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The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory
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David Plouffe
Plouffe not only led the effort that put Barack Obama in the White House, but he also helped to change the face of politics forever. "The Audacity to Win" tells his story of that groundbreaking achievement.
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Slobbering Love Affair: The True (and Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
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Bernard Goldberg
Do the mainstream media have a liberal bias? Sure they do, everyone knows that, says CBS veteran and New York Times bestselling author Bernard Goldberg. But the media crossed an important line in the 2008 presidential race, moving from their usual unthinking liberal bias to crass partisanship of the crudest kind, practically acting as spin doctors ...
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None dare call it conspiracy
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Gary Allen
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The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
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Drew Westen
Hailed by "The Guardian" as "essential reading from Washington to Westminster" this is a groundbreaking study of how the mind works, and what this means for why candidates win and lose elections.Since the 18th Century, the idea of mind that has captured the imagination of philosophers, cognitive scientists, economists and political scientists is ...
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Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate
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David Freddoso
He's the media's darling, an inspiration to many, and the answer to everything from health care to taxes. He, of course, is Barack Obama - the silver-tongued senator with a phrase for everything and a promise for everyone. Sound too good to be true? That's because he is, as David Freddoso, investigative reporter and NRO columnist, shows to ...
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Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election
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Jeffrey Toobin
From the bestselling author of "A Vast Conspiracy" and "The Run of His Life "comes the definitive story of the Bush-Gore presidential recount. Toobin distills the events of the 36 anxiety-filled days that culminated in one of the most stunning Supreme Court decisions in history.
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Politics for Dummies
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Ann DeLaney
This reference takes readers of all ages through the murky political waters of the U.S. with just enough wit and humor to make it interesting. It will inform, educate, and encourage people to vote by taking the fear and misconceptions out of the politics.
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Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America
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Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor is a good liberal, and here he indulges himself in an entertaining rant about what's wrong with America, from corporate hot air to the war on drugs to the Bush Administration. (He calls the Department of Homeland Security the "Achtung Department.") Keillor traces his own liberal persona back to his excellent public education and ...
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Polling and the Public: What Every Citizen Should Know
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Herbert Asher
How can a public opinion poll of only 1,500 Americans accurately represent the entire population? Asher demystifies this and other polling issues with clear descriptions, colorful anecdotes and such up-to-date examples as polls concerning doctor-assisted suicide and NATO expansion. He explains how the wording and ordering of the survey questions, ...
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Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy
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William Greider
This expose of Washington politics reveals how influence and power drive that town, and how decision-making that is supposed to benefit the citizenry too often benefits corporations. Greider offers compelling examples of democracy thwarted by special interests and offers ways to make democracy work again.
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The Making of the President 1960
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Theodore H White
The groundbreaking national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the 1960 presidential campaign, this work stands as "a masterpiece . . . full of deep insights into political power in America and how our democracy works in choosing the president (William L. Shirer).
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The Year of Obama: How Barack Obama Won the White House
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Larry Sabato (Editor)
Best-selling author Larry J. Sabato once again brings together the nation's most perceptive analysts and shrewdest observers of American politics to analyze our most recent election: the historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States. This revealing new book by Larry Sabato and his team of experts contains exciting ...
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The Politics of Congressional Elections
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Gary C Jacobson
Brought completely up-to-date with the latest data from the National Election Study and the Federal Election Commission, and including coverage and analysis of the dramatic 2006 midterm elections, this seminal work continues to offer a systematic account of what goes on in congressional elections and demonstrates how electoral politics reflect and ...
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Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practices
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Judith S Trent
Now in its sixth edition, "Political Campaign Communication" provides a realistic understanding of the strategic and tactical communication choices candidates and their staffs must make as they wage an election campaign. Trent and Friedenberg's classic text has been updated throughout to reflect recent election campaigns, including 2004 and 2006 ...
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Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy
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John Fund
This book gives us a chilling portrait of our electoral vulnerability. This is writing with urgency and authority.
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How Barack Obama Won: A State-By-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election
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Chuck Todd, Sheldon Gawiser, Ana Maria Arumi
How Barack Obama Won--by one of the most lauded political journalists of our time, and one of the most respected pollsters in the business--gives us not only the inside state-by-state guide to how Obama achieved his victory, but also the essential toolbox for understanding the political implications of the 2008 presidential election--where the ...
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An Economic Theory of Democracy
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Rudolf Steiner, Anthony Downs
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A Long Time Coming: The Inspiring, Combative 2008 Campaign and the Historic Election of Barack Obama
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Evan Thomas
Since 1984, Newsweek has been renowned for its vivid, in-depth special election coverage of the ordeal of running for the presidency. A year before the election, Newsweek assigns reporters to get inside the campaigns of the Republican and Democratic candidates. Newsweek promises not to publish any information until after the votes are cast, and ...
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The Campaign Manager: Running and Winning Local Elections
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Catherine M Shaw
An ingenious, step-by-step guide to winning local elections, filled with practical examples of how to organize a successful campaign.. Based on the authors three terms as mayor and her numerous successes in managing campaigns is support of both candidates and issues, this book gives political novices and veterans alike a comprehensive and ...
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The Thumpin': How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats Learned to Be Ruthless and Ended the Republican Revolution
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Naftali Bendavid
In the 2006 midterm elections, the Democratic party ended twelve years of electoral humiliation by seizing back Congress and putting an end to Republican rule. "The Thumpin'" is the story of that historic victory and the man at the center on whom Democratic hopes hinged: Congressman Rahm Emanuel, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign ...
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The American Voter Revisited
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Dr. Michael S Lewis-Beck (Editor), Helmut Norpoth (Editor), William G Jacoby (Editor)
The presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 will be remembered as two of the most contentious and polarizing political events in American history.In an attempt to understand what happened during these historic elections, "The American Voter Revisited" recreates the outstanding classic from 1960, "The American Voter", following the same format, ...
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Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics
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Thomas B Edsall
The rise of the presidential wing of the Republican party over the past generation has been driven by overlapping issues of race and taxes. The Republicans have capitalized on these two issues, capturing the White House in five of the last six elections. In a steady evolutionary process, race and taxes came to interact with such domestic issues as ...
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Presidential Elections: Strategies and Structures of American Politics
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Nelson W Polsby
Brimming with data and examples from the tumultuous 2000 election and laced with previews of 2004, the eleventh edition of this classic text offers a complete overview of the presidential election process from the earliest straw polls and fundraisers to final voter turnout and exit interviews. The comprehensive coverage includes campaign strategy, ...
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Politics UK
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Bill Jones
"FULL COVERAGE OF NEW LABOUR'S FIRST THREE YEARS" Completely revised, extended and thoroughly updated, the fourth edition of this best-selling and highly respected textbook promises to be the best yet. Politics UK 4/e covers all of the core elements of an introductory undergraduate and A-level British politics course - the constitution, social ...
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Better Than Sex:: Confessions of a Political Junkie
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Hunter S Thompson
"Better than Sex" is famed political analyst Hunter S. Thompson's groundbreaking and escapading saga of what happens to campaign junkies behind the scenes of a victorious American presidential campaign - their orgies, their despair, and finally their terror when they abandon all hope as the forces of darkness close in and make them prisoners in ...
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