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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
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
The big sort	Bill Bishop	America may be more diverse than ever coast to coast, but the places where we live are becoming increasingly crowded with people who live, think, and vote as we do. We've built a country where we can…	OL13850935W
National suicide	Martin L. Gross	The New York Times bestselling author of The Government Racket is back with a scathing indictment of government waste. The government of the United States is a juggernaut of mismanagement, malfeasanc…	OL15073973W
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
Fraud	Paul Waldman	Argues that George W. Bush and his supporters have engaged in an organized program of deliberately deceiving the news media and the American people about his intentions, beliefs, and policies.	OL15836431W
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
Muzzled	Juan Williams	Williams discusses the countless ways in which honest debate in America--from the halls of Congress and the health care town halls to the talk shows and print media--is stifled.	OL16700870W
For the next generation	Debbie Wasserman Schultz	Congresswoman and Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz challenges the nation to resolve tough issues for future generations. America has witnessed the dangers that come with s…	OL17876988W
If Democrats had any brains, they'd be Republicans	Ann H. Coulter	"Uttering lines that send liberals into paroxysms of rage, otherwise known as 'citing facts,' is the spice of life. When I see the hot spittle flying from their mouths and the veins bulging and pulsi…	OL1922428W
The once and future liberal	Mark Lilla	In The Once and Future Liberal, Mark Lilla offers an impassioned, tough-minded, and stinging look at the failure of American liberalism over the past two generations. Although there have been Democra…	OL19715098W
The people are going to rise like the waters upon your shore	Jared Yates Sexton	The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore is a firsthand account of the events that shaped the 2016 presidential election and the cultural forces that divided both parties and powe…	OL19715290W
Wiki government	Beth Noveck	"In explaining how to enhance political institutions with the power of networks, examines the Peer-to-Patent project. Discusses its design challenges faced in creating software to distill online coll…	OL19911199W
White backlash	Marisa Abrajano	"White Backlash provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping the politics of the nation. Using an array of data and analysis, Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal show that fears…	OL19998427W
Government gone wild	Kristin Tate	"Passionate and politically involved 24 year-old Kristin Tate worries that her fellow millennials, and even 40-something elders, have become politically ambivalent and brainwashed into accepting big …	OL20045432W
How Trump won	Joel B. Pollak	Donald Trump blindsided them all: the media, campaign consultants on both sides, and Hillary Clinton's vaunted data operation. Now two insiders: Joel Pollak, senior editor-at-large for Breitbart News…	OL20049732W
Cheers America	Justin Webb	The editor for BBC television in America examines the nation that he spent the better part of a decade living in, looking at America's possibility and promise and exploring a new era in diplomacy and…	OL22345204W
Restoring the republic	Devin Nunes	Our republic is imperiled. At a time of unprecedented government spending, historic deficits, and gathering foreign threats, America stands at a crossroads. We can either reassert fiscal discipline …	OL23310416W
The next government of the United States	Donald F. Kettl	Through a series of compelling stories, The Next Government of the United States reveals the increasing complexity of the policy challenges that face the nation and exposes the reality that America's…	OL3060121W
Glenn Beck's common sense	Glenn Beck	From the Publisher: #1 New York Times bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck revisits Thomas Paine's Common Sense. Revisits Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" in light of con…	OL6036787W
Hollywood and Politics	Donald Critchlo	This volume of primary documents seeks to engage readers interested in the multiple meanings of Hollywood and politics by using a topical approach : election politics, public policy, war and patriot…	OL9354066W