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  • Presidential Campaigns

    Documents Decoded

    Serie series Documents Decoded
    Combining primary sources with expert commentary, this timely book probes critical moments in U.S. presidential elections in the last 20th- and early 21st-centuries, empowering readers to better understand and analyze the electoral process.Presidential Campaigns: Documents Decoded illuminates both the high stakes of a presidential campaign and the gaffes, controversies, and excesses that often ... Meer lezen

    71,22 €

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