Elections category: 1210 books
Democracy Hacked
How Technology is Destabilising Global Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Democracies are being gamed. Authoritarian governments, moneyed elites and fringe hackers are exploiting our digital infrastructure and the vulnerabilities in our democratic system to influence our politics and elections. In just a few years, it has become a perpetual information war. Inherently unstable...
Historic Firsts
How Symbolic Empowerment Changes U.S. Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The 2008 presidential election made American history. Yet before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, there were other "historic firsts": Shirley Chisholm, who ran for president in 1972, and Jesse Jackson, who ran in 1984 and 1988. While unsuccessful, these campaigns were significant, as they rallied...
The Coming of Democracy
Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
After the "corrupt bargain" that awarded John Quincy Adams the presidency in 1825, American politics underwent a fundamental shift from deference to participation. This changing tide eventually propelled Andrew Jackson into the White House—twice. But the presidential race that best demonstrated...
The Race Card
Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Did George Bush's use of the Willie Horton story during the1988 presidential campaign communicate most effectively when no one noticed its racial meaning? Do politicians routinely evoke racial stereotypes, fears, and resentments without voters' awareness? This controversial, rigorously researched...
How Modi Won It
Notes from the 2014 Election
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Marked by deep ideological divisions, a massive advertising blitz and an election campaign that could claim to rival the US presidential polls, the 2014 general election has been called `historic? for its verdict ? a political party received a majority in the Lok Sabha for the first time in three...
The New NDP
Moderation, Modernization, and Political Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
The New NDP is the definitive account of the evolution of the New Democratic Party’s political marketing strategy in the early twenty-first century. In 2011, the federal NDP achieved its greatest electoral success – becoming the official opposition. The moderation of its ideology and modernization...
The Next Red Wave
How Conservatives Can Beat Leftist Aggression, RINO Betrayal & Deep State Subversion
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
Popular radio host and conservative legal and political commentator Jordan Sekulow offers an action plan that will bring real change to government and help secure the future of our nation.
The next red wave is coming: November 3, 2020.
We face battles on many fronts. The Deep State bureaucracy...
Brave New Ballot
The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
Democracy has never been more vulnerable.
The problem is right here in America.
How to Sabotage an Election
Become an election judge and carry a refrigerator magnet in your pocket
Program every fifth vote to automatically record for your candidate
Bury your hacked code
Avi...
TIME Donald Trump
The Rise of a Rule Breaker
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Whether you love him or hate him, dismiss him or maintain a grudging respect, there's no denying that Donald Trump has up– ended this year's election season.
Now, in this new Special Edition from the editors at TIME, you'll be able to go inside Donald Trump's world, from his early days in...
by Jonathan Tasini
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Meet the essential Bernie Sanders—an authentic and uncompromising champion of the people.
Independent United States Senator Bernie Sanders—with a thirty-five-year career in public service, first as Burlington, Vermont’s mayor, then as Vermont’s sole representative to Congress, and currently...
Unbelievable
My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Compelling… this book couldn’t be more timely.” – Jill Abramson, New York Times Book Review
From the Recipient of the 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism
Called "disgraceful," "third-rate," and "not...
by Hunter S. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
From the legendary journalist and creator of “Gonzo” journalism Hunter S. Thompson comes the bestselling critical look at Nixon and McGovern’s 1972 presidential election.
Forty years after its original publication, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 remains a cornerstone of...
Collected Nonfiction
How the Good Guys Finally Won, The World According to Breslin, and The World of Jimmy Breslin
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Colorful, riveting reportage from a one-of-a-kind Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and New York Times–bestselling author.
In his career as a legendary New York City newspaper columnist, Jimmy Breslin “leveled the powerful and elevated the powerless for more than fifty years with brick-hard...
The Enemy of the People
A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
A New York Times bestseller.
From CNN’s veteran Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, an explosive, first-hand account of the dangers he faces reporting on the current White House while fighting on the front lines in President Trump’s war on truth.
In Mr. Trump’s campaign...