Elections category: 1210 books
Ground Wars
Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2012
Political campaigns today are won or lost in the so-called ground war--the strategic deployment of teams of staffers, volunteers, and paid part-timers who work the phones and canvass block by block, house by house, voter by voter. Ground Wars provides an in-depth ethnographic portrait of two such...
Billionaires & Ballot Bandits
How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
A close presidential election in November could well come down to contested states or even districts--an election decided by vote theft? It could happen this year. Based on Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s investigative reporting for Rolling Stone and BBC television, Billionaires &...
08
A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
A Graphic Retelling Of The Most Historic Election Of Our Time
Beyond the pandering focus groups, the billion-dollar fund-raising machinery, and the relentless myopia of the 24-hour news cycle, it was clear that something deep in the American psyche was stirring as the rumblings of the 2008...
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A close presidential election in November could well come down to contested states or even districts--an election decided by vote theft? It could happen this year. Based on Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s investigative reporting for Rolling Stone and BBC television plus new reporting by Palast...
Meet the Deplorables
Infiltrating Trump America
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Ripped from the headlines, Meet the Deplorables: Infiltrating Trump America ventures deep into Red State territory and explores the current shape of our divided country, providing a fresh, first-hand perspective of right-wing subcultures and the mindsets of the so-called “deplorables” who helped...
Fever Swamp
A Journey Through the Strange Neverland of the 2016 Presidential Race
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
By fall 2015, the rise of Donald Trump as the likely Republican nominee confirmed that, for better or worse, Americans had been transported to a strange new land populated by mysterious creatures, where the normal laws of the political universe no longer applied. Fascinated, amused, and appalled,...
The Mueller Report: The Final Report of the Special Counsel into Donald Trump, Russia, and Collusion
The Mueller Report: The Final Report of the Special Counsel into Donald Trump, Russia, and Collusion
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
The wait for The Mueller Report is over. This strikingly designed edition has been prepared by expert typographers – allowing for an optimised, immersive reading experience. "From the moment [the report] was published, two separate news universes took shape. In one, the special counsel's report...
American Carnage
On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents: Donald...
by Theodore H. White
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
“White unites a novelist's knack of dramatization and a historian's sense of significance with a synthesizing skill that grasps the reader by the lapels.” —Newsweek
The third book in Theodore H. White's landmark series, The Making of the President 1968 is the compelling account of the...
Dark Money
The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Who are the immensely wealthy right-wing ideologues shaping the fate of America today? From the bestselling author of The Dark Side, an electrifying work of investigative journalism that uncovers the agenda of this powerful...
How Barack Obama Won
A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
This detailed overview and analysis of the results of Barack Obama’s historic 2008 presidential wingives us the inside state-by-state guide to how Obama achieved his victory, and allows us to see where the country stood four years ago.
Although much has changed in the nearly four years since,...
by Glenn Thrush, Jonathan Martin
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
The fourth and final eBook in POLITICO’s Playbook 2012 series once again provides an unprecedented minute-by-minute account of the race for the presidency. The End of the Line follows President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney as their campaign teams go all-in to win in the critical...
Then Everything Changed
Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reaga n
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
The New York Times bestseller from Jeff Greenfield, the renowned CBS News senior political correspondent and veteran of CNN and ABC news, offering an alternative history of America. These things are true: * In December 1960, a suicide bomber paused when he saw the young President-elect John F. Kennedy's...
Collusion
Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An explosive exposé that lays out the story behind the Steele Dossier, including Russia’s decades-in-the-making political game to upend American democracy and the Trump administration’s ties to Moscow.
“Harding…presents a powerful case for Russian...