Suggested Readings

The following readings supplement those suggested in Chapter 8 of the text.

  • Carter, Jimmy. Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

  • Kepel, Gilles. Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam. Translated by Anthony Roberts. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.

  • Lakoff, George. Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

  • McCombs, Maxwell, Lance Holbert, Spiro Kiousis, and Wayne Wanta. The News and Public Opinion: Media Effects on Civic Life. New York: Polity, 2011.

  • Nye, Joseph, Philip Zelikow, and David King, eds. Why People Don’t Trust Government. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

  • Parenti, Michael. The Culture Struggle. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2006.

  • Stimson, James A. Tides of Consent: How Public Opinion Shapes American Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

  • Weisband, Edward, and Courtney Thomas. Political Culture and the Making of the Modern Nation State. New York: Paradigm, 2014.