Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Governing America: An Introduction -- Part I. Thinking about the Field -- One: Beyond the Presidential Synthesis: Reordering Political Time -- Two: Clio's Lost Tribe: Public Policy History Since 1978 -- Three: History and Political Science: Together Again? -- Four: Rethinking the History of American Conservatism -- Five: What Political Science Can Learn from the New Political History -- Part II. Paying for Government: Taxes, Money, and Fiscal Restraint -- Six: The Uneasy Relationship: Democracy, Taxation, and State-Building Since the New Deal -- Seven: The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal: Fiscal Conservatism and the Roosevelt Administration, 1933-1938 -- Eight: "Where Is the Money Coming From?" The Reconstruction of Social Security Finance -- Nine: Paying for Medicare: Benefits, Budgets, and Wilbur Mills's Policy Legacy -- Part III. The Rules of the Game: The Politics of Process -- Ten: Seeds of Cynicism: The Struggle Over Campaign Finance, 1956-1974 -- Eleven: Bridging State and Society: The Origins of 1970s Congressional Reform -- Twelve: Without Restraint: Scandal and Politics in America -- Thirteen: Seizing Power: Conservatives and Congress Since the 1970s -- Fourteen: How Conservatives Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Presidential Power -- Part IV. Politics and Policy: The Case of National Security -- Fifteen: Congress and the Politics of Troop Withdrawal, 1966-1973 -- Sixteen: Détente and Domestic Politics -- Seventeen: Conservatives, Carter, and the Politics of National Security -- Notes -- Index.