Paul O Peterson

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Chicago's Wrigley Field

Race and Authority in Urban Politics: Community Relations and the War on Poverty

The Politics of School Reform, 1870-1940

The Politics of School Reform, 1870-1940

The Bible Burners

The Bible Burners

Voices at the Crossroads: First-Person, Dramatic Portrayals of Witnesses to Jesus' Death and Resurrection

Paul Peters

Paul Peterson, also known as St. Paul Peterson, is a musician best known for his memberships in the bands The Family and The Time. Born in Minneapolis...

Reformation in the Western World: An Introduction

The Reformation was the single most important event of the early modern period of Western civilization. What started out as a pastoral conflict about the sale of grace for money ultimately became a catalyst for the transformation of Western culture. In Reformation in the Western World, Paul Silas Pe...

Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning

Saving Schools traces the story of the rise, decline, and potential resurrection of American public schools through the lives and ideas of six mission-driven reformers: Horace Mann, John Dewey, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Shanker, William Bennett, and James Coleman. Yet schools did not become the...

The New American Democracy (7th Edition)

Updated in a new 7th edition, The New American Democracy offers a stimulating, analytical approach to American government and a unique perspective on contemporary politics with an emphasis on elections and their importance in the American political system. The authors -- among the most well-known an...

City Limits

Winner of the 1981 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book published in the United States on government, politics, or international affairs."City Limits radically reinterprets urban politics by deriving its dominant forces from the logic of the American federal structure. It is thereby abl...

Endangering Prosperity: A Global View of the American School

The relative deficiencies of U.S. public schools are a serious concern to parents and policymakers. But they should be of concern to all Americans, as a globalizing world introduces new competition for talent, markets, capital, and opportunity. In Endangering Prosperity, a trio of experts on intern...

Peter's Tomb Recently Discovered in Jerusalem: With Forward by Jason Kerrigan

A Reprint of Peter's Tomb Recently Discovered with a Forward by Jason Kerrigan

New American Democracy, The, Alternate Edition (7th Edition)

Updated in a new 7th edition, The New American Democracy offers a stimulating, analytical approach to American government and a unique perspective on contemporary politics with an emphasis on elections and their importance in the American political system. The authors -- among the most well-known an...

The Price of Federalism

What is the price of federalism? Does it result in governmental interconnections that are too complex? Does it create overlapping responsibilities? Does it perpetuate social inequalities? Does it stifle economic growth?To answer these questions, Paul Peterson sets forth two theories of federalism: f...