This comprehensive reader offers a broad selection of classic and current documents, as well as analytical essays on current political issues. Topics include the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the war in Iraq, affirmative action, the Supreme Court's 2003 ruling on sodomy, the 2004 presidential race, and the Columbia shuttle disaster. In addition, policy-oriented readings appear throughout the text.Introductions to the selections help make even the most difficult topics, such as court cases, more accessible to students. Accompanying discussion questions follow a conceptual format, allowing students to focus on main themes and annotations explain unfamiliar terms.
- ISBN10 0618453237
- ISBN13 9780618453238
- Publish Date 3 August 2004 (first published 1 April 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 December 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin
- Edition 6th Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 544
- Language English