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  • Unconventional, Partisan, and Polarizing Rhetoric

    How the 2016 Election Shaped the Way Candidates Strategize, Engage, and Communicate

    by Jeanine E. Kraybill, Donna R. Hoffman, Christopher W. Larimer, Alison Howard, Raul Madrid Jr., Mirya Holman, Abby Perkins, Carrie Skulley, Stuart Wood, Nicole Mirkazemi0, Randy Villegas1, Chris Haynes2, Jessica Sattler3, Ivy A.M. Cargile4 ...
    Series series Voting, Elections, and the Political Process
    The rhetoric and political communication of the 2016 Presidential Election was arguably unconventional, partisan, and polarizing—becoming a defining characteristic of the tone and feel of the campaign. In this volume we examine how rhetoric and various political communication strategies influenced and shaped the contours of the election and ultimately its outcome. Witnessing the most diverse ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • The Power of the Badge

    Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States

    by Emily M. Farris, Mirya R. Holman ...
    A sobering exploration of the near unchecked power of sheriffs in the United States.Across the United States, more than 3,000 sheriffs occupy a unique position in the US political and legal systems. Elected by voters—usually in low-visibility, noncompetitive elections—sheriffs oversee more than a third of law enforcement employees and control almost all local jails. They have the power to both set ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Party Is Over

    The New Louisiana Politics

    by Jeremy Alford, Stephen Barnes, Mark Davis, Chase Edwards, Beverly Moore Haydel, Michael Henderson, Mirya Holman, Michelle N. Jeanis, David Khey, Anna Mahoney, Robert Mann, Jan Moller, Steven Procopio, Albert L. Samuels, Robert Travis Scott, Joshua Stockley, Rick Swanson, Gary Wagner ...
    For decades, the Louisiana political scene has been a source of interest and intrigue for scholars and casual observers alike. In recent years, the state’s political, economic, and environmental challenges have drawn sustained attention from regional and national media. Observers have typically focused on Louisiana’s distinctive political culture, including jungle primaries, colorful candidates, ... Read more

    Was $35.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • Politicking While Female

    The Political Lives of Women

    by Robert Mann, Rosalyn Cooperman, Tessa Ditonto, David Andersen, Sylvia Gonzalez, Mirya Holman, Mary-Kate Lizotte, Danielle Lemi, Anna Mahoney, Meghan Kearney, Carly Shaffer, Monica C. Schneider, Jennie Sweet-Cushman ...
    Series series Media and Public Affairs
    Politicking While Female traces the challenges and opportunities that shape the experiences of women who pursue and hold positions of political leadership in the United States. In this volume, Nichole M. Bauer gathers new essays studying the forces that keep women out of political institutions, along with the hurdles faced by female candidates and politicians once they overcome those barriers ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • Gendered Jobs and Local Leaders

    Women, Work, and the Pipeline to Local Political Office

    by Rachel Bernhard, Mirya R. Holman ...
    Series series Elements in Gender and Politics
    Men from business are overrepresented in local politics in the United States. The authors propose a theory of gendered occupations and ambition: the jobs people hold-and the gender composition of those jobs-shape political ambition and candidate success. They test their theory using data on gender and jobs, candidacy and electoral outcomes from thousands of elections in California, and ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Good Reasons to Run

    Women and Political Candidacy

    Edited by Shauna L. Shames, Rachel I. Bernhard, Mirya R. Holman, Dawn Langan Teele ...
    After the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, a large cohort of women emerged to run for office. Their efforts changed the landscape of candidates and representation. However, women are still far less likely than men to seek elective office, and face biases and obstacles in campaigns. (Women running for Congress make twice as many phone calls as men to raise the same contributions.)The editors and ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

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    The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

    by Carol Anderson ...
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  • Systemic Racism 101

    A Visual History of the Impact of Racism in America

    by Living Cities, Aminah Pilgrim ...
    Discover how—and why—Black, Indigenous, and people of color in America experience societal, economic, and infrastructural inequality throughout history covering everything from Columbus’s arrival in 1492 to the War on Drugs to the Black Lives Matter movement.From reparations to the prison industrial complex and redlining, there are a lot of high-level concepts to systemic racism that are hard to ... Read more

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  • Ghosts of Jim Crow

    Ending Racism in Post-Racial America

    by F. Michael Higginbotham ...
    A provocative, and timely, solution for ridding America of the traces of Jim Crow policies to create a truly post-racial landscapeWhen America inaugurated its first African American president, in 2009, many wondered if the country had finally become a "post-racial" society. Was this the dawning of a new era, in which America, a nation nearly severed in half by slavery, and whose racial fault lines ... Read more

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  • Fight Like Hell

    The Untold History of American Labor

    by Kim Kelly ...
    **Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and EsquireThis revelatory and inclusive book “unearths the stories of the people—farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees—behind some of the labor movement’s biggest successes” (The New York Times) from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.**Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era ... Read more

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  • Myth America

    Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

    by Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer ...
    **In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past“Outstanding… Wonderfully accessible.” —Washington Post**The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making ... Read more

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  • New York Politics: A Tale of Two States

    by Edward V. Schneier, John Brian Murtaugh, Antoinette Pole ...
    Completely revised and updated with extensive new material, this acclaimed book offers an inside look at how influence is wielded in Albany. The authors--an Albany-based political scientist and a former State Assembly member, now joined by an expert on both state politics and political blogging and networking--infuse their discussion of institutions and processes with the drama and significance of ... Read more

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