Elections category: 1210 books
Going Red
The Two Million Voters Who Will Elect the Next President--and How Conservatives Can Win Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
**The 2016 election is conservatives’ last, best chance to take back the country. How can they win? **
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The answer, conservative columnist and analyst Ed Morrissey says, depends on seven battleground counties in swing states Republicans must win. Each county pulled for Obama in one or both...
Betting The House
The Inside Story of the 2017 Election
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
On 18th April 2017, Theresa May stunned Britain by announcing a snap election. With poll leads of more than 20 points over Jeremy Corbyn’s divided Labour Party, the first Tory landslide since Margaret Thatcher’s day seemed certain.
Seven weeks later, Tory dreams had turned to dust. Instead...
by James A. Michener
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
James A. Michener, the acclaimed author of sweeping historical blockbusters, chronicles his personal involvement in one of the most dramatic elections of the twentieth century: the presidential race between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. A relative newcomer to politics, Michener served as the...
Centennial Crisis
The Disputed Election of 1876
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In the annals of presidential elections, the hotly contested 1876 race between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden was in many ways as remarkable in its time as Bush versus Gore was in ours. Chief Justice William Rehnquist offers readers a colorful and peerlessly researched chronicle of the post—Civil...
Political Mercenaries
The Inside Story of How Fundraisers Allowed Billionaires to Take Over Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
When Bill Clinton defeated George H.W. Bush in 1992, their campaigns spent a total of $192 million—combined! In 2012, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney spent over $7 billion, including outside funding from superPACs—nearly 37 times more than just 20 years earlier.
All that money didn't appear...
by Leonard Cusack
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
This book is dedicated to all of the people who bought memberships, raised money and fought elections, especially in the dark, lean opposition years, to maintain the Progressive Conservative Party as a viable option in Island politics.
Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich
Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
A timely and nonpartisan book on voter manipulation and electoral corruption—and the importance of stimulating voter turnout and participation
Though voting rights are fundamental to American democracy, felon disfranchisement, voter identification laws, and hard-to-access polling locations...
The Blueprint
How the Democrats Won Colorado (and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care)
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Through the microcosm of Colorado's stunning political transformation, this is an inside look at the rapidly-changing business of campaigns and elections. The techniques pioneered in Colorado have been recognized by both parties and pundits as the future of American politics.
Brown Is the New White
How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The New York Times and Washington Post bestseller that sparked a national conversation about America’s new progressive, multiracial majority, updated to include data from the 2016 election
With a new preface and afterword by the author
When it first appeared in the lead-up to the 2016...
by John B. Judis, Ruy Teixeira
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
**ONE OF *THE ECONOMIST'*S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A WINNER OF THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY'S ANNUAL POLITICAL BOOK AWARD
Political experts John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira convincingly use hard data -- demographic, geographic, economic, and political -- to forecast the dawn of a new progressive era. In...
by Al From, Alice McKeon
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
After Barack Obama's solid win in the 2012 election, it's easy to forget that there was a time, not long ago, when the Democrats were shut out of power for over a decade. But Al From remembers. In 1984, he led a small band of governors, US senators, and members of Congress to organize the Democratic...
by Richard L. Hasen
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
In 2000, just a few hundred votes out of millions cast in the state of Florida separated Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush from his Democratic opponent, Al Gore. The outcome of the election rested on Florida's 25 electoral votes, and legal wrangling continued for 36 days. Then, abruptly,...
By One Vote
The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
With electoral votes disputed in three states, a Democrat winning the popular vote, and the Supreme Court stepping in to overrule Florida court decisions, the presidential election of 1876 was an eerie precursor to that of 2000. Rutherford Hayes's defeat of Samuel Tilden has been dubbed the "fraud...
The Enduring Revolution
How the Contract with America Continues to Shape the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
To most observers—including many conservatives—the so-called Republican Revolution of 1994 was anything but revolutionary, and the Contract with America that propelled the GOP into power was just a gimmick.
But in The Enduring Revolution, Fox News national reporter Major Garrett turns this...