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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.473 EAN: 9780618556625 Edition: 10 ISBN: 0618556621 Label: Houghton Mifflin Company Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 588 Publication Date: September 13, 2005 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Studio: Houghton Mifflin Company Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Acclaimed for the scholarship of its prominent authors and the clarity of its narrative, American Government sets the standard for public policy coverage while maintaining focus on three fundamental topics: the institutions of American government; the historical development of governmental procedures, actors, and policies; and who governs in the United States and to what end. Proven pedagogical features involve students in the material , including chapter outlines, suggested web links for research, and How Things Work boxes that summarize basic information and important facts.
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 Rating: - Minus the spin and the falsehoods, it would be a good textThis textbook has generated a firestorm of controversy. Here are some direct quotations from the text. "The Supreme Court has ruled that children cannot pray in public schools . . . " (p. 86) "Students pray in front of a high school in Virginia. The Supreme Court will not let this happen inside a public school." (caption beneath a photograph, p. 111) "Since 1947 the Court has applied the wall-of-separation theory to strike down as unconstitutional every effort ... Read More Rating:  - Avoid!Generally, we trust textbooks to provide us with facts. This one provides us instead with opinions that are based on faulty facts. I can certainly understand trying to defend more conservative ideologies in another forum, but slipping this nonsense into classrooms to indoctrinate unsuspecting students with lies and prejudice is completely indefensible. Buying this book means that you are a bad person. Rating: - fundamentally flawedThe book contains multiple factual errors and examples of bias, especially in sections about supreme court decisions and environmental issues. Do your students a favor and choose a better book. Rating: - MisinformationThe latest edition's chapter on "Environmental Policy" contains a discussion of global warming so biased and misleading it would humble a tobacco industry PR man: * "It is a foolish politician who today opposes environmentalism. And that creates a problem, because not all environmental issues are equally deserving of support. Take the case of global warming." (p. 559) * "The earth has become warmer, but is this mostly the result of natural climate changes, or is it heavily influenced ... Read More Rating:  - Great intro to Am. Gov'tI never thought I'd be interested in gov't until I read this. It tells what the founders were thinking when they instituted this gov't we have and what their intentions were when they wrote the constitution. I thought that the gov't was here for the fat cats to sit on their butts and live off us all, but when I learned that the ppl that wrote everything had the interests of the gen. pop. in mind I thought that was pretty darn cool! 
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