Updated in a new 14th edition, this book has been long considered the gold standard of political parties texts . It covers the historic 2008 Presidential campaign and election while looking ahead to assess what the shifting political winds have in store for the future of the major political parties and Americans’ political views.

玛乔丽·兰登·赫希（Marjorie Randon Hershey），美国印第安纳大学政治学系教授，1972年毕业于威斯康星大学，获博士学位。研究和教学集中在政治、竞选运动和选举等领域。主要著作有：《美国政党指南》（Guide to U. S. Political Parties ）、《驴象之争：美国政党政治》（Party Politics in America）、《竞选公职：竞选者的政治教育》（Running for Office: The Political Education of Campaigners）。 仇朝兵，中国社会科学院美国研究所研究员，主要研究领域为中美关系史、美国公共外交、美国与东南亚国家关系。 宋红美，中央财经大学国际合作处助理研究员。

玛乔丽·兰登·赫希（Marjorie Randon Hershey），美国印第安纳大学政治学系教授，1972年毕业于威斯康星大学，获博士学位。研究和教学集中在政治、竞选运动和选举等领域。主要著作有：《美国政党指南》（Guide to U. S. Political Parties ）、《驴象之争：美国政党政治》（Party Politics in America）、《竞选公职：竞选者的政治教育》（Running for Office: The Political Education of Campaigners）。 仇朝兵，中国社会科学院美国研究所研究员，主要研究领域为中美关系史、美国公共外交、美国与东南亚国家关系。 宋红美，中央财经大学国际合作处助理研究员。

玛乔丽·兰登·赫希（Marjorie Randon Hershey），美国印第安纳大学政治学系教授，1972年毕业于威斯康星大学，获博士学位。研究和教学集中在政治、竞选运动和选举等领域。主要著作有：《美国政党指南》（Guide to U. S. Political Parties ）、《驴象之争：美国政党政治》（Party Politics in America）、《竞选公职：竞选者的政治教育》（Running for Office: The Political Education of Campaigners）。 仇朝兵，中国社会科学院美国研究所研究员，主要研究领域为中美关系史、美国公共外交、美国与东南亚国家关系。 宋红美，中央财经大学国际合作处助理研究员。

Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America examines the idealisation of Asian America by its intellectuals, the saturation of Asian America with capitalist practices, and the challenges posed by Asian America's ideological diversity. Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals need to examine their own assumptions about race, culture, and politics, a...(展开全部)

Much of twentieth-century design was animated by the creative tension of its essential duality: is design an art or a science? In the postwar era, American architects sought to calibrate architectural practice to evolving scientific knowledge about humans and environments, thus elevating the discipline's stature and enmeshing their work in a progressive restructuring of society...(展开全部)

Much of twentieth-century design was animated by the creative tension of its essential duality: is design an art or a science? In the postwar era, American architects sought to calibrate architectural practice to evolving scientific knowledge about humans and environments, thus elevating the discipline's stature and enmeshing their work in a progressive restructuring of society...(展开全部)

Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocratic French lawyer, came to the United States in 1831 to study its penitentiary systems. His nine-month visit and subsequent reading and reflection resulted in Democracy in America (1835–40), a landmark masterpiece of political observation and analysis. Tocqueville vividly describes the unprecedented social equality he found in America a...(展开全部)