Footnotes to History serves as a first reader on American government. Studies show that Americans do not understand the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or the history behind our founding and our survival as a nation. These vignettes, standing alone or together, outline certain traits of the American political system. While the United States is a relatively young nation, many Americans seem to be unaware of the important traits of the American political system and of the struggles required to ensure its survival. While ...
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Footnotes to History serves as a first reader on American government. Studies show that Americans do not understand the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or the history behind our founding and our survival as a nation. These vignettes, standing alone or together, outline certain traits of the American political system. While the United States is a relatively young nation, many Americans seem to be unaware of the important traits of the American political system and of the struggles required to ensure its survival. While students of history, political professionals, and enthusiasts may enjoy reading 500-page biographies and analyses, many citizens have neither the time nor inclination to relive the past in such detail. Griffin Bell, former attorney general for the United States, presents ""Footnotes to History: A Primer on the American Political Character"" as a first reader on American politics for any and all Americans. Judge Bell points to the stories of a handful of Americans - some famous, some not - to illustrate the defining characteristics of our system of government. Whether read in its entirety or a chapter or two at a time, ""Footnotes to History"" should give the reader some notion of why the American political system, in its ideals and in its reality, has served its citizens so well for more than 230 years.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. Sm8vo. Signed by the Author on Bookplate Smaller blue-boards hardback with a dust jacket now protected in a new archival-quality, removable Mylar plastic cover. Signed with absolutely no further inscription by the author; a former Attorney General of the United States. University Press Copy. This copy has an "opened-only-a-few-times" look & feel with no crushes to the boards' corners. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. Sm8vo. Signed by the Author on Bookplate A clean and unmarked black-boards hardback with a dust jacket now protected in a new archival-quality, removable Mylar plastic cover. Signed on a Mercer University bookplate with absolutely no further inscription by the author(a former attorney general of the United States). Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy Jiffy Rigi Bag envelope. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999. 185-stated pages.
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