“American Government: Your Voice, Your Future”

Two assumptions I made 20 years ago that are no longer valid

In the late 90s, I decided to write an American Government textbook that I hoped would inject life into what many students felt was the dull and distant subject of politics.

After several years of shopping my proposal to conventional publishers, I signed on with a startup whose vision for revolutionizing the textbook industry dovetailed with my vision fo…