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• Obama in office: the first two years

  Author:S.Q. KellyFrom:CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Vol. 49, Issue 2)

  Oct. 2011229 words Book review, Brief a... 980L49-1151 E908 2011-6599 CIP Obama in office: the first two years, ed. by James A. Thurber. Paradigm Publishers, 2011. 318p bibl index alp ISBN 9781594519864, $96.00; ISBN 9781594519932 pbk, $29.95 There is...

• Congress and diaspora politics: the influence of ethnic and foreign lobbying

  Author:M.E. EthridgeFrom:CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Vol. 56, Issue 6)

  Feb. 2019247 words Book review, Brief a... 1140LCongress and diaspora politics: the influence of ethnic and foreign lobbying, ed. by James A. Thurber, Colton C. Campbell, and David A. Dullo. SUNY Press, 2018. 273p index ISBN 9781438470870 cloth, $90.00; ISBN...

• The Battle for Congress: Consultants, Candidates, and Voters. (Book Reviews)

  Author:Gary J. AndresFrom:Political Science Quarterly (Vol. 117, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 2002611 words Book review The Battle for Congress: Consultants, Candidates, and Voters edited by James A. Thurber. Washington, DC, The Brookings Institution Press, 2001. 260 pp. Cloth, $42.95; paper, $17.95. Want to know how to win an...

• Campaign Warriors: The Role of Political Consultants in Elections

  From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 24, Issue 3)

  Summer 2000597 words Book review Brookings Institution Press, 1775 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. 216 pp. $42.95; paper, $17.95 Editors: James A. Thurber and Candice J. Nelson When the New York Times described the 1993 New...

• Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations

  Author:Robert J. SpitzerFrom:American Political Science Review (Vol. 91, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 1997931 words Book review Robert J. Spitzer, SUNY Cortland As a growing political science literature accustomed itself to a new, seemingly permanent partisan schism between the presidency and Congress, Bill Clinton came along and abruptly...

• Why Politicians Embellish Their Academic Credentials

  Author:Kevin KileyFrom:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 57, Issue 06)

  Sept. 26, 2010597 words Interview 1050LByline: Kevin Kiley Christine O'Donnell, a little-known public-relations consultant, shocked the state of Delaware and the nation when she won her state's Republican primary for the U.S. Senate last month, beating a...

• Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations

  Author:Paul EzraFrom:Presidential Studies Quarterly (Vol. 28, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 1998929 words Book review JAMES A. THURBER, ed., Rivals for Power. Presidential-Congressional Relations (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1996), 267 pp. $24.95 paper (ISBN 1-56802-152-6). A great many interesting and important questions are taken up...

• Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations

  Author:Bruce MiroffFrom:Political Science Quarterly (Vol. 112, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 1997644 words Book review Edited by James A. Thurber. Washington, DC, Congressional Quarterly Press, 1996. 267 pp. Paper, $24.95. The elections of 1994 ushered in dramatic transformations in presidential-congressional relations. Readers of...

• Remaking Congress: Change and Stability in the 1990s

  Author:Paul J. QuirkFrom:American Political Science Review (Vol. 90, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 1996919 words Book review Paul J. Quirk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The U.S. Congress in recent years has refused to sit still long enough to let political scientists paint an accurate portrait. Over the past two decades...

• Thurber, James A. Rivals for power: presidential-congressional relations

  Author:J.F. KrausFrom:CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Vol. 47, Issue 8)

  Apr. 2010242 words Book review, Brief a... 1160L47-4712 JK585 2009-13651 CIP Thurber, James A. Rivals for power: presidential-congressional relations. 4th ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. 385p index afp IS8N 9780742561410, $90.00; ISBN 9780742561427 pbk, $34.95...

• Camelot to Gridlock: significant Choice reviews on the presidency

  From:CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Vol. 49, Issue 10)

  June 201222,904 words Book review 1200LFor more than a decade, Choice's June issue has featured a selection of reviews from the Choice archive on a topic of significant current interest. With the U.S. presidential campaign in full swing and the fall election...