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  • Under the Iron Dome

    Congress from the Inside

    This book provides a glimpse into the professional lives of members of Congress and the staff, political consultants, and others who work beneath the Capitol’s iconic dome. It shows some of the historic challenges, daily trials and tribulations, and public and private triumphs and failures that defi ne working life on the Hill. Original chapters by practitioners who have been there off er a fresh ... Read more

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  • The Financiers of Congressional Elections

    Investors, Ideologues, and Intimates

    Series series Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 21st Century
    Individual donors play a critical role in financing congressional elections, accounting for more than half of all money raised in House campaigns. But significant donors (defined here as those contributing more than $200) are the least understood participants in the system. Defenders assert that contributing money to campaigns is part of a broader pattern of civic involvement and is free speech ... Read more

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    Two Parties and a Funeral--Plus Plenty of Valet Parking!--in America's Gilded Capital

    **A #1 New York Times bestsellerA gripping expose that delves into the heart of Washington D.C., and the intersection of big politics, big money, big media, and big vanity**Through the eyes of author Mark Leibovich, we discover how the funeral for a beloved newsman becomes the social event of the year; how political reporters are fetishized for their ability to get their names into the predawn e ... Read more

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  • Double Down

    Game Change 2012

    Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times:"Those hungry for political news will read Double Down for the scooplets and insidery glimpses it serves up about the two campaigns, and the clues it offers about the positioning already going on among Republicans and Democrats for 2016 ... The book testifies to its authors’ energetic legwork and insider access... creating a novelistic narrative that provides a ... Read more

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  • How the Hell Did This Happen?

    The Election of 2016

    The iconic humorist offers his take on the stranger-than-fiction ( and stranger-than-fact) 2016 presidential election and its equally unbelievable aftermath.The 2016 election cycle was so absurd that celebrated political satirist, journalist, and die-hard Republican P. J. O'Rourke endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. As P. J. put it, "America is experiencing the most severe outbreak of ... Read more

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  • How the Good Guys Finally Won

    Notes from an Impeachment Summer

    by Jimmy Breslin ...
    New York Times Bestseller: A "superb" blow-by-blow account of how Tip O'Neill and his colleagues impeached Richard Nixon after Watergate ( Chicago Tribune).Not long after burglars were caught raiding the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel, Congressman Tip O'Neill noticed that Democratic fundraising efforts for the 1972 election had stalled. Major contributors were ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Canadians Communicate IV

    Media and Politics

    Substantial changes have occurred in the nature of political discourse over the past thirty years. Once, traditional media dominated the political landscape, but in recent years Facebook, Twitter, blogs and Blackberrys have emerged as important tools and platforms for political campaigns. While the Canadian party system has proved surprisingly resilient, the rhythms of political life are now very ... Read more

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  • All the Truth Is Out

    The Week Politics Went Tabloid

    by Matt Bai ...
    **Now a major motion picture "The Front Runner" starring Hugh JackmanAn NPR Best Book of the Year**In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart—a dashing, reform-minded Democrat—seemed a lock for the party’s presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumors of marital infidelity and a newspaper’s stakeout of Hart’s home resulted in a ... Read more

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  • The Wilderness

    Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House

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    The explosive story of the Republican Party's intensely dramatic and fractious efforts to find its way back to unity and national dominance.After the 2012 election, the GOP was in the wilderness. Lost and in disarray. And doggedly determined to do whatever it took to get back to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. McKay Coppins has had unparalleled access to Republican presidential candidates, power brokers ... Read more

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  • Take No Prisoners

    The Battle Plan for Defeating the Left

    Battle-scarred political warrior David Horowitz says it’s time for conservatives to take the gloves off-and take our country back. America is at a crucial turning point in her history, and Republicans have been losing ground to Democrats for too long. In his new book Take No Prisoners, Horowitz sounds a clarion call for conservatives to use liberals’ political playbook against them in the fight ... Read more

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  • Groundbreakers

    How Obama's 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America

    Much has been written about the historic nature of the Obama campaign. The multi-year, multi-billion dollar operation elected the nation's first black president, raised and spent more money than any other election effort in history, and built the most sophisticated voter targeting technology ever before used on a national campaign. What is missing from most accounts of the campaign is an ... Read more

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  • The Performance of Politics:Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power

    Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power

    Contemporary observers of politics in America often reduce democracy to demography. Whatever portion of the vote not explained by the class, gender, race, and religious differences of voters is attributed to the candidates' positions on the issues of the day. But are these the only--or even the main--factors that determine the vote? The Performance of Politics develops a new way of looking at ... Read more

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