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How did Dallas pave the way for the Reagan era?

Would Oswald have been assassinated if the cameras weren't rolling?

Who really loved Lucy more--Ricky or Ethel?...and what does that say about relationships?

You may think you know television--but when NPR commentator Steven Stark is finished pushing your buttons with fighting words and brilliant insights, you'll see in a whole new way what television has done to us as a nation.From Beaver to Roseanne, Ed Sullivan to Oprah, Monday Night Football to MTV, Stark takes us on a guided tour of the tube, providing startling revelations about the power of its sixty most important shows and events in the history of television.He catches in bright focus a hilarious, strange, and compelling image of ourselves as reflected on the small screen, and he shows us, with striking logic, the awesome power of television over our future and our fate.

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Dixie is a political and social history of the South during the second half of the twentieth century told from Curtis Wilkie's perspective as a white man intimately transformed by enormous racial and political upheavals.

Wilkie's personal take on some of the landmark events of modern American history is as engaging as it is insightful. He attended Ole Miss during the rioting in the fall of 1962, when James Meredith became the first African American to enroll in the school. After graduation, Wilkie worked in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where he met Aaron Henry, a local druggist and later the prominent head of the Mississippi NAACP. He covered the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenge at the national convention in Atlantic City, and he was a member of the biracial insurgent Democratic delegation from Mississippi seated in place of Governor John Bell Williams's delegation at the 1968 convention in Chicago. Wilkie followed Jimmy Carter's campaign for the presidency, becoming friends with Billy Carter; he covered Bill Clinton's election in 1992 and was witness to the South's startling shift from the Democratic Party to the GOP; and finally, he was there when Byron De La Beckwith was convicted for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers thirty-one years after the fact.

Wilkie had left the South in 1969 in the wake of the violence surrounding the civil rights movement, vowing never to live there again. But after traveling the world as a reporter, he did return in 1993, drawn by a deep-rooted affinity to the region of his youth. It was as though he rejoined his tribe, a peculiar civilization bonded by accent and mannerisms and burdened by racial anxiety. As Wilkie writes, Southerners have staunchly resisted assimilation since the Civil War, taking an almost perverse pride in their role as "spiritual citizens of a nation that existed for only four years in another century."

Wilkie endeavors to make sense of the enormous changes that have typified the South for more than four decades. Full of beauty, humor, and pathos, Dixie is a story of redemption -- for both a region and a writer. ... Read more

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way down yonder
Curtis Wilkie is a Mississippian who paints a broad picture of the Civil Rights movement from the inside out.He cataloges his growth from childhood to young adult as a jounalist in waiting, one with a sympathetic ear for the plight of the descendants of slaves in central Miss.His descriptions of his upbringing in a town divided by race are quite good.And his stories of Ole miss football games and the atmosphere surrounding them are excellent as they foreshadow the struggle of the civil rights community in what Stevie Wonder referred to as "hard times Mississippi." It's a well told story.

As a young adult he escapes to Manhattan and literally and figuratively joins the literatti at Elaine's, that popular Manhattan nightspot frequented by those the likes of Willie Morris.His soft heartedleanings help him fit right in as a typical evenings dicourse is often filled with lamentations with regard to those unenlightened ones, those knuckle dragging country folk left behind.The book is an ongoing narrative of Wilkies life from his work within the movement in his home town, his migration to NYC, his marriage there, and his subsequent return to Mississippi as an older man.

It was a time of great change in the South and Wilkie captures it as well as anyone I've read.Let's just say that it's certainly different there today.A good companion read would be "Rising Tide" by John Barry.It's about the great Mississippi river flood of 1927, a disastor that not only changed the landscape of the south, but also that of America.It's a great lead-up to Wilkie's story which bridges the link between the old south and its new beginnings.One cannot read these books without feeling the tribulations of the misbegotten and dispossesed; it's a tonic for softening the hardest of hearts.

Dixie
An amazing book by an amazing writer. Curtis Wilkie brings his reader through an amazing string of events that changed the South and her people. He elouquently ties history and his personal experiences together for a must read book for people in and out of the South.

Best of the "American South" Studies
For anyone searching for indepth studies of the postwar American South, this is absolutely it.Wilkie brings the keen eye of a child of the South to the descriptions of life in his home town, county, state and region, and uses his journalist's skills to make it all vibrant and immediate to readers of any geographic locale.He does not pull punches in his frank descriptions of what was true in the South's postwar decades, nor does he excuse his own participations and prejudices as he passes through his own changes on a long journey to understanding the nation's necessary reassessments of civil rights and collective wrongs. While it helps to have a prior knowledge of the Civil Rights movement in this country, and a sense of how the Dixiecrats became Republicans, this book is accessible to any reader of American history and social change.

What a Southerner Won't Tell You
Having been born in Mississippi and having defected to the West at the age of 23, I picked up Wilke's book to get in touch with my "Southern roots".Wilke's account of his roots and his involvement with the civil rights movement is more than any of my high school and college history books could ever explain.

Progressive Curtis Wilke made me realize I should be proud of my heritage but also aghast at what caused all of these atrocities and racist views.The South's dirty laundry is something that needs to be acknowledged in order to overcome the past.

What a Southerner Won't Tell You
Having been born in Mississippi and having defected to the West at the age of 23, I picked up Wilke's book to get in touch with my "Southern roots".Wilke's account of his roots and his involvement with the civil rights movement is more than any of my high school and college history books could ever explain.

Progressive Curtis Wilke made me realize I should be proud of my heritage but also aghast at what caused all of these atrocities and racist views.The South's dirty laundry is something that needs to be acknowledged in order to overcome the past. ... Read more

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This book is a collection of some essays and poems written by Felipe B. Nery for the past fifty years or more while we was a college student fulfilling his assignments and doing his homework or contributing materials to the Lusitans Bulletin. The materials chosen for this book are deemed by Felipe B. Nery to spark the interest of many readers. The areas in which he believes would interest his readers are: Economics: jobs, pension, pay scale, and health careEnvironment: pollution, global warming, pesticide, carbon dioxideFood: hunger (starvation), safe food (organic), worldwide distribution of food. Rights: human rights, gay rights, affirmative actionAbortion: Roe V. WadeHealth: universal healthcare, Medicare prescription drug costs, flu vaccine, WHOResearch: stem cell researchWater: better quality of drinking waterEducation: Making education available to everyone, especially with emphasis on math and science. Felipe assures his readers that he generally conducts a careful analysis of each material to determine which ones would affect his audience the most before using them for this book. ... Read more

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Here is an accessible, up-to-date guide to event history analysis for researchers and advanced students in the social sciences.The foundational principles of event history analysis are discussed and ample examples are estimated and interpreted using standard statistical packages, such as STATA and S-Plus.Recent and critical innovations in diagnostics are discussed, including testing the proportional hazards assumption, identifying outliers, and assessing model fit.The treatment of complicated events includes coverage of unobserved heterogeneity, repeated events, and competing risks models. The authors point out common problems in the analysis of time-to-event data in the social sciences and make recommendations regarding the implementation of duration modeling methods. ... Read more

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This book does not suffice in any way.
I totally agree with Loch's comments on this book. I had to read this book for a political science phd class (as I am a poli sci phd student in a highly quantitative program). We were assigned this book for self-learning without any lectures. It turns out this book omits NUMEROUS mathematical inferences and it is very difficult for a self learner to follow how each equation was obtained. The descriptions of some methods are vague and many things were written in an illusive way such as comparing models, tests, etc. In addition, the organization is not clear enough. They have sub-topics within each chapter but these sub-topics are not listed in the contents page so if you want to find a certain topic concerning an issue it is very difficult to locate them or use this book as an instrument book. If you're a self-learner, this book will definitely NOT suffice. If you're preparing a lecture based on this book, your students will have a diastrous time. In sum you cannot read this book alone; you'd better check out survival analysis books published in the medical literature. Those real "scientists" do a better job explaining the bigger picture, the train of thoughts, and concrete techniques behind these models.

Fills a big void
This is excerpted and slightly modified from a published review (Perspectives on Politics Volume 3, June 2005) I wrote of this book, which I like quite a bit and regularly recommend and assign to my political science graduate students.

Event History Modeling: A Guide for Social Scientists provides a broad and in-depth introduction to duration analysis for political scientists and for social scientists in general. This book will instantly become the go-to guide for most political scientists interested in event history analysis and should become a staple on syllabi for graduate courses for years to come. The authors cover a broad range of important topics, employing a combination of mathematical detail and verbal discussion; important concepts are illustrated with examples using political science data that readers can download. For a book on statistical methods, Event History Modeling is quite readable and the authors do a commendable job of presenting a great variety of issues and making clear recommendations.

Don't read this book.
This book can be thought of as reflecting prejudice that those non-math or non-stat people can benefit only from the books without mathematical gimmichks. Without basic mathematical expressions and statistical explanations, this book seems to fail in providing proper knowledge on the methods. Try Lawless and Lee's books, which employ some mathematics and statistics. Even though we are not math or statistics majors, we can select and pick up what we need for application. ... Read more

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Publisher: London, HodderPublication date: 1881Subjects: Labor and laboring classesNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1879Original Publisher: R. D. DickinsonSubjects: Philosophy / GeneralPhilosophy / Mind ... Read more

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In the spring of 2006, millions of immigrants and supporters organized in cities and small towns across the United States to defend their rights following the passage of HR4437, a bill designed to punish unauthorized immigrants.In an unprecedented show of force, tens of thousands of workers marched out of meatpacking plants, factories, restaurants, landscape businesses and stores, while students--many of them the US-born children of immigrants--staged school walkouts. Thousands also observed a one-day national consumer boycott to demonstrate the economic power of immigrant communities.

The spring 2006 mobilizations--and the ensuing backlash from anti-immigrant sectors--pushed the topic of immigration to the front and center of U.S. politics. Polls show the public increasingly divided, with the debate framed as a choice between "deport them all" and "give everyone amnesty." But dialogue is possible when we dig deeper. Why are people leaving their homes? Why are they coming here? What is the impact of our current enforcement policies? What kinds of alternatives exist?

Backed with a wide range of cited sources, The Politics of Immigration tackles questions and concerns about immigration with compelling arguments and hard facts, laid out in straightforward language and an accessible question-and-answer format.

For immigrants and supporters, the book is an effective tool to confront common myths and misinformation. For teachers, it provides a useful framework on the current debate, and ample opportunities for students to reach out and explore the intersecting issues.

Those who believe immigrants steal jobs from citizens, drive down wages, strain public services, and threaten our culture will find such assumptions challenged here, while people who are undecided about immigration will find the solid data and clear reasoning they need to develop an informed opinion. ... Read more

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Excellent, Informative
Easy to read and informative, this is an excellent book that truthfully answers many of the questions people have on immigration; a subject on which opinion, hype, hysteria, and disinformation substitute for rational discourse, and false 'facts' are believed by many. I strongly recommend this book for use by groups or for personal study. It is a valuable addition to any immigration policy library and is suitable for a wide range of age groups.

Immigration Problems
The authors, advocates of universal freedom of movement across borders, have addressed the political issues that accompanied American immigration policy over the past few years. The authors have responded to the various questions that surround legal and illegal immigration to the United States, giving special attention to Mexico, the major source of immigrants. They have dealt with the issues of employment opportunities, wages, crime, environment, health, community civil rights and human rights in general. The authors have expressed particular interest in unionization and protection of labor rights. They have expressed vehement opposition to the social and economic impact of NAFTA.

The book can hardly be called objective, and it barely touches the difficulties of immigration for professional and technical workers. It does, however, provide much documented information in bringing out contradictions and inequities in current immigration policy.Some of the authors' most ideologically structured views may not secure widespread agreement, but they do contribute to an understanding of the immigration debate.

Obama had promised to give immediate attention to current immigration policies and to present his own as quickly as possible.The economic problems that confronted the administration undoubtedly slowed the effort. The need to focus attention on economic problems without causing conflicts that could sidetrack both support and interest militate against immediate overall reform of immigration policies now. It does seem evident, however, that Obama will suggest certain reforms that allow many illegal immigrants to remain in this country after paying a penalty. Humanitarian and economic grounds should push such a policy through despite opposition on various grounds. Certainly, the administration will never go as far as the authors in proposing policies, and universal freedom of movement is not possible in the foreseeable future.

Nevertheless, anyone wishing to comprehend and discuss immigration as it receives attention from the White House and Congress should become acquainted with this book.

A must read for anybody interested in the subject of immigration
Very well written and documented, stands out by the clarity and precision of its discourse, providing reliable information on the evolution of the conditions of immigration in the U.S.The last section on immigration reform is naturally less solid, as it cannot rely on proven results of the proposed changes, which remain somewhat speculative.Also it is less strong regarding data on immigration, and immigration solutions, in other parts of the world.

Outstanding info on Immigration....Highly recommend it
I bought this book on referal from our friend and mentor in the area of justice issues, Rev. George Johnson, ELCA, Our church in Oak Harbor, WA is doing an informational unit for the congregation on Immigaration. This book covers the subject well and covers several aspects clearly. It helped me in my understanding a great deal. and will be shared with others.

A practical book
This book is easy to use, one theme per chapter, with about a dozen questions answered in each, so you can quickly go to your weak spots or find needed info.What I most appreciated was how it confronts questions many of us are afraid to ask.One chapter goes right to the point with "Do immigrants hurt our economy?" while the last chapt does the big one, "Can we open our borders?"(There are 12 chapts.)My big fear was that the writers' answers to the questions would be airy lefty platitudes.I was surprised to see that the writers actually have concrete evidence from serious studies and research, statistical when needed, that prove what we've wished to be true but often were afraid to ask.They give the citations and references.It's solid.I had no idea there was so much bulletproof info. behind us.Thankfully, the authors keep each answer short.It's really practical.

The Table of Contents gives a good sense of the issues covered.I finally found it on-line.Type in thepoliticsofimmigration then a dot and the letters o-r-g without the dashes. ... Read more

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It is an invaluable research tool easily understood by all.
The genius of Leslie Buglass was his ability to discuss and write about the most technical of subjects in such a way that even the novice can easily understand it and then quickly wonder why others thought it was socomplicated. Prior to the publication of the first edition of this work, noAmerican writerdared attempt a work as ambitious as Marine Insurance andGeneral Average in the United States and no one produced a text which, onthe one hand, is easily understood by the student and, on the other hand,considered an invaluable research tool by the professional. When readcarefully and thoughtfully, the contents of this book will more thanadequatey reward you whether you are embarking on a career in marineinsurance or refining the skills you have already developed in this greatprofession. ... Read more

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As experienced traders can attest, news events often mark the beginning or culmination of major trends. Event trading is a new and exciting technique to trade the financial and commodity markets, and represents a third major approach to trading, distinctly different from the fundamental and technical approaches. Designed to capture profits from market reactions to news events, event trading provides a systematic approach for exploiting a variety of market-moving events, such as economic reports, official interest rate changes, and surprises in corporate earnings reports. By understanding how markets respond to the news, traders can reap huge profits. Event Trading is the first book on the subject and is sure to generate great interest among active traders and investors. Specific topics include: Origins of event trading; Event trading and intermarket analysis; Game theory and the financial markets; Creating an event trading portfolio. Event Trading will include a demonstration disk that show how to implement the strategies and techniques explained in the book. Developed by author Ben Warwick, the software will enable traders to analyze historical market repsonses to economic news and deduce probabilities for upcoming trades. Combined, the software and book will provide traders with everything they need to understand and implement this exciting new trading method. ... Read more

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Finally! A Trading Methodology That Stands Up to Backtesting
Event Trading certainly stands out in the increasingly crowded arena of investment books .As a professional trader with over 5 years in the futures markets it is a pleasure to come across amethodology that isbacked up by rigorous statistical testing that the reader can duplicate. Itis also refreshing to find an entirely new approach to trading, one that isnot a rehash of technical analysis indicators or a review of interpretingeconomic fundamentals. Event Trading differs from most of the existingbooks in this field. All rules are fully disclosed and mechanical. Thereader is not presented with any "squishy" interpretations ofmarket activity - this is not Elliot Wave!The performance each systemincludes the full spectrum of all trades taken . Far too many books showonly the periods where their systems excelled, conveniently excludingperiods of poor performance.I have definitely found the ideas presentedto be both novel and applicable in the futures markets. If you want tosurvive as a trader it is critical to have a methodology that you verifywith historical testing and implement according to your testing.EventTrading will give you this edge.

University Term Paper Goes Big Time
What stands out most about this book is the large print that does not fill the pages. It could have easily been half the length. That said once you distill all the information down to pertinent theories what you are leftwith is something more worthy of submission to 'Technical Analysis ofStocks and Commodities' as a two pager.The authors theory is verysimple and straight forward. It's hard to believe that an entire book hasbeen written on such a narrow subject/theory. The bulk of this text ismerely examples of the theory that are applied across different markets. I finished this 214 page term paper in under 1 hour. If my highliter hadnot graced the first few pages it would have found it's way back in postalsystem. Save your money. ... Read more

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Multiculturalism is one of the most controversial topics in both the United States and Germany.This interdisciplinary collection of essays by German scholars in American Studies and American scholars in German Studies analyze the "other" from this dual perspective and from their respective disciplines such as literary and cultural studies, political science, anthropology,and history. More particularly they examine multiculturalism in terms of national and ethnic identities, as well as gender and race, and look at the disciplines and institutions that produce and legitimize discourses on subjects such as minority literatures, feminism, and the notion of foreignness itself. What becomes clear is the fact that careful attention must be paid to the particular conditions and different ideological concepts that shape this term, i.e., the "national" historical, political, social, and institutional contexts in which it appears, circulates, and accrues meanings. ... Read more

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This paper reviews literature on the Nile basin co-operation and issues related to this process, focusing on more recent publications. The literature on utilization and management of the Nile waters related to basin-wide cooperation efforts has been growing fast during the last decade. This review discusses and covers a wide range of issues, which include: debate on water scarcity and its potential consequences in general, and its implications for the Nile basin countries in particular; legal aspects of utilization of the Nile waters focusing on the UN Watercourse Convention of 1997; conflicts and major attempts at cooperation; divergent views and interests of the basin countries; and challenges and prospects of the recent basin-wide cooperation. ... Read more

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Restitution, privitization and property devolution have been the mechanisms for the transfer of state property to new owners in Eastern Europe.

From Usage to Ownership summarizes the experiences of Hungary, Latvia, Poland, and Slovakia, which could provide lessons for countries that started the property devolution process later. ... Read more

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Central Currents in Globalization Series:

The concept of 'globalization' has in an extraordinarily short time become the dominant motif of the contemporary social sciences. Central Currents in Globalization is an integrated collection of four multi-volume sets that represent the systematic mapping of globalization studies. The series sets out the contours of a field that now crosses the boundaries of all the older disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. The result is a gold-standard collection of over 320 of the most important writings on globalization, structured around four interrelated themes: Violence; Economy; Culture; and Politics.

The series editor, Paul James (RMIT, Australia), is joined by sixteen internationally-renowned co-editors from around the globe who bring their subject expertise to each volume, including Jonathan Friedman, Tom Nairn, R.R. Sharma, Manfred Steger, Ronen Palan and Micheline Ishay. Together the four sets provide an unparalleled resource on globalization, providing both broad coverage of the subject, historical depth and contemporary relevance.

Features:

- Compiles the most important English-language articles and translations in the various sub-themes of globalization.

- Combines contemporary and classic pieces, together with some lesser-known works that have nevertheless made a major contribution.

- Represents the vast range of cultural, philosophical and political approaches, both within and beyond the dominant British and North American traditions.

- Each volume employs the same accessible structure: Historical Developments, Key Debates and Critical Projections.

- Each volume is introduced by an accessible and broad-ranging 10,000 word overview, and each section is prefaced by short contextualizations of the chosen articles.

Globalization and Violence:

Volume 1 - Globalizing Empires: Old and New

(with Tom Nairn, RMIT, Australia) examines the historically-deep process of empire-building, bringing it up-to-date with contemporary debates about the existence and nature of 'empire'.

Volume 2 - Colonial and Postcolonial Globalizations

(with Phillip Darby, University of Melbourne, Australia) looks at the violence of colonialization and decolonization, as well as the military and structural forms of postcolonial violence visible today.

Volume 3 - Globalizing War and Intervention

(with Jonathan Friedman, Lund University, Sweden) focuses on the changing nature of military intervention, and covers the consequences of the 'world wars', the debates over humanitarian intervention and conditional sovereignty, and global terrorism.

Volume 4 - Transnational Conflict

(with R.R. Sharma, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) complements the third volume by examining the different sources and consequences of contemporary transnational conflict including the international slave trade, refugee flows, and diaspora support for nationalist conflicts.

Each volume is introduced by a contextualizing essay written by Paul James and the co-editor. ... Read more

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An anthology providing opposing viewpoints as to the causes and politics of world hunger, how to improve world food production, and whether wealthy nations should aid hungry populations. ... Read more

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This is a unique collection of topical essays about what the author calls "one of the grandest illusions of our age, mental illness, and the quixotic crusade against it". Pivoting his analysis on news-making events, Szasz exposes the fallacies of our present penchant for interpreting the behaviour of 'sane' persons as goal-directed and therefore sensible, and the behaviour of 'insane' persons as caused by a 'mental illness' and therefore senseless. In a series of diverse short pieces, originally published in newspapers and magazines, the author shows us that individual liberty and responsibility are indivisible, and that we cannot protect ourselves against coercive psychiatry's threats to liberty so long as we persist in using psychiatric ideas and interventions to evade responsibility. ... Read more

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comin' from a good place
Szasz does not disappoint. I did not give this book 5 stars because Szasz merely reiterates what he says in all of his books. Nonetheless, as always, Szasz geniuinely expresses his concerns about psychiatry and reveals his great compassion as a psychiatrist. ... Read more

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Chapters include: Is There an Environmental Crisis? Should Biodiversity Be Preserved? How Can Pollution Be Reduced? Can Free-Market Approaches Protect the Environment? (20040901) ... Read more

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Published every six months, CQ's Guide to Current American Government is a collection of the best Congressional Quarterly reporting, explanation, and analysis on issues and events affecting the United States. The fall 2000 edition, available in July, focuses on the exceptionally important national elections in November in which a new president will be selected and control of the House of Representatives may return to the Democrats.

The fall issues includes presidential analysis by former CQ senior political writer Rhodes Cook, and in-depth analysis of elections and political parties drawn from CQ's award-winning Guide to Congress. This material will provide your patrons and students with a complete understanding of the fall elections.

Other articles will focus on public policy issues including the recent House vote on normalizing trade relations with China. Recent editions have included discussions of managed care, the courts and federalism and regulating the Internet.

Ideal for either specific research or general reporting, these selections represent the critical issues and controversies of the past six months. CQ's Guide to Current American Government provides up-to-date examination and analysis of these current issues and controversies and allows readers to put today's headlines into historical perspective.

CQ's Guide to Current American Government is the ideal reference tool for students, researchers, and everyone who wants a more complete perspective on the major issues of our day.

To facilitate additional research, the original date of publication along with the page number references related and background articles in the CQ Weekly and CQ Almanac. ... Read more