The following list includes just some of the books in this library related to the study of U.S. government. To find specific works, enter a word or phrase in the Online Catalog and click on Subject, or try a keyword search (due process, freedom of speech, etc.). To find the book, note the call number and check the reserve cart first before going to the shelf.
071.3/CON The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories that Shape the Political World
302.2309/HIS History of the Mass Media in the United States
302.2309/WIL 100 Media Moments that Changed America
302.2345/TEL Television in American Society: Almanac
305.40973/ENC Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics
320.473/PAT The Oxford Guide to the United States Government
320.973/ENC The Encyclopedia of American Political History
320.973/RUS You Call This Democracy? How to Fix Our Government and Deliver Power to the People
322.4/BRI Political and Social Movements
323.1196/CIV The Civil Rights Movement in America
323.1196/CIV The Civil Rights Movement
323.34/DIO Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box
324.273/SAB Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections
324.273/MOR Politics, American Style: Political Parties in American History
324.620899/AND One Person, No Vote: How Not All Voters are Treated Equally
324.6209/BER Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
324.660973/CAM Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, An American Political Tradition 1742-2004
324.7097/POL Political Scandals: Opposing Viewpoints
324.70973/POL Political Campaigns, Candidates & Debates (2 volume set) (also eBook on Salem)
324.973/COR Hats in the Ring: An Illustrated History of American Presidential Campaigns
324.973/GIL The Votes that Counted: How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election
324.973/GIL A Short History of Presidential Crises
328.73/BOR The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government
328.73/OLE Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process
328.73/RIT The Congress of the United States
330.904/DEL Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
Constitution and Amendments:
342.73/ADA-342.73/SUM American Heritage History of the Bill of Rights series
342.73/BJO The U.S. Constitution
342.73/BRE The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents
342.73/CON Constitutional Amendments, 1789 to the Present
342.73/CON The Constitution and Its Amendments (4 volume set)
342.73/FED The Federalist Papers
342.73/MON The Bill of Rights
342.73/PEN Constitutional Amendments (3 volume set)
342.73/WAK The Birth of the Bill of Rights (2 volume set)
342.7302/FEI The Articles of Confederation
342.7302/HER Heritage Guide to the Constitution
342.7302/KLA The Framers' Coup: The Making of the U.S. Constitution
342.7302/MAD The U.S. Constitution A to Z
342.7302/MON The Words We Live By
342.7302/REN Constitutional Rights Sourcebook
342.7302/RIT Our Constitution
342.7302/SCH Encyclopedia of the United States Constitution (2 volume set)
342.73029/LEV Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect Us Today
342.7303/VIL Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments
342.7308 Specific constitutional rights section
342.7308/JON The First Amendment: Freedom of Speech, the Press, and Religion
342.7308/PUR An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964
342.7308/RIS The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Movement
342.7308/SUP Supreme Court Decisions and Women’s Rights
342.7308/WIL Student’s Guide to Landmark Congressional Laws on the First Amendment
342.73085/LEW The Bill of Rights, v.1 and 2 on Salem Press
Cases:
347.73-349.73 Supreme Court cases section
347.73/BRA Supreme Court Drama (4 volume set)
347.73/USC U.S. Court Cases (2 volume set)
347.7326/FIN Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court
347.7326/HAR Landmark Supreme Court Cases
347.7326/MAU Illustrated Great Decisions of the Supreme Court
347.7326/PAT The Supreme Court of the United States: A Student COmpanion
347.7326/SUP The Supreme Court (4 volume set)
349.73/GRE Great American Court Cases (4 volume set)
351.73/DUI The Executive Branch; Carrying Out and Enforcing Laws
791.45/GAR Stay Tuned: Television’s Unforgettable Moments
Presidents:
973.03/GRO Political Corruption in America: An Encyclopedia of Scandals, Power, and Greed
973.03/ROB Ethics in U.S. Government: An Encyclopedia of Investigations, Scandals, Reforms, and Legislation
973.09/REA The Reader’s Companion to the American Presidency
973.099/BOS The New York Times on the Presidency
973.099/GEN Encyclopedia of the American Presidents
973.099/TO To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidents
973.924/GRE The Limits of Power: The Nixon and Ford Administrations
973.924/GRE The Nixon-Ford Years
973.924/MOR Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician
973.932/ZEL The Presidency of Barack Obama
Call numbers are a way to make books easier to find in the library. At WA, we use the Dewey Decimal Classification system, an alphanumeric system which groups books by subject categories.
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The U.S. Constitution and Constitutional Law by Brian Duignan