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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779145003321

Titolo

Electing the president, 2008 [[electronic resource] ] : the insiders' view / / edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009

ISBN

1-283-89795-4

0-8122-0599-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JamiesonKathleen Hall

Disciplina

324.973/0931

Soggetti

Presidents - United States - Election - 2008

Political campaigns - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Hall Jamieson, Kathleen -- The National Annenberg Election Survey / Winneg, Ken -- Chapter 1. The Vice Presidential Campaign -- Chapter 2. Campaign Management and Field Operations -- Chapter 3. Campaign Organization and Strategy -- Chapter 4. The Role of Polling -- Chapter 5. Advertising -- Chapter 6. The Campaign and the Press -- Chapter 7. Political Party Panel -- Chapter 8. Democratic/Liberal Panel -- Chapter 9. Republican/Conservative Panel -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Just weeks after the November 2008 election, the Annenberg Public Policy Center's Kathleen Hall Jamieson and FactCheck.org's Brooks Jackson gathered top strategists and consultants for postelection analysis. Nicolle Wallace, Ambassador Mark Wallace, Jon Carson, Steve Schmidt, Bill McInturff, and Chris Mottola from the McCain-Palin camp met with David Plouffe, David Axelrod, Joel Benenson, Jim Margolis, and Anita Dunn, their counterparts from the Obama-Biden camp to share their insights into one of the most unusual presidential elections in American history. Representatives of the Democratic and Republican National Committees and the major independent expenditure groups did the same.In the resulting book, Electing the President, 2008, the consultants who managed the 2008 presidential campaign retrace the decisions that shaped the historic presidential election. Like Electing



the President, 2000 and Electing the President, 2004, this work permits readers to eavesdrop on the first cross-campaign discussion that occurred in the nation after Election Day. These political experts assess the importance of new factors ranging from campaign spending to the performance of the press corps, from the effect of the Internet on news cycles to the influence of Tina Fey. Democratic and Republican insiders explain the strategies behind the debates and advertising, reveal what their internal polls showed, and share what they did well and poorly in their efforts to elect the forty-fourth president of the United States.In addition to insider commentary, Electing the President, 2008 presents political communications and strategy researchers with an election timeline and polling data from the National Annenberg Election Survey. This book offers a ringside seat to what may prove to be the most pivotal political contest for a long time to come. An included DVD features selected video of the proceedings.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782564203321

Autore

Weichherz Béla

Titolo

In her father's eyes [[electronic resource] ] : a childhood extinguished by the Holocaust / / Béla Weichherz ; translated, edited, and introduced by Daniel H. Magilow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-281-80169-0

9786611801694

0-8135-4556-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/18092

B

Soggetti

Jews - Slovakia - Bratislava

Jewish children in the Holocaust - Slovakia - Bratislava

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Slovakia - Bratislava

Fathers and daughters

Bratislava (Slovakia) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Diary/baby book by a Czech Jew about his daughter.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- An Introduction to In Her Father's Eyes -- Note on the Photographs -- Notebook 1. March 1929-May 1933 -- Notebook 2. June 1933-June 1942 -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- About the Editor

Sommario/riassunto

Translated from the German for the first time, In Her Father's Eyes is the diary of Béla Weichherz, in which he documents the life of his only daughter, Kitty, in prewar Czechoslovakia. Started as a baby book before her birth in 1929, the journal contains frequent entries about the ups and downs of Kitty's childhood, often written in vivid detail. Weichherz included photographs, developmental charts, and Kitty's own drawings to enhance the text. The journal entries stop in early spring 1942, just days before the family's deportation to a Nazi death camp. In its final pages, a recognizable tale of one anonymous life becomes a heartbreaking story about how anti-Semitism and nationalism in Slovakia shattered this normalcy. In Her Father's Eyes is a moving tale about Jewish life and a father's profound love for his only child. By bridging prewar and wartime periods, the diary also provides a rich context for understanding the history from which the Holocaust emerged.