The Political Bible Of Little Known Facts In American Politics
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Author |
: Rich Rubino |
Publisher |
: Rich Rubino |
Total Pages |
: 341 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 061552737X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780615527376 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (7X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Political Bible of Little Known Facts in American Politics by : Rich Rubino
Get ready to be entertained with more than 300 "jam-packed" pages of unusual, bizarre and often humorous political facts in American politics. These are not the facts that you were taught in Politics 101. Sound smart at your next cocktail party or at the local coffee shop when the conversation turns to politics; you will easily be able to weave these fascinating facts into the conversation. Political junkies and casual political observers alike will enjoy this book. It's a fun read. In fact, the book makes the perfect gift. This book is bursting with interesting facts and pictures pertaining to American Presidents, Vice Presidents, Cabinet Members, First Ladies, Members of Congress, Supreme Court Justices, Governors, and local elected officials. Find out the real story behind the following political peculiarities: *The belief by some that George Washington should not be considered America's First President. *A President's last words as he ate his soup: "The Nourishment is palatable." *A Governor once vetoed a bill for "bad spelling, improper punctuation and erasures." *A political candidate, who after losing an election, complained: "The people have spoken, The Bastards." *Hillary Clinton was the President of the Young Republicans at Wellesley College. *A U.S. President who has been forgotten in the U.S., but who is worshiped in Paraguay and has a national holiday named after him in that country. *After losing re-nomination by his own party, one President deadpanned: "There's nothing left to do but get drunk." *A First Lady who enjoyed conversing on her CB radio from the White House using the handle "First Mamma." *A President gave a Pope a bust of "himself" as a gift. *One state had a 24-year-old Governor. *A President who in his earlier life worked as a custodian and an auto mechanic. *A staph infection that may have altered the course of history. *A losing Presidential candidate who speculated that his unwillingness to appear on the weekly TV comedy show "Rowan & Martin's Laugh In" may have cost him the election. *A President whose birth name was Leslie Lynch King. *A Vice President who regularly presided drunk over the U.S. Senate. *A state where prisoners make license plates that read: "Live free or die." *A Vice President who needed additional income took a leave of absence to open a tavern and spa. *A future President who was the head cheerleader at his High School football games. *A Congressman who called a colleague on the House floor a "Howdy-Doody-looking nimrod." *A President that was so large that he got stuck in a White House bathtub and needed assistance in getting out. *A Congressman who issued a press release deriding the organization known as Americans for Tax Reform as "Lying Sacks of Scum." *A future President who came in second in the Iowa Caucuses to "None of the above" *A U.S. Senate candidate who appeared on the ballot as "God Almighty" *A former 12-year Governor who "subsequently" became a bank teller. *That one Secretary of State had never left the U.S. before taking office. *A Supreme Court Justice who wrote in the Majority Opinion regarding forced sterilization: "Three Generations of Imbeciles is enough." *A President's last words as his wife was reading him the newspaper: "Could you please read that again?" *Two brothers who ran against each other for the Governorship of Tennessee.
Author |
: Kathleen Hall Jamieson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 2000-06-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015050144032 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Everything You Think You Know About Politics...and Why You're Wrong by : Kathleen Hall Jamieson
A media expert and network commentator examines the welter of misinformation--generated by politicians and the media alike--that surrounds political campaigns.
Author |
: Michael X. Delli Carpini |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 1996-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300072759 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300072754 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis What Americans Know about Politics and why it Matters by : Michael X. Delli Carpini
The authors explore how Americans' levels of political knowledge have changed over the past 50 years, how such knowledge is distributed among different groups, and how it is used in political decision-making. Drawing on extensive survey data, they present compelling evidence for benefits of a politically informed citizenry--and the cost of one that is poorly and inequitably informed. 62 illustrations.
Author |
: Isabel Sawhill |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2018-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300241068 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300241062 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Forgotten Americans by : Isabel Sawhill
A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation’s economic inequalities One of the country’s leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society—economic, cultural, and political—and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a significant portion of the American workforce disenfranchised and skeptical of governments and corporations alike. And yet both have a role to play in improving the country for all. Sawhill argues for a policy agenda based on mainstream values, such as family, education, and work. While many have lost faith in government programs designed to help them, there are still trusted institutions on both the local and federal level that can deliver better job opportunities and higher wages to those who have been left behind. At the same time, the private sector needs to reexamine how it trains and rewards employees. This book provides a clear-headed and middle-way path to a better-functioning society in which personal responsibility is honored and inclusive capitalism and more broadly shared growth are once more the norm.
Author |
: Arlie Russell Hochschild |
Publisher |
: The New Press |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2018-02-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781620973981 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1620973987 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strangers in Their Own Land by : Arlie Russell Hochschild
The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump "A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book." —Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book Review When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump voters were thinking when they cast their ballots. Arlie Hochschild, one of the most influential sociologists of her generation, had spent the preceding five years immersed in the community around Lake Charles, Louisiana, a Tea Party stronghold. As Jedediah Purdy put it in the New Republic, "Hochschild is fascinated by how people make sense of their lives. . . . [Her] attentive, detailed portraits . . . reveal a gulf between Hochchild's 'strangers in their own land' and a new elite." Already a favorite common read book in communities and on campuses across the country and called "humble and important" by David Brooks and "masterly" by Atul Gawande, Hochschild's book has been lauded by Noam Chomsky, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu, and countless others. The paperback edition features a new afterword by the author reflecting on the election of Donald Trump and the other events that have unfolded both in Louisiana and around the country since the hardcover edition was published, and also includes a readers' group guide at the back of the book.
Author |
: Jennifer L. Hochschild |
Publisher |
: University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2015-01-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780806149417 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0806149418 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Do Facts Matter? by : Jennifer L. Hochschild
A democracy falters when most of its citizens are uninformed or misinformed, when misinformation affects political decisions and actions, or when political actors foment misinformation—the state of affairs the United States faces today, as this timely book makes painfully clear. In Do Facts Matter? Jennifer L. Hochschild and Katherine Levine Einstein start with Thomas Jefferson’s ideal citizen, who knows and uses correct information to make policy or political choices. What, then, the authors ask, are the consequences if citizens are informed but do not act on their knowledge? More serious, what if they do act, but on incorrect information? Analyzing the use, nonuse, and misuse of facts in various cases—such as the call to impeach Bill Clinton, the response to global warming, Clarence Thomas’s appointment to the Supreme Court, the case for invading Iraq, beliefs about Barack Obama’s birthplace and religion, and the Affordable Care Act—Hochschild and Einstein argue persuasively that errors of commission (that is, acting on falsehoods) are even more troublesome than errors of omission. While citizens’ inability or unwillingness to use the facts they know in their political decision making may be frustrating, their acquisition and use of incorrect “knowledge” pose a far greater threat to a democratic political system. Do Facts Matter? looks beyond individual citizens to the role that political elites play in informing, misinforming, and encouraging or discouraging the use of accurate or mistaken information or beliefs. Hochschild and Einstein show that if a well-informed electorate remains a crucial component of a successful democracy, the deliberate concealment of political facts poses its greatest threat.
Author |
: Thomas E. Woods |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 325 |
Release |
: 2004-01-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781596980402 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1596980400 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by : Thomas E. Woods
“The problem in America isn’t so much what people don’t know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain’t so.” —Thomas E. Woods Most Americans trust that their history professors and high school teachers will give students honest and accurate information. The Politically Incorrect Guide to American Historymakes it quite clear that liberal professors have misinformed our children for generations. Professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. takes on the most controversial moments of American history and exposes how history books are merely a series of clichés drafted by academics who are heavily biased against God, democracy, patriotism, capitalism and most American family values. Woods reveals the truth behind many of today's prominent myths.... MYTH:The First Amendment prohibits school prayer MYTH: The New Deal created great prosperity MYTH:What the Supreme Court says, goes From the real American “revolutionaries” to the reality of labor unions, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History is all you need for the truth about America—objective and unvarnished.
Author |
: Rich Rubino |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 2013-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0615815804 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780615815800 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Political Bible of Little Known Facts in American Politics by : Rich Rubino
This is the Second Edition of the book, which was first published in 2011. This book includes a new chapter on the 2012 Election. This book contains little known facts in American Politics.
Author |
: Jessamyn Conrad |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2012-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781611459623 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1611459621 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis What You Should Know About Politics . . . But Don't by : Jessamyn Conrad
Now in its second edition, here is one of the first and only issue-based nonpartisan guides to contemporary American politics. It’s a very exciting time in American politics. Voter turnout in primaries and caucuses across the nation has shattered old records. More than ever, in this election year people are paying attention to the issues. But in a world of sound bites and deliberate misinformation and a political scene that is literally colored by a partisan divide—blue vs. red—how does the average educated American find a reliable source that’s free of political spin? What You Should Know About Politics . . . But Don’t breaks it all down, issue by issue, explaining who stands for what, and why, whether it’s the economy, the war in Iraq, health care, oil and renewable energy sources, or climate change. If you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or somewhere in between, it’s the perfect book to brush up on a single topic or read through to get a deeper understanding of the often mucky world of American politics.
Author |
: Michael F. Holt |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 1298 |
Release |
: 2003-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199830893 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199830894 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party by : Michael F. Holt
Here, Michael F. Holt gives us the only comprehensive history of the Whigs ever written. He offers a panoramic account of the tumultuous antebellum period, a time when a flurry of parties and larger-than-life politicians--Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, Martin Van Buren, and Henry Clay--struggled for control as the U.S. inched towards secession. It was an era when Americans were passionately involved in politics, when local concerns drove national policy, and when momentous political events--like the Annexation of Texas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act--rocked the country. Amid this contentious political activity, the Whig Party continuously strove to unite North and South, emerging as the nation's last great hope to prevent secession.