Above title on cover: The Daily show with Jon Stewart presents. The book is presented as a text book with discussion questions and classroom activities.

Study guide -- Foreword / Thomas Jefferson -- Democracy before America -- The founding of America -- The President : king of democracy -- Congress : quagmire of freedom -- The judicial branch : it rules -- Campaigns and elections : America changes the sheets -- The media : democracy's valiant vulgarians -- The future of democracy : four score and seven years from now -- The rest of the world : international house of horrors.