Open AccessBook Review: American Political Culture: An Encyclopedia
Author(s) -
Carla Buss
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.55n2.174
Subject(s) - politics , pluralism (philosophy) , culture of the united states , encyclopedia , phrase , melting pot , political culture , sociology , history , political science , media studies , environmental ethics , anthropology , law , epistemology , philosophy , ethnic group , linguistics
Anyone seeking reliable information on American political life since the 1970s will be pleased with Michael Shally-Jensen’s work, American Political Culture. This three-volume set covers topics from abortion to Israel Zangwill, the nineteenth-century author who coined the phrase “melting pot” and who appears in the entry for “Cultural Pluralism.”