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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision to report the infamous phone call that led to presidential impeachment, tells his own story for the first time. Here, Right Matters is a stirring account of Vindman's childhood as an immigrant growing up in New York City, his career in service of his new home on the battlefield and at the White House, and the decisions leading up...
Author
Publisher
Belt Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"End the filibuster. Abolish the Senate. Make everyone vote. Only if we do this (and then some), says Thomas Geoghegan, might we heal our fractured democracy. In 2008 Geoghegan, then an established labor lawyer and prolific writer, embarked on a campaign for the U.S. House. A political neophyte, he avidly knocked on doors, shook hands at train stations, and raised money--and on election night he lost, badly. But out of this humbling experience came...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This book offers the most up-to-date examination of campaigns and elections, including the challenges and opportunities they present. It addresses fundamental questions about who votes in American elections, how legislative districts are reapportioned and why it matters, the realities of voter fraud, the pros and cons of reforming the Electoral College, the impact of dark money on campaigns, and the role of political consultants and specialists, among...
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Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"It is a widespread belief among liberals that if only Democrats can continue to dominate national elections, if only those awful Republicans are beaten into submission, the country will be on the right course. But this is to fundamentally misunderstand the modern Democratic Party. Drawing on years of research and first-hand reporting, Frank points out that the Democrats have done little to advance traditional liberal goals: expanding opportunity,...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
P. J. O'Rourke's savagely funny and national best-seller Parliament of Whores has become a classic in understanding the workings of the American political system. Originally written at the end of the Reagan era, this new edition includes an extensive foreword by the renowned political writer Andrew Ferguson - showing us that although the names and the players have changed, the game is still the same. Parliament of Whores is an exuberant, broken-field...
Author
Publisher
Renaissance Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince has been one of the most widely read and quoted book about politics during the past five centuries. But, in the democracies of the information age, new ideas are needed to make government prosper through the next century. Now, Dick Morris, who contributed significantly to President Clinton's reelection in 1996 and, during the previous two decades, helped many public officials (Democrats and Republicans alike) gain...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Mark Tushnet is Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University Law Center and the author of Red, White and Blue: A Critical Analysis of Constitutional Law and of a two-volume study of the career of Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall, Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961 and Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991. He is also the coauthor...
Author
Publisher
Spence
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Politics is war; but in America, one side is doing all the shooting—the liberals. Shell-shocked conservatives blame their failures on the media or on unscrupulous opponents, but they refuse to name the real culprit: themselves. In a book that will shatter the complacency of establishment conservatives, David Horowitz shows how Bill Clinton's generation, having mastered the art of political war, has spent the last ten years clobbering the conservatives...
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Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Voting is an important part of our democratic process. But what what do you know about the unique way the United States elects presidents and vice presidents? Learn all about the electoral college. How does it work, what are the system's strengths and weaknesses, and what does it mean for the votes of individuals in the country? It's key social studies curriculum made approachable for all!"--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The veteran political journalist and New York Times bestselling author goes behind the scenes at the White House to recount the dramatic tale of a pivotal period in the Obama presidency, from the game-changing 2010 midterm elections to the beginning of the critical 2012 campaign season-a tumultuous time that tested the president as never before and set the stage for a titanic clash over the future of the nation
After Barack Obama's first two years...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
By being too timid and too weak, too hesitant and too confused, Democrats have allowed Republicans to run amok. Republicans today use their absolute power to control everything and corrupt our democracy. Now James Carville and Paul Begala show Democrats how they can take it back. They offer a clear-eyed critique of their party's failures and make specific, concrete recommendations on how Democrats can avoid losing elections on divisive issues like...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Colin Gordon is Professor of History at the University of Iowa. He is the author of New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics in America, 1920-1935.
Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed this question, Dead on Arrival is the first to do so based on original archival research for the full sweep of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of political,...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Andrew Gelman is professor of statistics and political science at Columbia University. His books include Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks. He received the Presidents' Award in 2003, awarded each year to the best statistician under forty.
On the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. Since then the color divide has become symbolic of a culture...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Bill Bradley believes that America is at a crossroads, a "teachable moment" in which we are compelled to reevaluate our political system and leadership. With clarity and urgency, Bradley outlines the story we are being told now about who we are and what is possible for our nation. He then offers a new story, including what changes need to be made, and suggests that the party that chooses to embrace this new story will be in power for a generation.Writing...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Frank argues that conservatives have taken pains to enshrine the free market as the permanent creed of state, selling off the government, deregulating some industries, defunding others, but always turning public policy into a private-sector bidding war.
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