American Politics Today

by William T. Bianco, David T. Canon

How politics really works and why it matters.

American Politics Today, Fifth AP® Edition, is designed to show students the reality of politics today and how it connects to their own lives. New features—from chapter opening cases that address the kinds of questions students ask, to full-page graphics that illustrate key political processes—show students how politics works and why it matters. All components of the learning package—textbook, InQuizitive adaptive learning tool, and coursepack are organized around specific chapter learning goals to ensure that students learn the nuts and bolts of American government.

Genres: Textbooks, Nonfiction, Politics

768 pages, Hardcover

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.