Elections category: 1210 books
El arte de ganar
Cómo usar el ataque en campañas electorales exitosas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Los prestigiosos consultores políticos Jaime Durán Barba y Santiago Nieto presentan una guía lúcida, sorprendente e ineludible para cualquiera que desee aventurarse con éxito en la carrera política o simplemente sienta curiosidad por conocer sus resortes más sutiles e impensados.
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Trump, el triunfo del showman
Golpe a los medios y jaque al sistema
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Estamos ante una mirada periodística de la irrepetible campaña que vivió Estados Unidos, protagonizada por un populista genuinamente americano, Donald Trump. La aparición del magnate, que trivializó la verdad con técnicas de reality show y su dominio del Twitter, fue la provocación perfecta...
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Ensayo político
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Un ensayo pequeño para entender la importancia de la democraciaLas mentiras o la pereza intelectual de los economistas, de los Estados, de la justicia, crean una legalidad de fachada, pudiendo ser considerada como un engaño; sustituir el poder del monarca por gobiernos que aplican leyes más o menos...
by Theodore H. White
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
“[White] revolutionized the art of political reporting.” —William F. Buckley
The Making of the President 1972 is the fourth book in Theodore H. White’s landmark series, a riveting account of the 1972 presidential campaign and Richard M. Nixon’s precedent-shattering landslide victory....
Rules for Radicals
A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction...
by Mel Hurtig
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
For more than four decades, Canadian nationalist, publisher and best-selling author, Mel Hurtig, has been warning Canadians about the negative influences of the excessive corporate takeover of Canada, including the impacts of foreign ownership and so-called free-trade agreements. In this short but important...
America Afire
Jefferson, Adams, and the First Contested Election
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
America Afire is the powerful story of the election of 1800, arguably the most important election in America's history and certainly one of the most hotly disputed. Former allies Adams and Jefferson, president versus vice president, Federalist versus Republican, squared off in a vicious contest that...
Year of Meteors
Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
"Egerton tells the story of the dissolution of the Union as it should be told, not from the perspective of those looking back on the crisis, but from the clouded vision of those who lived through it.†? -Carol Berkin, author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution and Civil...
The Speech
On Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
On Friday, December 10, 2010, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders walked on to the floor of the United States Senate and began speaking. It turned out to be a very long speech, lasting over eight and a half hours. And it hit a nerve. Millions followed the speech online until the traffic crashed the Senate...
The Obama Victory
How Media, Money, and Message Shaped the 2008 Election
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
Barack Obama's stunning victory in the 2008 presidential election will go down as one of the more pivotal in American history. Given America's legacy of racism, how could a relatively untested first-term senator with an African father defeat some of the giants of American politics? In The Obama Victory,...
Trump vs. Clinton: In Their Own Words
Everything You Need to Know to Vote Your Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A clear and honest guide to the opinions and views of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, from wit and wisdom to important issues in America.
"Our commander in chief has to be able to defend our country, not embarrass it."* -- Hillary Clinton
"She doesn't have strength....
How the Good Guys Finally Won
Notes from an Impeachment Summer
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
New York Times Bestseller: A “superb” blow-by-blow account of how Tip O’Neill and his colleagues impeached Richard Nixon after Watergate (Chicago Tribune).
Not long after burglars were caught raiding the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel, Congressman Tip...
Bernie Sanders
In His Own Words: 250 Quotes from America's Political Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Quotes from the Vermont senator and former presidential candidate, on topics from corruption to climate change to health care to wealth inequality.
The no-nonsense campaign of Bernie Sanders attracted a powerful following during the 2016 election, as ordinary people responded to the straight talk...
The Wilderness
Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The explosive story of the Republican Party's intensely dramatic and fractious efforts to find its way back to unity and national dominance
After the 2012 election, the GOP was in the wilderness. Lost and in disarray. And doggedly determined to do whatever it took to get back to 1600 Pennsylvania...