Contemporary American Politics and Society: Issues and Controversies

Singh's text treats a coherent set of issues together, offering greater integration, and a broader framework, namely the culture war. McKay's more incoherent and spread more thinly across a larger ranger of often unrelated topics. *first to deal with these issues in depth with the key issues in American society ie gun control, capital punishment, abortion *first to deal with more issues that are especially contemporary like gay rights, pornography and drugs. *innovative pedagogy and design to assist student learning including extensive use of weblinks *Completely up-to-date with the Bush presidency and post-September 11