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The election of President Barack Obama was a watershed moment in American politics. This book examines Obama's historic presidential victory while also looking back at the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, the transformation of race relations in the United States, and the achievements of prominent African American politicians. It explores the events of the Obama's life and examines the political realities that shaped him as a politician.
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JC Marquez has just awoken, and he has no idea how long he has been sleeping. This would not be as disturbing a circumstance as it is, if it were the worst part. The fact is, many troubling questions abound, not the least of which being, who was he before he went to sleep? Not knowing who to trust, JC is forced to sort out the motives of the disparate figures surrounding him through brief and sometimes bizarre encounters. When one group of characters...
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Definition: Election. It is not uncommon to find the word 'election' defined in a Bible dictionary as 'chosen by God for salvation' or something similar. Many dictionaries and lexicons include an alternate definition: 'choice, select, best in its class.' A close look at the New Testament will reveal a number of passages where this word occurs without a clear indication of the intended definition. In these passages, how are we to determine which was...
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ONE day, a reputable leader of a country was made to step down because the citizens decided that they couldn't cope with his high standards. This was a leader who had rescued the people from slavery, proffered just and accountable leadership, provided first class infrastructure and social services and protected them against aggressors. In the process of time, the people went to their leader with a relentless request "...Now make us a king to judge...
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“Them against us" is the strategy of Election 2016
Class! Class! Class!
That's all they talk about. It's a shocking blast from the past.
Didn't America abolish class?
Election 2016 is a good old fashioned class war!
Clinton and Trump will save the middle class. Clinton will tax the upper class. Trump will save the upper class from sharing with grubby lower classes. Trump will yank the working class jobs back to America.
Class is all they talk...
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Black Ops 85
On a secret Greek Island, miles and miles away from civilization, the United States Government in conjunction with the most wealthy countries in the world have incarcerated more than 600 of the most intelligent or embarrassing people in the world. This is called Black Op 85, one of the many locations like this on our planet where governments kidnap the best, without trial or warning and use them for their intellectual powers. This group...
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Mrs. Battersby has announced that Sadiq's third-grade class will be having elections for student government! Everyone is buzzing with excitement, but Sadiq isn't sure about any of it. Should he run for one of the positions? He does lots of research and gets good advice from his parents and siblings. Watching an inspiring speech finally helps him decide exactly what he wants to do. But, when a good friend has the same idea, Sadiq questions his decision....
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viii, 378 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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Barack Obama's stunning victory in the 2008 presidential election will go down as one of the more pivotal in American history. Given America's legacy of racism, how could a relatively untested first-term senator with an African father defeat some of the giants of American politics? In The Obama Victory, Kate Kenski, Bruce Hardy, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson draw upon the best voter data available, The National Annenberg Election Survey, as well as interviews...
50) The big lie: election chaos, political opportunism, and the state of American politics after 2020
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308 pages ; 25 cm
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"A probing and illuminating analysis of current state of American politics, focusing on Donald Trump's lie about election fraud, by the White House Bureau Chief of Politico and the host of MSNBC's Way Too Early Donald Trump first tried it out in 2016, at an August rally in Ohio. He said that perhaps he wouldn't accept the election results in his race against Hillary Clinton, that the election was "rigged." He then mentioned it at more rallies and...
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This book relays the factual details of the 2008 presidential election through three different perspectives. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of an Obama volunteer, U.S. Army soldier, and student. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives while gathering and analyzing information about a modern event. Modern events never look the same to everyone....
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"Beginning with President Trump's first impeachment and ending with his second, [this book] chronicles the inside-the-room deliberations between Trump and his campaign team as they opened 2020 with a sleek political operation built to harness a surge of momentum from a bullish economy, a unified Republican Party, and a string of domestic and foreign policy successes -- only to watch everything unravel when fortunes suddenly turned. With first-rate...
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"In the first century A.D., during Domitian's reign, Flavia Albia is ready for a short break from her family. So, in July, she returns to Rome, leaving them at their place on the coast. Albia, the daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, now retired as private informer, has taken up her father's former profession and it's time to get back to work. The first order business, however, is the corpse found in a chest sent as part of a large lot to be sold by the...
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Though many people in the United States have a basic understanding of how the general election works, there's a lot that goes into it that many voters are unfamiliar with. Young readers will get a head start learning the ins and outs of how leaders are elected. Colorful photographs and informative fact boxes expand on the main narrative. Concise text explains challenging topics and prepares readers to someday vote at the polls themselves.
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When do powerful politicians go too far? With freshly released evidence and a keen insider's eye, former White House reporter Don Fulsom delves into Richard M. Nixon's greatest crime: his sabotage of the peace talks with Vietnam to curry favor with the American public. Upon learning of Nixon's actions, outgoing president Lyndon B. Johnson angrily stated, "This is treason!" Fulsom delves into the enormity of Nixon's betrayal and its repercussions-all...
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A comprehensive wrap-up of the historic 2008 Presidential election, this book is packed with gorgeous color photographs and buoyed by the insightful journalism of two of the world's news giants This must-have book examines every aspect of the riveting campaign and readers will also travel through "50 States in 50 Days" on the historic joint ABC News/USA Today tour of the nation, which captures the voices of the voters as they weigh the merits of the...
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Cocktail Hour Meets ... A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION is the second in a series of back-of-the-napkin cocktail books resulting from quarantining at home during Covid-19. Little did anyone know when authors Jeremy Cooper and Andy Klausner published Cocktail Hour Meets ... A PANDEMIC in July that the pandemic would continue and converge, head-to-head, with a very important presidential election. With the non-stop cycle of breaking news, we may not always...
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On the afternoon of election day 2004, the world was abuzz with the news: exit polls indicated that John Kerry would decisively win the election and become the next president of the United States. That proved not to be the case.
According to the official count—the number of votes tallied, not necessarily the number of votes cast—George W. Bush beat Kerry by a margin of three million votes. The exit polls, however, had predicted a margin of victory...
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The race for the White House in 1968 was a watershed event in American politics. In this brilliantly succinct narrative analysis, Lewis L. Gould shows how the events of that tumultuous year changed the way Americans felt about politics and their national leaders; how Republicans used the skills they brought to Richard Nixon's campaign to create a generation-long ascendancy in presidential politics; and how Democrats, divided and torn after 1968, emerged...
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Illegitimate: Trump's Election and Failed Presidency explores and analyzes the phenomena that resulted in an unlikely candidate, Donald J. Trump, becoming the forty-fifth president of the United States. Thoroughly researched, this book provides a needed history of what was known about Trump's negatives before the 2016 election, and how-despite these negatives-Trump's assumption of the presidency occurred through the anachronistic electoral college...
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