Presidential campaigns are a battle for control of power. Whistlestop tells the stories reporters and campaign aides rehash at the bar, each one adding an unknown tidbit. These are human stories full of drama and switchbacks, failures...
Political campaigns
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Auteur:Liddell-Westefeld, ChrisSommaire:Chris Liddell-Westefeld and dozens of other staff and volunteers dedicated every ounce of their time, intelligence, and limited resources to helping elect Obama, as what started in Iowa spread nationwide. Drawn from more than 200...
- Auteur:Devoto, Pat CunninghamSommaire:
Tab and Tina, relatives of a founder of Ku Klux Klan, are whisked away to an interracial Civil Rights school one summer. There, they befriend both a black polio patient and the biracial daughter of a Yankee and a Civil Rights leader....
- Auteur:McGrane, DavidSommaire:
The New NDP is the definitive account of the evolution of the New Democratic Party's political marketing strategy in the early twenty-first century. In 2011, the federal NDP achieved its greatest electoral success - becoming the...
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Auteur:Johnston, David CaySommaire:Drawing on decades of interviews, financial records, court documents, and public statements, David Cay Johnston, who has covered Trump more closely than any other journalist working today, gives us the most in-depth look yet at the man...
- Auteur:Richler, NoahSommaire:
During the 2015 federal election, approximately 1200 political campaigns were held across Canada. One of those campaigns belonged to author, journalist and political neophyte Noah Richler. Recruited by the NDP to run in the bellweather...
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Auteur:Pammett, Jon H., Dornan, ChristopherSommaire:The Canadian Federal Election of 2008 is a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election outcome. The chapters are written by leading professors of political science, journalism, and communications. They examine the...
- Auteur:Brown, Rita Mae.Sommaire:
Sneaky Pie takes a break from her mystery-writing to run for President of the United States. Sneaky Pie has an animal-friendly agenda that will unify all Americans--two-legged, four-legged, and even those who fly.
- Auteur:Tremblay, ManonSommaire:
Political representation requires participation: voting, joining political parties, running as candidates, acting as politicians. Yet the election of openly LGBTQ people is a relatively recent phenomenon in the West. Queering...
- Auteur:Stephenson, Laura B., Lawlor, Andrea, Cross, William P., Blais, AndréSommaire:
In parliamentary systems like Canada, voters directly contribute to the election outcome only in their own riding. However, the focus of election campaigns is often national, emphasizing the leader rather than the local candidate, and...
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Auteur:Didion, JoanSommaire:In these coolly observant essays, Joan Didion looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life." Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and...
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Auteur:Marland, Alex, Giasson, Thierry, Small, Tamara A.Sommaire:Changes in technology and media consumption are transforming the way people communicate about politics. Are they also changing the way politicians communicate to the public? Political Communication in Canada examines the way political...
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Auteur:Marland, Alex, Giasson, Thierry, Esselment, Anna LennoxSommaire:Election campaigning never stops. That is the new reality of politics and government in Canada, where everyone from staffers in the Prime Minister’s Office to backbench MPs practise political marketing and communication as though each...
- Auteur:Barrett, DevlinSommaire:
Devlin Barrett describes how an agency seized with righteous certainty waded into the most important political moment in the life of the nation, and had no idea how to back out with dignity. So it doggedly stood its ground, compounding...
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Auteur:West, CooperSommaire:Frank Sheldon is trying (not very hard) to put his life back together several years after his dishonorable discharge from the military for “conduct unbecoming.” The handsome son of a wealthy businessman, he’s doing his best to avoid...
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Auteur:Fletcher, Frederick J.Sommaire:Media, Elections and Democracy examines campaign communication in selected industrial democracies. Klaus Schoenbach, Karen Siune, Doris Graber and a host of authors around the world contribute critical overviews of the systems in their...
- Auteur:Bowery, LizSommaire:
Thom is working on a presidential campaign. But he is tested when the Governor asks him to pretend date his nemesis, Clay, to secure the liberal vote.
- Auteur:Dev, SonaliSommaire:
"Incense and Sensibility is a tender, well-crafted novel, as much about finding purpose as it is about falling in love. Dev writes with such rare empathy and humor that I often found myself holding my breath on one page only to be...
- Auteur:Williams, SynithiaSommaire:
What do you do when you want the one person you can never have? Get in and get out. That was India Robidoux's plan for this family visit. But when her brother needs her help with his high-profile political campaign, India has no...
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Auteur:Cross, William P., Malloy, Jonathan, Small, Tamara A., Stephenson, Laura B.Sommaire:Elections are not just about who casts ballots – they reflect the citizens, parties, media, and history of an electorate. Fighting for Votes examines how these factors interacted during a recent Ontario election. Drawing on a wealth of...
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