Elections category: 1210 books
Reclaiming Parkland
Tom Hanks, Vincent Bugliosi, and the JFK Assassination in the New Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
An eye-opening exposé of the CIA, Hollywood, and Tom Hanks’s failed HBO series about JFK’s assassination.
In 2007, Academy Award–winning actor Tom Hanks purchased the film rights to Vincent Bugliosi’s Reclaiming History. His plan was to adapt the mammoth book about John F. Kennedy’s...
The 103rd Ballot
The Legendary 1924 Democratic Convention That Forever Changed Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
A fascinating political narrative, analyzing the chaotic1924 Democratic Convention that left the Democratic Party divided for years in its wake—with striking parallels to this summer's upcoming Democratic Convention, which will determine the Democratic candidate for the 2016 election for president...
The Irish Brotherhood
John F. Kennedy, His Inner Circle and the Improbable Rise to the Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
A behind-the-scenes look at JFK’s team: “Lively . . . fast-paced anecdotes . . . insights into presocial media mid-twentieth-century politics” (Library Journal).
The Irish Brotherhood is the history of Jack Kennedy’s original political inner circle. Led by Bobby Kennedy, Kenny O’Donnell,...
JFK
A Vision for America
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2020
Published in commemoration of the centennial of President John F. Kennedy’s birth, here is the definitive compendium of JFK’s most important and brilliant speeches, accompanied by commentary and reflections by leading American and international figures—including Senator Elizabeth Warren, David...
Obama vs. Romney
The "Take" on Election 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
The Inside Story of the 2012 Presidential CampaignThe presidential campaign of 2012 was one of the closest and most fierce, expensive, and unpredictable in our history, and Washington Post senior political correspondent Dan Balz chronicled every twist.Obama vs. Romney is a collection of 50 dispatches...
Bloggers on the Bus
How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Ever since radio entered the American private home, technology has shaped political campaign strategy. Radio brought candidates more intimately and vividly into citizens' lives than newspapers could. The televised presidential debate of 1960 -- in which a strapping John F. Kennedy embarrassed a clammy...
Growing Pains
the future of democracy (and work)
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
We are now living in a world where Brexit and Trump are daily realities. But how did this come about? And what does it mean for the future?
Populism and ultra-nationalism brought about the rise of Hitler and Mussolini in the 1930s. Now, as Trump sits in the White House, Britain negotiates its...
by Thomas W. Devine
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
In the presidential campaign of 1948, Henry Wallace set out to challenge the conventional wisdom of his time, blaming the United States, instead of the Soviet Union, for the Cold War, denouncing the popular Marshall Plan, and calling for an end to segregation. In addition, he argued that domestic...
by Mike Allen, Evan Thomas, Politico
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Two of America’s most perceptive political reporters join forces for an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the race for the White House in POLITICO’s Playbook 2012, a series of four instant digital books on the 2012 presidential election. The second edition, Inside the Circus, pulls back...
by Glenn Thrush, Politico
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
A series of four instant eBooks on the 2012 presidential election, POLITICO’s Playbook 2012 provides an unprecedented real-time account of the race for the White House. The third edition, Obama’s Last Stand, follows the reelection campaign of President Barack Obama as it struggles to find the...
by Mike Allen, Evan Thomas, Politico
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Two of America’s most perceptive political reporters join forces for an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the race for the White House in POLITICO’s Playbook 2012, a series of four instant digital books on the 2012 presidential election. The first edition, The Right Fights Back, follows...
A Bad Day On The Romney Campaign
An Insider's Account
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
**Why did Romney lose? How can Republicans win? **In A Bad Day on the Romney Campaign, Gabriel Schoenfeld, a senior adviser to presidential nominee Mitt Romney for nearly two years, is the first insider to speak out about the failures of the 2012 campaign.
Why did Romney lose? The book illuminates...
Slinging Mud
Rude Nicknames, Scurrilous Slogans, and Insulting Slang from Two Centuries of Am erican Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Two Centuries of Scandalous Rumors, Over-the-Top Insults, and Low-Down Slurs.
We bemoan the loss of civility in public discourse these days, but mudslinging is an American tradition as old as the republic. Not everyone admired the Father of Our Country. President Washington's enemies called...
Realigning America
McKinley, Bryan, and the Remarkable Election of 1896
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
The presidential election of 1896 is widely acknowledged as one of only a few that brought about fundamental realignments in American politics. New voting patterns replaced old, a new majority party came to power, and national policies shifted to reflect new realities. R. Hal Williams now presents...