Paul Soifer

I picked up American Government (Cliffs Quick Review) as a refresher. I thought I'd forgotten enough from high school too make diving into a more involved government book foolhardy (especially with stuff by Thomas Paine and John Locke on my list). In the end It doesn't seem like I needed something so basic.

This covers the exact stuff my old textbook did (it was published in 1997) and though it covers a wide range the extreme brevity of it's coverage means some of the explanations are misleading and a few were down right wrong. It did give me a few good ideas about what else I'd be interested in reading and there were a few neat nugats. I hadn't known Jews and Catholics weren't allowed to vote until the mid 1800's.… (more)