Participation in Government

Cooper, William. How America Works... and Why it Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the US Political System. Ad Lib Publishers.

Lewis, M., Cep, C., Eggers, D., Lanchester, J., Brooks, G., Vowell, S., & Bell, W. (2025). Who is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service. Riverhead Books.

Mayfield, M. (2014). Thinking for Yourself: Developing Critical Thinking Skills Through Reading and Writing (9th edition). Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.

Morrison, M. A. (2000). Slavery and the American west. The University of North Carolina Press. 

Pauk, J. R. (2018). Without Precedent: Chief justice John Marshall and his Times. Riverhead Books. 

Perlstein, R. (2009). Before the storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. Nation Books. 

Perlstein, R. (2015). The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan. Nation Books. 

Perlstein, R. (2008). Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. Nation Books. 

Perlstein, R. (2021). Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980. Nation Books. 

Phillips-Fen, Kim. (2018). Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics. Picador.

Reynolds, D. B. (1997). Democracy unbound: Progressive challenges to the two party system. South End Press. 

Schmidt, S. W., Shelley, M. C., & Bardes, B. A. (2024). American Government and Politics Today. Cengage. 

Winik, J. (2010). April 1865. HarperCollins.

Woodard, C. (2017). American character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good. Penguin Group. 

Woodard, C. (2022). American nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. Penguin Books.