Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics Since 1968 is an insightful consideration of the events people, and policy debates that have shaped and continue to influence, even control, the current political era.

• Rejects conventional wisdom that the dominant force shaping recent American politics in the last half century has been the "rise of the Right"
• Considers the achievements and frustrations of each administration, from Nixon to Obama, in its assessment of contemporary U.S. politics
• Features authorship by an expert scholar in the field who takes a thematic rather than a partisan approach to recent American politics
• Offers a concise, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date synthesis of the literature in the field and concludes with a comprehensive bibliographical essay, an aid to student research