed o

In late-seventeenth-century New England, the eternal battle between God and Satan moved into the courtroom. Between January 1692 and May 1693 in Salem, Massachusetts, neighbors turned against neighbo

"'Presto! No More Pests!' proclaimed a 1955 article introducing two new pesticides, 'miracle-workers for the housewife and back-yard farmer.' Easy to use, effective, and safe: who wouldn't love synthe

Weaving together military operations and strategies with political strategy and civil-military relations, the author covers the most active phase of the Korean War, the 12-month period from North Kore

The twelve essays in this collection explore how westerners have expanded the boundaries of the political and emerged as a harbinger of America's electoral future and demonstrate how westerners have e

Bracketed by an introduction and conclusion, the bulk of this text is devoted to specific examples of trusts selected by Fairfax (natural resource policy, administration and law, U. of California, Ber

Crane (history, the US Military Academy) analyzes the successes and failures of the air force in Korea. He exposes the tensions and rivalries between services, showing that emphasis on strategic bombi

Ten essays recount attempts to pry information from the US government regarding the Kennedy assassination, the Nixon tapes, and the FBI's files on John Lennon and Supreme Court justices. They documen

Suffused with the romance of flight and the harsh realities of aerial combat, Rogers's letters to his fiancee, Isabelle Young, vividly detail his wartime experiences against a lethal and elusive oppo

This book brings together a sensitive understanding of love and an unusually careful, even painstaking, analysis of the enormous but often neglected role of morality and the virtues in love. Martin's

McDonald (history, U. of Alabama) explores how and why the presidency has evolved into such a complex and powerful institution, unlike any other in the world. He chronicles the presidency's creation,

"The most comprehensive and accurate examination of one of the least studied and least understood theaters--the Central Highlands--in what Americans came to call the Vietnam War (or what the Vietnames

Argues that the initiative process that allowed for ordinary voters to bring matters to the forefront of politics has been abused by politicians and wealthy interests and requires a more moderate appr

This work revives interest in the thought of Henry Adams by extracting core ideas from his writings concerning both American political development and the course of world history and then showing thei

Bradley Smith reveals the surprisingly rich exchange of wartime intelligence between the Anglo-American Allies and the Soviet Union, as well as the procedures and politics that made such an exchange p

An intellectual history of a controversial figure in American sociology, chronicling his early years in Czarist and Communist Russia, his career as a teacher at the University of Minnesota and at Harv

Provides an incisive portrait of Herman Melville during the Civil War era, examining his complex attitudes about the war and his writings during and about the period, including Battle-Pieces, poems ch

Documenting three years spent roaming the state in search of tenacious stretches of prairie, forest and wetland that cheat death and incubate the DNA of lost, wild America, the author provides an idio