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Research in progress for a book on individual acts of courage and conscience “Ogunquit: Then and Now,” co-authored with Kathryn M. Severson and Susan D. Meffert, Arcadia Press, spring 2009 American Prince, American Pauper: The Contemporary Vice Presidency and Presidential Relations, revision of American Prince, American Pauper:The Contemporary Vice Presidency in Perspective (see below), spring 2010 Research under way on a book dealing with 9/11, civil liberties and the American Presidency Understanding American Government, 5th ed., text and Study Guide, Horizon Textbook Publishers, spring 2011 Understanding American Government, 4th ed., text and Study Guide, Horizon Textbook Publishers, spring, 2009 Understanding American Government, 3d ed., text and Study Guide, Horizon Textbook Publishers, expected summer, 2007 Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Public Policy, Justice, and the Law. McGrawHill/Dushkin, November, 2005 Understanding American Government, 2d ed., text and Study Guide, Horizon Textbook Publishers, Fall 2005 Understanding American Government text and Study Guide, Horizon Textbook Publishers, Fall, 2004 “Civil Disobedience and The Rule of Law: Tensions Between Two Strains of American Thought,”chapter contribution to The Moral Authority of Government: Moorhead Kennedy, R. Gordon Hoxie, and Brenda Repland, eds., Transaction Publishers, 2000 American Prince, American Pauper: The Contemporary Vice Presidency in Perspective, Greenwood/Praeger Press, 1985 “American Hatred, American Shame: The Japanese-American Evacuation and Relocation During World War II,” a case study used as a supplement in several of my courses, e.g., American Politics; Political Leaders and Political Movements;” “Public Policy.” (The thrust of the work uses the episode as a case study of the willingness of a people to deny others’ constitutional rights during periods of crisis/fear/anger) “The Vice Presidency in the Third Century,” chapter contribution to The Presidency in Transition, James P. Pfiffner and R. Gordon Hoxie, eds, Center for the Study of the Presidency, 1988 “Woodrow Wilson,” chapter contribution to Popular Images of American Presidents, William C. Spragens, ed., Greenwood/Praeger Press, 1988 Republication of “Perspectives on the Vice Presidency,” included in a volume entitled The Presidency Today, David Kozak and Kenneth W. Ciboski, eds., NelsonHall Publishers, 1984 “Chief,” a simulation game on the American Presidency, included in a volume of political science simulations, Simple Simulations, Charles Wolcott, ed., American Political Science Association, Washington, D. C., 1980
Articles: • “Rescuing the Underclass,” Op-Ed article, Sunday Boston Globe, December, 1996 • “President Bush at Work: A Lesson on the American Presidency,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, winter, 1991 • “The Separation of Powers in the United States,” a publication for the United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C., 1990 • “American First Ladies,” a publication for the United States Information Agency, Washington, D. C., 1990 • “Dan Quayle: Administration Spokesman,” The Boston Globe, May, 1989 • “Presidency and Congress,” a publication for the United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C., 1988 • “Harry S. Truman and the Contemporary Vice Presidency,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, winter, 1988 • “The Voters Decide: Americans Select a President,” a publication for the United States Information Agency, Washington, D. C., 1985 • “The American Voter: A Profile,” a publication for the United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C., 1983 • “Factors Shaping the Contemporary American Presidency,” a publication for the United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C., 1983 • “The Humphrey Vice Presidency,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, fall, 1982 • “Perspectives on the Vice Presidency,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, fall, 1982 • “Vice Presidency Gains – But Is Subject to Presidential Whim,’ Op-Ed article, The Atlanta Constitution, September 29, 1981 • “Abolish the Vice Presidency?” Presidential Studies Quarterly, spring, 1979 • “The Vice Presidency: Walter Mondale in the Lion’s Den,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, winter, 1979 • “The Mondale Vice Presidency: Is the Die Cast?” Presidential Studies Quarterly, spring/summer, 1977 • “The Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Opening a Pandora’s Box,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, fall, 1976 -Reviews: • Review of In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan, William E. Leuchtenberg, author, Presidential Studies Quarterly, summer, 1985 • Review of Letters from the Hill Country: The Correspondence of Rebekah and Lyndon Baines Johnson, Philip R. Rulon, ed., Presidential Studies Quarterly, winter, 1985 • Review of Studying the Presidency, George C. Edwards, III and Stephen J. Wayne, eds., Presidential Studies Quarterly, winter, 1984 • Review of The Virginia Papers on the Presidency, vol. V and vol. VVI, Kenneth W. Thompson, eds., Presidential Studies Quarterly, winter, 1984 • Review of The Presidency and Information Policy, Harold Relyea, author, Government Publications Review, Vol. 9, no. 2, 1982
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Review of George C. Wallace and the Politics of Powerlessness: The Wallace Campaigns for the Presidency, 1944-1976, Jody Carlson, author; Presidential Studies Quarterly, fall, 1980 Review of The Road to the Whiter House, Stephen J. Wayne, author, Presidential Studies Quarterly, fall, 1980 Review of Rockefeller of New York, Robert H. Connery and Gerald Benjamin, authors; Presidential Studies Quarterly, fall, 1980 Review of The Truman White House: The Administration of the Presidency, 194553; Francis J. Heller, ed., Presidential Studies Quarterly, summer, 1980
Panel Participation/Paper Presentations/Special Lectures: • “A Heartbeat Away: The U. S. Vice Presidency,” International Journal of Arts and Sciences conference, Salzburg, Austria, May, 2011 • “Vice Presidents and First Ladies,” Panel Discussant, Northeast Political Science Association, Newport, Rhode Island, April, 2010. • “Religion and Politics,” Panel Chair, Northeast Political Science Association, Newport, Rhode Island, April, 2010. • “Terrorism, Rhetoric, and the Imperial Presidency,” paper presented at an international conference on “Interdisciplinary Analyses of Aggression & Terrorism,” co-sponsored by the Coloquios Internationales Sobre Conflicto Y Agresion (CICA) and the Society for Terrorism Research (STR). Madrid, Spain, September 2007 • “9/11 and the Imperial Presidency,” lecture at the University of Nuremberg at Ehrlingen, Germany, December 2006. • Visiting Professor, American University Washington Semester Program (summer 1998 and summer 2006) • “Sex and Violence on TV,” lecture as part of “Television and the Shaping of Modern America,” The American Studies Institute, John F. Kennedy Library, July, 1996 • “History in the First Person: An Interview with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.” John F. Kennedy Library; moderator and panelist, spring, 1992 • “Leadership ’92,” panel discussant, Twenty-Third Annual Student Symposium, Center for the Study of the Presidency, Washington, D.C., March 20-22, 1992 (panel: “Roles of the Vice President”) • “America’s Bill of Rights at 200 Years and the New World Order,” panel discussant, Twenty-Second Annual Student Symposium, Center for the Study of the Presidency, Washington, D. C., March 22-24, 1991 (panel: “National Security and Freedom of the Press”) • “Congress and the Presidency: The 1950s and the 1990s,” Twenty-Fifth Annual Leadership Conference,” Center for the Study of the Presidency, Austin, Texas, October 26-28, 1990 (panel: “Presidents and First Ladies at Work”) • “The FDR and JFK Media Presidencies: The Lingering Legacies,” lecture delivered before the Reading College Club, Reading, Massachusetts, winter, 1990 • “Leadership,” lecture for the “Women in Politics Program,” Boston College, fall, 1989; fall, 1990; spring, 1991
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“The Presidency at 200 Years,” panel discussant, Twentieth Annual Student Symposium, Center for the Study of the Presidency, Washington, D.C., March 17-19, 1989 (panel: “The President and Domestic and Economic Policy”) “The Presidency in Transition,” panel discussant, Center for the Study of the Presidency, Nineteenth Annual Leadership Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, November 11-13, 1988 (panel: “1988 Elections”) (also served as Coordinator of Local Arrangements) “Spots, Sound Bites and Pseudoevents: The Media and Campaign ’88,” forum participant, Tufts University, November, 1988 “Election ’88 Analysis,” a lecture at Post College, Waterbury, Connecticut, November, 1988 “Teaching About the American Presidency,” moderator and panelist, John F. Kennedy Library, October, 1988 “The Presidency and Vice Presidency in Perspective,” a lecture for the “Symposium on the Presidency,” sponsored by the United States Department of the Interior, held at the Adams National Historical Site, Quincy, Massachusetts, September, 1988 “Considerations on the Bicentennial,” panel discussant, Center for the Study of the Presidency,” National Leadership Conference jointly sponsored by the Carter Presidential Library, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 1986 (panel: “The Presidency, Human Rights, and the Constitution”) “After Geneva: Congress, The Presidency and National Security Policy,” panel discussant, Center for the Study of the Presidency, Seventeenth Annual Student Symposium, Washington, D.C., April 12-14, 1985 “Eleanor Roosevelt: Activist, Democrat, Humanitarian,” panel moderator, “The Early Years: 1984-1945,” conference marking the centennial of the birth of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, held at the John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts, October 22, 1984 “Campaign ’84: The Contest for National Leadership,” panel discussant, Center for the Study of the Presidency, Fifteenth Annual Student Symposium, March 23-25, 1984 “Presidential Style and Leadership,” Round Table, Northeastern Political Science Association, Newport, Rhode Island, April 13-14, 1984 (participation requested by The Institute for Leadership Studies, Farleigh Dickinson University) “The Contemporary Presidency,” panel discussant, John F. Kennedy Library program for high school students, November 10, 1983 “Congress and the Presidency: Considerations on the Separation of Powers,” panel discussant, Center for the Study of the Presidency, Fourteenth Annual Leadership Conference, Fourteenth Annual Leadership Conference, Denver. Colorado, October 28-30, 1983 Chair, panel on “The Roosevelt Presidency,” part of The Second Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. Symposium in American Politics, Boston College, October 14, 1983 “The Post-Watergate Vice Presidency: The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same,’ paper presented at the New England Political Science Association, April 22, 1983 “Shaping the Presidency: Parties, Personalities, Press,” panel discussant, Fourteenth Annual Student Symposium, Center for the Study of the Presidency, Washington, D. C., April 7-10, 1983 (panel: “Shaping the Presidency and National Defense Policy”)
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“The Media and the Modern Presidency,” paper presented at the Southwest Political Science Association, Houston, Texas, March 16-19, 1983 (later requested for microfilm/fiche listing by ERIC – Educational Resources Information Center), Boulder, Colorado, for Social Studies distribution) “The American Vice Presidency,” lecture delivered at the John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts, July, 1982 “The Institutional Presidency: The Cabinet, The Staff and the Vice Presidency,” panel discussant, Center for the Study of the Presidency, Thirteenth Annual Leadership Conference, in association with the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 5-7, 1982 (conference discussant; panel moderator: “Hubert H. Humphrey and the Institutional Vice Presidency”) “Separation of Powers and the Power to Govern,” panel discussant, Center for the Study of the Presidency, Thirteenth Annual Student Symposium, Washington, D.C., March 11-14, 1982 (two panels: “Separation of Powers and Foreign Policy,” and “Towards More Effective Government”) “Government and the Media,” panel discussant, Center for the Study of the Presidency, Twelfth Annual Leadership Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1618, 1981 “Independence and Interdependence in the 1980s: Canada, The Commonwealth, and the United States,” panel discussant, Center for the Study of the Presidency, Twelfth Annual Student Symposium, Washington, D.C., March 19-22, 1981 (two panels: “Independence and Interdependence in the 1980s,” and “Security Policies for the 1980s) “Comparative Executive Leadership: The Prime Minister and the President,” panel discussant and concluding roundtable member, Center for the Study of the Presidency Eleventh Annual National Leadership Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, October 17-19, 1980 “National Leadership and Priorities,” panel discussant, Center for the Study of the Presidency, Tenth Annual Student Symposium, Washington, D. C., April 27-29, 1979 (two panels: “The President and Commander-in-Chief and Chief Diplomat” and “The Exercise of Presidential Power”) “The Exercise of Presidential Power: Truman, Eisenhower and Today,” panel discussant, Center for the Study of the Presidency, Tenth Annual Leadership Symposium, Kansas City, Missouri, October 5-7, 1978
Miscellaneous: • Political consultant in the production of the documentary entitled “Campaign Fever,” broadcast on WCVB-TV, Channel 5, fall, 1984 • “Using Simulation Games in the College and University Classroom: A Workshop, lecture and workshop direction at the American Society for Public Administration (APSA) Regional Meeting, Albany, New York, October, 1978 • “Simulation Games in the Classroom: A Workshop,” Merrimack College, November, 1978 • “Simulation Games in the Classroom: A Workshop,” Bryant College, October, 1978 • “Simulation Games for the Classroom: A Television Experience,” discussion at the annual conference of the North American Simulation and gaming Association (NASAGA), October 14, 1977, held at the Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts
Media Appearances: • “The U. S. Senate,” radio interview with George Knight, spring 2010 • “The Kennedy Legacy,” “Ireland Today” (Dublin, Ireland news program) • “The American Presidency and Afghanistan.” BBC-TV, London, England • Participation in a one-hour PBS documentary on the American Vice Presidency, “Running Mate,” initially aired during October, 1996 and repeated thereafter • Interview re: Republican vice presidential candidate selection, “The Connection,” with Christopher Lyden, NPR, August, 1996 • “The Vice Presidency and the 1996 Election,” Voice of American Radio interview (aired internationally), taped spring, 1996 • “The Legacy of Richard M. Nixon,” interview, New England Cable TV, 1994 • “The Legacy of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy,” interview, New England Cable TV, 1994 • “The Legacy of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,” interview, New England Cable TV, 1995 • “The Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis,” interview, New England Cable TV, 1992 • “The Kennedy Legacy,” appearance on “The Today Show,” NBC-TV, November 22, 1988 • “The 1988 Vice Presidential Selection,” Voice of American radio broadcast, taped summer, 1988 (and broadcast worldwide thereafter) • “Decision ’88,” Interview, “Point of View,” WLVI-TV, Channel 56, Boston, Massachusetts, March, 1988\ • “The Presidency and the Iran-Contra Affair,” Interview, “Point of New,” WLVI-TV, Channel 56, Boston, Massachusetts, December, 1987 • “Prospects for the Bush Presidential Candidacy,” Interview, “Focus, Voice of America radio broadcast, taped May, 1986 (and broadcast worldwide thereafter) • “Views on the Vice,” Interview, The Tab, July 24, 1984 • “The Ferraro Selection,” Interview, The San Francisco Examiner, June 17, 1984 • “The Ferraro Vice Presidential Selection,” Interview, The Tom Larson Show, July 1984 • “Vice Presidential Selection,” “Focus,” Voice of American radio broadcast, taped July 1984 (and broadcast worldwide thereafter) • “The Contemporary American Presidency,” Voice of America radio broadcast (taped March, 1982 (and broadcast worldwide thereafter) • “American renew,” commentary with Joelle Attinger, Time Magazine, Boston Correspondent, regarding the special Time issue of February 23, 1981, Interview, “Sunday Open House, WVCB-TV, Channel 5, Boston, Massachusetts, January 4, 1981 • “Prospects for the Bush Vice Presidency,” Interview, “The Tom Larson Show,” WSBK-TV, Channel 38, Boston, Massachusetts, December 19, 1980 • Prospects for the Bush Vice Presidency,” Interview, “Larson Sunday Night,” WSBK-TV, Channel 38, Boston, Massachusetts, December 19, 1980 • “Prospects for the Bush Vice Presidency,” Interview, “The Good Day! Show,” WCVB-TV, Channel 5, Boston, Massachusetts, December 17, 1980 • “Election Analysis,” Interview, “Sunday Open House,” WCVB-TV, Channel 5, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2, 1980
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“The American Vice Presidency,” Interview, “Nightscene,” with David Brudnoy, WRKO-TV, Channel 7, Boston, Massachusetts, October 12, 1980 ‘The Vice Presidency,” Interview, “The Tom Larson Show,” WSBK-TV, Channel 38, August 15, 1980 “Vice Presidency: A Job That Keeps Growing,” Interview, U.S. News & World Report, July 28, 1980 “How Much Should We Know About Candidates’ Personal Lives?” Interview, “The Good Day! Show,” SCVB-TV, Channel 5, Boston, Massachusetts, July 25, 1980 “The Vice Presidency in the 1980 Campaign,” Interview, “The Good Day! Show,” WCVB-TV, Channel 5, Boston, Massachusetts, July 16, 1980 “Simulations Games for the Classroom Teacher,” WNAC-TV, Channel 7, Boston, Massachusetts; WSMW-TV, Channel 27, Worcester, Massachusetts (re-run of the Fall, 1977 television course) Design and hosting of the weekly television course “Simulation Games for the Classroom Teacher,” WNAC-TV, Channel 7, Boston, Massachusetts; WSMW-TV, Channel 27, Worcester, Massachusetts, fall, 1977 “The Future of the American Vice Presidency,” Interview, “The Good Day” Show,” WCVB-TB, Channel 5, Boston, Massachusetts, December 24, 1976 (and nationally syndicated thereafter)