The Iowa First

Author : Hugh Winebrenner
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iowa Precinct Caucuses written by Hugh Winebrenner and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the role of the media in the American electoral process, focusing on Iowa as a prism on the national scene. The author examines the beginning of the precinct caucuses and the events which thrust them into the political spotlight in the early 1970s.

Author : David P. Redlawsk
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226706974
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Iowa? written by David P. Redlawsk and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Barack Obama had not won in Iowa, most commentators believe that he would not have been able to go on to capture the Democratic nomination for president. Why Iowa? offers the definitive account of those early weeks of the campaign season: from how the Iowa caucuses work and what motivates the candidates’ campaigns, to participation and turnout, as well as the lingering effects that the campaigning had on Iowa voters. Demonstrating how “what happens in Iowa” truly reverberates throughout the country, five-time Iowa precinct caucus chair David P. Redlawsk and his coauthors take us on an inside tour of one of the most media-saturated and speculated-about campaign events in American politics. Considering whether a sequential primary system, in which early, smaller states such as Iowa and New Hampshire have such a tremendous impact is fair or beneficial to the country as a whole, the authors here demonstrate that not only is the impact warranted, but it also reveals a great deal about informational elements of the campaigns. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this sequential system does confer huge benefits on the nominating process while Iowa’s particularly well-designed caucus system—extensively explored here for the first time—brings candidates’ arguments, strengths, and weaknesses into the open and under the media’s lens.

Author : Danny Wilcox Frazier
Publisher : Center for Documentary Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Driftless written by Danny Wilcox Frazier and published by Center for Documentary Studies. This book was released on 2007 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the third biennial Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize Robert Frank, Prize Judge In Driftless, Danny Wilcox Frazier's dramatic black-and-white photographs portray a changing Midwest of vanishing towns and transformed landscapes. As rural economies fail, people, resources, and services are migrating to the coasts and cities, as though the heart of America were being emptied. Frazier's arresting photographs take us into Iowa's abandoned places and illuminate the lives of those people who stay behind and continue to live there: young people at leisure, fishermen on the Mississippi, veterans on Memorial Day, Amish women playing cards, as well as more recent arrivals: Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews at prayer, Latinos at work in the fields. Frazier's camera finds these newcomers while it also captures activities that seemingly have gone on forever: harvesting and hunting, celebrating and socializing, praying and surviving. This collection of photographs is a portrait of contemporary rural Iowa, but it is also more that that. It shows what is happening in many rural and out-of-the-way communities all over the United States, where people find ways to get by in the wake of closing factories and the demise of family farms. Taken by a true insider who has lived in Iowa his entire life, Frazier's photographs are rich in emotion and give expression to the hopes and desires of the people who remain, whose needs and wants are complicated by the economic realities remaking rural America. Poetic and dark but illuminated with flashes of insight, Frazier's stunning images evoke the brilliance of Robert Frank's The Americans. To view an image gallery, click here.

Author : John C. Skipper
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786457139
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iowa Caucuses written by John C. Skipper and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-01-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smaller in population than several U.S. cities, the state of Iowa has become an unexpected and unparalleled proving ground for would-be presidential candidates. The Iowa caucuses provide a unique brand of retail politics, on the decline in an age of multi-million dollar advertising blitzes. Potential candidates have gone to extraordinary lengths to impress Iowa's voters, dying their hair, changing their wardrobes, posing--and giving speech after speech. This book chronicles the most important events of each Iowa caucus since 1972 and reveals how the unassuming Midwestern state came to be an unlikely powerhouse in presidential politics.

Author : Hugh Winebrenner
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587299542
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iowa Precinct Caucuses written by Hugh Winebrenner and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although some people refer to Iowa as “flyover country,” presidential candidates and political reporters in the national press corps have no difficulty locating the state every four years at the beginning of presidential primary season. When Iowa Democrats pushed forward their precinct caucuses in 1972, the Iowa caucuses became the first presidential nominating event in the nation. Politicos soon realized the impact of Iowa’s new status and, along with the national media, promoted the caucuses with a vengeance. The Iowa Precinct Caucuses chronicles how the caucuses began, how they changed, and starting in 1972 how they became fodder for and manipulated by the mass media. Hugh Winebrenner and Dennis J. Goldford argue that the media have given a value to the Iowa caucuses completely out of proportion to the reality of their purpose and procedural methods. In fact, the nationally reported “results” are contrived by the Iowa parties to portray a distorted picture of the process. As presidential primaries have grown in the media spotlight and superseded the parties’ conventions, Iowa has become a political proving ground for the confident, the hopeful, and the relatively unknown, but at what cost to the country? The third edition of this classic book has been updated to include the elections of 2000, which saw the first winner of the Iowa caucuses to reach the White House since 1976; of 2004 and the roller-coaster fortunes of Howard Dean and John Kerry; and of 2008 and the unlikely emergence of Barack Obama as a presidential contender.

Author : Franc Bangs Wilkie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.6E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iowa First written by Franc Bangs Wilkie and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mike Hershman
Publisher : Mascot Books
ISBN 13 : 9781643073736
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vicky! Mascot First Class of the USS Iowa written by Mike Hershman and published by Mascot Books. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1943 and Vicky, Mascot First Class of the USS Iowa, has a very important job to do. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is coming aboard the Iowa! The ship will take FDR across the Atlantic Ocean to North Africa, and Vicky will have lots to do during that voyage. Come along with Vicky as he carries out his duties! A true story of Captain John McCrea's little dog Vicky, the mascot of the battleship USS Iowa.

Author : Franc Bangs Wilkie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iowa First written by Franc Bangs Wilkie and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lance M. Foster
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587298171
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indians of Iowa written by Lance M. Foster and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of Iowa's Native American tribes that discusses their history, culture, language, and traditions, and includes illustrations.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iowa Journal of History and Politics written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: