Preston Jones - CLEP American Government w/ Online Practice Exams

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Preston Jones, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of History

John Brown University

Siloam Springs, Arkansas

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Preston Jones has been a Fulbright scholar and a fellow of the Pew Program in Religion and American History. He received his doctorate in History from the University of Ottawa (Canada) in 1999 and an M.A. in History from California State University at Sonoma in 1995. Dr. Jones has taught courses in European, American, and world history at the secondary and university levels. He also teaches Latin. He has published over 200 articles in scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers. Currently he teaches at John Brown University in Arkansas.

AUTHORS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The following students of mine lent this project small but significant assistance: James Cooke, Chris Cox, Brianna Knott, Michael Morriss, Kelsey Norbash, Emily Nuss, Abigail Roth, Karissa Schmoe, and Kristen Starkey.

Jacob Little and Abigail Jeppsen provided more substantial help.

Most of all, I am grateful for the work of Kelly Neighbors, my teachers assistant, and the patience and goodwill of Diane Goldschmidt, my editor at REA.

Inevitably, this book is a synthesis of syntheses. I relied very much on the following excellent textbooks and am grateful to these scholars for their labors:

Barbara Bardes et al., American Government and Politics Today (Belmont, CA: Cengage Higher Education, 2009);

Kenneth Dautrich and David A. Yalof, American Government: Historical, Popular and Global Perspectives (Belmont, CA: Cengage Higher Education, 2009);

Kenneth Janda et al., The Challenge of Democracy: Government in America (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2008);

David M. Kennedy et al., American Pageant (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002); and

Peverill Squire, et al., Dynamics of Democracy (Cincinnati: Atomic Dog Publishing, 2001).

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Passing the CLEP American Government Exam

CHAPTER 1

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