Recommended Reading
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Politics in a Larger Context
Dangerous Convictions: What's Really Wrong with the U.S. Congress
by Tom Allen. Oxford University Press. (Hardcover - Jan. 17, 2013)
The Parties Versus the People: How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans
by Mickey Edwards. Yale University Press. (Hardcover - Aug. 27, 2012)
The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America
by Ronald Brownstein. Penguin Press. (Hardcover 2007)
The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words
by Deborah Tannen. Ballantine Books. (Paperback - First edition, 1999)
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
by Thomas L. Friedman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (Paperback - July 24, 2007)
Process of Politics
The Price of Politics
by Bob Woodward. Simon & Schuster (Hardcover - September 11, 2012)
On Appreciating Congress: The People's Branch
by Louis Fisher. Paradigm Publishers. (Paperback - June 1, 2010)
The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track
by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein. Oxford University Press. (Hardcover - 2008)
The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point
by Haynes Johnson and David Broder. Back Bay Books. Reprint edition. (Paperback - April 1, 1997)
Media Impact on Politics
Media Power in Politics
by Doris A. Graber. CQ Press; 6th edition. (Paperback – August 1, 2010)
Feeding Frenzy: Attack Journalism and American Politics
by Larry J. Sabato. New Lanahan Editions in Political Science (Paperback - March 2000)
Spiral of Cynicism: The Press and the Public Good
by Joseph N. Cappella and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Oxford University Press, USA. (Paperback - March 20, 1997)
Breaking The News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy
by James Fallows. Vintage. (Paperback - January 14, 1997)
Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind
Tim Groseclose PhD (Author). St. Martin's Press (Hardcover - July 19, 2011)