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10/29/01

SLU PROFESSOR CO-AUTHOR OF TEXTBOOK ON POLITICS

CANTON - St. Lawrence University Professor of Government 
Alan L. Draper is the co-author of the newest edition of 
the textbook The Politics of Power, published by Wadsworth.
	Used in courses on American government, the publisher 
says that the book "covers all the standard topics - the 
justice system, the workings of Congress, political parties, 
elections, the executive branch, and the power of the 
president - while challenging students to think about those 
institutions within the context of its larger, overarching 
theme of power."
	The book has been updated to include information about 
the 2000 elections, and highlights major changes in American 
politics since the publication of the previous edition: the 
emergence of the U.S. as the lone superpower in a more 
interconnected world; the increasing importance of money in 
American politics; the more ideological partisan and 
confrontational nature of American politics; and the growing 
acceptance of the virtue of markets.
	Draper is also the author of A Rope of Sand: The 
AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education, 1955-1967 (1989) 
and Conflict of Interests: Organized Labor and the Civil 
Rights Movement in the South, 1954-68 (1994). He is a graduate 
of the University of Wisconsin and holds two master's degrees 
and the Ph.D. from Columbia, and won St. Lawrence's J. Calvin 
Keene Award in 1996.

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