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1) Elections
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an Imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Introduces elections, describing who is able to run for elected offices, what happens on Election Day, and how voting rights have expanded over the years.
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 169
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
7) Pacmen
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
PACMEN is the first film to document the inside workings of a Super-PAC, taking us behind the scenes to answer one of the lingering questions of America’s strangest election…why did Ben Carson run for president? This observational documentary follows the men behind the Super-PACs that drafted Dr Carson to run.
Author
Series
Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 5
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Kitty decides to run for President of the Neighborhood Cat Association.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
What can 1868 teach us about 2020? Going to the Devil: The Impeachment of 1868, the first-time-ever original narrative documentary from The Great Courses, is a unique retelling of the turbulent events leading up to and through the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. With back-stabbings, acts of violence, and a cult of personalities, experience the history of this case unfolding like fiction.
Publisher
Zooscope Productions
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After campaigning door to door for the democratic socialist Senator Bernie Sanders in New York City, two ardent Bernie supporters go to Philadelphia to protest Hillary Clinton’s nomination at the Democratic National Convention, furious in their knowledge that her nomination could lead to a Donald Trump presidency. A political documentary that chronicles the grassroots social justice movement that supported Bernie in 2016 and how it could shape the...
12) One Vote
Publisher
Cargo Film & Releasing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
ONE VOTE is a small film about a big topic: American democracy. At a moment of unprecedented cynicism about the political process, ONE VOTE bears hopeful witness to the humanity and rich diversity of American voters, and to the unsung stories that comprise our exercise of democracy. It is an inspiring film that follows five diverse Americans on election day. At times funny, surprising and heart-wrenching, the film eschews partisan politics in favor...
Author
Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Every two years, media coverage of American elections turns into a horse-race story about who's leading the polls and who said what when. Give young adult readers clear explanations about how our election process actually works, why it matters, and how they can become involved. Using real-world examples and anecdotes, this book provides readers with thorough, nonpartisan explanations about primaries, the electoral college, checks and balances, polls,...
14) We can vote
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Introduces the reader on the process of voting"--
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Every day, nine-year-old Yasmin borrows a book from Book Uncle, a retired teacher who has set up a free lending library next to her apartment building. But when the mayor tries to shut down the rickety bookstand, Yasmin has to take her nose out of her book and do something. But what can she do? The local elections are coming up but she's just a kid. She can't even vote! Still, Yasmin has friends -- her best friend, Reeni, and Anil, who even has a...
16) Vote!
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Using a campaign for mayor as an example, shows the steps involved in an election, from the candidate's speeches and rallies, to the voting booth where every vote counts, to the announcement of the winner.
17) The Vote
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Vote tells the dramatic story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.
18) The Candidates
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Since 1996, the student body of Townsend Harris High School has been staging the longest running civics experiment in the form of simulating the American electoral process against the backdrop of the real one. In these elaborate mock elections that span an entire semester, candidates must run the whole gamut of an election Grand simulation replete with fake money, media pundits, campaign ads, debates, electioneering, super PACs, and candidates' spouses....
19) Dark Money
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This acclaimed documentary examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana -a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide - to follow a local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Short-Listed for Best Documentary Feature at the...
20) Wide awake
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In the not-too-distant future, when a gay Jewish man is elected president of the United States, sixteen-year-old Duncan examines his feelings for his boyfriend, his political and religious beliefs, and tries to determine his rightful place in the world.
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