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...
Election
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Author:Liddell-Westefeld, ChrisSummary: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...
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Author:Dowd, MaureenSummary:New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd traces the psychologies and pathologies in one of the nastiest and most significant battles of the sexes ever. If America is on the escalator to hell, then The Year of Voting Dangerously is the...
- The truth about Hillary : what she knew, when she knew it, and how far she'll go to become presidentAuthor:Klein, EdwardSummary:
Klein reveals the truth about a woman who has managed to keep much of her life private. Drawing from inside sources, he reveals a reality of Hillary's turbulent marriage and exposes what she and Bill have done behind closed doors. It...
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Author:Roth, PhilipSummary:In 1940, Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator, is elected president. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates an "understanding" with Adolf Hitler. For one boy growing up in Newark, the election is the first in a series of ruptures that...
- Author:Brick, Scott, Berry, SteveSummary:
In this audiobook, Steve Berry and Macmillan Audio team up again to bring listeners an expanded, annotated Writer's Cut edition of The Malta Exchange . This Writer's Cut edition features fascinating behind-the-scenes...
- Author:Nasrallah, DimitriSummary:
An election sets the stage for Oedipal rivalry and civil revolt. An intimate novel about the levers of power and privilege that shape the lives of the people most affected by war and insurrection.
- Author:Hemingway, Mollie ZieglerSummary:
What really happened in the 2020 election? This devastating account exposes the fraud and cynicism behind the Democrats' historic power grab, which has destroyed the faith of millions of Americans in the press and our political...
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Author:Didion, JoanSummary: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...
- Author:Dorsey, Tim.Summary:
When a traumatic experience forever changes Florida gubernatorial race candidate Marlon Conrad's life, he hits the road in a Winnebago to find the "real" Florida. But his odyssey is plagued with would-be assassins and cutthroat...
- Author:Barrett, DevlinSummary:
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...
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
President Will Lee's vice president just died during surgery and confirmation hearings for the new vice president are under way. Teddy Fay, the rogue CIA agent, is plotting his revenge on CIA director Kate Rule Lee, the president...
- Author:Biden, JillSummary:
"(Jill) Biden's anecdotal portrait of her spouse's early years spotlights his competitiveness and risk-taking...his role as a peacemaker, devoted brother, and defender of bullied peers...and reveals how...high school,...
- Author:Buttigieg, ChastenSummary:
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg about growing up gay in his small Midwestern town, his relationship with...
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Author:Thompson, Hunter S.Summary:After popularizing Gonzo journalism with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson turned his drug-fueled wit and savage insight to the race for President. With On the Campaign Trail '72, Thompson deconstructs the 1972...
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Author:Gingrich, Newt, Earley, PeteSummary:Only two Americans escape a Benghazi-style attack on a newly opened US embassy in Somalia: Brooke Grant, the young commander of the Marine Corps Embassy Guards, and CIA Station Chief Gunter Connor. To survive, they must avoid detection...
- Author:Nunes, DevinSummary:
Once the party of anti-communism and tax-cutting under President Kennedy, the Democratic Party is now dominated by a surging socialist movement and led by a presidential candidate who vows to "transform" America. On a near-daily basis,...
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Author:Thompson, Hunter S.Summary:Thompson delivers a mind-bending view of the 1992 presidential race, packed with all the horror, sacrifice, lust, and glory that made this campaign so utterly fascinating.
- Author:Houellebecq, MichelSummary:
En 2027, Paul Raison soutient le candidat de la majorité pour l'élection présidentielle. Une description du monde qui nous entoure abordant des sujets aussi divers que l'amour, la mort, la société contemporaine...
- Author:Stewart, David O.Summary:
Stewart traces the canny and charismatic Aaron Burr from the threshold of the presidency in 1800 to his duel with Alexander Hamilton. Stewart recounts Burr's efforts to carve out an empire, taking listeners across the American West as...
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