VOTING AND THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY
Scope|Subject
Headings|Overview
Sources|Circulating
Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade
Publications|Web Sites
SCOPE: Issues of voting and the election of the American president is a topic of public interest to the citizens of the United States. Supporting a particular candidate for political office and exercising an individual’s right to vote is extremely important in assuring that our country will be covered by the most resourceful, concerned, and capable individual. The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing of all the resources available in the library, but as a selective sampling of the many types of materials available.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Books dealing with voting and the American presidency are listed in the Baddour Library’s online catalog under the following subject headings:
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
JK1976.M57 1999 Elections A to Z
JK 1010.A445 2004 The Almanac of American Politics
CQ Researcher (online databases):
Issues and Controversies database from Facts on
File
Some representative books from the Circulating Collection located upstairs in the library are:
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Abshire David. Triumphs and
Tragedies of the Modern Presidency: Seventy-Six Case
Studies in Presidential Leadership. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2001.
Dunn, Charles W. The
Scarlet Thread of Scandal: Morality and the American
Presidency. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
Genovese, Michael A. The
Power of the American Presidency: 1789-2000. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2001.
Henderson, Phillip G. The
Presidency Then and Now. Lanham, Md: Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, 2000.
Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focus on the topic of voting and the American presidency are:
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the links for a list of full text journals
available through our databases in:
Open Access Journals in
Political Science
WEB SITES
The American Presidency
http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/home.html
AmericanPresident.org
http://www.americanpresident.org/
The American Presidency Project
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.php
The History of
Televised Presidential Debates
http://www.museum.tv/debateweb/html/index.htm
Updated
02/21/2008
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