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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Al Smith and his America	Oscar Handlin,Oscar Handlin	In 192 pages and with no footnotes, this is not a book which will tell you all you may want to know about Al Smith. But it tells his story well, and shows that up thru 1928 Al Smith was a progressive…	OL1170969W
Do voters look to the future?	Brad Lockerbie	"Do voters look to the past, the future, or both when deciding how to vote? In Do Voters Look to the Future?, Brad Lockerbie shows voters to be more sophisticated than much of the work in political s…	OL12710041W
Every vote counts	Chris Katsaropoulos	The 2000 Presidential election was decided by a margin of only 269 votes, but nearly 100 million eligible Americans did not cast a ballot. This year, don't sit on the sidelines - make your voice hear…	OL133444W
Why the Democrats will win in 2008	Daniel Bruno Sanz	Written 18 months before the historic presidential election of November, 2008, when Hillary Clinton was believed to be the inevitable Democratic Party nominee, financial analyst Daniel Bruno Sanz dis…	OL13616338W
Renegade	Richard Wolffe	Before the White House and Air Force One, before the TV ads and the enormous rallies, there was the real Barack Obama: a man wrestling with the momentous decision to run for the presidency, feeling t…	OL13815959W
The 2000 presidential election	Elaine Landau	Explores the people and events surrounding the 2000 presidential election.	OL15040082W
Campaigns and elections	George Sullivan	Studies the history of American presidential campaign management, showing the strategy and tactics the candidates have used over the decades to give themselves positive exposure and their opponents n…	OL15079271W
We the people	Lou Weisbach	A collection of essays by prominent citizens about the principles and ideals of the Democratic party. Contributers include Hillary Rodham Clinton, Joseph Lieberman, Christopher Reeve, Jonathan Tisch,…	OL15155897W
The persecution of Sarah Palin	Matthew Continetti	After her dazzling convention speech in August 2008, Sarah Palin was on track to win John McCain the presidency of the United States. Never before had a vice presidential candidate gotten such a stro…	OL15166956W
The meaning of Sarkozy	Alain Badiou	"Alain Badiou, France's leading radical theorist and commentator, dissects the Sarkozy phenomenon in this sharp, focused intervention. He argues that the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as President does…	OL15206939W
Campaigns	Alan Brinkley	"Over the past century, The New York Times has examined the evolution of American presidential campaigns - from William McKinley's "front porch" strategy to the media and money-powered campaigns of t…	OL15275716W
United States gubernatorial elections, 1861-1911	Michael J. Dubin	"A definitive volume on the election of United States governors during the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Industrialization periods, this book provides election results of the gubernatorial races fro…	OL15537035W
The High Tide of American Conservatism	Garland S. Tucker, III	Historians have generally failed to understand the significance of the election of 1924, the last time both major political parties nominated a bona fide conservative candidate. 'The High Tide of Ame…	OL15655538W
The Political Edge	Chris Carlsson	In the wake of the astonishing popular mobilization on behalf of an underdog campaign to elect Green Party candidate Matt Gonzalez mayor of San Francisco, The Political Edge analyzes emergent polit…	OL15827843W
Financing the 2008 election	David B. Magleby	"Provides analysis of how campaign finance and spending shaped the historic presidential and congressional races of 2008; latest in a series of volumes on the costs and trends of campaign finance pub…	OL15991224W
Choosing a president	Paul Schumaker	"In light of the Election 2000 controversy, this important new book challenges us to evaluate the fairness of the U.S. electoral college system and to consider six legitimate alternatives to it. A te…	OL16063681W
Presidential electors and the electoral college	Robert M. Alexander	xvii, 224 p. : 24 cm	OL16126778W
PRESIDENT OBAMA	Poynter Institute for Media Studies	Collects seventy-five newspaper front pages from Anchorage to Africa, capturing the emotion of this historic election. Includes highlights from fifty U.S. daily papers, a dozen international papers, …	OL16633357W
America 1844	John Bicknell	The presidential election of 1844 was one of the two or three most momentous elections in American history. Had Henry Clay won instead of James K. Polk, we'd be living in a very different country tod…	OL17079290W
Dogfight	Calvin Trillin	Presents a humorous ode to the 2012 presidential election that likens the campaign to a three-ring circus and includes riffs on figures ranging from Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich to Rick Perry and Ri…	OL17203987W