Summary: Written by experienced teachers, authors and examiners, Advanced TopicMasters take students beyond the basic textbooks. Each title explores the key questions and debates surrounding the topic, helping students to identify, analyse, interpret and evaluatie the material presented. These skills are developed through a series of short, source-based tasks that appear in each chapter and are accompanied by guidance notes on how to tackle the questions.
Will help students to: master key topicsWill help students to: make best use of up-to-date analysis and dataWill help students to: improve coursework and exam preparation through specially tailored exercises
Will help students to: master key topics
Will help students to: make best use of up-to-date analysis and data
Will help students to: improve coursework and exam preparation through specially tailored exercises
Table of Contents: IntroductionWhat does anyone need to become president?Why do presidents bother with the cabinet?How can presidents win in Congress?What happened to the imperial presidency?What has changed in the presidency since the 1960s?George W. Bush: success or failure?What makes a good president?
About the Author(s): Anthony J. Bennett, an experienced teacher and examiner, has been writing on American politics for over 20 yeras. His other publications include the highly successful A2 US Government & Politics (3rd edition) textbook, the US Government & Politics Annual Survey and the AS US Government & Politics Exam Revision Note, all published by Philip Allan Updates.