In Panic at the Pump, Meg Jacobs shows how a succession of crises beginning with the 1973 Arab oil embargo prompted American politicians to seek energy independence, and how their failure to do so sha
"How much does it cost?" We think of this question as one that preoccupies the nation's shoppers, not its statesmen. But, asPocketbook Politics dramatically shows, the twentieth-century Amer
Ronald Reagan's election to the presidency in 1980 marked a victory for conservatism. But, as Meg Jacobs and Julian Zelizer point out in their introduction, once in power, conservatives discovered tha
In a series of fascinating essays that explore topics in American politics from the nation's founding to the present day ,The Democratic Experiment opens up exciting new avenues for historical researc
