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Online 1. Welcome to Governmentattic.org : rummaging in the government's attic [2009]

- Governmentattic.org (Organization) (Creator)
- Governmentattic.org, 2009-04-24 - 2018-12-07
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- Archived website
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The site provides electronic copies of hundreds of federal government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
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- Freedom of Information (FOIA)
2. Committees in Congress [1984]
- Smith, Steven S., 1953-
- Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c1984.
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- Book — xiv, 291 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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JK1029 .S64 1984 | Available |
- Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, ©1979.
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- Book — 471 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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- Predicting the future of post-industrial society / Seymour Martin Lipset
- The continuing demographic revolution in industrial societies / Kingsley Davis
- Religion and the American future / Peter L. Berger
- Constitutionalism, federalism, and the post-industrial American polity / Daniel J. Elazar
- Judicial activism / Martin Shapiro
- The prophylactic presidency / Sanford Weiner and Aaron Wildavsky
- The American party system today / Everett Carll Ladd, Jr.
- The future of the American labor movement / John T. Dunlop
- American Catholics: the post-immigrant century / Andrew M. Greeley
- American Jews: three conflicts of loyalty / Nathan Glazer
- The Black community: Is there a future? / Orlando Patterson
- The future of women in America's third century / Sheila K. Johnson
- The future of the university / Robert Nisbet
- The adversary culture of intellectuals / Irving Kristol
- The mass media in post-industrial America / Stanley Rothman
- Continuity and change in the American National character / Alex Inkeles.
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4. Tilting at windmills : an autobiography [1988]
- Peters, Charles, 1926-
- Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1988.
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- Book — 294 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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PN4874 .P45 A3 1988 | In-library use |
- Bogle, Lori Lyn.
- 1st ed. - College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2004.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xii, 220 pages) : illustrations
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- Introduction: Forging the American character
- Engineering patriotism
- The American civil-military religion and the Cold War
- Ideological and spiritual mobilization
- Evangelical democracy and the reshaping of the American character
- The U.S. military and the radical right
- Epilogue: The citizen soldier in retrospect.
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6. Developments in American politics 4 [2002]
- Basingstoke ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave, 2002.
- Description
- Book — xix, 346 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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- Introduction-- G.Peele, C.J.Bailey, B.Cain & B.G.Peters - Electoral Politics: The 2000 Elections and Beyond-- V.Sapiro - Political Parties-- D.McSweeney - Pressure Groups, Social Movements and Participation-- S.Welch - The Presidency-- J.Herbert - Congress-- E.Schickler - The Supreme Court and the Constitution-- T.Yarbrough - Bureaucracy and Public Management-- B.G.Peters - Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations-- G.Peele - Economic Policy-- C.Bailey - Law and Order-- R.Singh - Social Policy-- F.Ross - Health Care Policy-- S.Linder & P.Rosenau - Foreign and Security Policy-- D.Williams - Direct Democracy-- E.Gerber - Religion and Morality-- S.B.Hansen - The Media-- T.Hames - Campaign Finance-- Alan Grant - The US in Evolution-- Bruce Cain.
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E881 .D48 2002 | Unknown |
- Linster, Tom.
- St. Paul : The BYFOR Foundation, 1992.
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- Book — 90 leaves : ill. ; 19 x 22 cm.
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E881 .L56 1992 | Unknown |
8. Developments in American politics [1992]
- Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] : Macmillan, 1992.
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- Book — xix, 394 p. : map ; 23 cm.
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- Part 1 the politica lsystem sources of political change: values, institutions and policy agendas, Gillian Peele-- the American electoral system, Bruce E. Cain-- American political parties, Daniel Hays Lowenstein-- presidential leadership, Colin Campbell-- congress and legislative activism, Christopher J. Bailey-- supreme court, Richard Hodder-William-- public bureaucracy, B. Guy Peters.
- Part 2 Public policy: the changing federal balance, Desmond S. King-- economic policy, Joseph Hogan-- social welfare policy, Robert X. Browning-- American foreign policy, Miles Kahler.
- Part 3 Current issues: the budget deficit, Stanley E. Collender-- immigration reforms - a Mexican American perspecitve, Rodolfo O. de la Garza.
- Part 5 conclusion: an era of divided government, Morris P. Fiorina.
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E881 .D48 1992B | Unknown |
- Goodwin, Richard N.
- 1st ed. - New York : Times Books, c1992.
- Description
- Book — 177 p. ; 22 cm.
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His distinguished career as presidential advisor and speechwriter included major contributions to President Johnson's civil rights and Great Society programs. Now Goodwin has written an impassioned call for political action. My Country, 'Tis of Thee proposes a new political movement to restore what he calls "democratic capitalism".
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HN59.2 .G66 1992 | Unknown |
- Wasserman, Gary, 1944-
- 1st ed. - Boston : Pearson, [2012].
- Description
- Book — xii, 212 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
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- PART I â THE FOUNDATIONS
- Chapter 1: The Constitution - The Meal Deal: The Bargain of 1970 That Established Washington DC
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- The Politics of Educational Federalism: A Race to Washington
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- Chapter 3: Civil Rights - Affirmative Action: The University Admissions Debate and Beyond
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- Chapter 4: Civil Liberties- Freedom of Speech on Campus: The Fight Over Fighting Words
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- Chapter 5: Public Opinion - Abortion and the Public: A Surprising Stability
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- Chapter 6: Campaigns â Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin: Sexism in the 2008 Presidential Race
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- Chapter 7: Elections â The Reelection Game: An Insiderâ s Candid View
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- Chapter 8: Political Parties â Voter Technology: From Targeting to Microtargeting
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- Chapter 9: Interest Groups â Clintonâ s Health-care Reform: Harry and Louise Go Public
- Chapter 10: Interest Groups â Obamaâ s Health-care Reform: The White House Networks the Industry
- Chapter 11: The Media â Agenda-Setting: The News of the Scandal, The Scandal of the News
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- Chapter 12: Congress â Legislating Global Warming: The Tragedy of the Climate Bill
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- Chapter 13: --The Presidency - 9/11: Presidential Crisis Dominance
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- Chapter 14: The Bureaucracy - The Columbia and Challenger Disasters: Agency Groupthink
- Chapter 15: The Supreme Court â Watergate and U.S. v. Nixon: The Supreme Court Referees.
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JK275 .W37 2012 | Unknown |
- Choi, Jung Min.
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1993.
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- Book — 168 p.
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- The Contours of the PC Debate-- The Cultural Battlefield-- Conservative Ideology-- The Post-modern Alternative-- Scepticism, Nihilism, Amorality and Anarchy-- The Politics of Culture-- Who is Totalitarian?
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BD175.5 .P65 C46 1993 | Unknown |
- Wilson, James Q.
- Washington, D.C. : AEI Press ; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2010.
- Description
- Book — xvi, 213 p. ; 24 cm.
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- Acknowlegements Preface
- Part 1: The Changing Nature of American Politics
- Chapter 1: American Politics Then and Now
- Chapter 2: "Public Intelectuals" and Public Policy
- Chapter 3: The Rediscovery of Charcter: Private Virtue and Public Policy
- Chapter 4: The Press at War
- Chapter 5: Defining the "Peace Party"
- Chapter 6: Bowling with Others
- Chapter 7: How Divided Are We?
- Part 2: Religion and Politics
- Chapter 8: Religion and Polarization
- Chapter 9: Why Don't Jews Like Christians Who Like Them?
- Chapter 10: What Makes a Terrorist?
- Chapter 11: The Reform Islam Needs
- Chapter 12: Islam and Freedom
- Chapter 13: Democracy for All?
- Part 3: Heredity and Politics
- Chapter 14: The DNA of Politics: Genes Shape Our Beliefs, Our Values, and Even Our Votes
- Chapter 15: The Future of Blame Conclusion: America Versus the World Index About the Author.
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JK275 .W55 2010 | Unknown |
- Williams, Walter.
- Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2003.
- Description
- Book — v, 306 p. ; 24 cm.
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- Analyzing federal governance
- Reagan and Reaganism
- Governing in the American republic
- The Presidency and Congress in decline
- Why federal agency management matters
- The media : linking the politicians and the people
- The will of the people
- The costs of federal government inefficiency
- American democracy today.
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JK271 .W554 2003 | Available |
- Mackenzie, G. Calvin.
- Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996.
- Description
- Book — 224 p.
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- * Introduction * The New Landscape of American Life * The Politics the Reformers Made * The Congress We Love to Hate * The Sisyphean Presidency * Courts Unchained * The Stalemate System.
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Americans are disenchanted with politics, their government, and their leaders. But before Americans climb again on a new bandwagon of government restructuring, they would do well to listen to Cal Mackenzies admonitions in The Irony of Reform. The trouble with contemporary government, he explains, is not a lack of change or restructuring over the years, but rather the disjointed, inadvertent, and unpredictable pattern of reform we have followed since World War II. Mackenzie traces the roots of our current distress, noting that more tinkering will only lead to morethough perhaps differentproblems. Something much bolder is neededa new approach that enables leadership, facilitates coalition building, and enhances accountability. }Americans are disenchanted with politics, their government, and their leaders. For evidence, we dont have to look very far: the elections of 1994 turned over control of Congress for the first time in 40 years, and the new House Republicans Contract with America was the biggest single anti-government initiative since the Boston Tea Party, with term limits, campaign finance reform, and a balanced budget amendment high on its list of priorities. But before Americans climb again on a new bandwagon of government restructuring, they would do well to listen to Cal Mackenzies admonitions in The Irony of Reform. The trouble with contemporary government, he explains, is not a lack of change or restructuring over the years, but rather the disjointed, inadvertent, and unpredictable pattern of reform we have followed since World War II.Mackenzie traces the roots of our current distress, noting that more tinkering will only lead to morethough perhaps differentproblems. Something much bolder is neededa new approach that enables leadership, facilitates coalition building, and enhances accountability. Mackenzie proposes a cure for the political ills diagnosed herea hard and painful cure for a very crippled body politic. }.
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JK271 .M13 1996 | Unknown |
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JK271 .M13 1996 | Available |
- Morgan, Iwan W.
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1994.
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- Book — 292 p.
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E839.5 .M64 1994 | Unknown |
16. Where do we go from here? : American democracy and the renewal of the radical imagination [2010]
- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2010.
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- Book — vii, 217 p. ; 24 cm.
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- Part 1 Part I: The Global Imagination
- Chapter 2 1 Democracy, Foreign Policy, and War
- Chapter 3 2 Immigration Policy: A View from the Left
- Part 4 Part II: The Domestic Policy Imagination
- Chapter 5 3 From Private Profits to Public Goods? A Human Rights Assessment of Health Care Reform
- Chapter 6 4 Higher Education: Reclaiming the University as a Democratic Public Sphere
- Chapter 7 5 The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
- Chapter 8 6 Charlie Brown, Machiavelli, and Labor's Passive Revolution
- Part 9 Part III: Beyond Policy
- Chapter 10 7 Radical Feminism in the Age of Choice
- Chapter 11 8 Religion, Spirituality, and the Progressive Imagination
- Chapter 12 9 Race and Democracy: The American Oxymoron
- Chapter 13 10 Sketching a More Progressive Public Philosophy: The Theory of Republican Modernity.
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JK1726 .W44 2010 | Unknown |
17. Godless : the church of liberalism [2006]
- Coulter, Ann H.
- 1st ed. - New York : Crown Forum, c2006.
- Description
- Book — 310 p. ; 25 cm.
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"If a martian landed in America and set out to determine the nation's official state religion, he would have to conclude it is liberalism, while Christianity and Judaism are prohibited by law. Many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion. But as Ann Coulter reveals in this, her most explosive book yet, to focus solely on the Left's attacks on our Judeo-Christian tradition is to miss a larger point: liberalism "is" a religion--a godless one. And it is now entrenched as the state religion of this county. Though liberalism rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, it bears all the attributes of a religion. In "Godless, " Coulter throws open the doors of the Church of Liberalism, showing us its sacraments (abortion), its holy writ ("Roe v. Wade"), its martyrs (from Soviet spy Alger Hiss to cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal), its clergy (public school teachers), its churches (government schools, where prayer is prohibited but condoms are free), its doctrine of infallibility (as manifest in the "absolute moral authority" of spokesmen from Cindy Sheehan to Max Cleland), and its cosmology (in which mankind is an inconsequential accident). Then, of course, there's the liberal creation myth: Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. For liberals, evolution is the touchstone that separates the enlightened from the benighted. But Coulter neatly reverses the pretense that liberals are rationalists guided by the ideals of free inquiry and the scientific method. She exposes the essential truth about Darwinian evolution that liberals refuse to confront: "it is bogus science." Writing with a keen appreciation for genuine science, Coulter reveals that the so-called gaps in the theory of evolution are all there is--Darwinism is nothing but a gap. After 150 years of dedicated searching into the fossil record, evolution's proponents have failed utterly to substantiate its claims. And a long line of supposed evidence, from the infamous Piltdown Man to the "evolving" peppered moths of England, has been exposed as hoaxes. Still, liberals treat those who question evolution as religious heretics and prohibit students from hearing about real science when it contradicts Darwinism. And these are the people who say they want to keep faith out of the classroom? Liberals' absolute devotion to Darwinism, Coulter shows, has nothing to do with evolution's scientific validity and everything to do with its refusal to admit the possibility of God as a guiding force. They will brook no challenges to the official religion. Fearlessly confronting the high priests of the Church of Liberalism and ringing with Coulter's razor-sharp wit, "Godless" is the most important and riveting book yet from one of today's most lively and impassioned conservative voices. "Liberals love to boast that they are not 'religious, ' which is what one would expect to hear from the state-sanctioned religion. Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe. In other words, liberalism contains all the attributes of what is generally known as 'religion.'" --From Godless.
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JC574.2 .U6 C667 2006B | Unknown |
- Noble, Charles, 1948-
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2004.
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- Book — xxiii, 185 p. ; 23 cm.
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In The Collapse of Liberalism, noted political scientist Charles Noble takes liberalism to task for not being radical enough - for what he sees as a long history of how liberalism has accommodated the very economic institutions and corporate actors it has wanted to challenge. As a result, Noble argues, liberals have been unable or unwilling to confront directly class, race, gender, inequality, and corporate power. In other words, American liberalism suffers not only at the hands of conservatives, but also from its own failures of vision, will, and political strategy. Beyond a critique, Noble offers a breath-taking new strategy for how American progressives can rebuild their support base and regain political prominence. Clear, engaging, and thought-provoking, The Collapse of Liberalism is a politically engaged interrogation of the way American liberals think about social problems and build political coalitions.
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JC574.2 .U6 N63 2004 | Available |
- Frum, David, 1960-
- 1st ed. - New York : BasicBooks, c1996.
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- Book — xv, 208 p. ; 25 cm.
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- Introduction * Politics And Politicians Who Is Newt Gingrich? The Elite Primary The Powell Phenomenon Call This a Revolution? Righter Than Newt Pat Buchanan The Conservative Bully Boy Good-bye Pat Beyond Kemp Dead Wrong Not So Wild About Harry * Public Policy Youre on Your Own Up from Subsidy A New Supply-Side Strategy Compassion for Taxpayers Working for the Man What to Do About Health Care Building Blocks Errors of Commission The Safety Cult Not on My Block Not This Quagmire Even Canada needs the Bomb * Books And Thinkers Living Without the Many Pages of My Life The Legacy of Russell Kirk The Sensible Philosopher The Nietzsche of Economics The Uses of Resentment The Palaces of Newport Peter Taylor A Passover Seder.
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JC573.2.U6 F783 1996 | Available |
- Hamilton, Lee author.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
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- Book — x, 365 pages ; 24 cm
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- Introduction
- 1. The Johnson Years (19651968): A Remarkable Time to Begin in Congress Passing Medicare The Other War in Vietnam Thanksgiving 1966 Luncheon at the White House Visit to the CIA President Johnson Off the Record Urban Riots The Regular Order The U.S. Role in the World Senate Hearings on the Vietnam War Civil Disorder after Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The Assassination of Robert Kennedy
- 2. The Nixon Years (19691974): Accomplishments Amid Turmoil Christmas at the Nixon White House Changing the House Seniority System Meeting with Student Protesters Reducing the Voting Age Setting up our System of Government Reports on Trip to War Zone The Pentagon Papers Nixon's Trip to China Evaluation of the Apollo Program Inauguration 1973 The Costs of the Vietnam War The Vice President's Resignation The House Judiciary Committee and Impeachment After Watergate
- 3. The Ford Years (19741976): A Needed Respite The Pardon As We Leave Vietnam The Middle Class The Women's Rights Movement Politicians Democracy and Capitalism Big Government Congress and Foreign Policy
- 4. The Carter Years (19771980): Intra-party Discord Inauguration Day 1977 Human Rights Reorganizing the Federal Bureaucracy The Panama Canal Treaty An Assessment of the Carter Administration The Congressional Budget Process A Good Word For America The Gasoline Shortage The Iranian Hostage Crisis Deregulation
- 5. The Reagan Years (19811988): Letting the Democratic Process Work President Reagan Looks at Social Security Improving Intelligence Analysis The Week the Government Stopped Reflections on the 97th Congress The Military Balance Religion in Politics How a Member Decides The Appeal of Congress Our Constitutional Herit.
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E839.5 .H36 2016 | Available |
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