American Politics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Richard Valellyis Claude C. Smith '14 Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College.His publications includePrinceton Readings in American Politics(2009),The Two Reconstructions:  The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement(2004), which won several prizes, andRadicalism in the States: The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party and the American Political Economy(1989).