Looking for government in all the wrong places / Brian Balogh
Transportation and the uniting of the nation / Zachary M. Schrag
Uncle Sam at the blackboard : the federal government and American education / Jonathan Zimmerman
Banking on government / Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Helmets : government power and the promise for security / Kevin Boyle
The right to a decent home / Thomas J. Sugrue
Solving the nation's number one health problem(s) / Karen Kruse Thomas
Culture for the people : how government has fostered the arts and culture / Steven Conn
From Franklin to Facebook : the civic mandate for American communications / Richard R. John
From endeavor to achievement and back again : government's greatest hits in peril
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