Gitelson, Alan R., Robert L. Dudley, and Melvin J. Dubnick AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: MYTHS AND REALITIES, 2016 Election (12th) Edition, Oxford University Press Published: January 2017 ©2018
Author’s Note:
Initiated in the mid-1980s with Houghton Mifflin, the basic American government textbook went through 12 editions and three publishers — Houghton Mifflin, Cengage, and Oxford University Press. Release date and copyright dates for textbooks such as this are misleading and often misstated on used book websites. Publishers typically use a legal loophole that allows them to apply a copyright date a year later than the actual release date. E.g., a 2015 text such as our 11th edition is called the 2014 Election edition but is published in January 2015 — and yet carries copyright of 2016. This seems to be standard practice…. To make matters more confusing, bookseller sites often use the actual year of release, e.g, that 2015 publication was at the booksellers warehouses in 2014, and so some note that as copyright date. In any case, the final edition (carrying a copyright of 2018) was set for release immediately following the 2016 election. in 2017 we were informed that a 13th edition would not be issued, and given the development in American government during the Trump years, I was thankful that we did not have to deal with developments over the next decade.
Publisher Blurb:
What the typical introductory-level student knows about American government and politics is often based on common myths that distort the reality of the political world. Rather than dismissing those myths as outright falsehoods, American Government: Myths and Realities, 2014 Election Edition, encourages students to confront their preconceived notions in order to think critically about government and politics. Clearly and distinctively woven into each chapter, the myths-and-realities theme provides a pedagogical framework that engages students with interesting conundrums while effectively covering the core concepts of American government.