The framers of the Constitution saw society as essentially hierarchical, led by landed gentry like themselves, yet we still obey their commands, two centuries and one civil war later. In On Constitutional Disobedience, Louis Michael Seidman argues that it’s time to stop.

In American Politics in the Age of Ignorance, David Schultz contends that policy making is shrouded in many myths and that policy makers often ignore ample research and evidence when it comes to legislating on a range of issues.

Richard Lingeman examines a brief but momentous and crowded time, the years between VJ Day and the beginning of the Korean War, describing how we got from there to here in The Noir Forties.

At a time when the conventional wisdom holds that the political system is hopelessly gridlocked with old ideas, Steven Johnson‘s, Future Perfect makes the timely and inspiring case that progress is still possible, and that new solutions are on the rise.

Journalist Sasha Issenberg tells the hidden story of the analytical revolution upending the way political campaigns are run in the 21st century in The Victory Lab. Later, a collection of quotes from Ronald Reagan’s most notable speeches is divided into topics such as God, the economy, pop culture, and politics in Ronald Reagan’s Wisdom for the Twenyt-First Century.

Former congressman, Mickey Edwards witnessed firsthand how important legislative battles can devolve into struggles not over principle but over party advantage in The Parties Versus the People.

Edited by Steven Conn and written by some of America’s leading scholars, the essays in To Promote the General Welfare explore the many ways government programs have improved the quality of life in America.

Arun Chaudhary, the first official White House videographer chronicles his time capturing behind-the-scenes moments of the president and his administration in First Cameraman.

Michael Grunwald reveals the vivid story behind President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus bill, one of the most important and least understood pieces of legislation in the history of the country in The New New Deal.

In The Obamians, James Mann tells the compelling story of the administration’s struggle to enact a coherent and effective set of policies in a time of global turmoil. Then Frederick Harris
puts Obama’s career in the context of decades of black activism, showing how his election undermined the very movement that made it possible in The Price of the Ticket.