The Best Civics & Citizenship Political Books 2025

1. Loose Leaf for We the People: An Introduction to American Government, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - We the People by Thomas Patterson is a concise approach to American Government emphasizing critical thinking through relevant examples that appeal to today's students. This extremely readable program provides opportunities to engage with the political process through tools that help students learn how to think about politics, utilizing digital resources that connect students with the material in a highly personalized way.

Loose Leaf for We the People: An Introduction to American Government, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

2. The Enduring Debate: Classic and Contemporary Readings in American Politics, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - The Enduring Debate, Eighth Edition, offers a wide range of readings, with nearly 50 percent new to this edition, on the key topics of the American government course.

The Enduring Debate: Classic and Contemporary Readings in American Politics, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

3. Politics in America, 2014 Elections and Updates Edition (10th Edition), Pre-Owned (Paperback)

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Politics in America, 2014 Elections and Updates Edition (10th Edition), Pre-Owned (Paperback)

4. Civics : Government and Economics in Action, Used [Hardcover]

Civics: Government and Economics in Action provides an engaging, current, and relevant look at the foundations of American government, citizenship, and the American economic and legal systems. The program combines an accessible narrative and engaging visual design with a wide variety of instructional tools -- from workbooks to interactive technology -- to motivate students to participate, make decisions, and take action both in and out of the classroom.

Civics : Government and Economics in Action, Used [Hardcover]

5. Improving Government Performance : An Owner's Manual, Used [Paperback]

The Clinton administration's National Performance Review of the federal government (also called the Reinventing Government Initiative) is the eleventh effort this century to improve the executive branch and reform the federal service. Most previous efforts have faltered. How can present and future recommendations avoid the same fate? This book provides practical and timely guidance to those trying to improve government performance. The focus of successful attempts, the authors argue, should be sustained evolution, not bursts of invention aimed at sweeping transformation. Specific proposals address ways to change government over the long term, ways to streamline bureaucracy, attract more resourceful and innovative workers, and make agencies more responsive to their customers, the citizens.

Improving Government Performance : An Owner's Manual, Used [Paperback]

6. Civic Ideals : Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (Yale Isps Series) [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Tracing the political struggles over American citizenship laws from the colonial period through to the Progressive era, this text shows that for much of the nation's history, most adults were legally denied access to full citizenship solely because of their race, ethnicity or gender.

Civic Ideals : Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (Yale Isps Series), Used [Hardcover]

7. World Citizenship and Mundialism : A Guide to the Building of a World Community, Used [Hardcover]

Roberts seeks to show how and why world citizenship and mundialism--the building of global institutions--are essential for the human race to solve the growing problems of the environment, international violence, and other major world challenges. World citizenship is described from its origins, and its importance to solving current problems is made clear. Its necessary connection to federalism and democracy is stressed, while the inevitable consequent requirement of mundialism is discussed and emphasized. Mundialism describes the creation of structures needed by the emerging world community; it means, as Roberts points out, working for a new political organization of humankind involving the transfer of certain parts of national sovereignty to a World Federal Authority. This is an important synthetic and original work that will be of concern to those interested in world citizenship and peace issues.

World Citizenship and Mundialism : A Guide to the Building of a World Community, Used [Hardcover]

8. Twenty-Five Lessons in Citizenship: 1997-1998 (99th Edition) [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. For over 75 years, these lessons have helped countless immigrants pass their citizenship exams. This latest version reflects the recent changes to the naturalization process and has been updated in both content and government office listings.

Twenty-Five Lessons in Citizenship: 1997-1998 (99th Edition) [Paperback - Used]

9. Citizenship in the Western Tradition: Plato to Rousseau [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Intended for both general readers and students, Peter Riesenberg's instructive book surveys Western ideas of citizenship from Greek antiquity to the French Revolution. It is striking to observe the persistence of important civic ideals and institutions over a period of 2,500 years and to learn how those ideals and institutions traveled over space and time, from the ancient Mediterranean to early modern France, England, and America.

Citizenship in the Western Tradition: Plato to Rousseau, Used [Paperback]

10. Citizen's Handbook [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. This invaluable reference book contains the complete text and concise explanations of The Declaration of Independence, The United States Constitution and amendments, Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address, and 17 more history-making documents and speeches.

The Citizen's Handbook, Used [Paperback]