| While it may be an off-year election, I'm sure many of you are still busy preparing for Election Day in your libraries. Whether it's passing out voter registration forms or campaigning tirelessly for an upcoming levy on the ballot, this can certainly be a crazy time of year for you and your communities. To help ease some of the stress, these books will be sure to get you in the mood for some politics while making you laugh until you cry. Click on any of the titles below to start reading a sample:
The United States Constitution promised a More Perfect Union. It’s a shame no one bothered to write a more perfect Constitution–one that didn’t trigger more than two centuries of arguments about what the darn thing actually says. Until now. Perfection is at hand. A new, improved Constitution is here. And you are holding it.
Americans are turning to popular culture to make sense of the American political system. In Homer Simpson Goes to Washington: American Politics through Popular Culture, Joseph J. Foy has assembled a multidisciplinary team of scholars to tackle common assumptions about government and explain fundamental concepts such as civil rights, democracy, and ethics.
A fun, funny, and informative guide to the weird world of American politics. How does the president get his job? How do people know who will win an election before everybody’s voted? Do the candidates hate each other? Politics are a crazy game, and with Dan Gutman teaching you the rules, you’re going to have a blast learning how to play.
All the Presidents’ Pets is the long-awaited, spine-tingling, muckraking blockbuster from political and pop culture commentator Mo Rocca–a tour de force of investigative reporting that for the first time tells the true story of who really runs America.
Leave it to the experts of the best-selling Worst-Case Scenario series to ferret out the most scandalous, dangerous, incompetent, and downright awful people to ever seek power. The most lavish palaces, the bloodiest coups, the stupidest declarations. . . . Plus all the lists, charts, maps, and profiles that have made the Worst-Case Scenario Almanacs such a success. Which country had more governments in the past 175 years—Italy or Bolivia? What ever happened to all those people who ran for vice president of the United States of America—and lost?
Rachel Somerville is a Account Specialist with OverDrive
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Gear up for Election Day with a Good Laugh
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