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FRUSTRATED BY THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, MEDIA, POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT? READ AMERICA'S CRISIS TO FIND OUT WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. more...

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... And the Horse He Rode In On gives the first full accounting of what's really behind the longest-running, most expensive dirty trick in politics: Ken Starr's investigation. James Carville's take on the Starr Report is sure to be a much-read manifesto. As his bestselling We're Right, They're Wrong proved, love him or hate him, readers want to read him. more...

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President George W. Bush dubbed Karl Rove “The Architect” for his skill in creating an unprecedented campaign and fund-raising machine. But Rove’s ambitions have always been far more sweeping—to build a right-wing dynasty that can dominate American politics for decades. more...

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This guidebook is designed as a contribution to future nation-building efforts. It is organized around the components that make up any nation-building mission: planning, military and police contingents, civil administrators, humanitarian and relief efforts, governance, economic stabilization, democratization, and infrastructure development. more...

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Six years ago he ran a baseball team. Now he's the leader of the free world. In this book, "the Bush campaign's Renaissance man" (Time) charts George W. Bush's wild and improbable path to the White House. "Stevens, get in here and let's bond!" cried the governor. It was June 1999, and Stuart Stevens had just arrived in Austin, Texas from New York City to join a close-knit group of Texans dedicated to propelling a one-term governor into the White House. They faced formidable obstacles, from a nation enjoying peace and record prosperity to an experienced opponent aided by seasoned advisers who bragged that the campaign would be "a slaughterhouse." But Texans, as Stevens learned, are a confident bunch, and the Bush crowd always thought they could pull it off, even on the brink of losing. The New Yorker has praised Stevens for having "a wonderful eye for the curiosities of human behavior," and here he tells the surprisingly funny story of the Bush campaign the public never saw--from the Austin coffee shop where he watched Karl Rove sketch out the Republican master plan on a napkin to Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, where the blue-jeaned future president prepared for the make-or-break debates no one expected him to win. Here's the inside dope on the rise and flame-out of John McCain, the struggle to come up with a message to trump a booming economy ("Times have never been better. Vote for a change," they joked), the Bush team's "under-the-radar" campaign to steal West Virginia and Tennessee from the Democrats, and the fierce debate over tough anti-Gore spots that Bush refused to air. (The ads included footage of Al Gore describing his background as a tobacco farmer--"I've raised it, I've sold it..."--intercut with shots of him crying as he described his sister's death from cancer.) Here too is the story of how the campaign and the GOP vied for control of the Rep more...

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