J. M. Gratale on N. Coles’ s Interpreting Political Events in the United States

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 Coles’s volume. The first is its rather long title, whereas the second point concerns the book’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...