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American Democracy DebatedCONTENTS Is the United States Really A Democracy? 1. Resolved That: The U.S. is Undemocratic 2. Resolved That: The Constitution Should Be Abandoned 3. Resolved That: Federalism Should be Abolished 4. Resolved That: Civil Liberties Are Inadequate What Are American Politics Really Like? 5. Resolved That: Mass Media & Government Control Public Opinion 6. Resolved That: Interest Groups Undermine Democracy 7. Resolved That: The Two-Party System is Flawed 8. Resolved That: Voting Is A Futile Exercise Are Policy Makers Really Effective? 9. Resolved That: The Presidency Is Too Powerful 10. Resolved That: Bureaucracy Subverts Democracy 11. Resolved That: Congress is Archaic 12. Resolved That: The Judicial System is Undemocratic |
Selected WorksLatest Book
The Empire Strikes Out
How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy & Promoted the American Way Abroad Mystery Fiction
The Deadly Tools of Ignorance:
A Debs Kafka Mystery
A San Francisco murder mystery set in the worlds of academia, baseball and the Catholic Church Author Events
Book Readings
Listing of upcoming bookstore appearances Non-Fiction
Baseball & the American Dream: Race, Class, Gender & the National Pastime
Baseball as a mirror of American society Victims Still: The Political Manipulation of Crime Victims
How U.S. victim policy serves official interests. Rethinking Peace
Strategies for peace in the post-Cold War era. The Politics of Victimization:
Victims, Victomology & Human Rights
American criminal justice from a victim perspective. The Peace Resource Book
A comprehensive guide to issues, groups, and literature The Utopian Impulse
The utopian tradition in the early twenty-first century Victims of the System: Crime Victims & Compensation in American Politics & Criminal Justice
Victim compensation as symbolic politics American Democracy Debated
Introduction to American government instructor's manual Other Writings
"Field of Dreams"
Writing my debut mystery novel Academic Essays
Listing of academic essays and articles Baseball Essays
Short works on baseball Non-Fiction Journal
Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice
A transnational quarterly of peace, human rights and development Short Story
"The Secret Life of Leon Trotsky"
What we don't know about the Russian revolutionary Works in Progress
Books in Progress
The Empire Strikes Out; Amsterdamned; Sold on Murder; The Legacy of Baseball Recommended
Good Books
Fiction and non-fiction books I recommend |
