Excerpts from Jimmy Carter's presidential inaugural address on January 20, 1977.

Mark Leibovich covers Washington, D.C., as chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine-and has written about the city's bipartisan lust for power, cash, and notoriety in a book that everyone who's anyone in our nation's capital is talking about: This Town. This is the story of how Washington became an occupied city, its hold on reality distorted by greed and ambition; it pulls no punches and names names, revealing the movers and shakers...

The U.S. Constitution is the world's oldest written charter of government in continuous effect. Much of the success of this document can be attributed to the way the Constitution has changed to meet the needs of the American people. The framers of the Constitution wisely anticipated the need to make changes to the Constitution as the world itself changed. Between 1787, when the Constitution was written, and the present time, thousands of proposed...

"This book explores America's history of using the Bible in politics, highlighting moments of proper practice and examples of deep misuse, and helps us apply the Scriptures in our political participation"--

Excerpts from Richard Nixon's first presidential inaugural address on January 20, 1969.

This program examines America's fascinating national experience with third parties and independent candidates, covering more than 200 years of American political history. The program looks back to the birth of the two-party system and explores the most influential third-party movements in American political history, including Abraham Lincoln and the rise of the Republicans, Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party, Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrats and Henry...

Two movements once at the center of our society-liberal politics and American Christianity-have gone astray, say Eric Alterman and Ross Douthat. On this edition of Moyers & Company, each meets separately with Moyers to discuss the implications of this for American democracy. Alterman describes the grand aspirations and historical ironies that prompted him to write The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama....

Wall Street Journal columnist and bestselling author Kim Strassel argues how the all-out "Resistance" has become dangerously reckless in its obstruction of President Trump. Among the most consistent and aggressive criticisms of Donald Trump is that he is a threat to American democracy -- a human wrecking ball demolishing our most basic values and institutions. Resistance (At All Costs) makes the opposite case -- that it is Trump's critics, in their...

This seventh episode of The Campaign Series features key speeches from the 2012 Democratic National Convention by Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, Julian Castro, John Kerry, and John Lewis and from the 2012 Republican National Convention by Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Chris Christie, Condoleeza Rice, Rick Santorum, and Clint Eastwood.

This volume features five memorable speeches: John F. Kennedy's "Man Will Be on the Moon" speech; Neil Armstrong's speech on the occasion of NASA's 50th anniversary; Michelle Obama's "Why I Love Barack" speech; Marco Rubio's "Our Dreams Can Come True" speech; and David McCullough Jr.'s "You're Not Special" speech.