Guide to U.S. Elections

Guide to U.S. Elections
Author: Deborah Kalb
Publisher: CQ Press
Total Pages: 2189
Release: 2015-12-24
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1483380351

The CQ Press Guide to U.S. Elections is a comprehensive, two-volume reference providing information on the U.S. electoral process, in-depth analysis on specific political eras and issues, and everything in between. Thoroughly revised and infused with new data, analysis, and discussion of issues relating to elections through 2014, the Guide will include chapters on: Analysis of the campaigns for presidency, from the primaries through the general election Data on the candidates, winners/losers, and election returns Details on congressional and gubernatorial contests supplemented with vast historical data. Key Features include: Tables, boxes and figures interspersed throughout each chapter Data on campaigns, election methods, and results Complete lists of House and Senate leaders Links to election-related websites A guide to party abbreviations

Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland
Author: Henry F. Graff
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2002-08-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1429998008

A fresh look at the only president to serve nonconsecutive terms. Though often overlooked, Grover Cleveland was a significant figure in American presidential history. Having run for President three times and gaining the popular vote majority each time -- despite losing the electoral college in 1892 -- Cleveland was unique in the line of nineteenth-century Chief Executives. In this book, presidential historian Henry F. Graff revives Cleveland's fame, explaining how he fought to restore stature to the office in the wake of several weak administrations. Within these pages are the elements of a rags-to-riches story as well as an account of the political world that created American leaders before the advent of modern media.

The Triumph of William McKinley

The Triumph of William McKinley
Author: Karl Rove
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2015-11-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476752958

Why the election of 1896 still matters.

To Make Men Free

To Make Men Free
Author: Heather Cox Richardson
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2014-09-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0465080669

From the New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening, “the most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses” (Los Angeles Times) When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to promote economic opportunity for all Americans, not just the slaveholding Southern planters who steered national politics. Yet, despite the egalitarian dream at the heart of its founding, the Republican Party quickly became mired in a fundamental identity crisis. Would it be the party of democratic ideals? Or would it be the party of moneyed interests? In the century and a half since, Republicans have vacillated between these two poles, with dire economic, political, and moral repercussions for the entire nation. In To Make Men Free, celebrated historian Heather Cox Richardson traces the shifting ideology of the Grand Old Party from the antebellum era to the Great Recession, revealing the insidious cycle of boom and bust that has characterized the Party since its inception. While in office, progressive Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower revived Lincoln's vision of economic freedom and expanded the government, attacking the concentration of wealth and nurturing upward mobility. But they and others like them have been continually thwarted by powerful business interests in the Party. Their opponents appealed to Americans' latent racism and xenophobia to regain political power, linking taxation and regulation to redistribution and socialism. The results of the Party's wholesale embrace of big business are all too familiar: financial collapses like the Panic of 1893, the Great Depression in 1929, and the Great Recession in 2008. With each passing decade, with each missed opportunity and political misstep, the schism within the Republican Party has grown wider, pulling the GOP ever further from its founding principles. Expansive and authoritative, To Make Men Free is a sweeping history of the Party that was once America's greatest political hope -- and, time and time again, has proved its greatest disappointment.

Democracy for All

Democracy for All
Author: Ronald Hayduk
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2006
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0415950724

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A Call to Action

A Call to Action
Author: James Baird Weaver
Publisher:
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1892
Genre: Campaign literature
ISBN: