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Revenge of America's Unemployed captures the shifting mood of the unemployed, underemployed and uncounted. More than 30 million Americans lost their jobs, saw their pay slashed or left the workforce during the Great Recession. Many lost their homes, marriages, savings, self-esteem and self-confidence and, finally, their patience with a political elite that could not deliver on their promises of jobs, jobs, jobs. This book chronicles the passions that...
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The midterm elections of 2014 saw the culmination of long-term trends in American politics and laid the groundwork for Republicans' successes in 2016. To what extent were the results the product of shifting partisan and demographic trends, and to what extent did policy questions drive the results? What can 2014 tell us about midterm elections generally? In this volume, leading scholars look at this election in its broad strokes, in case studies of...
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After one of the closest elections in U.S. history, the attention of American people shifted to Florida, the fourth most populous state in the Union, and one of the most diverse, divided, and fastest growing: its 25 electoral votes could have put either candidate into the White House.
The Miami Herald Report finally provides the answers that Americans have been demanding since the night of November 7, 2000. Including:
* The inside stories of Florida...
84) No Debate
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Broadcast to tens of millions of Americans, the presidential debates are the Super Bowl of politics. A good performance before the cameras can vault a contender to the front of the pack, while a gaffe spells national embarrassment and can savage a candidacy. The slim margin for error has led the two major parties to seek-and achieve, under the aegis of the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates-tight control through scripting, severe time limits,...
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John H. Aldrich is the Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science at Duke University. Kathleen M. McGraw is professor of political science at Ohio State University.
The American National Election Studies (ANES) is the premier social science survey program devoted to voting and elections. Conducted during the presidential election years and midterm Congressional elections, the survey is based on interviews with voters and delves into...
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"Without drastic adjustment, this system cannot last much longer," writes Van Reybrouck, regarded today as one of Europe's most astute thinkers. "If you look at the decline in voter turnout and party membership, and at the way politicians are held in contempt, if you look at how difficult it is to form governments, how little they can do and how harshly they are punished for it, if you look at how quickly populism, technocracy and anti-parliamentarianism...
87) Dead Man Running
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Did you ever wonder what running for an elective office like Congress is really all about?
Running for Congress is a world all unto its own, and in today's divided America, it's not for the faint of heart. Dead Man Running clearly shows what can be expected on a personal level in a high-stakes political race. A candidate has to understand the arrows coming at him are unrelenting and dangerous, but it's the arrows that come from behind that can do...
88) Why Hillary Lost
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Hillary Clinton's 2016 loss to Donald Trump was one of the most shocking defeats in American political history. Polls predicted a Clinton landslide. Even Trump's own party leaders withdrew their endorsements. In Why Hillary Lost, political strategist Arvin Vohra illuminates the cultural changes and strategic considerations that led to the shocking results. He examines how changes in cultural outreach strategy and political expectations, coupled with...
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The problems that need attention in the United States aren't new, nor are their solutions. Yet the political establishment neither understands these problems nor desires to address them. Only informed and courageous leadership can change that. In The Right Problems, former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain shows how we can overcome the ignorance that has spread throughout our country, and describes what an informed and courageous leader...
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Conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and liberal author Gore Vidal exploded onto the political scene during the presidential conventions of 1968 when they debated 11 times on ABC News as a part of the network's convention coverage. Their debates were fiery and combative and they infamously blew up at each other during their penultimate debate in Chicago. The debates, the subject of the new documentary film "Best of Enemies," have not been shown...
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Wales Says Yes provides the definitive account and analysis of the March 2011 Welsh referendum. Drawing on extensive historical research, the book explains the background to the referendum, why it was held, and what was at stake. The book also explains how the rival Yes and No campaigns emerged, and the varying degree of success with which they functioned. Through a detailed account of the results, and analysis of survey evidence on Welsh voters,...
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Running for the People? Is an insider's account of Canada's electoral process that reveals how deeply broken it is. Rem Westland ran in the 2011 federal election, representing the Conservative Party of Canada in the riding of Ottawa-Vanier. He describes the weakness of electoral district associations, the presumptions of party headquarters, the intricacies of campaign financing, and contemporary data-based systems that depersonalize politics at ground...
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Who are the new progressive leaders emerging to lead the post-Trump return to democracy in America? National political correspondent and award-winning author D.D. Guttenplan's The Next Republic is an extraordinarily intense and wide-ranging account of the recent fall and incipient rise of democracy in America.
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Summary of Armageddon by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann | Includes Analysis Preview: Armageddon: How Trump Can Beat Hillary by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann is an attack on 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and an enthusiastic endorsement of Republican nominee Donald Trump. The book argues that Clinton is corrupt and will destroy the country if elected. By contrast, Trump is a strong, brave, noble politician. Clinton is a corrupt, untrustworthy,...
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Politics was once, described as the art of the possible. It no longer feels that way. Today, it seems more like a battle between two feudal armies. Part of this book is aimed at showing it doesn't have to be that way. Polarization didn't start with Trump and it won't end with him unless we can somehow rescue the country from the political ditch into which it has fallen.
So Another purpose of this book is to examine just how we got here and how the...
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Summary of Trump Revealed by Michael Kranish & Marc Fisher | Includes Analysis Preview: Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power by Washington Post reporters Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher is a biography of businessman and TV personality-turned-2016 Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump. Trump's mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, grew up on Scotland's Isle of Lewis and emigrated to New York City in 1930. Trump's...
99) The Political Fix: Changing the Game of American Democracy, from the Grassroots to the White House
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Top political insider Douglas E. Schoen dissects the failures of modern politics and unveils the practical-minded, citizen-powered solutions that will revive American democracy
One of America's foremost political pollsters, Douglas E. Schoen, shows how the electoral system can be mended so that it once again serves and inspires the American people-no matter their party.
In The Political Fix, Schoen lays out provocative yet highly achievable solutions-from...
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The fascinating "war room" memoir of a political pollster and how he helped forge the agendas of five high-profile heads of state
As a hired gun strategist, Greenberg-a seasoned pollster and political consultant-has seen it all. In his memoir, he recounts his work with President Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Bolivian president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, and South African president Nelson Mandela....
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