Campaigns & Elections

THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others miserably fail? What is a 'special adviser' and how did they take over British political life? And why is the House of Lords more functional than most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451691573Author Hunter S ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

***THE RUNAWAY BESTSELLER, WITH NEW MATERIAL FOR THE PAPERBACK***THE REVEALING, DEFINING ACCOUNT OF THE DARK NETWORK THAT BROKE OUR COUNTRY.Something has gone really wrong in Britain.Our economy has tanked, our freedoms are shrinking, and social...

The essential guide to Chomsky and his brilliant ideas on the global state of affairsAn extraordinary collection of Chomsky's speeches and his interviews with David Barsamian, edited by Arthur Naiman. With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam...

'Funny, whipsmart and devastating. Sanity on steroids' - EMILY MAITLIS'Fantastic. An exquisite analysis' - THE SECRET BARRISTER'Clear and compelling' - NIGELLA LAWSONWhy does nothing work in Britain?It's harder than ever to get a GP appointment...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*An essential blueprint for a better future, from the leading economist & Labour rising star'Stellar: brilliant, incredibly pragmatic' Rory Stewart'Refreshingly optimistic' The Times'No one has done more to re-inject sanity...

Read the inspiring Sunday Times bestselling memoir from the first woman, and woman of colour, to serve as Vice President of the United States.'A life story that genuinely entrances' Los Angeles TimesThe daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists,...

'This lucid guide is essential reading' GuardianFrom Donald Trump to Recep Erdogan, populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679746492Author Richard Ben CramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 1072Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm)...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBritish politics is broken.Anyone sitting down to watch the news will get the sense that something has gone terribly wrong. We have prime ministers who detonate the economy, secretaries of state who are intellectually...

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, most opinionated, and most necessary book ever-a brilliantly astute and acerbically funny vivisection of American life, politics, and culture. Some of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679721130Author Saul AlinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The authoritative guide to the 2024 British general election results, charting the campaign, results by constituency, winning majorities, MP biographies, voting patterns and implications for the future. First published in 1880, this is the...

This remarkable book, edited by one of the UK's leading political commentators, takes us on a deep dive into nearly 200 years of British political history through its most dramatic expression: the general election. The British general election is the...

The Sunday Times bestseller. 'A compulsively readable, carefully researched account of how a malignant combination of rightwing ideology, secretive money (much of it from the US) and weaponisation of social media have shaped contemporary British (and...

'Sensational ... One of the most explosive political diaries ever to be published ... As candid, caustic and colourful as the sensational Alan Clark Diaries of the 1990s' DAILY MAIL The Sunday Times bestseller As...

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...

The unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history and Theresa May's battle for a Brexit deal, the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War. ...

'What a lot we have to thank Barbara Bodichon and her circle for. She was a charismatic but self-effacing woman so she would at the very least have been perplexed by the idea of being a role model. But I can't think of a better one for today.' - Literary...

'A sparkling page-turner full of wit, original insight and unassuming erudition.' Katja Hoyer, GuardianDemocracy is a living, breathing thing and Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the role ordinary citizens play in keeping it alive: from...

In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to...

In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the "pride paradox" that has given the right's appeals such...

'The transformation of the US into an autocracy has advanced. By 2024, it might be irreversible [and] will change almost everything in the world. Nobody has outlined this danger more compellingly than Robert Kagan.' - Martin Wolf, Financial TimesA...

A timely examination of progressive politics in the era of radical populism. Since 2016, western democracies have experienced a series of political earthquakes, spectacularly upending conventional political wisdom. Everywhere, outsider politicians...

From Russia's tampering with the US election to the WannaCry hack that temporarily crippled the NHS, cyber has become the weapon of choice for democracies, dictators, and terrorists. Cheap to acquire, easily deniable, and used for a variety of...

'Challenging, forensic, compelling' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Pure centrist erotica. A myth-busting chronicle of bad-tempered, Brexit-riven England' SUNDAY TIMES 'Wonderfully evocative. Too honest, too nuanced and too deep for any party manifesto' MATTHEW...

In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history of the minjung ("common people's") movement in South Korea, Namhee Lee shows how the movement arose in the 1970s and 1980s in response to the repressive authoritarian regime and grew out of a widespread...

The inside story of the most seismic election in a generation In Taken As Red acclaimed political journalist Anushka Asthana takes readers behind the scenes of the 2024 general election campaign. As the political landscape undergoes a seismic shift,...

The Times - Best Politics and Current Affairs Books of the YearAn entertaining and revealing history of modern British politics - and the pivotal moments that got us where we are now. From Steve Richards, broadcaster, journalist, and author of The Prime...

Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail...'26 February, White House Briefing RoomThe coronavirus feels like it is changing everything. Suddenly it's not just a public health emergency; it has the potential to upend this whole election...'In...

Heralded by stunning reviews, Perlstein's best-selling NIXONLAND begins in the blood and fire of the Watts riots - one week after President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, and nine months after his historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater...

REVISED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE EXPLOSIVE EVENTS OF 2021 and 2022Winner at the Parliamentary Book AwardsShortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the YearLonglisted for the Orwell Prize____________Daily Telegraph's Best Books of the YearGuardian's Best...

REVISED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE EXPLOSIVE EVENTS OF 2021 and 2022Winner at the Parliamentary Book AwardsShortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the YearLonglisted for the Orwell Prize____________Daily Telegraph's Best Books of the YearGuardian's Best...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for LA Times Book Prize 2017 (United States) and PEN/Jean Stein Book Award 2017 (United States) and J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize 2017 (United States) and...

In the crucible of the 2017 general election, a small group of progressive activists set about trying to change British political life for the better. Armed with the conviction that the old politics was irretrievably broken, the progressive alliance set...

In the crucible of the 2017 general election, a small group of progressive activists set about trying to change British political life for the better. Armed with the conviction that the old politics was irretrievably broken, the progressive alliance set...

Televised debates between the nominees of the two major parties have become standard fare in contemporary presidential election campaigns. The authors of this important volume maintain that television has altered the very nature of presidential debates...

'Please please please read Mindf*ck' - Richard Dawkins What if you could peer into the minds of an entire population? What if you could target the weakest with rumours that only they saw? In 2016, an obscure British military contractor turned the...

An inspiring collection of original writing from world-leading 'green' voices on why contact with nature is vital for our mental, physical and social wellbeing Already, concrete outweighs every tree, bush and shrub on Earth. Nature deprivation is a...

A #1 New York Times Bestseller! "I read it cover-to-cover. I did not intend to, but I started at the beginning and didn't put it down until it was over."-Rachel Maddow, MSNBCThis book almost didn't see the light of day as government officials tried to...