Formative Acts–Now in Paperback

Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making

Edited by Stephen Skowronek and Matthew Glassman

456 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 illus.

Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4012-2 | $65.00 | £42.50

Paper 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1990-6 | $29.95 | £19.50

Formative ActsSeventeen essays illuminate critical junctures in American political development–from the social movements for women’s suffrage, civil rights, and workers’ rights, to Reconstruction, to the regulation of prescription drugs–as vantage points from which to examine how change is enacted.

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