2012 Presidential Election

Week of October 15, 2012

In the News: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

This week’s theme of presidential elections includes titles on the following related topics: voter fraud, the electoral college, liberals, conservatives, Democrats, Republicans, third party candidates, the 2008 presidential election, Kennedy vs. Nixon, [Ted] Kennedy vs. Carter, the Tea Party movement, Herman Cain, Geraldine Ferraro, John Edwards, Ralph Nader, Sarah Palin, Shirley Chisholm, Ross Perot, and more. There are also book by and/or about the two leading candidates and their running mates (yes, we have Young Guns co-written by Paul Ryan as well as the 2010 Joe Biden biography). These and other books are on display through November 6 in the Wimberly Library lobby on the Boca Raton Campus.

The 2008 Elections in Florida: Change! But Only at the Top of the Ticket
By Robert E. Crew, Jr. and Slater Bayliss. University Press of America, 2011
Call Number: JK4416 .C74 2011

The 2008 Presidential Elections: A Story in Four Acts
Edited by Erik Jones and Salvatore Vassallo. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Call Number: JK526 2008 .A18 2009

All the Way with LBJ: The 1964 Presidential Election
By Robert David Johnson. Cambridge University Press, 2009
Call Number: E850 .J64 2009

In Two Months…

Week of September 10, 2012

In the News: VOTING & ELECTIONS

On November 6, voters will head to the polls for the general election of 2012. Until then, why not see what the library has to offer on elections and the voting process? Most have been published since the 2008 presidential election.

The 2008 Elections in Florida: Change! But Only at the Top of the Ticket
By Robert E. Crew, Jr. and Slater Bayliss. UP of America, 2011
Call Number: JK4416 .C74 2011

A Behavioral Theory of Elections
By Jonathan Bender et al. Princeton University Press, 2011
Call Number: JF1001 .B414 2011

The Change Election: Money, Mobilization, and Persuasion in the 2008 Federal Elections
Edited by David B. Magleby. Temple University Press, 2011
Call Number: JK1991 .C43 2011 Continue reading

Midterm Elections: Part 1

October 25, 2010

Midterm Elections: Part 1

In the News: Many in the political world are counting down the days until the midterm elections on November 2. Democrats currently control both houses of Congress, but Republicans and other conservatives, outraged by the “Obama Agenda,” are earnestly working to end that. This week we share more newly acquired titles on the Republican Party, neoconservatism, and conservatism in general.

The following are on order. Look for them in the very near future!

The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama
By Will Bunch. Harper Collins, August 2010

Mad as Hell: How the Tea Party Movement is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System
By Scott W. Rasmussen. Harper, September 2010

No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America
By David T. Courtwright. Harvard University Press, October 2010

Proud to Be Right: Voices of the Next Conservative Generation
By Jonah Goldberg. Harper Collins, October 2010

Why Conservatives Tell Stories & Liberals Don’t: Rhetoric, Faith, and Vision on the American Right
By David M. Ricci. Paradigm Publishers, September 2010

Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders
By Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy. Simon & Schuster, September 2010

These are currently available:

Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America
By Michael L. Ondaatje. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010
Call Number: E189 .I56 O53 2010

C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy
By Jeff Sharlet. Little, Brown & Co, 2010
Call Number: BR526 .S52 2010

The Christian Right in Republican State Politics
By Kimberly H. Conger. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Call Number: JK2356 .C65 2009

Suffrage

Library titles related to the latest headlines…

Week of August 23, 2010

Suffrage

In the News: In anticipation of the upcoming primary elections this Tuesday (8/24), we look at the Nineteenth Amendment which gave all American women the right to vote. Last week marked the 90th anniversary that the amendment was ratified by Congress. Now, go out and vote!

African American Women Voters: Racializing Religiosity, Political Consciousness and Progressive Political Action in U.S. Presidential Elections from 1964 through 2008
By Lisa Nikol Nealy. University Press of America, 2009
Call Number: JK1924 .N43 2009

Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign
By Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene. University of Illinois Press, 2008
Call Number: HQ1413 .P38 A23 2008

The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign, 1866-1928
By Harold L. Smith. Pearson/Longman, 2007
Call Number: HQ1236.5 .G7 S55 2007

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker: A Reader in Documents and Essays
Edited by Ellen Carol DuBois and Richard Candida Smith. New York University Press, 2007 Call Number: HQ1413 .S67 A5 2007

Conan vs. Jay & Limitless Corporate Spending on Elections (Or, Talk Shows & Campaign Finance)

Week of January 25, 2010

News Item: The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien debuted in September 2009 after Jay Leno, who came on board in 1992 upon Johnny Carson’s retirement, left to host a prime-time nightly talk show. NBC is bringing Leno back to late-night later this March, but not before spending a reported $32 million to buy out the remaining two and half years of O’Brien’s contract. Go here to read more about TV talk shows.

Also in the News: The Supreme Court handed down a 5 to 4 decision that allows companies, unions, and other interest groups to spend as much of their own funds as they want on things such as campaign ads in candidate elections, thus giving corporations First Amendment rights and freeing them from government restrictions on political speech.

Talk Shows

Coming after Oprah: Cultural Fallout in the Age of the TV Talk Show
By Vicki Abt and Leonard Mustazza. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1997
Call Number: PN1992.8 .T3 A28 1997

Inventing Late Night: Steve Allen and the Original Tonight Show
By Ben Alba. Prometheus Books, 2005
Call Number: PN1992.4 .C28 S45 1987

Johnny Carson: An Unauthorized Biography
By Ronald L. Smith. St. Martin’s Press, 1987
Call Number: PN1992.4 .C28 S45 1987

In the News: Presidential Campaigns

Week of September 8, 2008

News Item: The presidential campaigning season is in full swing. Candidates for the offices of President and Vice-President of the United States have been officially nominated by their respective parties. Now, they will travel the country and present their platforms before voters head to the polls on November 4th.

The American Campaign: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote
By James. E. Campbell. Texas A&M University Press, 2000
Call Number: JK528 .C36 2000

American Presidential Campaigns and Elections
Edited by William G. Shade et al. Sharpe, 2003
Call Number: JK1965 .A57 2003

Divided States of America: The Slash and Burn Politics of the 2004 Presidential Election
Edited by Larry J. Sabato. Pearson/Longman, 2006
Call Number: JK526 2004 .D58 2005

Encyclopedia of Presidential Campaigns, Slogans, Issues, and Platforms
By Robert North Roberts and Scott John Hammond. Greenwood Press, 2004
Call Number: E176.1 .R6 2004 (In Reference)

In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns
By John G. Geer. University of Chicago Press, 2006
Call Number: JK2281 .G44 2006

Mediating the Vote: The Changing Media Landscape in U.S. Presidential Campaigns
By Michael Pfau et al. Rowman & Littlefield, 2007
Call Number: JK2281 .P43 2006

Notable Speeches in Contemporary Presidential Campaigns
By Robert V. Friedenberg. Praeger, 2002
Call Number: Available online through NetLibrary

Presidential Campaigns: From George Washington to George W. Bush
By. Paul F. Boller, Jr. Oxford University Press, 2004
Call Number: E176.1 .B683 2004

The Race to 270: The Electoral College and the Campaign Strategies of 2000 and 2004
By Daron R. Shaw. University of Chicago Press, 2006
Call Number: JK1976 .S53 2006

Running on Race: Racial Politics in Presidential Campaigns, 1960-2000
By Jeremy D. Mayer. Random House, 2002
Call Number: E839.5 .M39 2002

Sneaking into the Flying Circus: How the Media Turn Our Presidential Campaigns into Freak Shows
By Alexandra Pelosi. Free Press, 2005
Call Number: JK526 2004 .P45 2005

The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008
By Mark Halperin and Jon F. Harris. Random House, 2006
Call Number: JK526 2008 .H35 2006

Welfare for Politicians?: Taxpayer Financing of Campaigns
Edited by John Samples. Cato Institute, 2005
Call Number: JK1991 .W45 2005

Videostyle in Presidential Campaigns: Style and Content of Televised Political Advertising
By Lynda Lee Kaid and Anne Johnston. Praeger, 2001
Call Number: JK2281 .K26 2000

On & Off the Shelf

Week of September 8, 2008