Elections category: 1210 books
Election 2016: Democracy in Disarray
A Campaign Bloated with Bombastry, Bigotry, and Blatant Lies
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Nov. 9, 2016, Americans awoke like they’d spent a night of blackout drinking—Unbelievably, D. Trump had won the election. Expect insights like “Trump thinks he’s infallible”or how the Pantsuited Crusader Hillary Clinton closely paralleled Batman and why Bernie Sanders had millennials Feeling the Bern.
by C. A. Mills
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Who is the country for, the special interests, the illegal immigrants, the crony capitalists? We don’t think so, and neither does Donald Trump. The man and the moment have met. Donald Trump is the transformational leader we have been waiting for, the only candidate on the American political stage...
Coup
The Day the Democrats Ousted Their Governor, Put Republican Lamar Alexander in Office Early, and Stopped a Pardon Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Coup is the behind-the-scenes story of an abrupt political transition, unprecedented in US history. Based on 163 interviews, Hunt describes how collaborators came together from opposite sides of the political aisle and, in an extraordinary few hours, reached agreement that the corruption and madness...
by Tim Shipman
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘The best political book of the year’ Andrew Marr ‘A superb work of storytelling and reporting. Sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history’ Guardian The only book to tell the full story of how and why...
Kennedy
The Classic Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
The classic, intimate, and magisterial biography of JFK
In January 1953, freshman senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts hired a twenty-four-year-old from Nebraska as his Number Two legislative assistant—on a trial basis. Despite the differences in their backgrounds, in the eleven years...
Last Word
My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
A New York Times–bestselling author reveals the CIA and Secret Service conspiracy behind John F. Kennedy’s assassination—with a chapter by Oliver Stone.
Mark Lane tried the only US court case in which the jurors concluded that the CIA plotted the murder of President Kennedy, but there...
by Susan Bordo
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Gossip is easy. Get to the deeper truth, with this in-depth look at the political forces and media culture that vilified and ultimately brought down Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential campaign.
The Destruction of Hillary Clinton is an answer to the question many have been asking: How...
Electing FDR
The New Deal Campaign of 1932
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
George Pendleton Prize
With the landmark election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932, decades of Republican ascendancy gave way to a half century of Democratic dominance. It was nothing less than a major political realignment, as the direction of federal policy shifted from conservative to...
Four Hats in the Ring
The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
**Choice Outstanding Title
Imagine a presidential election with four well-qualified and distinguished candidates and a serious debate over the future of the nation! Sound impossible in this era of attack ads and strident partisanship? It happened nearly a century ago in 1912, when incumbent Republican...
Beautiful Country Burn Again
Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisis
Twice before in its history, the United States has been faced with a crisis so severe it...
The Battle for America
The Story of an Extraordinary Election
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
The bestselling, truly gripping account of 2008's landmark election, updated through 2009
The election of 2008 shattered political barriers and ignited an extraordinary battle among some of the most formidable political rivals ever to seek the presidency. Now, Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson, two...
by NEXOS UNIVERSIDAD DE GUADALAJARA
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 24, 2017
México enfrenta grandes problemas, y la mayoría de difícil arreglo. ¿Pero cuáles son? ¿Qué riesgos implican? ¿Y qué vías existen para combatirlos?
En esta obra, 34 académicos e intelectuales de primer orden realizan un diagnóstico sistemático de las fallas y carencias de este país....
Gustar, ganar y gobernar
Cómo triunfar en el arte de convencer
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 11, 2017
Herramienta indispensable para dirigentes y militantes de todos los niveles, ideologías y partidos que quieran aprovechar el potencial de la comunicación política en el siglo XXI.
Hoy más que nunca, quien aspire a gobernar sabe que su poder depende de la construcción de un relato creíble...
Hablar de todo y no saber de nada
Las tertulias y la nueva política
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2016
El papel de la tertulia española en el mundo mediático y político: ¿fuente de información o intoxicación mediática?
Las tertulias fueron en el pasado un género minoritario creado con la voluntad de ofrecer información complementaria acerca de los temas de actualidad. Sin embargo, el...