%0 Journal Article %T J. M. Gratale on N. ColesĄ¯ s Interpreting Political Events in the United States %J European Journal of American Studies %D 2009 %I European Association for American Studies %R 10.4000/ejas.7621 %X Norman Coles. Interpreting Political Events in the United States: Critical Debate and Representative Democracy. Sussex Academic Press, 2009, 79pp.At first glance, two things struck me about Norman ColesĄ¯s volume. The first is its rather long title, whereas the second point concerns the bookĄ¯s length; including the appendices, bibliography and index, it amounts to only seventy-nine pages. In the first case, long titles are not necessarily problematic, providing the narrative which follows... %U http://ejas.revues.org/7621