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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter One -- Governing a New Nation: 1491 to 1800 -- Chapter Two -- A Defining Period: 1800 to 1877 -- Chapter Three -- Developing the Home Front: 1877 to 1945 -- Chapter Four -- Modern Politics: 1945 to Present -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Further Information -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Beliefs and Values in American Society -- Values and American society -- The diversity of American society -- The core values within American political culture -- Conflict and consensus within American society -- Conclusion -- 2 The Constitution: Creating the Rules of the Game -- Why the Constitution matters -- The creation of a new republic -- The Constitutional Convention: the great compromise -- The core principles of the Federal Constitution -- The core structural features of the Constitutional settlement: horizontal and vertical separation -- The Constitution and the Bill of Rights -- Changing the Constitution through judicial interpretation -- Conclusion -- 3 Political Parties: The Politics of Aggregation and Disaggregation -- The nature of American parties -- The development of the American two-party system -- Parties as organizations -- Parties in the electorate -- Parties in government -- The resurgence of parties -- Conclusion -- 4 Elections and the Politics of Participation -- Who votes and who does not -- How Americans run for election -- How Americans vote -- Who wins and why -- Conclusion -- 5 The Presidency and the Politics of Leadership -- Presidential leadership -- The powers of the presidency -- The presidency and the mass media -- The vice-presidency -- Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and the modern presidency -- The obligation to bargain -- The presidency and the executive branch -- The presidency and Congress -- Conclusion -- 6 Congress and the Politics of Legislative Competition -- Procedural and structural dimensions -- The bicameral dimension -- The institutional dimension -- The individual dimension -- The specialized and fissiparous dimension -- The aggregative and collective dimension -- Party organization in the House -- Party organization in the Senate -- Party and voting.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. What Attracts People to Othering -- Chapter 3. Erasing a People: Residential Schools for Indigenous Children -- Chapter 4. The Politics of Anti-Semitism -- Chapter 5. Wartime Othering: The Enemy Within -- Chapter 6. Cold War: Othering on the Home Front -- Chapter 7. The Politics of Race -- Chapter 8. Maligning Muslims -- Chapter 9. Conclusion.