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Know Your Government Books in Order

Know Your Government contains 15 books, published between 1988 and 2008. The first book is Environmental Protection Agency (1988) and the newest is Who Leads Our Country? (2008). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
15
Published
1988–2008
Pages on record
1,148 in 14 of 15 books
Reading time
19–29 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,148 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 14 of 15 titles with a page count on record.

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Know Your Government is a juvenile literature series about the institutions of the United States government. Its 15 books, published between 1988 and 2008, cover bodies including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Federal Reserve System. Jacqueline Laks Gorman is credited on 4 titles and Rebecca Stefoff on 2. Who Leads Our Country? (2008) is the last recorded entry.

How many Know Your Government books are there?

Know Your Government has 15 books, released between 1988 and 2008.

Know Your Government Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 15 Know Your Government books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Environmental Protection Agency by Kevin Law, book 1 of the Know Your Government series (1988)
  2. Cover of Food and Drug Administration by William Patrick, book 2 of the Know Your Government series (1988)
  3. Cover of The Drug Enforcement Administration by Rebecca Stefoff, book 3 of the Know Your Government series (1989)
  4. Cover of The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service by Eric Jay Dolin, book 4 of the Know Your Government series (1989)
  5. Cover of National Science Foundation by Patricia Barnes-Svarney, book 5 of the Know Your Government series (1989)
  6. Cover of U.S. Coast Guard by Rebecca Stefoff, book 6 of the Know Your Government series (1989)
  7. Cover of The U.S. Marine Corps, book 8 of the Know Your Government series (1989)
  8. Cover of Department of Education by Stephen J. Sniegoski, book 10 of the Know Your Government series (1999)
  9. Cover of The Department of Health & Human Services by Merle Broberg, book 11 of the Know Your Government series (1999)
  10. Cover of Why Do We Have Laws? by Jacqueline Laks Gorman, book 12 of the Know Your Government series (2007)
  11. Cover of Why Are Elections Important? by Jacqueline Laks Gorman, book 13 of the Know Your Government series (2008)
  12. Cover of What Are Your Basic Rights? by Jacqueline Laks Gorman, book 14 of the Know Your Government series (2008)
  13. Cover of Who Leads Our Country? by Jacqueline Laks Gorman, book 15 of the Know Your Government series (2008)
  1. 1
    Environmental Protection Agency1988 · 94 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198894
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  2. 2
    Food and Drug Administration1988 · 90 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198890
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  3. 3
    The Drug Enforcement Administration1989 · 102 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989102
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  4. 4
    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service1989 · 111 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989111
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  5. 5
    National Science Foundation1989 · 103 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989103
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  6. 6
    U.S. Coast Guard1989 · 105 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989105
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  7. 7
    The Federal Reserve System1989 · 102 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989102
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  8. 8
    The U.S. Marine Corps1989 · 127 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989127
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  9. 9
    The Commission on Civil Rights1992 · confirmed 1/4
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  10. 10
    Department of Education1999 · 93 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199993
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  11. 11
    The Department of Health & Human Services1999 · 125 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999125
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  12. 12
    Why Do We Have Laws?2007 · 24 pages · confirmed 1/4
    200724
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  13. 13
    Why Are Elections Important?2008 · 24 pages · confirmed 1/4
    200824
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  14. 14
    What Are Your Basic Rights?2008 · 24 pages · confirmed 1/4
    200824
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  15. 15
    Who Leads Our Country?2008 · 24 pages · confirmed 1/4
    200824
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Where to start with Know Your Government

Start with Environmental Protection Agency (1988), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Know Your Government book?

Who Leads Our Country? (2008) is the newest Know Your Government book released so far.

Is there a new Know Your Government book coming?

No next Know Your Government book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Know Your Government at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Know Your Government title on record dates from 2008, 18 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Know Your Government books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,148 pages across the 14 of 15 books with a recorded length, a median of 98 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Know Your Government books, 8 of 15, were published in the 1980s.
Attribution
Of the 15 titles, 4 are credited to Jacqueline Laks Gorman, 2 to Rebecca Stefoff, 1 to Kevin Law and 1 to William Patrick. A further 8 writers are credited.

What the Know Your Government books are about

14 of the 15 Know Your Government books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: juvenile literature is tagged on 9 of 14. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Juvenile literature 9 of 14 books
  • United States 7 of 14 books
  • United states, politics and government 3 of 14 books
  • History 2 of 14 books
  • Materiales lectura en idioma espanol 2 of 14 books
  • Reading materials 2 of 14 books
  • Spanish language materials 2 of 14 books