Recommended Reading
Jill Abramson, "The
Business of Persuasion Thrives in Nation's Capital," New York Times (September
29, 1998).
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Big
Money and Politics, Time 155, no. 5 (February 7, 2000). [There
are four articles altogether: One long one, "How the little guy gets
crunched," and three short ones "Campaign finance," "Drained
batteries," and "Framed."]
Paul Butler, "Black
Jurors: Right to Acquit?" Harper’s Magazine (December, 1995),
pp. 11-16.
Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier, "America
in 1787" from Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional
Convention of 1787 (New York: Ballantine Books, 1986), pp. 18-32.
Henry Jenkins, "Professor
Jenkins Goes to Washington," Harper’s Magazine (July, 1999),
pp. 19-23.
Joe Klein, "Eight Years: Bill Clinton and the Politics of
Persistence," New Yorker (October 16-23, 2000), pp. 188-217.
Lewis H. Lapham, "A
Citizen in Full: Ralph Nader campaigns with a course in civics," Harper’s
Magazine (September, 2000), pp. 35-42.
Christopher Lasch, "The
Lost Art of Argument," from The Revolt of the Elites and the
Betrayal of Democracy (New York: W. W. Norton, 1996), pp. 161-175.
Nicolo Machiavelli, The
Prince, W. K. Marriott, translator (Project Gutenberg Etext:
March, 1998 [Etext #1232]) chapter xviii.
Ted Halstead, "A
Politics for Generation X,"
Atlantic Monthly 284, No. 2 (August 1999).
Vaclav Havel, Summer Meditations, Paul
Wilson, translator (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1992) pp. 10-12.
J. Allen Smith, "The
Constitution a Reactionary Document," from The Spirit of American
Government (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 1965), pp. 27-39.
Graham K. Wilson, "The
Size of Government," from Only in America? The Politics of the
United States in Comparative Perspective (Chatham, New Jersey: Chatham
House, 1998), pp. 60-85.
"American
People Ruled Unfit to Govern," The Onion 35, No. 14.
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