| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

You have not been recognized as a subscriber to JAH online. About 208 words from this article are provided below; about 366 words remain.

If you are a individual member of the Organization of American Historians, you may:: • login here if you have already registered for online access.; • Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time.
If you are not a member of the Organization of American Historians, you can:: • Join the OAH and receive many member benefits including print and electronic issues of the Journal of American History.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two-hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the Journal of American History (86.1-present). Note: the Research Pass does not provide access to JSTOR's holdings of the Journal of American History.
Instititutions can:: • Subscribe to this journal and receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.

| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Our Enemies and US: America's Rivalries and the Making of Political Science. By Ido Oren. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. xiv, 234 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8014-3566-8.)

As a rule, American political scientists have not shown much interest in the history of their discipline. In the last two decades, however, that has begun to change, as a small band of political scientists (most of whom are, more precisely, political theorists) have made intriguing inquiries into their discipline's past. Ido Oren's Our Enemies and US is the latest addition to a short but growing list of histories of political science as an academic discipline. It fits nicely alongside and complements David Ricci's The Tragedy of Political Science: Politics, Scholarship, and Democracy (1984), Raymond Seidelman's Disenchanted Realists: Political Science and the American Crisis, 1884–1984 (1985), James Farr and Raymond Seidelman (eds.), Discipline and History: Political Science in the United States (1993), Farr, John Dryzek, and Stephen Leonard (eds.), Political Science in History: Research Programs and Political Traditions (1995), and David Easton, John G. Gunnell, and Michael B. Stein (eds.), Regime and Discipline: Democracy and the Development of Political Science (1995), as well as more synoptic surveys such as Dorothy Ross's The Origins of American Social Science (1991).

. . .

There are about 366 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.