For introductory American politics courses, this is a diverse collection of lively and provocative assessments of the evolution of American politics across the postwar period, focusing on these elements: parties, society, institutions, culture, issues, agendas, and coalitions.

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1. Foundation Stones of Present Discontents: The American Political Nation, 1776–1945, Joel H. Sibley

2. Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Clinton, Michael Barone

3. Separating to Govern: The American Way, Charles O. Jones

4. Mayor Daley and Modern Democracy: What We Should Have Learned from Chicago in the 1950s, Alan Ehrenhalt

5. Issue Evolution in Postwar American Politics: Old Certainties and Fresh Tensions, Edward G. Carmines and Geoffrey C. Layman

6. The Cultural Revolution of 1994: Newt Gingrich, the Republican Party, and the Third Great Awakening, Thomas B. Edsall

7. "We Are All Southern Democrats Now": The Shape of American Politics in the Very Late Twentieth Century, Byron E. Shafer

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