Elections category: 1210 books
Presidential Campaign Posters
Two Hundred Years of Election Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Here are 100 ready-to-frame political campaign posters from the annals of American history! The candidates range from Andrew Jackson (“Defender of Beauty and Booty”) and William Henry Harrison (“Have Some Hard Cider!”) to Richard Nixon (“He’s the One!”), Barack Obama (“Hope”), and...
Fracture
Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Barack Obama's speech on the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches should have represented the culmination of Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of racial unity. Yet, in Fracture, MSNBC national correspondent Joy-Ann Reid shows that, despite the progress...
The Essential Russell Kirk
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
As the author of The Conservative Mind and other seminal books, Russell Kirk is usually thought of as one of the American conservative political movement’s most important progenitors. But as this collection demonstrates, Kirk was perhaps at his best as an essayist. This volume also confirms that...
1776 - Commonsense - 2016
A Modern Day Comparison to an Age Old Condition
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2016
When a void in leadership exists, it is up to each one of us as American patriots to step forward and take point. This book is my attempt to temporarily fill that void. I offer commonsense reasoning in order to bring about honest discourse in an effort to create a unified purpose among ALL American...
by Deborah Willis, Kevin Merida
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Through 150 striking color photographs, Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs charts the road to Barack Obama's nomination as the first African American to lead the presidential ticket of a major party. Announcing his campaign in Springfield, Illinois, on February 10, 2007, Obama stood on the...
by David M. Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Although the presidential election of 1944 placed FDR in the White House for an unprecedented fourth term, historical memory of the election itself has been overshadowed by the war, Roosevelt’s health and his death the following April, Truman's ascendancy, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb....
McCain's Promise
Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Is John McCain "For Real?"
That's the question David Foster Wallace set out to explore when he first climbed aboard Senator McCain's campaign caravan in February 2000. It was a moment when Mccain was increasingly perceived as a harbinger of change, the anticandidate whose goal was...
Fat Man Fed Up
How American Politics Went Bad
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2004
For more than forty years, Jack Germond has been covering politics for Gannett newspapers, the Washington Star, and the Baltimore Sun, and talking politics on the Today show, The McLaughlin Group, and Inside Washington. Now, in Fat Man Fed Up*,* Germond confronts the most critical issues raised by...
What It Takes: The Way to the White House
The Way to the White House
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
A masterpiece of political reportage that exposes the emotional reality of the modern American campaign system
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer cracks open the heart of the American political system in this classic exploration of the 1988 presidential campaign. Cramer...
The Stolen Election
Hayes Versus Tilden—1876
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2001
A screamingly close presidential election. Allegations of fraud. Democrats and republicans, North and South, black and white--all at loggerheads.
With each passing day, the conflict becomes more complex. Hard-eyed political operatives from both parties rush south to fight on every front. "Spin"...
by Meghan McCain
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Meghan McCain came to prominence as the straight-talking, progressive daughter of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain. And her profile has only risen since the election ended in favor of the other guy.
What makes Meghan so appealing? As a new role model for young,...
Spygate
The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Everyone has an opinion about whether or not Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016. The number of actors involved is staggering, the events are complicated, and it’s hard to know who or what to believe. Spygate bypasses opinion and brings facts together to expose...
A Young Woman on Her Own
from A Woman in Charge
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A Vintage Shorts Selection
From the definitive, humanizing biography of one of the most powerful and widely misunderstood women of our time: Hillary Rodham Clinton. Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Carl Bernstein sheds light on Hillary’s political development during her four years as an impressionable...
by Joan Didion
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2001
National Bestseller
In these coolly observant essays, Joan Didion looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life." Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and photo ops of three presidential campaigns,...