Elections category: 1210 books
Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion
The Making of a President, 1884
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2003
The presidential election of 1884, in which Grover Cleveland ended the Democrats' twenty-four-year presidential drought by defeating Republican challenger James G. Blaine, was one of the gaudiest in American history, remembered today less for its political significance than for the mudslinging and...
How to Win an Election
An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest orator, ran for consul (the highest office in the Republic), his practical brother Quintus decided he needed some no-nonsense advice...
Politics Lost
How American Democracy Was Trivialized By People Who Think You're Stupid
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
People on the right are furious. People on the left are livid. And the center isn’t holding. There is only one thing on which almost everyone agrees: there is something very wrong in Washington. The country is being run by pollsters. Few politicians are able to win the voters’ trust. Blame abounds...
Too Close to Call
The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2001
From the best-selling author of A Vast Conspiracy and The Run of His Life comes Too Close to Call--the definitive story of the Bush-Gore presidential recount. A political and legal analyst of unparalleled journalistic skill, Jeffrey Toobin is the ideal writer to distill the events of the thirty-six...
The Candidate
What it Takes to Win - and Hold - the White House
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
There are two winners in every presidential election campaign: The inevitable winner when it begins--such as Rudy Giuliani or Hillary Clinton in 2008--and the inevitable victor after it ends. In The Candidate, Samuel Popkin explains the difference between them. While plenty of political insiders have...
Notley Nation
How Alberta's Political Upheaval Swept the Country
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
#1 Edmonton Journal Bestseller! • 2017 Alberta Literary Awards, the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction — Winner
Rachel Notley’s dramatic triumph over Alberta’s Conservative regime was an early rumble before the Trudeau landslide.
Alberta has long been seen as politically...
The Choice
How Bill Clinton Won
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
The Choice is Bob Woodward's classic story of the quest for power, focusing on the 1996 presidential campaign as a case study of money, public opinion polling, attack advertising, handlers, consultants, and decision making in the midst of electoral uncertainty. President Bill Clinton is examined in...
Condi vs. Hillary
The Next Great Presidential Race
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Who will be president in 2008? Many believe that the White House is Hillary Clinton's to lose. As long-time strategists Dick Morris and Eileen McGann reveal in Condi vs. Hillary, however, Hillary's plans for higher office are vulnerable to a challenge from a most unexpected quarter: the Bush administration's...
How the States Shaped the Nation
American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
The United States routinely has one of the lowest voter turnout rates of any developed democracy in the world. That rate is also among the most internally diverse, since the federal structure allows state-level variations in voting institutions that have had—and continue to have—sizable local...
by Roger Stone, Robert Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
"This book on Hillary - really tough." - President Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton is running for president as an advocate of women and girls,” but there is another shocking side to her story that has been carefully covered up-until now. This stunning exposé reveals for the first time how...
Retaking America
Crushing Political Correctness
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Political correctness has ripped through America, turning life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness into lifelessness, suppression and the pursuit of mediocrity. Meanwhile, Europe is in its death throes, completely infected by the political correctness disease. Australian Nick Adams believes only...
by Mary Jordan, 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...
by Marc Fisher, 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...
by Hilaire Belloc, Cecil Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Pertinent to America, Britain, and other Western democracies, this book explains that what people believe happens in national assemblies and parliaments is radically different from the reality. Instead of being places where debate is intense, passionate, and aimed at the national interest, the fact...