Elections category: 1210 books
Presidential Campaigns: Documents Decoded
Documents Decoded
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Combining primary sources with expert commentary, this timely book probes critical moments in U.S. presidential elections in the last 20th- and early 21st-centuries, empowering readers to better understand and analyze the electoral process.
• Primary sources such as speeches, advertisements,...
by Geoffrey Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
"The best new discussion of the primary system." —Jill Lepore, author of These Truths
In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt came out of retirement to challenge William Howard Taft for the Republican nomination. TR seized on the campaign theme “Let the People Rule”—a cry echoed in today’s elections—and...
Epic Journey
The 2008 Elections and American Politics: Post 2010 Election Update
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Noted campaign scholars James W. Ceaser, Andrew E. Busch, and John J. Pitney Jr. take readers along on the longest, most expensive, and in many ways most dramatic presidential campaign in American history. Drawing on their extensive knowledge of political history and deep resources of current political...
Tension City
Inside the Presidential Debates
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
With an update by the author for the 2012 election.
A veteran newsman who has presided over eleven presidential and vice-presidential debates, Jim Lehrer gives readers a ringside seat for some of the epic political battles of our time, shedding light on all of the critical turning points and rhetorical...
How the Democrats Can Win by Leading America to a Better Future in 2010 and Beyond
An Update to The Audacity to Win (A Penguin Group eSpecial from Penguin Books)
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Since David Plouffe helped design the plan that brought candidate Obama to the White House, the lessons of that plan have become only more relevant. Today, conservative forces led by figures like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck threaten to derail the tremendous promise of Democrats’ recent gains, making...
Campaign Inc.
How Leadership and Organization Propelled Barack Obama to the White House
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
It takes more than an excellent candidate to win elections; it takes an outstanding campaign organization, too. Campaign Inc. is the story of how leadership and organization propelled Barack Obama to the White House. As the chief operating officer of Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, Henry F....
Race Appeal
How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
In our evolving American political culture, whites and blacks continue to respond very differently to race-based messages and the candidates who use them. Race Appeal examines the use and influence such appeals have on voters in elections for federal office in which one candidate is a member of a...
Carnival Campaign
How the Rollicking 1840 Campaign of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" Changed Presidential Elections Forever
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The Carnival Campaign tells the fascinating story of the pivotal 1840 presidential campaign of General William Henry Harrison and John Tyler—"Tippecanoe and Tyler Too." Pulitzer Prize–nominated former Wall Street Journal reporter Ronald Shafer relates in a colorful, entertaining style...
Looking for Votes in All the Wrong Places
Tales and Rules from the Campaign Trail
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Rick Ridder, a long-time political strategist who has been called “a political version of Columbo,” has been at the center of some of America’s most epic political battles—everything from presidential death matches to the legalization of marijuana. In Looking for Votes in All the Wrong Places,...
The Control Room
How Television Calls the Shots in Presidential Elections
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 1999
"Thirty-five years ago, sad to say, CBS, NBC, and ABC created the modern New Hampshire primary." So says The Control Room, a gritty look at how network news has come to dominate every stage of presidential selection from the earliest announcements to the final swearing in. As we embark on another...
by Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories. Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually...
The Keys to the White House
A Surefire Guide to Predicting the Next President
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
With The Keys to the White House: A Surefire Guide to Predicting the Next President, average citizens are giving the pollsters and pundits a run for their money. In this book, prominent political analyst and historian Allan J. Lichtman presents thirteen historical factors, or "keys" (four...
Predicting the Next President
The Keys to the White House
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Do you think that Mitt Romney’s “47%” comment caused him to lose the 2012 presidential election? Or that Richard Nixon lost the 1960 presidential election because he sweated on TV? Maybe John Kerry was “swiftboated” out of the presidency in 2004? Think again! In Predicting the Next President,...
Declaring Independence
The Beginning of the End of the Two-Party System
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
• A 2006 survey revealed that two thirds of Americans consider themselves “dissatisfied with the way things are going in the U.S.”
• In recent polls, 60 to 80 percent of registered voters say they want an independent presidential candidate.
• Independent voters now constitute the largest...