Elections category: 1210 books
by John Wright
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
On November 4, 2008, the election of Barack Hussein Obama as the forty-fourth president of the United States showed that the country had finally overcome its most hurtful, shameful, and enduring legacy—slavery. Though Obama's election showed progress, the John McCain–Sarah Palin campaign and the...
by Michael A. Fletcher, The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories. Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually...
Summary of A Passion for Leadership
by Robert Gates | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Summary of A Passion for Leadership by Robert Gates | Includes Analysis Preview: A Passion for Leadership is an advice manual for those who want to enact reform from a position of leadership in a bureaucratic organization. It also examines the challenges of reforming...
Ruling The Void
The Hollowing Of Western Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
In the long-established democracies of Western Europe, electoral turnouts are in decline, membership is shrinking in the major parties, and those who remain loyal partisans are sapped of enthusiasm. Peter Mair’s new book weighs the impact of these changes, which together show that, after a century...
Lead from the Outside
How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
A personal and empowering blueprint—from one of America’s rising Democratic stars—for outsiders who seek to become the ones in charge
Leadership is hard. Convincing others—and often yourself—that you possess the answers and are capable of world-affecting change requires confidence,...
Trump Talk
Donald Trump in His Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
An unbiased collection of Trump's greatest quotes!
Brash, outspoken, and successful, Donald Trump is an American phenomenon. Always a controversial business leader, he's now become a major political figure, and he continues to make headlines around the globe. Even if you don't follow politics,...
The Last Campaign
How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In The Last Campaign, Zachary Karabell rescues the 1948 presidential campaign from the annals of political folklore ("Dewey Defeats Truman," the Chicago Tribune memorably and erroneously heralded), to give us a fresh look at perhaps the last time the American people could truly distinguish...
by Christopher Handy
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
President Obama has done most of what he said he would do if elected in his first term; imagine what he could have done by now if progressives had supported him and not given him a Congress that doesn't look at him as if he's the demon seed. Not only is he NOT a "disappointment," he's pretty...
Summary: The Myth of the Rational Voter - Bryan Caplan
Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Complete summary of Bryan Caplan’s book: “The Myth of the RationalVoter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies”.This summary of the ideas fromBryan Caplan’s book “The Myth of the Rational Voter” investigates why votersare largely influenced by misconceptions, irrational beliefs and personalopinions....
Hacks
The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Explosive... A blistering tell-all."*---*Washington Post
"People should sit up, take notes and change things."*---*Ace Smith, Los Angeles Times
"Brazile most certainly has a story to tell.... Vivid."*---*The Guardian
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Trump Revealed
An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
A comprehensive biography of Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner in the presidential election campaign. Trump Revealed will be reported by a team of award-winning Washington Post journalists and co-authored by investigative political reporter Michael Kranish and senior editor Marc Fisher.
Trump...
Proof of Collusion
How Trump Betrayed America
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
For the first time, the full, explosive record of the unthinkable: how a US president compromised American foreign policy in exchange for the promise of future business and covert election assistance.
Looking back at this moment in history, historians will ask if Americans knew they were living...
The Swamp
Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
When Washington D.C. was first built, it was on top of a swamp that had to be drained. Donald Trump says it's time to drain it again.
In The Swamp, bestselling author and Fox News Channel host Eric Bolling presents an infuriating, amusing, revealing, and outrageous history of American politics,...
by Michael Crick
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
When it was originally published in 1984, Michael Crick’s treatise on the Militant tendency was widely acclaimed as a masterly work of investigative journalism, and although the rise of Jeremy Corbyn can be attributed more to the phenomenon of ‘Corbynmania’ than to hard-left entrism, to some...