Political Parties category: 994 books
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,...
by Andrew Rawnsley
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Andrew Rawnsley's bestselling book lifts the lid on the second half of New Labour's spell in office, with riveting inside accounts of all the key events from 9/11 and the Iraq War to the financial crisis and the parliamentary expenses scandal; and entertaining portraits of the main players as Rawnsley...
The Paranoid Style in American Politics: An Essay
from The Paranoid Style in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A Vintage Shorts Selection
A timely reissue of acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter’s authoritative and unforgettable essay. First published in 1964 and no less relevant half a century later, *The Paranoid Style in American Politics *scrutinizes the conditions that gave rise to the extreme...
The Democrats
A Critical History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
* Many other books on the Democrats have examined the party's malaise, but usually from a standpoint of urging the party to return to a mythical golden era in which it embodied noble ideals. Selfa's book is one of the few written for a popular audience to challenge this myth and to put today's crisis...
Homo Politicus
The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
Washington’s most acerbic (and feared) columnist, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, skewers the peculiar and alien tribal culture of politics.
Deep within the forbidding land encircled by the Washington Beltway lives the tribe known as Homo politicus. Their ways are strange, even repulsive,...
by Introduction by Katha Pollitt, Edited by Richard Kreitner
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Who is Hillary Clinton? is a fascinating time-lapse depiction of the leading Democratic presidential candidate as seen from the left. But it is also much more than that. A carefully-edited anthology of The Nation’s coverage of Clinton’s career, it’s a rigorous and painstaking study...
Presidential Campaigns: Documents Decoded
Documents Decoded
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Combining primary sources with expert commentary, this timely book probes critical moments in U.S. presidential elections in the last 20th- and early 21st-centuries, empowering readers to better understand and analyze the electoral process.
• Primary sources such as speeches, advertisements,...
How the Republicans Stole Religion
Why the Religious Right is Wrong about Faith & Politics and What We Can Do to Make it Right
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
For decades, Press argues, conservatives have defined religion so narrowly that Democrats and liberals have been pushed outside the fold. According to their narrow gospel, God put George W. Bush in the White House to deal with gays, guns, and abortion—and those who don’t agree are on the sure...
Tainted by Suspicion
The Secret Deals and Electoral Chaos of Disputed Presidential Elections
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The almost-presidencies of Aaron Burr or Al Gore would have created a different world.
Four presidential elections were not decided on election day, but were rather decided by another branch of government. And in three cases, large segments of Americans viewed the president...
Las identidades nacional populares
De la resistencia noventista a los años kirchernistas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 9, 2016
La asunción de Kirchner al gobierno nacional en 2003 trajo consigo la implementación de una política transversal que incluyó algunos movimientos “piqueteros” en sus filas y abrió un período signado por importantes cambios en las acciones y alineamientos de varias organizaciones. Este libro...
by Michael K. Bohn
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
The White House Situation Room is arguably the most important facility in the most important building in the world. As the presidentÆs intelligence and alert center, it provides vital communication and crisis management capabilities to the chief executive and his advisers. It can also be ôan island...
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...
Summary of Believer
by David Axelrod | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Summary of Believer by David Axelrod | Includes Analysis
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David Axelrod was the son of Joseph Axelrod, who left Eastern Europe at the age of eleven, and his wife, Myril Davidson, also a daughter of Jewish immigrants. Joseph became a psychologist with a small practice...
The Party Faithful
How and Why Democrats Are Closing the God Gap
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
As late as the 1960s, religion was a decidedly nonpartisan affair in the United States. In the past forty years, however, despite abundant evidence that Americans care about their candidates' personal faith, Democrats have beat a retreat in the competition for religious voters and the discussion of...