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“randall e adkins”

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  • Cases in Congressional Campaigns

    Split Decision

    Edited by Randall E. Adkins, David A. Dulio ...
    This carefully chosen sample of 2018 congressional campaigns provides readers with an account of the campaign battles that took place across the nation. Although Democrats seemed to be poised for a big blue wave of victory following Donald Trump’s historic and divisive 2016 election, the Midterms yielded instead a split decision.Looking at issues ranging from the Kavanaugh confirmation, health ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Political Parties, Campaigns, and Elections

    Landmark Documents, 1787-2007

    Edited by Randall E. Adkins ...
    Primary source materials are a great way for students to experience firsthand a historic event, to more fully understand a pivotal actor or figure, or to explore legislation or a judicial decision. Students leave these readings better prepared to grapple with secondary sources. In fact, they can often support a different interpretation or more critically engage with analysis. This new volume—with ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

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  • The Swing Vote

    The Untapped Power of Independents

    by Linda Killian ...
    As our country's politicians engage in bitter partisan battles, focused on protecting their own jobs but not on doing the nation's business, and political pundits shout louder and shriller to improve their ratings, it's no wonder that Americans have little faith in their government. But is America as divided as the politicians and talking heads would have us believe? Do half of Americans stand on ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Ratf**ked

    Why Your Vote Doesn't Count

    by David Daley ...
    David Daley’s “extraordinarily timely” (New York Times Book Review) account uncovers the fundamental rigging of our House of Representatives and state legislatures nationwide.Lauded as a “compelling” (The New Yorker) and “eye-opening tour of a process that many Americans never see” (Washington Post), David Daley’s Ratf**ked documents the effort of Republican legislators and political operatives to ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Ten Year War

    Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage

    by Jonathan Cohn ...
    Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from one of the nation's foremost healthcare journalists.The Affordable Care Act, better known as "Obamacare," was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half century. It has touched nearly every American in one way or another ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dollarocracy

    How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America

    by John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney ...
    Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy.Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades covering American and international media and politics, political journalist John Nichols and media critic ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Shadowbosses

    Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind

    by Mallory Factor, Elizabeth Factor ...
    SHADOWBOSSES reads like an organized crime novel, but it's actually a true story of how labor unions are infiltrating our government and corrupting our political process. This compelling and insightful book exposes how unions have organized federal, state, and local government employees without their consent, and how government employee unions are now a threat to our workers' freedoms, our free ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Outsider in the White House

    by Senator Bernie Sanders, John Nichols ...
    The political autobiography of the insurgent presidential candidateBernie Sanders’s campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized people all over the country, putting economic, racial, and social justice into the spotlight, and raising hopes that Americans can take their country back from the billionaires and change the course of history.In this book, Sanders tells the story of a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Big Money

    2.5 Billion Dollars, One Suspicious Vehicle, and a Pimp-on the Trail of the Ultra-Rich Hijacking American Politics

    by Kenneth P Vogel ...
    Mark Hanna -- the turn-of-the-century iron-and-coal-magnate-turned-operative who leveraged massive contributions from the robber barons -- was famously quoted as saying: "There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money, and I can't remember what the second one is." To an extent that would have made Hanna blush, a series of developments capped by the Supreme Court's 2010 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Trumped

    The 2016 Election That Broke All the Rules

    Edited by Kyle Kondik, Geoffrey Skelley, Professor Larry J. Sabato ...
    In 2016, Donald Trump broke almost all the rules of politics to win the Republican nomination and, even more improbably, to edge out heavily favored Hillary Clinton in one of the great upsets in presidential campaign history. In Trumped: The 2016 Election That Broke All the Rules, Larry Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley, leading experts in American politics, bring together respected ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Death by a Thousand Cuts

    The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth

    by Ian Shapiro, Michael J. Graetz ...
    This fast-paced book by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support? The mystery is all the more striking because the repeal was not done in the dead of night, like a ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor

    Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old?

    by Steve Early ...
    "Should be required reading for all workers' rights advocates." —Bernie SandersBetween 2008 and 2010, the progressive wing of the US labor movement tore itself apart in a series of internecine struggles. More than $140 million was expended, by all sides, on organizing conflicts that tarnished union reputations and undermined the campaign for real health care and labor law reform. Campus and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus