AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR PRESERVATION SECOND EDITIONCook, William W.Item #: 482 Pages: 3v. Published: Getzville; William S. Hein & Co., Inc.; 2005. Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE Sample Content This work identifies those institutions that the author haddetermined to be distinctively American, followed by aninteresting and detailed analysis of the forces thataffected them. This valuable first edition was followed byan impressive second edition (Hein Item #482), which cameinto being after the author read an additional 800 books onthe institutions that he had named in the orginal.In this two-volume second edition, Cook wrote in hopes ofraising the national consciousness about the existence ofexclusive U.S.-based institutions, dispelling the notionthat all American ideas have their basis in Europeancustoms. For the original edition, see Hein Item #482. Please contact us to request purchasing information. |