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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Posters, propaganda, & persuasion in election campaigns around the world and through history	Steven A. Seidman	"How effective are election campaign posters? Providing a unique political history, this book traces the impact that these posters - as well as broadsides, banners, and billboards - have had around t…	OL11720662W
Los mercenarios de la imagen	Francisco X. Montero Lozano	“Y Mexico no ha escapado ha esta penetracion impune de mercadologos politicos “criollos” provenientes algunos de ellos-los mas cotizados-, del Centro Interamericano de Gerencia Politica con sede en M…	OL11776164W
Marketing politik	Firmanzah.	On political conditions and political marketing in Indonesia.	OL11890174W
Doorstep democracy	James H. Read	The famous Tip O’Neill axiom “all politics is local” comes alive in this chronicle of Democrat James H. Read’s hard-fought but unsuccessful—by 98 votes—bid for state legislature in the socially conse…	OL11955343W
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
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 audacity to win	David Plouffe	The architect of the Obama campaign reveals how it all happened— and how it will revolutionize our politicsDavid Plouffe not only led the effort that put Barack Obama in the White House, but he also …	OL13844380W
FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE, A	Charles Osgood	Charles Osgood, one of America's favorite news personalities, offers a hilarious compendium of anecdotes from the last seventy years of presidential campaigns. With anecdotes from Harry Truman to JFK…	OL14872745W
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
The Bridge	David Remnick	No story has been more central to America's history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book thatfully investigates the circumstances a…	OL15086200W
Digital D.C	Dizard, Wilson P.	"This is a survey of Washington, D.C.'s increasing role as a modern city at the forefront of American digital culture. Chapters cover Washington's centuries-old roots as an information city, its incr…	OL15111118W
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
Letters to Quintus and Brutus ; Letter fragments ; Letter to Octavian ; Invectives ; Handbook of el…	Cicero	"Cicero had an affectionate relationship with his only brother, Quintus, down to the closing years of their lives. The letters from Cicero to him in this collection offer an intimate look at their wo…	OL15217773W
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
The candidate	Susan O'Keeffe	192 p., [8] p. of plates : 24 cm	OL15502995W
Key to Victory	Stephen I. Levine	Key to Victory is the story of the New Zealand general election of 2008, in which the experienced and long-serving prime minister, Helen Clark, was ousted by a political newcomer – National’s John Ke…	OL15574043W
Special relationship	Robyn Sisman	An English boy discovers his father is not his real father, that he is the son of a saxophone-playing, former Rhodes scholar who was at Oxford with his mother and who is now running for the U.S. pres…	OL15744340W
The summer we got saved	Pat Cunningham Devoto	Three residents of a small Southern town find their lives forever changed as they face the issue of integration in the 1960s.	OL15758832W
The senator's agenda	Bob Larson	When Bill Baldwin's press secretary commits suicide, Wes Bryant agrees to replace him, but is soon disquieted by the rumors that Baldwin, nominated for the Senate, is secretly controlled by a special…	OL15845077W