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Extreme prey : a novel / by Sandford, John,1944-; Ferrone, Richard,narrator.;
Read by Richard Ferrone.Lucas Davenport is on a campaign tour with his friend, the governor, who is running for president. When he realizes someone is trying to assassinate the governor, Lucas must do everything he can to protect him.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Detective and mystery fiction.; Audiobooks.; Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Davenport, Lucas (Fictitious character); Presidential candidates; Attempted assassination;
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Primary politics : everything you need to know about how America nominates its presidential candidates / by Kamarck, Elaine Ciulla.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-208) and index.1. The good old days? : when parties controlled nominations and primaries were to be avoided at all costs -- 2. Sequence as strategy : how Jimmy Carter "got it" and taught subsequent presidential candidates the new rules of the road -- 3. The fight to be first : why Iowa and New Hampshire dominate presidential nominating politics -- 4. Proportional representation : why Democrats use it and Republicans don't -- 5. Devil in the details : how the delegate count shapes modern nominating campaigns -- 6. Do conventions matter anymore? : superdelegates, the Robot Rule, and the modern nominating convention -- 7. The problem of "The Decider.""Explores one of the most important questions in American politics--how we narrow the list of presidential candidates every four years. Focuses on how presidential candidates have sought to alter the rules in their favor and how their failures and successes have led to even more change"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Presidents; Presidential candidates;
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"If elected--" : unsuccessful candidates for the presidency, 1796-1968 / by Miller, Lillian B.; National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution).Historian's Office.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 480-492).From the Constitution to the emergence of parties, 1787-1796: Thomas Jefferson (1796) -- Thomas Pinckney (1796) -- 1800: "Revolution in principles": John Adams (1800) -- Aaron Burr (1800) -- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1804) -- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1808) -- George Clinton (1808) -- DeWitt Clinton (1812) -- Rufus King (1816) -- 1820: Era of good feelings and the end of an age -- 1824: "Corrupt bargain": William Harris Crawford (1824) -- Henry Clay (1824) -- Andrew Jackson (1824) -- John Quincy Adams (1828) -- Henry Clay (1832) -- William Wirt (1832) -- Daniel Webster (1836) -- William Henry Harrison (1836) -- Hugh Lawson White (1836) -- 1840: Log cabin and hard cider democracy: Martin Van Buren (1840) -- Henry Clay (1844) -- James Gillespie Birney (1844) -- Lewis Cass (1848) -- Martin Van Buren (1848) -- Gerrit Smith (1848) -- Winfield Scott (1852) -- John Parker Hale (1852) -- John C. Fremont (1856) -- Millard Fillmore (1856) -- 1860: "House Divided": Stephen A. Douglas (1860) -- John Cabell Breckinridge (1860) -- John Bell (1860) -- George B. McClellan (1864) -- Horatio Seymour (1868) -- Horace Greeley (1872) -- Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1872) -- Charles O'Conor (1872) -- James Black (1872) -- 1876: Bargains and compromise: Samuel J. Tilden (1876) -- Peter Cooper (1876) -- Winfield Scott Hancock (1880) -- James B. Weaver (1880) Neal Dow (1880) -- James G. Blaine (1884) -- Benjamin F. Butler (1884) -- John P. St. John (1884) -- Belva Ann Lockwood (1884) -- Grover Cleveland (1888) -- Benjamin Harrison (1892) James B. Weaver (1892) -- !896: Silver and a full dinner pail: William Jennings Bryan (1896) -- John McAuley Palmer (1896) -- William Jennings Bryan (1900) -- Alton B. Parker (1904) -- Thomas E. Watson (1904) -- William Jennings Bryan (1908) -- 1912: Progressives all: William Howard Taft (1912) -- Theodore Roosevelt (1912) -- Eugene V. Debs (1912) -- Charles Evans Hughes (1916) -- James Middleton Cox (1920) -- Eugene V. Debs (1920) -- John W. Davis (1924) -- Robert M. LaFollette (1924) -- Alfred E. Smith (1928) -- Norman Thomas (1928) -- 1932: Democracy confronts depression -- Herbert Hoover (1932) -- James R. Cox (1932) -- Jacob S. Coxey (1932) -- Alfred M. Landon (1932) -- Earl Browder (1932) -- William Lemke (1936) -- Wendell Wilkie (1940) -- Thomas E. Dewey (1944) -- Gerald L. K. Smith(1944) -- 1948: Pollsters confounded: Thomas E. Dewey (1948) -- Henry A. Wallace (1948) -- Strom Thurmond (1948) -- 1952: Time for a change: Adlai Stevenson (1952) -- Eric Hass (1952) -- Adlai Stevenson (1956) -- Richard M. Nixon (1960) -- Barry M. Goldwater (1964) -- Hubert H. Humphrey (1968) -- George Wallace (1968) -- Eldridge Cleaver (1968).
Subjects: Presidential candidates; Presidents;
© 1972., Published for the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, by the Smithsonian Institution Press : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.,
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The contender / by Lurie, Rod,1962-screenwriter,director.; Groupé, Larry.composer.; Oldman, Gary.actor.; Allen, Joan,1956-actor.; Bridges, Jeff,1949-actor.; Slater, Christian.actor.; Petersen, William L.,1953-actor.; Hall, Philip Baker,1931-actor.; Rubinek, Saul,1948-actor.; Elliott, Sam,1944-actor.; Dreamworks Pictures.; Cinerenta (Firm); Cinecontender (Firm); Battleground Productions.; SE8 Group.; DreamWorks Home Entertainment (Firm);
DVD; DTS 5.1 surround, Dolby digital 5.1 surround, Dolby 2.0 surround; 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen format.Gary Oldman, Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges, Christian Slater, William Petersen, Philip Baker Hall, Saul Rubinek, Sam Elliott.Director of photography, Denis Maloney; production designer, Alexander Hammond; editor, Michael Jablow; music, Larry Groupé.Rated R.Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards: Alan J. Pakula Award.As soon as a woman is nominated to replace the deceased vice president of the USA, her political enemies search in her private life for ways to bring her down.In depth commentary with director Rod Lurie and actress Joan Allen -- Deleted scenes -- A fascinating behind the scenes featurette "The making of a political thriller" -- Theatrical trailer -- Production notes -- Cast & filmmaker biographies.
Subjects: Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Vice-Presidential candidates; Women politicians; Politics, Practical;
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In it to win : electing Madam President / by Han, Lori Cox.;
"When will the United States elect its first woman president? Many political observers believed that Hillary Clinton would win the White House in 2008, and many still believe she is a strong contender for 2016. Yet, while many believe that electing the first woman president is not a question of if, but who and when, media speculation on the topic has yet to move it from an interesting talking point to political reality. The question remains: Just how close are we to breaking this final political glass ceiling? By merging the two literatures of women and politics (especially women as candidates) and presidential campaigns and elections, a winning strategy for women candidates can emerge by analyzing what political science research tells us from past campaigns and what we can expect in the future"--Includes bibliographical references and index.Electing Madam president -- Women as candidates -- The invisible primary -- The nomination process -- The general election -- A look ahead : 2016 and Beyond.
Subjects: Women presidents; Women presidential candidates; Presidents; Political culture;
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Freedom is not enough : black voters, black candidates, and American presidential politics / by Walters, Ronald W.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-225) and index.Black empowerment and the 1965 voting rights act -- Leverage politics and the 1984 and 1988 Jackson campaigns -- Black mobilization in the presidential elections of 1992, 1996, and 1998 -- Diluting black voting power: the supreme court in the 1990s and the 2000 presidential election in Florida -- Election reform: revisiting the right to vote -- Leverage politics and the 2004 primary election scenario: the Sharpton and Moseley Braun campaigns -- Black turnout and the 2004 presidential election -- The 1965 voting rights act: leveraging the power of the black vote.
Subjects: United States.; African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; Presidents; Presidents; Presidential candidates;
© 2007., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
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Horace Greeley and the politics of reform in nineteenth-century America / by Snay, Mitchell.;
Includes bibliographical references( p.183-188) and index.From country to city: coming of age in the early republic -- The politics of whiggery: the 1830s -- The world of print culture in antebellum New York -- The politics of reform: the 1840s -- The politics of antislavery: the 1850s -- The politics of union: the Civil War -- The politics of Reconstruction.
Subjects: Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872.; Presidential candidates; Newspaper editors; Politicians;
© c2011., Rowman & Littlefield,
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The bridge : the life and rise of Barack Obama / by Remnick, David.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 623-629) and index.Prologue: The Joshua generation -- A complex fate -- Surface and undertow -- Nobody knows my name -- Black metropolis -- Ambition -- A narrative of ascent -- Somebody nobody sent -- Black enough -- The wilderness campaign -- Reconstruction -- A righteous wind -- A slight madness -- The sleeping giant -- In the racial funhouse -- The book of Jeremiah -- "How long? Not long?" -- To the White House -- Epilogue -- Epiloge to the Vintage edition.Examines the experiences of Barack Obama's life and explores the ambition behind his rise to the presidency, from his relationship with his parents to how social and racial tensions influenced his philosophy.
Subjects: Obama, Barack.; United States. Congress. Senate; Presidents; Presidential candidates; African American politicians; African American legislators; Legislators;
© 2011., Vintage Books,
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All the truth is out : the week politics went tabloid / by Bai, Matt.;
"The former chief political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine brilliantly revisits the Gary Hart affair and looks at how it changed forever the intersection of American media and politics. In 1987, Gary Hart--articulate, dashing, refreshingly progressive--seemed a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination for president and led George H.W. Bush comfortably in the polls. And then: rumors of marital infidelity, an indelible photo of Hart and a model snapped near a fatefully named yacht (Monkey Business), and it all came crashing down in a blaze of flashbulbs, the birth of 24-hour news cycles, tabloid speculation, and late-night farce. Matt Bai shows how the Hart affair marked a crucial turning point in the ethos of political media--and, by extension, politics itself--when candidates' 'character' began to draw more fixation than their political experience. Bai offers a poignant, highly original, and news-making reappraisal of Hart's fall from grace (and overlooked political legacy) as he makes the compelling case that this was the moment when the paradigm shifted--private lives became public, news became entertainment, and politics became the stuff of Page Six"--Preface: What it took -- Troublesome gulch -- Tilting toward culture death -- Out there -- Follow me around -- "I do not think that's a fair question" -- All the truth is out -- Exile -- A lesser land.
Subjects: Hart, Gary, 1936-; Scandals; Presidential candidates; Press and politics; Mass media; Tabloid newspapers; Character; Public opinion; Legislators; United States. Congress. Senate; Hart, Gary, 1936-; United States. Congress. Senate.;
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Split second [sound recording] / by Baldacci, David.; Brick, Scott.nrt;
Read by Scott Brick.Two retired Secret Service agents have each had similar experiences losing presidential candidates while assigned to protect them. As the discredited agents enter a maze of lies, secrets, and deadly coincidences, they uncover a shocking truth: that the separate acts of violence that shattered their lives were really a long time in the making --and are a long way from over.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Adventure fiction.; Secret service; Political fiction.;
© p2007, c2003., Hachette Audio ; distributed by Recorded Books,
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