AP US Government Summer Assignment

AP GOVERNMENT 2014-2015

Mrs. Van Dyke

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT SUMMER 2014 ASSIGNMENT

Students in the upcoming course are to do the following:

1. Read the U.S. Constitution and create for yourself a basic understanding of the document that contains the guiding principles of American self-rule. Make sure this is entirely complete. Use this website for the assignment: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html

1. Read the following book, and complete the accompanying study guide.

Game Change

Authors:  John Heilemann and Mark Halperin

ISBN:  9780061733642

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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (2009), by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, is the story of the 2008 presidential election. Game Change was made into a film, do NOT watch the film instead, the book is MUCH more comprehensive and interesting.  In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama. The shocking fall of the House of Clinton—and the improbable resurrection of Hillary as Obama's partner and America's face to the world. The mercurial performance of John McCain and the mesmerizing emergence of Sarah Palin. Based on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, Game Change is a reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel. Character driven and dialogue rich, replete with extravagantly detailed scenes, this is the occasionally shocking, often hilarious, ultimately definitive account of the campaign of a 2008.