Elections category: 1210 books

Cover of Election Night: 1960
by Stephen Battaglio
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013

Election Night: 1960 by Stephen Battaglio is a fascinating and revealing look at the 1960 political contest between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon through the lens of NBC News. Drawing from the extensive NBC archives, Battaglio presents the drama and results by selecting a number of the most memorable...
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Election Night

A Television History 2012 Chapter

by Stephen Battaglio, NBC
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012

Election Night: A Television History by Stephen Battaglio is a fascinating and revealing look at the evolution of U.S. presidential election night broadcasts and how since 1948.Through the lens of NBC News, this special 2012 Election chapter of Election Night highlights commentary by Brian...
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Kennedy v. Nixon

The Presidential Election of 1960

by Edmund F. Kallina Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2010

Kennedy v. Nixon is a book for everyone who thinks they know what happened in the pivotal election year of 1960. For fifty years we've accepted Theodore White's premise (from The Making of the President, 1960) that Kennedy ran a brilliant campaign while Nixon committed blunder after blunder. But...
Cover of Essays for the 99% - The Auction - The Choice
by John David
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012

"John David's satirical style and clever sense of humor succinctly put in to words, how many of us feel about the electoral process." "This writer is spot on . . . making him one of the biggest dreamers in America at the present time. His writing is eloquent and concise."...
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Run for Something

A Real-Talk Guide to Fixing the System Yourself

by Amanda Litman
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017

The must-have guide for young progressives looking to run for local office, complete with contributions from elected officials and political operatives. You’ve been depressed since the night of November 8, 2016. You wore black to work the next morning. You berated yourself for your complacency...
Cover of Running for Office? Fatal Mistakes Candidates Make in a Political Campaign
by Jay Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018

This book is for candidates who are running for office; those who would like to know how to run for office, and how to win an election. Included are examples and case studies of candidates who made needless, fatal mistakes in their campaigns and how you can avoid them. Readers of this book will be...
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The Year of Voting Dangerously

The Derangement of American Politics

by Maureen Dowd
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

Maureen Dowd's incendiary takes and takedowns from 2016--the most bizarre, disruptive and divisive Presidential race in modern history. Trapped between two candidates with the highest recorded unfavorables, Americans are plunged into The Year of Voting Dangerously. In this perilous and shocking...
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How Trump Thinks

His Tweets and the Birth of a New Political Language

by Peter Oborne, Tom Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017

The most unusual feature of Donald Trump's nationalist and populist campaign for the presidency of the USA was his obsessive use of Twitter. Like other social media, this form of communication has often been assumed to encourage the dissemination of liberal values and the circulation of facts. Trump's...
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Revised Ed

Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything

by Joe Trippi
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009

When Joe Trippi signed on to manage Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, the long-shot candidate had 432 known supporters and $100,000 in the bank. Within a year the most obscure horse in the field was the front-runner, with $50 million in the campaign till, thanks to Trippi and his team. The...
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Panic 2012

The Sublime and Terrifying Inside Story of Obama's Final Campaign (A BuzzFeed/Bl ue Rider Press Book)

by Michael Hastings
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013

One of America’s most important young journalists delivers the first substantial piece of narrative nonfiction to chronicle the hard-fought closing months of the 2012 presidential campaign in PANIC 2012. Michael Hastings – BuzzFeed correspondent at large; Rolling Stone contributor; George Polk...
Cover of The 2016 Contenders: Hillary Clinton
by Kent Babb, The Washington Post
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...
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Project Fear

How an Unlikely Alliance Left a Kingdom United but a Country Divided

by Joe Pike
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015

As the clock struck 10 p.m. on Thursday 18 September 2014, polling stations across Scotland closed, signalling the end of two and a half bruising years of debate for the Yes and No campaigns. Dubbed ‘Project Fear’, the unique Better Together alliance was relieved as victory was secured and a weary...
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Campaign 2010

The Making of the Prime Minister

by Nicholas Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011

In the run-up to the general election of May 2010 it was universally acknowledged that whatever the outcome, this vote would start a fresh chapter in British political history. But no one anticipated just how fresh that chapter would be - Twists and turns made it an election like no other. David Cameron...
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The 2012 Biblical Guide to Voting

What the Bible Says About 22 Key Political Issues for 2012

by Frontline Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011

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