Democracy Under Pressure (with PoliPrep),   ISBN:9780534630904

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I ordered this book on a Tues afternoon, it shipped Wed and was on my doorstep by Friday!! That's the quickest I've ever gotten anything before. Super easy and quick transaction. Great seller!

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Felt like the book was taking forever to get here (I waited like a week and a half). Other than that, book is very nice and clean.

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For a textbook, this has to be the best one around on the topic.

I had to get it for intro to U.S. govt and found it to be astonishingly interesting for what it was.

There's really not much more to say. It's relevant, uses numerous up-to-date examples (if you have the 2004 election update edition), AND is easy to read.

There's not much more to be asked from a textbook on the generally boring subject of government. I couldn't imagine having a better book for a college course.

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I bought this book for a polital science class and had to stop during my study session to write this review. Was the editor on crack? Don't get me wrong, it's well written, but the paragraphs jump around haphazardly. I'll be reading about 9-11 in one paragraph and the next paragraph will be about the Bush-Gore election followed by a passage about Clinton's performance in office. Editors please put this stuff in chronological order!

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I was surprised at how interesting this book made government. It's not boring like so many other college text books are. There are lots of examples that explain concepts in an interesting way, and there are little side stories about our country's history.

Although this book is interesting the chapters are soooo long. I used this book for a 3 week summer government course and the long chapters nearly killed me. I found that I could skip the introduction to each chapter which saved me a whole page of reading. Also, I could sometimes read the first and last paragraph of a section and get the point of the section without having to read all the examples of an issue. The end of the chapter summaries are good, and very usefull to studying for exams.