American Politics Today

by William T. Bianco, David T. Canon

Cut through the noise to understand how politics really works Fake news. Twitter rants. Misinformation. Silos. Echo chambers. Spin. Alternative facts. Investigation, accusation, and obfuscation. Punditry, polls, and prognostication. This is today’s politics. To cut through the noise, students need a guide to how politics really works and why it matters. American Politics Today has been that trusted source. And the new sixth edition brings even greater focus to examining preconceived notions of how government operates and understanding what’s really going on.

Genres: Textbooks, Nonfiction, Politics

608 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Ellie · Rating 2 out of 5]

read this for class

[Kortney · Rating 1 out of 5]

eh

[Deanna · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a textbook I read for a Political Science class. Very informative and not overly dry.

[Melina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh. It is what it is.

[Kathleen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this for my American Politics class. We did not read every single chapter, but most of them. This book was copyrighted in 2013 and discusses everything up to the 2012 elections, though I was dying to know what the authors interpretation of the 2014 ones was. Oh well, I guess that will be in the 4th edition. I am sorry that I did not read the chapter on the Supreme Court though. I should have read it, but ran out of time and never got around to it before I mailed it back to Barnes and Noble (I rented it).
Anyway, the book was interesting and definitely written with passion. It was detailed and took a pretty optimistic view of American politics. The whole thing was upbeat and presented lots of evidence to back up all the claims. As a textbook for a political science class, you could do way worse. It was enjoyable and made the class for me.