Civic Minded: What Everyone Should Know about the US Government - Softcover

Fleischer, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798765611500

Verlag: Lerner Publishing Group, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

How do student loans work? What do sanctions do? Where does federal spending go, and who decides on the budget?

Author and established journalist Jeff Fleischer digs into these and other relevant civics topics to explain the history behind different processes and programs, what they look like today, and why it’s important to understand them.

Through engaging, well-researched text and related sidebars, this book will help you understand and join many ongoing political conversations in the US, from spending to citizenship to international relations and more.

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Jeff Fleischer is a Chicago-based author, editor, and journalist. He is the author of A Hot Mess: How the Climate Crisis Is Changing Our World (Zest Books, 2021), Votes of Confidence: A Young Person's Guide to American Elections (Zest Books, 2020 and 2016), Rockin' the Boat: 50 Iconic Revolutionaries (Zest Books, 2015) and The Latest Craze: A Short History of Mass Hysterias (Fall River Press, 2011). His fiction has appeared in more than seventy publications including The Chicago Tribune's Printers Row Journal, Shenandoah, The Saturday Evening Post, and So It Goes by the Kurt Vonnegut Library and Museum. He has a master's in magazine journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a bachelor's in both journalism and history from Indiana University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lerner Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798765611500
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312
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