Showing results for "The Vote" in Literature & Fiction

When retired hitman Quarry turns down a million bucks to murder a presidential candidate, he becomes a "loose end" that the conspirators need to tie off. With his peaceful life in ruins, Quarry launches his own campaign - for vengeance. This audiobook is the fifth book in Max Allan Collins's cult classic Quarry Series. They don't come harder-boiled than Quarry.

Today's political pundits express shock and disappointment when candidates resort to negative campaigning. But history reveals that smear campaigns are as American as apple pie. Anything for a Vote is a look at 200-plus years of dirty tricks and bad behavior in presidential elections, from George Washington to Barack Obama and John McCain. Let the name-calling begin!

1911, Bath, England – Passionate suffrage campaigner Esther Stanbury has been banished from her home for her views. So ever since, she’s worked as a window dresser in Pennington's Department Store, where she’s proud to have a job and to earn her own money. She has hopes and dreams of helping secure women the vote, and not just by seeking to convince her friends at Pennington’s, Elizabeth, Cornelia and Amelia to join her cause.

Bath, 1911. Passionate suffrage campaigner Esther Stanbury works as a window dresser in Pennington's Department Store. She has hopes for women's progression and will do anything to help secure the vote. Owner of the prestigious Phoenix Hotel, Lawrence Culford has what most would view as a successful life. But Lawrence is harbouring shame and resentment. When Esther and Lawrence meet, their mutual understanding of life's challenges unites them. Can they overcome their pasts?

A Cult of Mind Nathan William Young is running for office as a man with moderate and high functioning autism who is gifted and learning disabled. He comes to know conflict as we journey finding human nature with a spirit of tenacity. It's a journey about radicalism, this crazy world we live in and how our gifts may just solve world problems.

What if your job depended on the guy who ghosted you? Lucy is an intern for the Governor of Texas… who has a VERY cute son. They had the perfect first date... until Lincoln disappeared! Now, eight years later, her boss is running for President... and they need Lincoln's help to turn the campaign around! RomComPods is Co-Written, Produced, and Directed by Rachael King and Becca Freeman. More at romcompods.com.

Follow the wild and vitriolic political career of Jules Young, a self-proclaimed revolutionary leader determined to become mayor of Mudgee. Written and created by Brayden Palmer.

One of the challenges in the study of American history includes SOURCES. Each episode is an informative guest interview with Joseph Simmons, the host of the podcast, and author of the new book “Just Buy My Vote”: African American Voting Rights and the Chicago Condition. We’ll publish enlightening Interviews about American History & Voting Rights.

A corporate finance manager, Brad Tillman, is grieving the death of his best friend, Al, who was a victim of an unfortunate traffic accident. As Brad helps Al’s widow to go through his things, he finds a document in Al’s briefcase that suggests he had been looking into the possible manipulation of votes in an election. With this discovery, Tillman’s entire world changes. The company Tillman works for has developed and implemented a completely secure voting system that makes such a thing impossible. Now someone knows what Brad has discovered, and he has become a target.

Anne O'Hagan Shinn (1869-1933) was a feminist, suffragist, journalist, and writer of short stories who regularly contributed to publications such as Vanity Fair and Harper's. She is known for her writings detailing the exploitation of young women working as shop clerks in early 20th-century America. Why the Housekeeper Needs the Vote is a pamphlet published by the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in New York, in 1900. The author spells out why the housekeeper needs the right to vote.

After voting in the 1872 presidential election, suffragette Susan B. Anthony was arrested and charged with a $100 fine. She refused to pay it, instead embarking on a speaking tour around the US to advocate for women’s legal right to vote. In this fiery speech she memorably stated, “It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens... who formed the Union.” Anthony argued that the fight for women’s right to vote was also a fight for their right to personhood in the eyes of the state, something women were finally granted nearly 50 years later.

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M.J. Rose and Fiona Davis' Stories from Suffragette City is a collection of short stories from a chorus of best-selling writers all set on the same day, October 23, 1915, in which over a million women marched for the right to vote in New York City - featuring an introduction by Kristin Hannah....

A uno de los muchos pueblos prácticamente vacíos y en ruinas del norte de Castilla llega un grupo de jóvenes militantes de un partido político a hacer propaganda electoral. Los recibe el señor Cayo, uno de los dos vecinos que quedan en el pueblo. Su vida es casi robinsoniana, su hablar reposado, lleno de una ancestral sabiduría que infunde un hondo sentido humano de su persona.

In which our intrepid correspondent castigates the Democrats for not being able to stir any movement across the aisle with an issue larger than Montana.

In which our intrepid correspondent wages war with himself over the pros and cons of exercising his electoral muscle.

In which our intrepid correspondent goes a little off the deep end with the whole satire thing.

In which our intrepid correspondent wages war with himself over the pros and cons of exercising his electoral muscle.

[Contains explicit content] The wet t-shirt judge says he sees contestants as a living, breathing object.