Daley, David
Summary: "A revelatory account by the best- selling author of Ratf**ked that will give you hope that America's fragile democracy can still be saved. Following Ratf**ked, his "extraordinary timely and undeniably important" (New York Times Book Review) exposé of how a small cadre of Republican operatives rigged American elections, David Daley emerged as one of the nation's leading authorities on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Co. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 DALRubin, Susan Goldman
Summary: For over 200 years, people have marched, gone to jail, risked their lives, and even died trying to get the right to vote in the United States. Others, hungry to acquire or hold onto power, have gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent people from casting ballets or outright stolen votes and sometimes entire elections. Perfect for students who want to know more about voting rights, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 RUBSherman, Jake S.
Summary: "The startling inside story of Donald Trump's first two years, viewed from Capitol Hill, where lawmakers on both sides of the aisle jockeyed for advantage as American politics reached a fevered pitch. Taking readers into secret strategy calls and closed-door meetings from the House to the White House, Politico Playbook writers Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer trace the strategy and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 SHEPinckney, Darryl
Summary: "Blackballed is Darryl Pinckney's meditation on a century and a half of Black participation in US electoral politics. In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, he investigates the struggle for Black voting rights from Reconstruction through the civil rights movement, leading up to the election of Barack Obama as president. Interspersed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324 PINDeRubertis, Barbara
Summary: Explores the history of voting in the United States and explains why voting is so important.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.973 DERBowden, Mark
Summary: "In the sixty-four days between November 3 and January 6, President Donald Trump and his allies fought to reverse the outcome of the vote. Focusing on six states--Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin-- Trump's supporters claimed widespread voter fraud. It was not a well-orchestrated matter. There was no guiding genius pulling the strings in key states for the defeated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 BOWGarrett, Major
Summary: "The Big Truth illuminates a crowning achievement in America's quest for a robust democracy in the face of slander by sore losers and opportunists. Filled with interviews of the guardians of democracy--election workers, January 6th Committee members Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) and Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland), Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and more--it is an overpowering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 GARPietrusza, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 PIEHavel, James T.
Contents: v. 1. The candidates -- v. 2. The elections, 1789-1992.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Library Reference USA 1996
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 324.63 HAVHavel, James T.
Contents: v. 1. The candidates -- v. 2. The elections, 1789-1992.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Library Reference USA 1996
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 324.63 HAVJenkins, Tommy
Summary: "Coinciding with the 2020 US presidential election, Drawing the Vote, an original graphic novel, looks at the history of voting rights in the United States, and how it has affected the way we vote today. Author Tommy Jenkins traces this history from the earliest steps toward democracy during the American Revolution, to the upheaval caused by the Civil War, the fight for women's suffrage, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 324.6 JEND'Souza, Dinesh
Summary: The 2020 presidential election was rife with fraud orchestrated by the Democratic Party. That’s not just an accusation; it’s now, thanks to bestselling author and investigative journalist Dinesh D’Souza, an established fact. With eyewitness testimony and the pinpoint precision and analytic sophistication of the forensic technique of geotracking, D’Souza demonstrates how an already corrupt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.66 D'SOShimer, David
Summary: Presents a judicious history of covert foreign interference in world elections since the Cold War that discusses Russia's role in America's 2016 presidential election and why the threat is greater than ever in 2020.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 SHISummary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAKIsikoff, Michael
Summary: "In Find Me the Votes, two years of immersive reporting by Isikoff and Klaidman has produced the most authoritative and dramatic account yet of a defeated president's conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election and how a local Georgia prosecutor--a daughter of the civil rights movement--decided to indict him and his allies for his desperate attempt to hold on to power. From the beginning, Fani...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, Hachette Book Group 2024
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Summary: "As the US capitol was attacked on January 6, 2021, the White House went dark for seven hours and thirty-seven minutes. It was my job to turn the lights on. The void happened to overlap with the hours when supporters of former President Trump brawled with police, smashed windows, and rampaged through the halls of Congress as his loss to Joe Biden was being certified. Why the White House went...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 RIGGreen, Joshua
Summary: "In his classic book Devil's Bargain, Joshua Green chronicled how the forces of economic populism on the right, led by the likes of Steve Bannon, turned Donald Trump into their flawed but powerful vessel. In The Rebels, he gives an epic account of the long struggle that has played out in parallel on the left, told through an intimate reckoning with the careers of the three political figures who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 GREHarding, Luke
Summary: "December 2016. [the author] and former Moscow bureau chief, quietly meets former MI6 officer Christopher Steele in a London pub to discuss President-elect Donald Trump's Russia connections. A month later, Steele's now-famous dossier sparks what may be the biggest scandal of the modern era. The names of the Americans involved are well-known--Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner, George...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324 HARStevens, Stuart
Summary: A former chief Republican strategist and best-selling author examines the five driving forces on the Right-financers, propagandists, party support, legal theories to legitimize and shock troops-and makes clear how they are working in concert to end our democracy as we know it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.2734 STEGraff, Michael
Summary: "In November 2018, Baptist preacher Mark Harris beat the odds, narrowly fending off a blue wave in the sprawling Ninth District of North Carolina. But word soon got around that something fishy was going on in rural Bladen County. At the center of the messwas a local political operative named McCrae Dowless. Dowless had learned the ins and outs of the absentee ballot system from Democrats before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 GRACorso, Phil
Summary: "The Electoral College is the body of people who elect the president and vice president of the United States. Many U.S. citizens are confused by this system, which dates back to the creation of the U.S. Constitution. When citizens vote for a presidential candidate, they're actually voting for an elector -- someone who will cast a vote for their state for that candidate in the Electoral College....
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 CORThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THOBird, Kai
Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005
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Summary: "With vivid storytelling and access to insider accounts, Weiner sets out to trace the roots of Russian-American political warfare--conflict waged without weapons--over the last seven decades to understand how a president landed in the White House with thehelp of an expansive, covert Russian campaign. Russia's modern revival of Soviet-era intelligence operations constitutes one of the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020