Gwen Ifill began her journalism career at the Boston Herald in 1977, covering race riots by telephone. It was too risky for a young black reporter to venture onto the grounds of South Boston High School. Thirty years later, a black man announced his candidacy for president of the United States. Obama is the leading edge of a sea change in American politics, but his is by no means the only story. Ifill offers incisive, detailed profiles of other prominent...

Each letter of the slphabet is represented by important people, ideas, and events in the history of the United States.

Contains twenty-one articles that provide a variety of opinions on the topic of government spending, and discusses ways that politics affects spending, how tax dollars are used, how spending policies affect the economy, and potential changes that will benefit future challenges.

Focuses on the writing of the United States Constitution and its adoption.

How Christians are changing the soul of American politics