Taking sides
Subtitle: clashing views on controversial political issues
By: edited, selected, and with introductions by George McKenna and Stanley Feingold
Edition: 8th ed.
Publisher: Dushkin Pub. Group
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9781561341191
Subjects: Politics and government; Right and left (Political science)
Other titles: Clashing views on controversial political issues.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Is American government dominated by big business? / Thomas Byrne Edsall, David Vogel; title: Has party reform succeeded? / William J. Crotty, Tom Wicker; title: Do political action committees undermine democracy? / Fred Wertheimer, Herbert E. Alexander; title: Do the news media have a liberal bias? / William A. Rusher, Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky; title: Does Congress need to be radically reformed? / Paula Dwyer, Douglas Harbrecht, Nelson W. Polsby; title: The presidency versus Congress : should divided government be ended? / James L. Sundquist, Richard P. Nathan; title: Does the government regulate too much? / Thomas Gale Moore, David Bollier, Joan Claybrook; title: Should the federal courts be bound by the "original intent" of the framers? / Robert H. Bork, Leonard W. Levy; title: Will tougher sentencing reduce crime? / Stanley C. Brubaker, Linda Rocawich; title: Is capital punishment justified? / Walter Berns, Mary Meehan; title: Is affirmative action reverse discrimination? / Stephen L. Carter, Herbert Hill; title: Should "hate speech" be protected? / Nat Hentoff, Stanley Fish; title: Should drugs be legalized? / Ethan A. Nadelmann, James Q. Wilson; title: Are the poor being harmed by welfare? / Robert Rector, Barbara Ehrenreich; title: Is the national debt a national liability? / Benjamin M. Friedman, Robert L. Bartley; title: Does the United States need socialized medicine? / Nancy Watzman, John C. Goodman; title: Was Roe v. Wade a mistake? / William H. Rehnquist, Harry A. Blackmun; title: Should there be a "wall of separation" between church and state? / Edd Doerr, George Goldberg; title: Should national self-interest be the basis of American foreign policy? / Alan Tonelson, Joshua Muravchik; title: Is America declining? / Edward N. Luttwak, Robert L. Bartley.