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Through a series of nineteen carefully chosen vignettes, Stephen E. Frantzich portrays citizens from every walk of life-rich and poor, old and young, black and white, male and female, left and right, famous and obscure engaged in extraordinary civic activity. Their causes run the gamut from civil rights to flag burning, from the Internet to the environment-but their common cause is the fact that they creatively entered the arena of national public policy making and made a difference.
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Hoping to counter political cynicism among his students and readers, Frantzich (political science, U.S. Naval Academy) profiles a variety of individuals who have intervened in the U.S. political process in order to promote their policy preferences. He has chosen his profiles in order to demonstrate the range of entry points into the process, describing efforts to change public opinion, the founding of interest groups, political campaigns, congressional letter writing activities, referendum campaigns, judicial suits, and other activities. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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