American Politics Today

by William T. Bianco, David T. Canon

Show students how politics really works through a focus on conflict and compromise. The Essentials Fourth Edition of American Politics Today helps students understand the conflicts and compromises inherent in politics and allows them to practice applying that understanding to the debates and controversies they encounter in the news. With combined public opinion and media chapters, and social and economic policy chapters, this edition is jam-packed with pivotal topics that will help students see how institutions and political processes really work.

Genres: Textbooks, Nonfiction, Politics

592 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Ellie · Rating 2 out of 5]

read this for class

[Kortney · Rating 1 out of 5]

eh

[Deanna · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a textbook I read for a Political Science class. Very informative and not overly dry.

[Melina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh. It is what it is.

[Kathleen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this for my American Politics class. We did not read every single chapter, but most of them. This book was copyrighted in 2013 and discusses everything up to the 2012 elections, though I was dying to know what the authors interpretation of the 2014 ones was. Oh well, I guess that will be in the 4th edition. I am sorry that I did not read the chapter on the Supreme Court though. I should have read it, but ran out of time and never got around to it before I mailed it back to Barnes and Noble (I rented it).
Anyway, the book was interesting and definitely written with passion. It was detailed and took a pretty optimistic view of American politics. The whole thing was upbeat and presented lots of evidence to back up all the claims. As a textbook for a political science class, you could do way worse. It was enjoyable and made the class for me.