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Chapter 2 — Politics and Choice Explore Additional Suggested Readings The following readings supplement those suggested in chapter 2 of the text. Chang, Laurence, and Peter Kornbluh, eds. The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A National Security Archive Documents Reader. New York: The New Press, 1998. Gellately, Robert. Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. McCullough, David. Truman. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992. Pateman, Carole, The Problem of Political Obligation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Rhodes, Carolyn. Pivotal Decisions: Selected Cases in Twentieth-Century International Politics. New York: Harcourt Brace, 2000. Stern, Sheldon M. The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. Stone, I.F. The Trial of Socrates. New York: Doubleday, 1989. Wills, Gary. James Madison. New York: Holt, 2002. Annotated Links The following links will help you explore the themes of chapter 2 on the Web. The choices made by Socrates, James Madison, Adolf Hitler, and John F. Kennedy have important historical precedents. As shown by the Brookings Institution, there are many other policy choices to be made by modern politicians. This nonprofit research organization lays out current political challenges and offers recommendations for meeting them. Included on the Brookings Web site are news releases, policy briefs, and featured books. The philosophy department at Clarke College designed this site on Socrates to help students read the Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and the death scene from the Phaedo. Full texts are provided for each with intermitted explanatory links. A research section supplies other translations, secondary sources, links to other sites, and a bibliography. In addition, the site features audio recordings, art, humor, and a quiz. If you are interested in more information regarding Madisons choice, pay an online visit to James Madison University's James Madison Center. This comprehensive Web site, created by the political science department, is a combination of biography, quotes, and historical documentation. At the bottom of the opening page, try the AFounders’ Quiz, a ten-question test on early American political history. ThinkQuest/The
Cuban Missile Crisis “Fourteen Days in October: The Cuban Missile Crisis” is a student-created Web resource featured in the ThinkQuest Library. This fun site has dossiers on all the major players of the crisis as well as copies of letters between Kennedy and Krushchev. A crisis center presents an overview of the crisis complete with a map and timeline. This information is also provided through audio files in a briefing room section. This site also includes a quiz, a question-and-answer section, and a message board. The German Propaganda Archive, maintained at Calvin College,
helps explain the choices made by German citizens throughout the twentieth
century. The archive includes both propaganda itself and material produced for
the guidance of propagandists. The first section presents Nazi propaganda from
pre-1933 to 1945, while the second section focuses on Marxist propaganda from
1949 to 1989. The site provides various mediums of propaganda including
posters, speeches, brochures, articles, and artwork.
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