San Antonio College Library

Covering the good, the bad, and the ugly of polling, this work serves as an important handbook on the ways to understand what citizens are really thinking and how those views can be translated into governmental action.

"An analysis of Lincoln in historical memory and an examination of how his critics--on both the right and the left--have frequently reflected the anxiety and discontent Americans felt about their lives."--Publisher description.

Chronicles the story of American naturalists who came of age and stumbled toward a profession in the years after the American Revolution. --from publisher description.

"When the American president cannot get his way with Congress on something of great importance to him, he often appeals "over the heads" of Congress, directly to the American people. This kind of appeal and the frequent use of the media to generate support for presidential policies face criticism (especially from policy critics) as an unconstitutional means of subverting the executive-legislative power balance intended by the Constitution. Melvin...

"In Twisting the Lion's Tail, John E. Moser roots out the causes and consequences of this resurgent distrust of "perfidious Albion."" "Through rigorous analysis, Moser shows that 20th century American Anglophobia outstrips the two causes which are usually called upon to explain it - isolationist tendencies and the Anglophobia of recent immigrants to the U.S. In addition to these traditional explanations, Moser finds an Anglophobia running far deeper...

Mexico and the United States share a border of more than 2,000 miles, and their histories and interests have often intertwined. The Mexican Revolution, which began in 1910 and continued in one form or another for the next forty years, was keenly observed by U.S. citizens, especially those who were directly involved in Mexico through property ownership, investment, missionary work, tourism, journalism, and education. Historian John A. Britton examines...

"This is a study of the early writings of Richard Harding Davis, the premier American journalist of the 1890s, best remembered for his coverage of the Spanish-American War. The emphasis of the book is on Davis's reporting -- including several volumes of travel writing, covering trips to the Near East and South and Central America. Some account is also made of his fiction, most especially 'Soldiers of fortune' (1897), which critics have seen as a romantic...

Draws on thousands of unpublished letters and diaries to tell the hidden story of how a new and untested president could become "Father Abraham" throughout both the army and the North as awhole.