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Pub. Date
[2012], c2010
Language
English
Description
Once every four years, when the United States turns its attention to choosing a leader, a small snowy state in the northeastern corner of the country becomes the political center of the nation. This historical documentary travels to Laconia, New Hampshire, for the 1969 presidential primary, where the men who want to be president - Richard Nixon, Michigan's Governor George Romney, and Senator Eugene McCarthy from Minnesota - start the campaign with...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The 2020 Election is here! And so is this book, which tells young readers all about presidential campaigns and American politics! Who can run for president? What's the difference between America's two major political parties? Why do candidates spend so much time in Iowa and New Hampshire? And is the Electoral College really a college? Answers to these questions and many, many more can be found in the pages of this official Who HQ guide to the 2020...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The complete rankings of our best -- and worst -- presidents, based on C-SPAN's much-cited Historians Surveys of Presidential Leadership. Over a period of decades, C-SPAN has surveyed leading historians on the best and worst of America's presidents across a variety of categories -- their ability to persuade the public, their leadership skills, the moral authority, and more. The crucible of the presidency has forged some of the very best and very worst...
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Platypus Police Squad volume 3
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Kalamazoo City mayoral race is heating up, and Frank Pandini Jr. has been threatened by a mysterious assailant. He requests a special Platypus Police Squad protection detail: Detective Rick Zengo, which leaves O'Malley to be partnered up with Jo Cooper, the newest detective on the force. Can Zengo get to the bottom of the attacks--without O'Malley backing him up?
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this explosive memoir, a political consultant and technology whistleblower reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dollar data industry, revealing to the public how companies are getting richer using our personal information and exposing how Cambridge Analytica exploited weaknesses in privacy laws to help elect Donald Trump-and how this could easily happen again in the 2020 presidential election.
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Series
Nancy Drew diaries volume 5
Language
English
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Description
Nancy goes undercover at the exclusive Green Club when George's cousin, a candidate for city council, is targeted by a mysterious saboteur who threatens the plans to build a new sports complex.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Shimmering with rage and sparkling with subtle humor, Billie Starr's Book of Sorries showcases Edgar Award-nominee Deborah E. Kennedy's singular voice as Jenny, a heroine in the vein of Olive Kitteridge and Miles Roby in Empire Falls, and shines a light on the town of Benson, Indiana, where lakes, grudges, and family rifts run deep - but so does a mother's love. Sometimes, a woman has to rescue herself. Jenny Newberg, Queen of Bad Decisions, is about...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In PAY 2 PLAY, filmmaker John Ennis examines how corporations have taken over our democracy as he follows outsiders using their voice to change the game in American politics. He ventures through high drama on the Ohio campaign trail, uncovers the secret history of America's favorite game, Monopoly, and explores the underworld of Los Angeles street art in a humorous odyssey that reveals how much of a difference one person can make.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A Bolivian presidential candidate failing badly in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist "Calamity" Jane Bodine. In self-imposed retirement following a scandal that earned her nickname and rocked her to her core, Jane is coaxed back into the game for the chance to beat her professional nemesis, the loathsome Pat Candy, now coaching the opposition.
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Series
Schuler sisters volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1966, Christina Hardcastle--'Tiny' to her illustrious family--stands on the brink of a breathtaking future. Of the three Schuyler sisters, she's the one raised to marry a man destined for leadership, and with her elegance and impeccable style, she presents a perfect camera-ready image in the dawning age of television politics. Together she and her husband Frank make the ultimate power couple: intelligent, rich, and impossibly attractive....
15) Irresistible
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
A Democratic strategist assists a retired veteran run for mayor in a small, conservative Midwest town.
16) Dead heat
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Series
Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy thrillers volume 5
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a world ready to explode, and the current President of the United States leaving office the political battle for the most influential job in the world is in a dead heat. When the Secret Service learns of a terrorist plot to assassinate one of the candidates, the heat rises as they try to figure out which candidate is the target.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill speaks with Lawrence Lessig and Zephyr Teachout, two college professors who left academia to run for political office in the turbulent midterm elections of 2014. Although they did not win the elections, they share their experiences and the hard-fought lessons learned about the state of American democracy.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning political journalist for The Atlantic tells the inside story of how the embattled Democratic party, seeking a direction for its future during the Trump years, successfully regained the White House. The 2020 presidential campaign was a defining moment for America. As Donald Trump and his nativist populism cowed the Republican Party into submission, many Democrats-haunted by Hillary Clinton's shocking loss in 2016, which led to a four-year-long...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"April Wells, a celebrated African-American memoirist and essayist, lands a writing assignment unlike any she has had before: covering the presidential campaign of the presumptive Democratic nominee, William Waters, for a high-profile magazine. Waters, a well-spoken progressive with lofty ideals of unity in diversity, faces the polar opposite in his Republican challenger, the anti-intellectual, narcissistic Lee Newsome, who seeks to gain power by...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Nancy Harrison is running for Senate, and she's going to win, goddamnit. Not that that's her slogan, although it could be. She's said all the right things. Passed all the right legislation. Chapped her lips kissing babies. There's just one problem: her grown children. Greta and Nick Harrison are adrift. Nick is floundering in his attempts to write a musical about the life of Joan Didion (called Hello to All That!). And then there's his little sister...
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