Elections category: 1210 books
¡Obamanos!
The Birth of a New Political Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
"Hertzberg has a novelist's control of metaphor and a comedian's gift for the one-liner."
-The New York Times Book Review
¡Obámanos! is powered by celebrated political essayist Hendrik Hertzberg's "Comments" for The New Yorker's "The Talk of the Town" and the...
First Among Equals
Australia’s Prime Ministers from Barton to Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Since Federation in 1901, 29 people have served in the position of Australian prime minister. Some have had the position thrust upon them. Some have schemed their way to the top. Four have served more than once. Three have died in office. Seven have been dumped by their own party. This pocket reference tells each one’s story.
The Mad Marathon
The Story of the 2013 Election
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
With the 2013 race for the Lodge now run and won, who better than Mungo MacCallum to make sense of it all? With wit and insight, Mungo documents the ups and downs of this longest of campaigns. He dissects Labor's self-destructive leadership war, the Coalition's cheap and nasty Broadband Lite, and the...
GAME CHANGER Eight Weeks That Transformed British Politics
Inside Corbyn’s Election Machine
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
When Theresa May called a snap election in 2017, Labour was more than twenty points behind in the polls and it seemed the only question was how big her landslide would be.
The experts argued campaigns don’t move opinions much and young voters would not turn out. But Jeremy Corbyn and his...
by Rosa Prince
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Fully updated new edition of the best-selling political biography.
He is a most unlikely revolutionary: a middle-aged, middle-class former grammar schoolboy who honed his radicalism on the mean streets of rural Shropshire. Last summer, this little-known outsider rode a wave of popular enthusiasm...
Why the Tories Won
The Inside Story of the 2015 Election
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
When David Cameron returned to Tory headquarters early on the morning of 8 May, he declared his sensational election victory to be ‘the sweetest’ moment of his political career. The Conservatives had won their first Commons majority for twenty-three years and the Prime Minister had achieved the...
by Iain Watson
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
We have had five million conversations. This will go to the wire. ED MILIBAND
Iain Watson was the BBC Political Correspondent assigned to follow the Labour campaign. He shares the gaffes and glories of the 2015 general election culminating in the notorious ‘Edstone’ and humiliating defeat....
by Cas Mudde
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This book collects Mudde's old and new blog posts, interviews and op-eds on the topic of the US far right, ranging from right-wing populists to neo-Nazi terrorists. The main emphasis of the book is on the two most important far right developments of the 21st century, the Tea Party and Donald Trump....
Quarterly Essay 25 Bipolar Nation
How to Win the 2007 Election
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
In Bipolar Nation, Peter Hartcher discusses the fantasies and realities at the heart of our politics. When our political leaders look at us, what do they see? What are the hopes, fears and dreams of the Australian electorate, and how might they be turned to election winning advantage? What, most fundamentally,...
Summary: Don't Think of an Elephant! - George Lakoff
Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Complete summary of George Lakoff’s book: “Don’t Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate”. This summary of the ideas from George Lakoff’s book “Don’t Think of an Elephant!” reveals the way conservatives think and how to counter their arguments. In his book, the author...
1912
Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs -The Election that Changed the Country
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Beginning with former president Theodore Roosevelt’s return in 1910 from his African safari, Chace brilliantly unfolds a dazzling political circus that featured four extraordinary candidates.
When Roosevelt failed to defeat his chosen successor, William Howard Taft, for the Republican nomination,...
The Bush Crime Family
The Inside Story of an American Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
"This book is very tough." - President Donald Trump
The Bush Crime Family smashes through the layers of lies and secrecy that have surrounded and protected our country’s most successful political dynasty for nearly two centuries. New York Times bestselling author Roger Stone lashes out with...
by Arthur Herzog
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
McCarthy for President recall an endeavor both brash and Quixotic, unpredicted a political campaign of permanent interest to voters and historians alike. Even in defeat the McCarthy movment racked up considerable success: The dramatic toppling of the President, pressure to initiate the Paris peace...
Making of the Great Communicator
Ronald Reagan's Transformation from Actor to Governor
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
One week after Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for governor of California, the San Francisco Chronicle gibed: “It was simply a flagrant example of miscasting.” Reagan was tanking, and his businessmen backers panicked. Their bold experiment was about to fail. Then a think-tank friend suggested...