Landmark Legislation 1774-2012: Major U.S. Acts and Treaties / Edition 2

by Stephen W. Stathis

Overview

The Second Edition of this renowned treasure trove of information about the most important laws and treaties enacted by the U.S. Congress now deepens its historical coverage and examines an entire decade of new legislation. Landmark Legislation 1774-2012 includes additional acts and treaties chosen for their historical significance or their precedential importance for later areas of major federal legislative activity in the over 200 years since the convocation of the Continental Congress.

Brand new chapters expand coverage to include the last five numbered Congresses (10 years of activity from 2003-2012), which has seen landmark legislation in the areas of health insurance and health care reform; financial regulatory reform; fiscal stimulus and the Temporary Asset Relief Program; federal support for stem cell research; reform of federal financial support for public schools and higher education; and much more.

Features & Benefits:

• Each chapter covers one of the numbered Congresses with a historical essay, followed by the major acts of that Congress arranged in chronological order of passage – with each act summarized.
• A Finder’s Guide summarizes all of the acts and treaties into approximately 40 separate topical policy areas.
• The work’s extensive bibliography has been expanded and updated.

This one-volume resource is a must-have for any public or academic library, especially those with strong American history or political science collections.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452292304
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/21/2014
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	568
Product dimensions:	11.60(w) x 14.80(h) x 2.10(d)

About the Author

For nearly four decades Stephen W. Stathis was a specialist in American history for the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress, where he held both research and managerial positions. Besides Landmark Legislation, he is the author of Landmark Debates in Congress: From the Declaration of Independence to the War in Iraq; CRS at 100: The Congressional Research Service; Informing the Legislative Debate Since 1914, and a broad range of articles in peer-reviewed journals, and encyclopedias as well as pieces for the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor Weekly, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Deseret News, Washington Star-News, and American Heritage.

Editorial Reviews

In just a single volume, Landmark Legislation effectively covers hundreds of the most significant pieces of legislation and treaties in US history, beginning with the Continental Congress in 1774 and concluding with the first Obama Administration in 2012. Some of the legislation has had a far-reaching impact, such as the 14th Amendment; other legislation was significantly more important at the time of passage, such as the Greek-Turkish Aid Act of 1947. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students; general readers.

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