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  • Presidential Campaigns

    Documents Decoded

    by Daniel M. Shea, Brian M. Harward ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    £57.99

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  • Rule and Ruin

    The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party

    by Geoffrey Kabaservice ...
    Series series Studies in Postwar American Political Development
    The chaotic events leading up to Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 election indicated how far the Republican Party had rocketed rightward away from the center of public opinion. Republicans in Congress threatened to shut down the government and force a U.S. debt default. Tea Party activists mounted primary challenges against Republican officeholders who appeared to exhibit too much pragmatism or ... Read more

    £11.09

  • The Battle for America

    The Story of an Extraordinary Election

    by Dan Balz, Haynes Johnson ...
    The bestselling, truly gripping account of 2008's landmark election, updated through 2009The election of 2008 shattered political barriers and ignited an extraordinary battle among some of the most formidable political rivals ever to seek the presidency. Now, Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson, two of America's most respected journalists, offer the first complete picture of the strategies-and singular ... Read more

    £4.99

  • The Candidate

    What it Takes to Win - and Hold - the White House

    by Samuel L. Popkin ...
    There are two winners in every presidential election campaign: The inevitable winner when it begins--such as Rudy Giuliani or Hillary Clinton in 2008--and the inevitable victor after it ends. In The Candidate, Samuel Popkin explains the difference between them. While plenty of political insiders have written about specific campaigns, only Popkin--drawing on a lifetime of presidential campaign ... Read more

    £10.19

  • A Choice Not an Echo

    Updated and Expanded 50th Anniversary Edition

    by Phyllis Schlafly ...
    Over 3 Million Copies Sold!Celebrate 50 years since the release of Phyllis Schlafly's monumental A Choice Not an Echo, the book that launched the conservative resurgence of the late 20th century. This special updated and expanded edition contains 50 percent new material placing the book in its historical context and applying the book's lessons to the issues of today. ... Read more

    £8.49

  • The Second Civil War

    How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America

    by Ronald Brownstein ...
    In recent years American politics has seemingly become much more partisan, more zero-sum, more vicious, and less able to confront the real problems our nation faces. What has happened?In The Second Civil War, respected political commentator Ronald Brownstein diagnoses the electoral, demographic, and institutional forces that have wreaked such change over the American political landscape, pulling ... Read more

    £4.99

  • The U.S. Congress

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Donald A. Ritchie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In the second edition of The U.S. Congress, Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for more than thirty years, takes readers on a fascinating, behind-the-scenes tour of Capitol Hill, pointing out the key players, explaining their behavior, and translating parliamentary language into plain English. No mere civics lesson, this eye-opening book provides an insider's perspective on Congress, ... Read more

    £5.39

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents

    From Wilson to Obama

    by Steven F. Hayward ...
    Larry Schweikart, a retired history professor, is ready to set the record straight on the American presidents. He goes through each of the first 26 presidents from Washington to Taft and debunks myths, lies, and fake news made fact by the uninformed. Discover why George Washington favored American isolationism; James Madison supported states' rights; what Lincoln promised to Southerners about ... Read more

    £9.49

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  • 41

    Inside the Presidency of George H. W. Bush

    Edited by Michael Nelson, Barbara A. Perry ...
    Series series Miller Center of Public Affairs Books
    Although it lasted only a single term, the presidency of George H. W. Bush was an unusually eventful one, encompassing the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the invasion of Panama, the Persian Gulf War, and contentious confirmation hearings over Clarence Thomas and John Tower. Bush has said that to understand the history of his ... Read more

    £13.09

  • Desk 88

    Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America

    by Sherrod Brown ...
    A powerful testament to the enduring impact of Progressive politics in America, as seen through the prism of eight influential senators who once occupied Desk 88 in the U.S. Senate.Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 2006, Ohio's Sherrod Brown has sat at a mahogany desk with a proud history. In Desk 88, he tells the story of eight of the Senators who were there before him."Perhaps the most ... Read more

    £7.09

  • American Maelstrom

    The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division

    by Michael A. Cohen ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    In his presidential inaugural address of January 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson offered an uplifting vision for America, one that would end poverty and racial injustice. Elected in a landslide over the conservative Republican Barry Goldwater and bolstered by the so-called liberal consensus, economic prosperity, and a strong wave of nostalgia for his martyred predecessor, John F. Kennedy, Johnson ... Read more

    £8.69

  • 1968

    The Election That Changed America

    by Lewis L. Gould ...
    The race for the White House in 1968 was a watershed event in American politics. In this brilliantly succinct narrative analysis, Lewis L. Gould shows how the events of that tumultuous year changed the way Americans felt about politics and their national leaders; how Republicans used the skills they brought to Richard Nixon's campaign to create a generation-long ascendancy in presidential politics ... Read more

    £10.79