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The Political Character of Adolescence
The Political Character of Adolescence: The influence of families and schools details two political science researchers' conclusions on how the political socialization process occurs in young people and how such factors as family, education and environment influence the political ideas of adolescents. Written by M. Kent Jennings and Richard G. Niemi, the 357-page hardbound book was published in 1974 by Princeton University Press. It features both an Index and bibliography. Ex lib with the usual library markings. Dust Jacket with protective cover. No defects apparent, inside or out. (002852)
ISBN: 0691093628
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Constitutional History, Politics, McLaughlin
An unusually nice copy of a scarce title, this is THE COURTS THE CONSTITUTION AND PARTIES, a study in constitutional history and politics written by Andrew C. McLaughlin, University of Chicago. It was published in 1912 by the University of Chicago Press.
A discussion of cardinal principles and facts in American constitutional history, McLaughlin features five articles: The first deals with the origin of the principle that courts can declare laws void. The second and third treat vital institutions that came into existence as popular government developed – the significance of political parties and their relationship to popular government.
The fourth article discusses the changing theories of political philosophy, furnishing foundations for differing theories concerning the nature of the union. The fifth shows that American legal order took its rise in the theory of compact and of individual rights and the in belief that imperial order itself should rest on law.
The 299-page hardbound book is in Very Good condition, although it is ex lib with the usual library markings. There are some very minor areas of wear to the edge/corners and spine ends. Inside pages have no apparent defects. (5584)
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Government in Review, 1923
With this note printed on the title page, ‘Before publication every chapter of this book was read and approved by a Government authority,’ the J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, published in 1923 this revised, enlarged and illustrated edition of Frederic J. Haskin’s THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.
Illustrated with photographs by Harris & Ewing, the 484-page hardbound book details the history, organization, functions, powers, responsibilities, and duties of the departments, offices, bureaus, and specialized branches of the United States Government and supporting services.
Among the photos included are both common and more unusual views: the Statue in Lincoln Memorial; East front of the Capitol; Front view of the White House; Aerial view of Washington; Amphitheater at Arlington; A thousand-year-old giant sequoia; Forest Ranger in camp; Room in the Patent Office; Armored dinosaur at Smithsonian Institution; Washington crypt underneath Capitol Rotunda; Treasury employees weighing coins; Making comparison of total light; World's finest precision testing machine; Bronze doors of the Rotunda of Capitol; ‘The Ghosts,’ Wheeler National Monument; New Hampshire Avenue, Washington, D. C.; State, War, and Navy Building; Armor plate punctured by 16-inch gun; How trapped miners keep out gases; Statue of Alexander Hamilton; Aztec Garden, Pan-American Building; Navy ZR-1, christened ‘Shenandoah’; Radio at Bolling Field; Surveying Mount Whitney; Scene in the Dead Letter Office . . . and many more!
It’s a fascinating book! And, it’s in Good+ condition, despite being ex lib with the usual library markings. There is some light damage to cover edges/corners and spine ends, but inside pages are clean and easy to read! Interesting information about our government in the early 1900s! (6111)
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Neither Purse Nor Sword, Constitution
Written by James M. Beck (former U.S. Solicitor General) and Merle Thorpe (editor, ‘Nation’s Business’), NEITHER PURSE NOR SWORD is a discussion of how the U.S. government had drifted away from the original ideas of the Constitution, how individualism was decaying as Federal power grew, and how government was being expanded far too much in terms of Constitutional requirements. This is the Macmillan Company’s 1936 First Printing.
Sounding very much like the words of today’s Constitutional defenders, the 210-page hardbound book, the authors comment: Is it not true that the present generation of Americans, to gain some immediate and practical advantage, are willing to sacrifice essential principles of the Constitution until that noble edifice is in manifest danger of becoming, like the Parthenon, beautiful in its ruins, but nevertheless a vacant temple of liberty?
And, even lip service to the Constitution, they note, has ceased. Congress, notwithstanding the oath that every member takes to defend it, passes any legislation it thinks expedient without concern as to its Constitutional power to do so.
The American people have been lulled into a false sense of security by the fixed belief that the Supreme Court will automatically and effectively preserve the Constitution through judicial decisions. This is the great illusion of our political life. It has impaired the spirit of vigilance, which still remains the price of liberty.
A frightening view – even from nearly 70 years in the past!
The book is fascinating … and in Very Good condition. We see no apparent defects on either the covers or inside pages. There is a previous owner’s name stamped on the front endpaper, with a residue mark from a long ago-removed label on that same page. (5665/rS)
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Interpreting 1970 American Census
The 1970 Census of the American people was and is the most detailed examination of a large population ever attempted and successfully carried out. Costing millions and employing tens of thousands of part-time interviewers, the Census explored the makeup of our multiracial populace; the great interior migrations of modern times, both black and white; the social mobility of individuals and groups; the changes in relative income levels between the poor and the working and middle classes; the damping of the population explosion; the new immigrants; and much, much more.
E. J. Kahn, Jr., well-known author and New Yorker writer, immersed himself in census questionnaires, statistics, and computer printouts for three years as the initial raw information was first collected, sorted, and digested, and this book was the result. He looked for the significant detail, the confirming or unexpected trend, anything that might shed light not only on where we were but, tentatively and gingerly, where, as groups or as a nation, we might be heading.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: FINDINGS OF THE 1970 CENSUS is a reference work without a single chart, graph, or map -- a book that can be read and enjoyed as much for its style and enquiring attitude as for the rich stew of information it so appetizingly serves up. Here is where we were, reflected in an immense mirror, beauty spots, warts, and all in as intimate an exploration as was ever made.
The 340-page hardbound book was published in this 1974 second printing by Weybright and Talley, New York. It is in Very Good condition, although ex lib with the usual library markings. There are no other apparent defects on the covers or inside. The dust jacket end flaps are glued inside the front cover. (6113/6)
ISBN: 0679400036
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Tables, Index to Code of Iowa
Published by the Legislative Service Bureau of the General Assembly of Iowa in 1990, this is the
TABLES AND INDEX TO THE CODE OF IOWA, 1991. Included in the lengthy, unpaginated hardbound book are tables that were previously published in Volume III of the Iowa Code, including the table of internal references, conversion tables of Senate and House files to chapters of Iowa Acts, tables of disposition of Iowa Acts, and the table of corresponding sections.
The book is in Very Good condition, with no apparent defects, inside or out! (6223/r33)
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Uncle Sam, The Monopoly Man
Everyone knows that there are certain services which only government can provide.
Everyone knows that it would be suicidal to allow private mail service, private coinage, private courts, private roads, private police and fire protection. And while we may be of two minds about allowing private schools, everyone knows that we have to retain the public school system for most of our children to attend. Everyone, that is, except William C. Wooldridge.
In UNCLE SAM, THE MONOPOLY MAN,
Wooldridge looks behind the premises the rest of us take for granted, and the result is a fresh wind of original thought -- a bold challenge to extend the frontiers of free enterprise. Yet, the author is no anarchist. For one thing, humor keeps breaking through. But he has probed deeply into history to prove that there is no practical reason why government should assume a monopoly of public services.
He shows that at times these services have been provided by competitive free enterprise -- and that examples survive and are prospering today. And, he demonstrates why private competition would result in better service.
The government's postal monopoly, for example, is almost literally a horse-and-buggy operation: a letter from Washington, D.C. to New York City .travels at the rate of 5 miles an hour. The situation became so serious that Congress passed legislation that transformed the Post Office into a corporation -- but a monopoly still. Far more beneficial, Wooldridge shows, would be the simple step of repealing the government's ban on private mail carriers.
How many of us realize that hundreds of private coins once found currency in America? That in some states they were more prevalent than government coinage? Then there's voluntary justice. Wooldridge leaps from medieval Europe (when ‘merchant courts settled most of the important trading disputes of England and of much of Europe for several hundred years, completely outside the framework of the common law') to modern America, where already ‘a far greater volume of disputes than most people realize are settled by voluntary private 'courts,' probably many more than are actually litigated,’ And private schools no longer conform to their one-time stereotype as the prerogative of upper-class Establishmentarians. Today many regard them as the best hope for poor blacks.
Private police and fire companies? ‘Some are even being franchised, the ultimate stamp of apple-pie mainstream Americanism. While it may be many years before rent-a-policeman stands crowd the streets as ubiquitously as McDonaldburger arches, the total private expenditure on law enforcement already exceeds half of the amount of money spent on public police at all levels of government.’
Roads, while today a de facto public monopoly, need not be. Untold millions could have been saved had the Interstate system been constructed and run instead by private turnpike companies, charging tolls and patterned after the 19th-century models that opened up the westward routes.
In all these areas, Wooldridge points out the benefits of competition and greater participation by free enterprise, He finds that all public monopolies justify themselves on the basis of the public interest. But there is no ‘public interest,’ he insists: only a constantly changing multitude of particularized ‘publics’ (customers) with particularized consumer needs. And free enterprise can serve them better.
Interesting reading, the 160-page hardbound book was published in this 1970 Second Printing by Arlington House, New Rochelle NY. It is in Very Good condition, although it is ex lib with the usual library markings. There are some tape residue marks on the endpapers, but we see no other apparent defects on the book or on the mylar-covered dust jacket. (5864/r4)
ISBN: 0870001000
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U.S. Constitution, Declaration
A small, child-sized hardbound book, this edition of THE CONSTITUTION OF OUR UNITED STATES was published in 1938 by Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago. Narrative portions of the book were edited by William T. Hutchinson of the University of Chicago.
Included, besides the Federal Constitution and its Amendments, are the Declaration of Independence, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and several editorial pieces on the writing of the Constitution and the Declaration, and dates on which states were admitted to the union. The two major documents are shown in facsimile, and several black/white photos show statesmen and sites important to the country’s government.
The 64-page hardbound book is in Good+ condition, with some scuffing and minor edge/corner /spine end wear to the covers. Inside pages have no apparent defects. (6105/L)
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Mass Media and National Development
More than seventy countries were trying to accomplish what Julius Nyerere of Tanganyika called the terrible ascent from traditional society to economic and social modernity. How much easier would this climb have been if they had applied the full strength of modern communication to the task?
That was the question posed by Wilbur Schramm in his challenging book, MASS MEDIA AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: THE ROLE OF INFORMATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Based on case studies and research from many countries, it was published jointly by the Stanford University Press and Unesco in 1964.
After an introductory section on the meaning of ‘underdeveloped,’ the book analyzes the role of information in economic and social development, and identifies what the mass media can do directly and what it can only hope to do. Chapters on the flow of information and the distribution of communication facilities in the world present data and assessments to be found nowhere else. After examining the costs and requirements of mass media systems, the book points out ways in which the media can be of direct assistance to natlonal growth.
Fernand Terrou, one of the world's leading scholars on communication law, contributes a chapter on institutional and legal problems of the mass media in new countries.
The 333-page hardbound book is in Very Good condition, although ex lib with the usual library markings. There are no apparent defects on the book or on the mylar-covered dust jacket. (6000)
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Crime Control & Honest Politicians
We don't know whether this was a best seller … but in some corners (perhaps in the era it was published), folks would say the book had a limited audience.
This is THE HONEST POLITICIAN'S GUIDE TO CRIME CONTROL, written by Norval Morris and Gordon Hawkins and published in 1970 by the University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
Actually a sociological approach, this book presents a systematic program that deals with the amount, costs, causes and victims of crimes; the reduction of violence; police; corrections; juvenile delinquency; the function of psychiatry in crime control; organized crime; and the uses of criminological research.
The authors then offer precise recommendations for improving each of the topics. According to Morris and Hawkins, 'We have a cure for crime. We offer not a lightning panacea, but rather legislative and administrative regimen which would substantially reduce crime and the fear of crime.
'To the student of comparative criminal statistics, the United States may or may not be the land of the free, but is most certainly the home of the brave.'
The book is interesting - and offers some valuable insight into the problem of crime and how to solve it.
Condition is Very Good, although the book is ex lib and has the usual library markings. There is some very minor edge/corner/spine end wear. Otherwise, we see no defects on the book. The dust jacket is present and is protected with a Mylar cover. It's a nice one!
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