Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying
advice to presidents and policy makers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient …

Murray Weidenbaum has been a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the
Center for Strategic and International Studies, a speaker at meetings at the Brookings …

The men of [the] Brookings [Institution] did it by analysis, by painstaking research, by
objective writing, by an imagination that questioned the “going” way of doing things, and …

Economists and political observers in recent years have bemoaned the decline of American
competitiveness in traditional industries such as steel, automobiles, and textiles. Some of …

While think tanks, in recent years, have become “a global phenomenon,” US think tanks are
distinguished from their counterparts in other countries by their ability “to participate directly …

Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado provide an incisive analysis of the Right's rise to
power. The authors show that, since the sixties, the Left has had little to do with setting the …

The Fifth Estate: Think Tanks, Public Policy, and Governance is a comprehensive look at
think tanks and the important role they play in shaping public policy and public discourse in …

From Simon & Schuster, The Idea Brokers is James A. Smith's exploration of think tanks and
the rise of the new policy elite. Tracing the rise of the think tank from the turn of the century to …

The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall
Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of …

This volume chronicles and analyzes the development of think tanks and public policy
research organizations, while exploring the impact think tanks have on politics, public …