16 books in Political Science - Elections
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Dawn Dusk or Night
A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy
Written by Yasmina Reza
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $15.00
From celebrated playwright-novelist Yasmina Reza comes an unprecedented account of her year spent with French president Nicolas Sarkozy. This utterly unorthodox portrait is written in a captivatingly impressionistic style: their exchanges exist as a play of words and glances, framed as scenes from a headlong drama. Along the campaign trail, in... Read more >
A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy
Written by Yasmina Reza
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $15.00
From celebrated playwright-novelist Yasmina Reza comes an unprecedented account of her year spent with French president Nicolas Sarkozy. This utterly unorthodox portrait is written in a captivatingly impressionistic style: their exchanges exist as a play of words and glances, framed as scenes from a headlong drama. Along the campaign trail, in... Read more >
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08
A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail
Written by Michael Crowley and Dan Goldman
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $17.95
A Graphic Retelling Of The Most Historic Election Of Our Time
Beyond the pandering focus groups, the billion-dollar fund-raising machinery, and the relentless myopia of the 24-hour news cycle, it was clear that something deep in the American psyche was stirring as the rumblings of the 2008 election first began. 08’ follows... Read more >
A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail
Written by Michael Crowley and Dan Goldman
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $17.95
A Graphic Retelling Of The Most Historic Election Of Our Time
Beyond the pandering focus groups, the billion-dollar fund-raising machinery, and the relentless myopia of the 24-hour news cycle, it was clear that something deep in the American psyche was stirring as the rumblings of the 2008 election first began. 08’ follows... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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08
A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail
Written by Michael Crowley and Dan Goldman
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $17.95
A Graphic Retelling Of The Most Historic Election Of Our Time
Beyond the pandering focus groups, the billion-dollar fund-raising machinery, and the relentless myopia of the 24-hour news cycle, it was clear that something deep in the American psyche was stirring as the rumblings of the 2008 election first began. 08’ follows... Read more >
A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail
Written by Michael Crowley and Dan Goldman
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $17.95
A Graphic Retelling Of The Most Historic Election Of Our Time
Beyond the pandering focus groups, the billion-dollar fund-raising machinery, and the relentless myopia of the 24-hour news cycle, it was clear that something deep in the American psyche was stirring as the rumblings of the 2008 election first began. 08’ follows... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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How Barack Obama Won
A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election
Written by Chuck Todd and Sheldon Gawiser
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $12.95
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... Read more >
A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election
Written by Chuck Todd and Sheldon Gawiser
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $12.95
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... Read more >
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You Can't Be President
The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America
Written by John R. Macarthur
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $15.95
"This book lays bare the malfunctions of our democracy and the solutions in a superb literary style and a convincing manner." George McGovern, Democratic candidate for President, 1972
It seems like an historic election: A woman almost won the nomination to run for President of the United states—losing to an African-American, who... Read more >
The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America
Written by John R. Macarthur
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $15.95
"This book lays bare the malfunctions of our democracy and the solutions in a superb literary style and a convincing manner." George McGovern, Democratic candidate for President, 1972
It seems like an historic election: A woman almost won the nomination to run for President of the United states—losing to an African-American, who... Read more >
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Declaring Independence
The Beginning of the End of the Two-Party System
Written by Douglas Schoen
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $24.00
• A 2006 survey revealed that two thirds of Americans consider themselves “dissatisfied with the way things are going in the U.S.”
• In recent polls, 60 to 80 percent of registered voters say they want an independent presidential candidate.
• Independent voters now constitute the largest segment of the American electorate.
America is... Read more >
The Beginning of the End of the Two-Party System
Written by Douglas Schoen
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $24.00
• A 2006 survey revealed that two thirds of Americans consider themselves “dissatisfied with the way things are going in the U.S.”
• In recent polls, 60 to 80 percent of registered voters say they want an independent presidential candidate.
• Independent voters now constitute the largest segment of the American electorate.
America is... Read more >
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Miami and the Siege of Chicago
Written by Norman Mailer
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2008
Price: $14.95
1968. The Vietnam War was raging. President Lyndon Johnson, facing a challenge in his own Democratic Party from the maverick antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy, announced that he would not seek a second term. In April, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and riots broke out in inner cities throughout America. Bobby... Read more >
Written by Norman Mailer
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2008
Price: $14.95
1968. The Vietnam War was raging. President Lyndon Johnson, facing a challenge in his own Democratic Party from the maverick antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy, announced that he would not seek a second term. In April, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and riots broke out in inner cities throughout America. Bobby... Read more >
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The Last Campaign
How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election
Written by Zachary Karabell
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
It was the last presidential campaign in which Americans truly had a choice across the ideological spectrum, from the far Right to the far Left. And the winner, according to pundits and pollsters alike, would be the Republican standard-bearer, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York. After sixteen years of Democratic... Read more >
How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election
Written by Zachary Karabell
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
It was the last presidential campaign in which Americans truly had a choice across the ideological spectrum, from the far Right to the far Left. And the winner, according to pundits and pollsters alike, would be the Republican standard-bearer, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York. After sixteen years of Democratic... Read more >
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Losers
Written by Michael Lewis
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $14.95
A wickedly funny and astute chronicle of the 1996 presidential campaign--and how we go about choosing our leaders at the turn of the century. In it Michael Lewis brings to the political scene the same brilliance that distinguished his celebrated best-seller about the financial world, Liar's Poker.
Beginning with the primaries, Lewis... Read more >
Written by Michael Lewis
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $14.95
A wickedly funny and astute chronicle of the 1996 presidential campaign--and how we go about choosing our leaders at the turn of the century. In it Michael Lewis brings to the political scene the same brilliance that distinguished his celebrated best-seller about the financial world, Liar's Poker.
Beginning with the primaries, Lewis... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Brave New Ballot
The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting
Written by Aviel David Rubin
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2006
Price: $24.95
Democracy has never been more vulnerable.
The problem is right here in America.
How to Sabotage an Election
Become an election judge and carry a refrigerator magnet in your pocket
Program every fifth vote to automatically record for your candidate
Bury your hacked code
Avi Rubin, a computer scientist at Johns Hopkins and a specialist in... Read more >
The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting
Written by Aviel David Rubin
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2006
Price: $24.95
Democracy has never been more vulnerable.
The problem is right here in America.
How to Sabotage an Election
Become an election judge and carry a refrigerator magnet in your pocket
Program every fifth vote to automatically record for your candidate
Bury your hacked code
Avi Rubin, a computer scientist at Johns Hopkins and a specialist in... Read more >
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Crossroads
The Future of American Politics
Written by Andrew Cuomo
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $24.95
An array of leading Democrats, Republicans, and independent thinkers provide a road map for America’s political future.
America is at a turning point. For the first time in history, the United States is the world’s lone superpower—in Andrew Cuomo’s words, “both the tamer and target of an unstable world.” New technology... Read more >
The Future of American Politics
Written by Andrew Cuomo
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $24.95
An array of leading Democrats, Republicans, and independent thinkers provide a road map for America’s political future.
America is at a turning point. For the first time in history, the United States is the world’s lone superpower—in Andrew Cuomo’s words, “both the tamer and target of an unstable world.” New technology... Read more >
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The Boys on the Bus
Written by Timothy Crouse
Foreword by Hunter S. Thompson
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $15.95
Cheap booze. Flying fleshpots. Lack of sleep. Endless spin. Lying pols.
Just a few of the snares lying in wait for the reporters who covered the 1972 presidential election. Traveling with the press pack from the June primaries to the big night in November, Rolling Stone reporter Timothy Crouse hopscotched the country... Read more >
Written by Timothy Crouse
Foreword by Hunter S. Thompson
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $15.95
Cheap booze. Flying fleshpots. Lack of sleep. Endless spin. Lying pols.
Just a few of the snares lying in wait for the reporters who covered the 1972 presidential election. Traveling with the press pack from the June primaries to the big night in November, Rolling Stone reporter Timothy Crouse hopscotched the country... Read more >
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Too Close to Call
The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election
Written by Jeffrey Toobin
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $14.95
From the best-selling author of A Vast Conspiracy and The Run of His Life comes Too Close to Call--the definitive story of the Bush-Gore presidential recount. A political and legal analyst of unparalleled journalistic skill, Jeffrey Toobin is the ideal writer to distill the events of the thirty-six anxiety-filled days that... Read more >
The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election
Written by Jeffrey Toobin
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $14.95
From the best-selling author of A Vast Conspiracy and The Run of His Life comes Too Close to Call--the definitive story of the Bush-Gore presidential recount. A political and legal analyst of unparalleled journalistic skill, Jeffrey Toobin is the ideal writer to distill the events of the thirty-six anxiety-filled days that... Read more >
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eBook.
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Political Fictions
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $14.00
In these coolly observant essays, Joan Didion looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life." Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and photo ops of three presidential campaigns, one presidential impeachment, and an unforgettable... Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $14.00
In these coolly observant essays, Joan Didion looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life." Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and photo ops of three presidential campaigns, one presidential impeachment, and an unforgettable... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Too Close to Call
The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election
Written by Jeffrey Toobin
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 2, 2001
Price: $14.95
From the best-selling author of A Vast Conspiracy and The Run of His Life comes Too Close to Call--the definitive story of the Bush-Gore presidential recount. A political and legal analyst of unparalleled journalistic skill, Jeffrey Toobin is the ideal writer to distill the events of the thirty-six anxiety-filled days that... Read more >
The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election
Written by Jeffrey Toobin
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 2, 2001
Price: $14.95
From the best-selling author of A Vast Conspiracy and The Run of His Life comes Too Close to Call--the definitive story of the Bush-Gore presidential recount. A political and legal analyst of unparalleled journalistic skill, Jeffrey Toobin is the ideal writer to distill the events of the thirty-six anxiety-filled days that... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Last Campaign
How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election
Written by Zachary Karabell
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2001
Price: $14.00
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 what the candidates stood for.
In 1948,... Read more >
How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election
Written by Zachary Karabell
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2001
Price: $14.00
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 what the candidates stood for.
In 1948,... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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