Elections category: 1210 books
Playing with Fire
The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
From the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it today
The 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence O’Donnell’s...
by Theodore H. White
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
A Harper Perennial Political Classic, The Making of the President 1960 is the groundbreaking national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the 1960 presidential campaign and the election of John F. Kennedy. With this narrative history of American politics in action, Theodore White revolutionized...
The Politician
An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
"The greatest political saga, the one that has it all, that gets to the real heart of American politics, is the John Edwards story... This isn't just politics, it's literature. It's the great American novel, the kind that isn't written anymore." --Michael Wolff on John Edwards's trajectory,...
Shattered
Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveting story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate,...
Devil's Bargain
Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller.
From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump—the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces...
by David Cay Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER that first revealed the Russia connection
The culmination of nearly 30 years of reporting on Donald Trump, this in-depth report by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston takes a revealingly close look at the mogul's rise to prominence...
The Lies of Sarah Palin
The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
In The Lies of Sarah Palin, Geoffrey Dunn provides the first full-scale and in-depth political biography of the controversial Republican vice-presidential candidate and former governor of Alaska.
Based on more than two-hundred interviews---many of them with Republican colleagues and one-time...
Dear Madam President
An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Redefine the expectations for women in leadership roles with this #1 New York Times bestselling volume of inspiring advice by the former communications director for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Framed as an empowering letter from former Hillary Clinton Communications Director Jennifer...
by John Nichols, Senator Bernie Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The political autobiography of the insurgent presidential candidate
Bernie Sanders’s campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized people all over the country, putting economic, racial, and social justice into the spotlight, and raising hopes that Americans can take their...
Renegade
The Making of a President
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Before the White House and Air Force One, before the TV ads and the enormous rallies, there was the real Barack Obama: a man wrestling with the momentous decision to run for the presidency, feeling torn about leaving behind a young family, and figuring out how to win the biggest prize in politics.
This...
An Amazing Adventure
Joe and Hadassah's Personal Notes on the 2000 Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003
An Amazing Adventure is a groundbreaking memoir, the personal recollections of Senator Joe Lieberman and his wife, Hadassah, of their 2000 vice presidential campaign. There has never been such a frank account of the American way of running for national office. The Liebermans' voices alternate throughout...
Presidential Lottery
The Reckless Gamble in Our Electoral System
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In this eye-opening nonfiction account, world-renowned author James A. Michener details the reckless gamble U.S. voters make every four years: trusting the electoral college. In 1968, Michener served as a presidential elector in Pennsylvania. What he witnessed that fall disturbed him so much that...
Chasing Hillary
Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
For a decade, award-winning New York Times journalist Amy Chozick chronicled Hillary Clinton’s pursuit of the presidency. Chozick’s front-row seat, initially covering Clinton’s imploding 2008 campaign, and then her assignment to “The Hillary Beat” ahead of the 2016 election, took her to...
A Thousand Days
John F. Kennedy in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2002
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner: “Of all the Kennedy books . . . this is the best.” —Time
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency—from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy’s tragic and unexpected...