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Fast Track: American Government is a one-stop guide meant to help you keep up with your courseor to accelerate your content expertise. Whether youre a crammer, visual learner, or high-level student looking for extra review, this book is filled to the brim with information that youll benefit from knowing (or brushing up on). Weve taken every opportunity to translate key content into friendly and succinct formats, from illustrations showing the inspirations for the Constitution to tables and flow charts highlighting key aspects of regulatory policy, and much more. In shortwhich is the point of this bookthink of the following material as a fantastic set of class notes.

This book is pocket-sized because its meant to be used whenever and wherever you want. Waiting on a tardy friend? Spend some time with the founding fathers! Have some time to spare before practice? Warm up with our How a Bill Becomes a Law Board Game! Whether you need it for a last-minute review or as a supplement for your class, youll find no judgment here. Remember: its never too late (or too early) to start studying.

What you wont find here are test-taking strategies or practice questions for a specific standardized test, like the AP or SAT Subject exams; for that kind of focus, check out our test-specific World History prep titles online or at your local bookstore.

This book opens with the most fundamental principles of American governmentthe Constitution (underpinnings, influences, inspirations, convention). It builds up from there and then branches off (heh) to explore the branches of government: Legislative, Executive, Judicial. Then we dive into Federalism and the Bill of Rights, plus Federalism today. Then we pivot to political belief systems, parties, interest groups, and mass media (including the power of social media).

After that, we look at The Congress, the Presidency, the Bureaucracy, and the Federal Courts, including the aforementioned hit game, How a Bill Becomes a Law. We close out with a whole lot of Public Policy and spending before we cover civil rights and civil liberties.