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In the history of American environmentalism, Russell E. Train plays a starring role. Few individuals have been so influential in creating the United States' environmental policies and encouraging conservation efforts around the world. In this absorbing new biography, J. Brooks Flippen describes Trai... More

Jim Wright made his mark on virtually every major public policy issue in the later twentieth century—energy, education, taxes, transportation, environmental protection, civil rights, criminal justice, and foreign relations, among them. He played a significant role in peace initiatives in Central Ame... More

The rise and fall of a Texas Democrat: &“A definitive, richly detailed biography [and] an engrossing history that sheds light on our own fractious times.&” ―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)   A former Golden Gloves boxer and WWII bombardier, Jim Wright entered Congress to fight a different kind of ba... More

Using as their starting point a 1976 Newsweek cover story on the emerging politicization of evangelical Christians, contributors to Evangelicals and Presidential Politics engage the scholarly literature on evangelicalism from a variety of angles to offer new answers to persisting questions about the... More