Elections category: 1210 books
Quarterly Essay 32 American Revolution
The Fall of Wall Street and the Rise of Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
Where were you when America elected Barack Obama? Kate Jennings was in New York, eyes wide open, completing her take on an amazing time: "the run-up to the election ... a time when every day felt like a year and we became slightly crazed from worry but also mesmerised, unable to switch off the cable...
by Emmeline Pankhurst
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Emmeline Pankhurst was the most well known of the activists striving for the right for women to vote in the early twentieth century.
This book is her story. It was first published in 1914 at the start of the First World War and before women received enfranchisement. In the text Mrs Pankhurst...
by Bill Sammon
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
Barack Obama once came close to injecting heroin, but balked when a junkie pulled out the needle and rubber tubing. Obama and Mitt Romney are descended from polygamous great-grandfathers who had five wives apiece. Rudy Giuliani's first wife was his second cousin. Liberal Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton...
Can She Be Stopped?
Hillary Clinton Will Be the Next President of the United States Unless . . .
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Our Worst Nightmare—and How to Avoid It
It’s the ultimate nightmare scenario for conservatives: to awaken on the morning of November 5, 2008, to the news that the last swing state has been colored bright blue and Hillary Rodham Clinton is the President-elect of the United States.
Could...
by Al Murray
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
In Let's re-Great Britain, Al Murray's Pub Landlord sets out his party's vision for the country, and explains how politics actually works.
Citizens of Hope & Glory! It's time to bring common sense to the House of Commons.
Parliament is a nest of slippery, poisonous vipers and only...
Brexit
Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
In June 2016, the United Kingdom shocked the world by voting to leave the European Union. As this book reveals, the historic vote for Brexit marked the culmination of trends in domestic politics and in the UK's relationship with the EU that have been building over many years. Drawing on a wealth of...
The China Model
Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and “bad” authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as “political meritocracy.”...
by Cynthia McClintock
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
During Latin America's third democratic wave, a majority of countries adopted a runoff rule for the election of the president, effectively dampening plurality voting, opening the political arena to new parties, and assuring the public that the president will never have anything less than majority...
Obama 2012
For a Compassionate America
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Using any lies to demonize Obama, the conservative crowd tries to frighten the
American people by accusing him of promoting CLASS WARFARE. During his
inspiring State of the Union, the President clearly stated that he and Democrats
are not at all against financial success. On the contrary, we admire...
Sarah from Alaska
The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Sarah Palin is still the most dynamic yet polarizing Republican in America. In Sarah from Alaska Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe draw on their experiences as embedded reporters on Palin's campaign, exclusive on-scene coverage of Palin's post-election struggles in Alaska, and revealing interviews...
Rules for Patriots
How Conservatives Can Win Again
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
Time is running out on American exceptionalism. The light of liberty is flickering. At no point since we still had the Redcoats on our shores has freedom been more imperiled. This time it's not an invading foreign power that threatens us, but our own government gone wild— unhinged from its Constitutional...
by Gwen Brown, Elizabeth Camille, Janis L. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
To simply say the 2008 presidential election was historic seems like an understatement. The election was unique in many ways beyond the selection of the nation's first African-American as President. The drama of the election was also heightened by the historic nomination battle between Hillary Clinton...
Last Man Standing
Media, Framing, and the 2012 Republican Primaries
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
When Barack Obama was re-elected president in November 2012, his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, took the blame for being alternately too moderate or too conservative. Critics from both within and outside of his party claimed his vast wealth made him unappealing to voters and that his robotic...
The Victory Lab
The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
**UPDATED FOR THE 2016 ELECTION
The book Politico calls “Moneyball for politics” shows how cutting-edge social science and analytics are reshaping the modern political campaign.**
Renegade thinkers are crashing the gates of a venerable American institution, shoving aside its so-called...