Elections category: 1210 books
Crossroads
The Future of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
An array of leading Democrats, Republicans, and independent thinkers provide a road map for America’s political future.
America is at a turning point. For the first time in history, the United States is the world’s lone superpower—in Andrew Cuomo’s words, “both the tamer and target...
Free Ride
John McCain and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
We live in a gotcha media culture that revels in exposing the foibles and hypocrisies of our politicians. But one politician manages to escape this treatment, getting the benefit of the doubt and a positive spin for nearly everything he does: John McCain. Indeed, even during his temporary decline...
by Stephen E. Frantzich
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Almost every politician has occasionally misspoken, sometimes with disastrous effect, sometimes with little effect at all. O.O.P.S.: Observing Our Politicians Stumble: The Worst Candidate Gaffes and Recoveries in Presidential Campaigns observes and analyzes this phenomenon to document why some gaffes...
by Matt Welch
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
John McCain is one of the most familiar, sympathetic, and overexposed figures in American politics, yet his concrete governing philosophy and actual track record have been left curiously unexamined, mostly because of the massive distractions in his official biography, but also because of his ingenious...
The Undecided Voter's Guide to the Next President
Who the Candidates Are, Where They Come from, and How You Can Choose
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Who's ready for the oval office?
They call it a horse race, and in this election the candidates got out of the gate early. But it's still hard to tell them apart and make a choice. Mark Halperin, veteran reporter and political analyst, sizes up the White House hopefuls with intelligence, insight,...
The Big Sort
Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American is Tearing Us Apart
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
In 2004, journalist Bill Bishop coined the term "the big sort." Armed with startling new demographic data, he made national news in a series of articles showing how Americans have been sorting themselves into alarmingly homogeneous communities -- not by region or by state, but by city and...
Alter Egos
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Twilight Struggle Over American Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The deeply reported story of two supremely ambitious figures, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton—archrivals who became partners for a time, trailblazers who share a common sense of their historic destiny but hold very different beliefs about how to project American power
In Alter Egos, veteran...
Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way
A Comprehensive Guide for Candidates and Campaign Workers
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2008
As the 2008 presidential race dominates political discussion and media coverage worldwide, thousands of lesser-known local contests are being hard-fought in our neighborhoods, cities, and states. Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way is based on the work of Wellstone Action, a leading-edge progressive...
by Tom Bevan, Carl M. Cannon
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Real Clear Politics’ first in a series of in-depth looks at the 2012 campaign.
With unsurpassed access to the White House, Republican candidates, and their respective staffs, Election 2012: The Battle Begins will give readers a riveting behind the scenes, real time look at the 2012 campaign,...
We Are the Change We Seek
The Speeches of Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
A collection of Barack Obama's greatest speeches, now including his farewell address, selected and introduced by columnist E.J. Dionne and MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid.
"It is a political partisan's dream to see them [Obama's words] so finely gathered here." - Washington Post
We...
The Strategy of Campaigning
Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
The Strategy of Campaigning explores the political careers of Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin, two of the most galvanizing and often controversial political figures of our time. Both men overcame defeat early in their political careers and rose to the highest elected offices in their respective countries.
The...
Down & Dirty
The Plot to Steal the Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2001
Acclaimed journalist, Jake Tapper explains what actually happened, who got away with what and how both sides, Democrats and Republicans, plotted to steal the presidency in 2000.
Big Money
2.5 Billion Dollars, One Suspicious Vehicle, and a Pimp-on the Trail of the Ultra-Rich Hijacking American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Mark Hanna-the turn-of-the-century iron-and-coal-magnate-turned-operative who leveraged massive contributions from the robber barons-was famously quoted as saying: There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money, and I can't remember what the second one is.” To an extent...
How Bernie Won
Inside the Revolution That's Taking Back Our Country--and Where We Go from Here
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The brilliant manager of Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign shows how Bernie took on the entire establishment and changed modern American politics for good.
When Jeff Weaver hopped in a car with Bernie Sanders in the summer of 1986, he had no idea the Vermont backroads would lead...