In 1988, during a presidential campaign of yore, election coverage quoted Presidents Creating the Presidency coauthor Kathleen Hall Jamieson so frequently that the New York
In an article published this morning on the Politico website, John G. Geer, author of In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns turns
In the last week, as the Wall Street bailout plan was developed and debated, Americans have struggled to visualize what $700 billion dollars could buy.
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The latest word is that tonight’s presidential debate in Oxford, MS, between John McCain and Barack Obama will indeed go on. This is a relief
Jane Addams, whose fascinating life Louise Knight chronicles in Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy, will be inducted this fall into the Chicago
The University of Chicago Press announces its first public book sale in over twenty years. For two days only—Tuesday, October 7 and Wednesday, October 8—the
We’re less than six weeks away from the election, but if you want to be a truly informed voter when you cast your ballot this
After a week of radio and TV interviews, public appearances, and book signings in the Windy City, Tim Reid and Tom Dreesen, co-authors with Ron
Press author Nancy G. Siraisi, a Brooklyn-based medical historian, is one of the twenty-five new fellows announced this morning by the MacArthur Foundation. The MacArthur
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