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Price: $19.50
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Sale: $17.20
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: George C. Edwards III
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.630973
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Publication Date: 2005-09-07
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Reading Level: 278
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Description: A distinguished political scientist critiques arguments in favor of the electoral college and offers a persuasive argument for direct election of the president. "[With] excellent descriptions of how the electoral system actually works, [this] is the most cogent and up-todate criticism I have read."--Alexander Keyssar, "New York Review of Books "This crisp handbook . . . outlines the origins of the electoral college . . . and demonstrates the many ways it violates democratic norms.""--New Yorker "Timely [and] relevant. . . . [Edwards's] principal lines of argument deserve extensive debate in both the news media and the Congress."--Lewis H. Lapham, "Harper's "Compelling . . . [and] meticulous."--Glenn C. Altschuler, "New York Observer
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $21.05
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Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gary A. Donaldson
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.9730921
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Publication Date: 2007-07-28
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Reading Level: 210
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Description: In this engaging book, Gary Donaldson tells the story of Kennedy versus Nixon with a sharp eye for the salient political developments and a keen sense of the drama of an election that was unlike any other the nation had experienced. The election of 1960 was an orchestrated political drama, organized as a sweeping campaign from coast to coast and staged for a national television audience. This made it the first modern campaign in which the television media changed the dynamics of presidential politics and in which photographs, charisma, and direct appeals to voters counted as they had never done before. It was also an election of intense personal rivalry made all the more spirited by the prejudice against Kennedy's Catholicism and his intention to widen the American political arena. Not since Theodore White's journalistic account, The Making of the President, has attention been paid to the full 1960 campaign as it played out in the early primaries and then culminated in the November election. Donaldson shows why the whole political season is critical to understanding American politics today. The First Modern Campaign is essential and engaging reading for anyone interested in contemporary politics in the United States.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $14.37
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Manufacturer: Univ Of Minnesota Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jeff Blodgett::Bill Lofy::Ben Goldfarb::Erik Peterson::Sujata Tejwani
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Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.70973
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Publication Date: 2008-07-10
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: As the 2008 presidential race dominates political discussion and media coverage worldwide, thousands of lesser-known local contests are being hard-fought in our neighborhoods, cities, and states. Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way is based on the work of Wellstone Action, a leading-edge progressive training center that has instructed thousands of political activists, campaign managers, and volunteers, of whom more than two hundred have gone on to run for office and win. Jeff Blodgett and Bill Lofy analyze the crucial lessons learned from many successful (and several losing) campaigns and demystifies what it takes to run for—and win—a political seat.
This companion guide to Politics the Wellstone Way, the best-selling introduction to political action, features the in-depth knowledge that campaigns need to take energy and engagement to the next level—getting elected. With detailed and informative examples from progressive campaigns at every level throughout the United States, Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way combines grassroots organizing with political strategy, articulating a bold populist agenda.
If you have ever considered volunteering for a political candidate, working for a campaign, or even running for public office yourself, Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way is the key resource you need to devise a sophisticated, progressive, and successful strategy and, ultimately, affect people’s lives for the better.
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Price: $8.95
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Sale: $15.92
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Manufacturer: Adams Media Corporation
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tip O'Neill::Gary Hymel
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Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.0973
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Publication Date: 1995-01
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Reading Level: 190
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Description: Tip O'Neill--member of the U.S. Congress for 40 years and Speaker of the House for 10 years--was an American institution, known and loved across the country. In All Politics Is Local he shares his secrets. Continuing in the tradition of the bestselling Man of the House O'Neill's initmitable stories and irresistible style show how politics really work.
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Price: $46.95
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Sale: $38.71
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Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Kerwin C. Swint
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Publisher: Praeger Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.70973
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Publication Date: 2005-12-30
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Reading Level: 276
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Description: Americans have a love-hate relationship with negative campaigning, claiming to despise it and ranting about how it turns off the electorate, while at the same time paying an increasing amount of attention to negative ads and tactics during ever-lengthening campaign seasons. Swint gathers the most compelling of these campaigns from the two "Golden Ages" of negative campaigning--1864 to 1892 and 1988 to the present--in addition to some that fall outside those demarcations, and ranks them in descending order, from No. 25 to No. 1. Mudslingers covers presidential, senatorial, gubernatorial, and mayoral races and chronicles the dirtiest, most low-down campaign tactics of all time. The list includes the presidential campaign of 1800, when the disputed outcome of the race between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams had to be decided by the House of Representatives, and the election of 2004, in which George W. Bush beat John Kerry after one of the nastiest showdowns on record. The first round of negative campaigning in American history was driven by post-Civil War politics, the end of Reconstruction, an increasingly corrupt federal government, and a rabid partisan press. The current Golden Age of mudslinging and dirty politics is driven by huge increases in campaign spending, television advertising, decreased civility in public life, and a muckraking mass media. These fascinating stories from the annals of negative campaigning will entertain as well as educate, reminding us, the next time we are tempted to decry the current climate, that it was (almost) ever thus.
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Price: $46.00
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Sale: $15.99
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Manufacturer: Longman
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mona Field
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Publisher: Longman
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Edition: 11
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.9794
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Publication Date: 2006-12-31
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Reading Level: 1448
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Description: This lively text offers a unique approach to California government that blends political data with economic, cultural, and demographic trends, and analyzes the link between the economy and the political process. California Government and Politics Today is written by a college professor who is also an elected official in California, offering a unique insider's view that will engage and inform students. This updated edition continues the book's tradition of encouraging political activism and developing the reader's own unique political views.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $2.00
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Manufacturer: Basic Civitas Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Keli Goff
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Publisher: Basic Civitas Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.1196073
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Publication Date: 2008-02-25
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Reading Level: 244
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Description: For the last forty years the label "black voter" has been virtually synonymous with "Democrat" but a new generation of voters is changing that. In her provocative new book Party Crashing, political commentator Keli Goff introduces America's newest swing voter. Like soccer moms and Nascar dads before them, young, black voters born after the Civil Rights Movement are becoming increasingly up for grabs, politically speaking. While the politics of their parents and grandparents were shaped by the Civil Rights Movement, Goff notes that the politics of her peers, members of the post-Civil Rights generation, have been shaped by a number of cultural influencers that transcend race; from "The Cosby Show," to icons such as Oprah Winfrey, and the tragedy of 9/11. Civil rights has long been the defining political issue for black Americans but for this emerging generation of black voters, civil rights is now one issue among many that define their politics. As a result, they are challenging the idea that one's skin color should color one's political identity, and they are also challenging the idea that they should be Democrats. Since the support of black Americans has been crucial to the success of democratic candidates--from Presidents Kennedy to Clinton--this shift could be one of the most important developments in modern politics, arguably as important as the Civil Rights movement itself. Along with the political shift occurring, Goff also examines the cultural shift that is taking place on a wide range of issues including: gay marriage, hip-hop, and the emergence of what Goff calls "Generation Obama." Through in-depth interviews with young, black voters, groundbreaking survey research, and conversations with a range of high profile Americans--from Colin Powell to Russell Simmons--Party Crashing explores the issues and people who have helped shape the politics of the post-Civil Rights Generation, and how this generation is reshaping America.
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $11.00
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Manufacturer: Sourcebooks Trade
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Stephen Marks
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Publisher: Sourcebooks Trade
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.7092
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Publication Date: 2008-01-22
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: The most influential people in a political race aren't the campaign managers, the strategists or even the candidates themselves. In fact, you won't even find them on a campaign's list of official members or volunteers.
Enter the world of the political hitman. Few know that these operatives exist, and campaigns go to great effort to distance themselves from the people who dig up their dirt. But political hitmen wield a secretly powerful position in today's American politics, where scandals derail campaigns and negative campaigning decides who gets elected and who doesn't.
For the past twelve years, Stephen Marks has worked silently behind the scenes as one of the country's top opposition researchers: a political hitman and an assassin of reputations. Confessions of a Political Hitman is Marks's intensely personal and explosive story through more than a decade in the underbelly of American political campaigns.
From his early days in politics through his rapid movement into the secret world of opposition research, Marks discovers a talent for digging up dirt and uncovering political liabilities. His work involves a wide scope of American politics, from state governments to presidential elections to the Republican Revolution. But the exciting work soon leads to disillusionment as candidates he believed in turn out to be worse than expected, and hypocrisy abounds on both sides of the political fence. Eventually Marks finds himself living in the shadows, both politically and personally, and searching for escape.
In Confessions of a Political Hitman, Marks reveals the fascinating and incredible details of what really goes on behind the scenes in American campaigning-including the political realities behind the campaigns, careers and attack ads of some of Washington's heavy hitters, including George W. Bush, John Kerry, Jack Abramoff and countless others.
Confessions of a Political Hitman is one man's story about secrets, lies, hypocrisy and influence-painting a troubling picture of whom we elect and how they get elected.
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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $10.00
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul F. Boller
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.973
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Publication Date: 2004-07-22
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Reading Level: 496
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Description: Were presidential campaigns always as bitter as they have been in recent years? Or is the current style of campaigning a new political development? In this revised and updated edition of Presidential Campaigns the answers to these questions are clear: the race for the presidency, although at times mean and nasty, has always been an endlessly entertaining and highly-charged spectacle for the American public. This book unveils the whole history of American presidential elections, from the seamless ascent of General George Washington to the bitterly contested election of George W. Bush, bringing these boisterous contests to life in all their richness and complexity. In the old days, Boller shows, campaigns were much rowdier than they are today. Back in the nineteenth century, the invective at election time was exuberant and the mudslinging unrestrained; a candidate might be called everything from a carbuncle-faced old drunkard to a howling atheist. But there was plenty of fun and games, too, with songs and slogans, speeches and parades, all livening up the scene in order to get people to the polls.Presidential Campaigns takes note of the serious side of elections even as it documents the frenzy, frolic and the sleaze. Each chapter contains a brief essay describing an election and presenting 'campaign highlights' that bring to life the quadrennial confrontation in all its shame and glory. With a postscript analyzing the major changes in the ways Americans have chosen their Presidents from Washington's time to the present, Presidential Campaigns gives the reader a full picture of this somewhat flawed procedure. For all of its shortcomings, though, this 'great American shindig' is an essential part of the American democratic system and, for better or for worse, tells us much about ourselves.
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $2.00
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: J. William Middendorf II
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.9730923
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Publication Date: 2006-10-23
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Reading Level: 303
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Description: The insider account that sets the record straight about the election that gave birth to modern conservatism in the United States The 1964 presidential campaign lives on in conservative circles as an origin myth for the modern conservative movement. Even though their preferred (and now revered) candidate lost to Lyndon B. Johnson by a landslide, Barry Goldwater's failed presidential run was a major turning point of the twentieth century. Without Goldwater's philosophy to pave the way--and, just as importantly, without the strategic and political infrastructure created by the "Draft Goldwater" movement that preceded it--there likely would have been no Reagan or Bush administrations, and possibly no Nixon administration either. The policy positions and electoral strategies of the Goldwater campaign became standard tenets of Republican politics. William Middendorf had better than a ringside seat for this pivotal campaign. A key member of the "Draft Goldwater" movement as early as 1962, he was Goldwater's campaign treasurer and, afterwards, a major force within the Republican Party. No one knows the real inside story better, and A Glorious Disaster tells that story in all its rollicking, agonizing, and never-before-published detail. Following his work on the Goldwater campaign and four years as treasurer of the Republican National Committee,
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