Understanding American Politics - Hardcover

Denenberg, R. V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0006861245 ISBN 13: 9780006861249

Publisher: Fontana Press, 1986

Synopsis

A revised edition, now covering the Reagan and Bush presidencies and all developments up to the 1991 elections.

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From the Back Cover:

Behind the showmanship of the modern Republican and Democratic party conventions, the vicious electioneering, the spectacle of congressional hearings and the continuous, unforgiving media media attention, there lies the world's longest running experiment in practical government, an experiment as confused, contradictory and colourful as the people who run it.

In this concise and illuminating guide to this bemusing polity, Denenberg offers an up-to-date account of the workings, functions and relations of American political institutions, from the Constitution to the Presidency, through Congress and the Supreme Court, to the complex bureaucracy that underpins them all. This Fourth Edition is fully revised to take account of all the major political and constitutional developments of the Bush and Clinton presidencies.

"Three cheers for R.V.Denenberg for this brief, lucid, accurate and exceedingly informative study of a difficult and important subject."
HUGH BROGAN, author of the 'Penguin History of the United States of America'

Synopsis:

Originally published in 1992, the fourth edition of an account of the workings, functions and relations of American political institutions, which explains the complex bureaucracy that surrounds institutions such as the Presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fontana Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0006861245
• ISBN 13: 9780006861249
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192