The
Academical Village All Things Political of Dr. David Garrison 
Writing
& Research Assignments & Book List
“Politics, and
the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without
ideals and without greatness.”
—Albert Camus
I. The
Portfolio : A
portfolio of daily assignments is required of all students.
II. Nonfiction Book
Analysis/Class Presentation. Read a current nonfiction book about American
politics and government particularly about a topic in Govt 2302. Your choice
must be approved by the professor. Submit a list of five book ASAP to the
professor for approval.
Acceptable books: (Notify the professor
of your choice to obtain approval.)
The Courts & Law:
Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine -- Cara Colton
Peter Irons, God on Trial
(religion constitutional cases) -- chosen by ????
or
Floyd Abrams, Speaking Freely
(contemporary free speech constitutional cases) -- chosen by
????
Benjamin Wittes, Law and the Long War
The Presidency:
James David Barber, Presidential Character -- chosen by
Michael Lundie
H. W. Brands,
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency
of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
-- chosen by Katrina Talavera
Jack Goldsmith, The Terror Presidency--
chosen by Vicki Maden
Jane Mayer, The Dark Side -- chosen by Jason
Wang
Domestic Policy:
Larry Bartels, Unequal Democracy:
The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age,
Princeton
Press -- Ryan P. O'Mara.
Ron Suskind, The Way of the World --
Foreign & Military Policy:
David
Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York
Times, The Inheritance
The World Obama Confronts and the
Challenges to American Power
BOOKS / SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW
|
February 08, 2009
It's All Yours
By
LAWRENCE F. KAPLAN
David E. Sanger
surveys the foreign-policy challenges George W. Bush left his successor.
-- chosen by ????
Zbigniew
Brzezinski & Brent Scowcroft, narrated by David Ignatius,
America & the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy,
2008.
review -- Lydia Deastadeai
Samuel P. Huntington, The
Clash of Civilizations --
chosen by ????
Joseph Nye, Soft Power--
chosen by ????
Thomas Ricks,
Fiasco, 2006.
review &
review
Thomas Ricks, The Gamble:
General David Petraeus and the American
Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008, 2009.
-Washington
Post series on The Gamble &
The Best Defense Blog - chosen by ????
Andrew Bacevich, The Limits of Power : The End of American
Exceptionalism, 2008.
review +???
-- chosen
by ????
Fareed Zakaria's Post-American World -- chosen by ????
Brian
McCall, The Power of the Texas Governor:
Connally to Bush, 2009.
Jeffrey Rosen, The Supreme Court
Jan Crawford Greenburg, Supreme Conflict
Peter Irons, People's History of the Supreme Court
Dexter Filkins, The Forever War
Jimmy Carter,
Bob Woodward, The War Witihin
John Yoo's The Power of War and
Peace: The Constitution and Foreign
Affairs After 9/11 (University
of Chicago Press, 2005
Charles H. Ferguson,
No End In Sight
Charles Savage, Takeover,
review
Michael Oreskes &
,The Genius of America
review
Peter Rodman , Presidential Command
review
Richard Neustadt, Presidential Power
Ahmed Rashid -
Descent into Chaos: The United States and the
Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central
Asia
conversation
The Inauguration Issue
Ronald Brownstein, The Second Civil War
Thomas L. Friedman, Hot, Flat, & Crowded
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global
Crisis of American Capitalism
by Kevin Phillips
Barton Gellman, Angler, The Cheney Vice Presidency
The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over
Presidential Power
by Jonathan Mahler
,
Congress: The Broken Branch
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