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  • The Nightly News Nightmare

    Media Coverage of U.S. Presidential Elections, 1988-2008

    The Nightly News Nightmare, Third Edition, examines news coverage of presidential nomination and election campaigns from 1988 to 2008. The book focuses on changes in the amount, tone, and focus of news coverage in these different electoral contexts. In addition to network news, the authors examine online news, cable television, talk radio, candidate campaign discourse in these election years. ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • The Mediated Presidency

    Television News and Presidential Governance

    Including late-breaking data from the Iraq occupation and the disastrous CBS News reports on Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard Service, acclaimed media scholars Stephen J. Farnsworth and S. Robert Lichter examine news coverage of military policy, economic policy, and scandals from the last four U.S. presidencies, including the current controversial administration. Using a quarter-century of ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Peepshow

    Media and Politics in an Age of Scandal

    The line dividing public life and private behavior in American politics is more blurred than ever. When it comes to questions about sex, substance abuse and family life, anything goes on the political desk in many newsrooms, including uncorroborated hearsay disguised as news. But some stories still never make it into print or on the air. What are the rules for politicians and journalists in the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Game Change

    Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

    The gripping inside story of the 2008 presidential election, by two of the best political reporters in the country."It's one of the best books on politics of any kind I've read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22." — The Financial Times"It transports you to a parallel universe in which everything in the National Enquirer is true….More interesting is what we learn about the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mugged

    Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama

    by Ann Coulter ...
    “This isn’t a story about black people—it’s a story about the Left’s agenda to patronize blacks and lie to everyone else.”For decades, the Left has been putting on a play with themselves as heroes in an ongoing civil rights movement—which they were mostly absent from at the time. Long after pervasive racial discrimination ended, they kept pretending America was being run by the Klan and that ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Courage and Consequence

    My Life as a Conservative in the Fight

    by Karl Rove ...
    From the moment he set foot on it, Karl Rove has rocked America’s political stage. He ran the national College Republicans at twenty-two, and turned a Texas dominated by Democrats into a bastion for Republicans. He launched George W. Bush to national renown by unseating a popular Democratic governor, and then orchestrated a GOP White House win at a time when voters had little reason to throw out ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Center Holds

    Obama and His Enemies

    From the bestselling author of The Promise, the thrilling story of one of the most momentous contests in American history, the Battle Royale between Obama and his enemies from the 2010 midterms through the 2013 inauguration.In The Center Holds, Jonathan Alter provides the first full account of America at the crossroads. With exclusive reporting and rare historical insight, he pierces the bubble of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • All Too Human

    A Political Education

    All Too Human is a new-generation political memoir, written from the refreshing perspective of one who got his hands on the levers of awesome power at an early age.At thirty, the author was at Bill Clinton's side during the presidential campaign of 1992, and for the next five years he was rarely more than a step away from the president and his other advisers at every important moment of the first ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Slander

    Liberal Lies About the American Right

    by Ann Coulter ...
    The hottest and most controversial book of the year! Find out who really controls the media in America.“[Ann Coulter] is never in doubt. And that, along with her bright writing, sense of irony and outrage, and her relish at finally hitting back at political opponents (especially in the media) is what makes Slander such refreshing and provocative reading.”—Los Angeles Times“[Ann Coulter] is a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight

    by Julia Sweig ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A revelation . . . a book in the Caro mold, using Lady Bird, along with tapes and transcripts of her entire White House diary, to tell the history of America during the Johnson years.”—The New York TimesThe inspiration for the documentary film The Lady Bird Diaries, premiering November 13 on HuluPerhaps the most underestimated First Lady of the twentieth century, Lady ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Boom!

    Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today

    by Tom Brokaw ...
    In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings to life the tumultuous Sixties, a fault line in American history. The voices and stories of both ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • First Son

    George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty

    In one of the most unprecedented developments in the history of national politics, George W. Bush abruptly emerged to lead all presidential aspirants in the national polls for the 2000 election. Yet voters know very little about the man, beyond his famous name and his place in one of the nation's most powerful political dynasties.First Son is a true, riveting family saga about extraordinary power ... Read more

    $5.99 USD