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Author: Phil Mason Publisher: Jr Books Limited ISBN: 9781906779986 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 278
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Strange and hilarious stories include the town that elected a dog as mayor, the prime minister who accidentally fired himself, and the mayor who hired a parrot to speak for him at press conferences The bizarre side of politics is chronicled in this collection of the wackiest tales from the governments and voting booths of the world. In 2000, voters from Missouri elected a dead man as their senator?he had died three weeks before polling day, but he still won by a 2 per cent margin. When the residents of Sunol, California, elected their mayor, they chose a dog over either of the two human candidates. When a Colorado town wanted a name for its new bridge, they decided on "Bob." The least competent politicians, the most outlandish government decisions, and the strangest elections are all uncovered here. Whether it is the mayoral candidate whose twin brother stood in for him or the unsuccessful politician who at last count had lost 103 elections, every tale pushes the boundaries of common assumptions about politics. The theory of democracy is that politicians are elected on some basis of trust that the future lies safe in their hands?but practice often tells a very different story.
Author: Phil Mason Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN: 140226674X Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 178
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Despite our differences, there's a common thread uniting all of us: absurd political screw-ups happen. Welcome to Dead Man Wins Election, the ultimate collection of bizarre and outright un bel ievable tales from politics at home and around the world. Uncover the least competent politicians, the most outlandish government decisions, the strangest election results, and much more. Former president Bill Clinton, who touted his presidency as the watershed period for the modern Information Age. After his White House departure, it was disclosed that of the forty million emails his office produced, CLINTON HIMSELF HAD SENT...TWO. Harry Stonebreaker, who was reelected for mayor of Winfield, Missouri, despite having died a month before polling day. HE WON BY A LANDSLIDE WITH 90 PERCENT OF THE VOTE.
Author: Phil Mason Publisher: Jr Books Limited ISBN: 9781906779986 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 278
Book Description
Strange and hilarious stories include the town that elected a dog as mayor, the prime minister who accidentally fired himself, and the mayor who hired a parrot to speak for him at press conferences The bizarre side of politics is chronicled in this collection of the wackiest tales from the governments and voting booths of the world. In 2000, voters from Missouri elected a dead man as their senator?he had died three weeks before polling day, but he still won by a 2 per cent margin. When the residents of Sunol, California, elected their mayor, they chose a dog over either of the two human candidates. When a Colorado town wanted a name for its new bridge, they decided on "Bob." The least competent politicians, the most outlandish government decisions, and the strangest elections are all uncovered here. Whether it is the mayoral candidate whose twin brother stood in for him or the unsuccessful politician who at last count had lost 103 elections, every tale pushes the boundaries of common assumptions about politics. The theory of democracy is that politicians are elected on some basis of trust that the future lies safe in their hands?but practice often tells a very different story.
Author: Phil Mason Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN: 1402266758 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 257
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Despite our differences, there's a common thread uniting all of us: absurd political screw-ups happen. Welcome to Dead Man Wins Election, the ultimate collection of bizarre and outright un bel ievable tales from politics at home and around the world. Uncover the least competent politicians, the most outlandish government decisions, the strangest election results, and much more. Former president Bill Clinton, who touted his presidency as the watershed period for the modern Information Age. After his White House departure, it was disclosed that of the forty million emails his office produced, CLINTON HIMSELF HAD SENT...TWO. Harry Stonebreaker, who was reelected for mayor of Winfield, Missouri, despite having died a month before polling day. HE WON BY A LANDSLIDE WITH 90 PERCENT OF THE VOTE.
Author: Rob Curnock Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1645153193 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 387
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Did you ever wonder what running for an elective office like Congress is really all about? Running for Congress is a world all unto its own, and in today's divided America, it's not for the faint of heart. Dead Man Running clearly shows what can be expected on a personal level in a high-stakes political race. A candidate has to understand the arrows coming at him are unrelenting and dangerous, but it's the arrows that come from behind that can do the most damage. Like a real-life political "Rocky," Dead Man Running takes you behind the scenes and into the heart and mind of one candidate who dared to accept the seemingly impossible challenge, despite the odds. With his own Party's establishment convinced there was no hope of victory, one average American citizen was forced to go it alone with only the help of dedicated grass roots volunteers. Dead Man Running is the true story of an unlikely candidate who challenged a powerful, entrenched congressman and began the chain of events that would bring real change to that district. Written in a reporting style that moves the plot along quickly and holds the reader's attention, Dead Man Running is very prescient in light of what's happening in politics today.
Author: John Shand Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134588313 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 460
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Fundamentals of Philosophy is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to philosophy. Based on the well-known series of the same name, this textbook brings together specially commissioned articles by leading philosophers of philosophy's key topics. Each chapter provides an authoritative overview of topics commonly taught at undergraduate level, focusing on the major issues that typically arise when studying the subject. Discussions are up to date and written in an engaging manner so as to provide students with the core building blocks of their degree course. Fundamentals of Philosophy is an ideal starting point for those coming to philosophy for the first time and will be a useful complement to the primary texts studied at undergraduate level. Ideally suited to novice philosophy students, it will also be of interest to those in related subjects across the humanities and social sciences.
Author: Dennis Hof Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1941393721 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 384
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Dennis Hof, proprietor of the world-famous Moonlite BunnyRanch brothel and the P.T. Barnum of prostitution, charts his path to fame and infamy, while dispensing homespun wisdom about sex, sales, money, and how to live as the country’s most recognizable pimp. In The Art of the Pimp, Dennis Hof offers a hilarious, insightful, behind-the-scenes look at life as the proprietor of The Moonlight BunnyRanch, the world’s most famous legal brothel, and recounts his chaotic life as the king of America’s sex industry. Hof, the star of HBO’s critically lauded series Cathouse, reveals the tricks of turning tricks, the secrets of his outrageous marketing stunts, and scandalous details of his friendships with porn stars, prostitutes, and politicians. Readers will learn how Hof’s “girls” negotiate the highest prices for sex, the dirty little secrets of getting men to fall in love with them, and the inside tales of “The Girlfriend Experience,” the #1 requested menu item. The Art of the Pimp will take readers on a wild ride through his countless sexual conquests, romantic failures, and business successes.
Author: Geoff Tibballs Publisher: Robinson ISBN: 1849019592 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 713
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A humorous collection of hundreds of funny news stories, whacky phenomena, and hilarious blunders and gaffes from around the world, such as: the woman who smuggled 75 live snakes in her bra; the man who held a funeral for his amputated foot; the radioactive cat which got mistaken for a bomb; the human tongue that got served up in a hospital; the X-ray that revealed E.T.'s face in a duck; the youth who woke to find a bullet in his tongue; the tortoise that set a house on fire; and many more.
Author: Brian McGrath Publisher: Fordham Univ Press ISBN: 0823299813 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 155
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Poetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges. In his 1798 Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth anticipates that readers accustomed to the poetic norms of the day might not recognize his experiments as poems and might signal their awkward confusion upon opening the book by looking round for poetry, as if seeking it elsewhere. Look Round for Poetry transforms Wordsworth’s idiomatic expression into a methodological charge. By placing tropes and figures common to Romantic and Post-Romantic poems in conjunction with contemporary economic, technological, and political discourse, Look Round for Poetry identifies poetry’s untimely echoes in discourses not always read as poetry or not always read poetically. Once one begins looking round for poetry, McGrath insists, one might discover it in some surprising contexts. In chapters that spring from poems by Wordsworth, Lucille Clifton, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, McGrath reads poetic examples of understatement alongside market demands for more; the downturned brow as a figure for economic catastrophe; Romantic cloud metaphors alongside the rhetoric of cloud computing; the election of the dead as a poetical, and not just a political, act; and poetic investigations into the power of prepositions as theories of political assembly. For poetry to retain a vital power, McGrath argues, we need to become ignorant of what we think we mean by it. In the process we may discover critical vocabularies that engage the complexity of social life all around us.
Author: Irwin F. Gellman Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300245033 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 504
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Based on massive new research, a compelling and surprising account of the twentieth century's closest election The 1960 presidential election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon is one of the most frequently described political events of the twentieth century, yet the accounts to date have been remarkably unbalanced. Far more attention is given to Kennedy's side than to Nixon's. The imbalance began with the first book on that election, Theodore White’s The Making of the President 1960—in which (as he later admitted) White deliberately cast Kennedy as the hero and Nixon as the villain—and it has been perpetuated in almost every book since then. Few historians have attempted an unbiased account of the election, and none have done the archival research that Irwin F. Gellman has done. Based on previously unused sources such as the FBI's surveillance of JFK and the papers of Leon Jaworski, vice-presidential candidate Henry Cabot Lodge, and many others, this book presents the first even-handed history of both the primary campaigns and the general election. The result is a fresh, engaging chronicle that shatters long†‘held myths and reveals the strengths and weaknesses of both candidates.
Author: Phil Mason
Author: Phil Mason
Author: Phil Mason
Author: Phil Mason
Author: Rob Curnock
Author: John Shand
Author: Dennis Hof
Author: Geoff Tibballs
Author: Brian McGrath
Author: Irwin F. Gellman
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