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The audacity to win
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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 … |
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Choosing a president
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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… |
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Presidential campaigns
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Paul F. Boller |
The author takes note of the serious side of elections even as he documents the frenzy and frolic. |
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Abraham Lincoln, president-elect
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Larry D. Mansch |
"This work utilizes newspaper accounts from across America, journals and diaries of his contemporaries, and correspondence. Lincoln's speeches also appear here as they did in newspapers in 1860 and 1… |
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Tides of Consent
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James A. Stimson |
Politics is a trial in which those in government - and those who aspire to be - make proposals, debate alternatives, and pass laws. Then the jury of public opinion decides. It likes the proposals or … |
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Learning by voting
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Kenneth Williams - undifferentiated,Rebecca B. Morton |
"Learning by Voting presents a theoretical and empirical comparison of simultaneous voting elections with sequential voting. The authors investigate whether sequential voting elections, such as drawn… |
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The 1992 presidential debates in focus
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Diana B. Carlin,Mitchell S. McKinney |
"The results of a focus group research project sponsored by the Commission of Presidential Debates and conducted during the 1992 presidential and vice presidential debates are reported. The study inv… |
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The Big Enchilada
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Stuart Stevens |
"Stuart Stevens tells the story of the Bush campaign the public never saw - from the Austin coffee shop where Stevens watched Karl Rove sketch out the Republican master plan on a napkin to the small … |
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The jewel of liberty
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David E. Long |
This provocative book, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, marks a milestone in Civil War and Lincoln history. Dr. David E. Long, a professor of law and history, is the first to investigate deeply the … |
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"Oh, waiter! One order of crow!"
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Jeff Greenfield |
"Few people know the absurdities of American politics better than Jeff Greenfield, CNN's award-winning political and media analyst. Now for all those millions of Americans who are still trying to fig… |
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Presidential elections
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Aaron Wildavsky,Nelson W. Polsby |
Describes and analyzes the process by which Presidents of the United States are nominated and elected, appraises voting behavior and the influence of nonparty, independent activists, and suggests pos… |
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The last campaign
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Thurston Clarke |
After JFK's assassination, Robert Kennedy--Jack's political warrior--almost lost hope. He was haunted by his brother's murder, and by the nation's inabilities to solve its problems of race, poverty, … |
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