DescriptionNOTE: This audiobook is in Portuguese. This audiobook defines the concept of political and electoral marketing, analyses the origin of these two terms, and examines the changes that the marketing concept brought to Brazil's elections and politics. It re…
DescriptionOutrageous demagogue or charismatic visionary? In this powerful new biography, Richard D. White, Jr., brings Huey Long to life in all his blazing, controversial glory. From the moment he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin's bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long wielded all but dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana. A man of shameless ambition and ruthless vindictiveness, Huey orchestrated elections, hired and fired thousands at will, and deployed the state militia as his personal police force. And yet, paradoxically, as governor and later as senator, Huey did more good for the state's poor and uneducated than any politician before or since. With Kingfish, White has crafted a balanced, lucid, and absolutely spellbinding portrait of the life and times of the most incendiary figure in American politics.
DescriptionA Sampling of 20th Century Political Speech: The presidents of the United States swear their inaugural oaths. Scott Carrier has friends across from the White House in "Lafayette Square." Dave Eggers snaps a "Family Photo Opp" in brother Bill's campaign Hummer. Joe Frank's "Presidential Candidate" is just like us - and that's scary. Jesse Boggs and the Bush Administration do the "WMD Waltz." Taylor Mali teaches us "How to Write a Political Poem." And Host Sarah Vowell plants a seed for "The Garden for Disappointed Politicians."…
DescriptionPolitics as usual - isn't anymore. Tear up what you know or think you know about politics. It's all changing. For thirty years the print and broadcast media - the Fourth Estate - dominated politics. Journalists and pundits shaped the way we perceived and…
DescriptionConfused because the conventional wisdom doesn't coincide with your view of the political world? Perhaps that's because the press and pundits have it wrong. In Everything You Think You Know About Politics...and Why You're Wrong, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a noted expert on presidential politics, offers a guide through the welter of information - generated by politicians and the media - surrounding political campaigns. Jamieson and her team get into the ins and outs of pollling, the use and abuses of the soundbite, "going negative, " and whether or not ads work. Combining trenchant analysis and surprising facts, Everything You Think You Know About Politics...and Why You're Wrong will change the way you look at candidates and the media forever.
DescriptionNoted academics and political commentators Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky spoke at a fundraiser for the Homeless Empowerment Project, publisher of spare change news, and addressed the question, "Is there hope in this desperate time?" Each spoke for about 20…
