Elections category: 1210 books

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by Michal Shamir
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
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Reagan's Victory

The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right

by Andrew E. Busch
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017

Many have pointed to the Iran hostage crisis, others to galloping inflation. In reality, as Andrew Busch makes clear, Ronald Reagan's defeat of President Jimmy Carter in 1980 was attributable to more than any one issue, no matter how galvanizing. It marked the growing ascendancy of conservative attitudes...
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Hart and Soul

Gary Hart's New Hampshire Odyssey and Beyond

by Susan Berry Casey
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018

Stunning Political Upset. The long forgotten story of Gary Hart's 1984 stunning upset victory over Walter Mondale in the New Hampshire Democratic primary is much more than a political story. It is the moving story of ordinary people out to change the world and one man who inspired them to try. New...
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Rick Perry and His Eggheads

Inside the Brainiest Political Operation in America, A Sneak Preview from The Victory Lab

by Sasha Issenberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011

A fascinating, never-before-reported look into how Rick Perry, in his 2006 reelection campaign in Texas, had academics conduct real-time experiments to study what makes people vote--revealing a new side of a major politician and a game-changing trend in American politics. Despite his folksy...
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Showdown

The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back Against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party

by David Corn
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012

Veteran journalist David Corn—Washington Bureau Chief for Mother Jones magazine and New York Times bestselling author of Hubris (with Michael Isikoff) and The Lies of George W. Bush—now brings us  Showdown, the dramatic inside story of Barack Obama’s fight to save his presidency. With Bob Woodward-esque...
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Strangers in Their Own Land

Anger and Mourning on the American Right

by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018

Sales of HC and EB: 120,000 copies in all editions, with 100,000 hardcovers in print Recognition for HC: NYT, national bestseller, and National Book Award finalist [these will be featured on cover of pb] With a new introduction by the author: Brings the argument into the midst of the...
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The Tweets of Donald Trump

Insight in 140 Characters or Less

by Alex Fossberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017

This book is a compilation and analysis of the tweets of Donald Trump from the time of his announcing his campaign until the conclusion of his first 100 days in office.  The book groups and analysis the tweets, placing them into various categories, including foreign affairs, immigration, Trump's...
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by Lee Papa
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

Now Featuring PSAs from Lizz Winstead and Jeff Kreisler and an epic limerick by Herman Cain.Lee Papa, the Rude Pundit, wants you to come roaring into the 2012 elections with a new edition of The Rude Pundit’s Almanack. What’s new? “The Life and Death of Herman Cain’s Campaign: A Tale...
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Off Script

An Advance Man’s Guide to White House Stagecraft, Campaign Spectacle, and Political Suicide

by Josh King
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016

Donald Trump won election as the 45th President of the United States by studying American political stagecraft and learning what helped previous candidates succeed and doomed others to failure. A figure on the periphery of campaigns for decades, he glided down the Trump Tower escalator on June 16,...
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by John Sides & Lynn Vavreck
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012

This is the first of a series of free ebook preview chapters--scheduled to be released between August and December 2012--from a groundbreaking book in progress about the 2012 U.S. presidential election. What are the odds that Barack Obama will be reelected in November, despite a weak economy?...
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Politics at Work

How Companies Turn Their Workers into Lobbyists

by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018

Employers are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics to change elections and public policy-sometimes in coercive ways. Using a diverse array of evidence, including national surveys of workers and employers, as well as in-depth interviews with top corporate managers, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez's...
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More Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box

Another 50 things you need to know about elections

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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

With a foreword by Isabel Hardman HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED… … how people feel about sleeping with the political enemy? … whether gambling markets are best at predicting political outcomes? … who Santa Claus would vote for? Then look no further. More Sex, Lies...
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by Mark Singer
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016

Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential race—in a press conference attended by paid actors, in which he slandered Mexican immigrants—he has dominated headlines, becoming the unrestrained id at the center of one of the most bizarre and alarming elections in American history. It...
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How to Win a Marginal Seat

My Year Fighting For My Political Life

by Gavin Barwell
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016

During the 2015 general election, the contest in Gavin Barwell’s constituency of Croydon Central was by any measure - the amount of money spent, the frequency of visits by ministers, the volume of literature delivered or the number of political activists pounding the streets - one of the most intensive...
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