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Books by and about 2020 presidential candidates |
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Crippled America,
by Donald J. Trump (2015) |
United,
by Cory Booker (2016) |
The Truths We Hold,
by Kamala Harris (2019) |
Smart on Crime,
by Kamala Harris (2010) |
Guide to Political Revolution,
by Bernie Sanders (2017) |
Where We Go From Here,
by Bernie Sanders (2018) |
Promise Me, Dad ,
by Joe Biden (2017) |
Conscience of a Conservative,
by Jeff Flake (2017) |
Two Paths,
by Gov. John Kasich (2017) |
Every Other Monday,
by Rep. John Kasich (2010) |
Courage is Contagious,
by John Kasich (1998) |
Shortest Way Home,
by Pete Buttigieg (2019) |
The Book of Joe ,
by Jeff Wilser (2019; biography of Joe Biden) |
Becoming,
by Michelle Obama (2018) |
Our Revolution,
by Bernie Sanders (2016) |
This Fight Is Our Fight,
by Elizabeth Warren (2017) |
Higher Loyalty,
by James Comey (2018) |
The Making of Donald Trump,
by David Cay Johnston (2017) |
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Books by and about the 2016 presidential election |
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What Happened ,
by Hillary Clinton (2017) |
Higher Loyalty ,
by James Comey (2018) |
Trump vs. Hillary On The Issues ,
by Jesse Gordon (2016) |
Hard Choices,
by Hillary Clinton (2014) |
Becoming ,
by Michelle Obama (2018) |
Outsider in the White House,
by Bernie Sanders (2015) |
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Book Reviews |
(from Amazon.com) |
(click a book cover for a review or other books by or about the presidency from Amazon.com)
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2012 Massachusetts Senate Debate
Click on a participant to pop-up their full list of quotations
from 2012 Mass. Senate Debate (number of quotes indicated):
- Elizabeth Warren (18)
- Scott Brown (16)
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Massachusetts Senate debates:
- Associated Press coverage of preparation for 2012 MA Senate debates, May 25, 2012
- Coverage of televised Warren-Brown debate, Sept. 20, 2012; by Boston Globe, North Adams Transcript, FutureOfCapitalism.com, and Boston Globe fact-checking.
- Boston Globe and Fox News coverage of Senate debate, Oct. 2, 2012, debate held at UMass Lowell; Sponsored by Boston Herald.
- New York Times coverage of Senate debate, Oct. 10, 2012, debate held at Symphony Hall in Springfield.
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| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details)
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Abortion
Elizabeth Warren: No Supreme Court nominees who oppose legal abortion.
Scott Brown: I'm pro-choice but anti-Elena Kagan.
Scott Brown: Birth control ok, but don't force churches to provide it.
Scott Brown: I'm a moderate pro-choice Republican & always have been.
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Budget & Economy
Elizabeth Warren: Balanced approach to deficit reduction.
Scott Brown: Stop dividing Americans into haves and have-nots.
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Civil Rights
Elizabeth Warren: We need a reliable vote for equal pay for equal work.
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Corporations
Elizabeth Warren: FactCheck: Insurers should pay victims, plus future immunity.
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Energy & Oil
Scott Brown: I'm no friend of big oil; I'm a friend of the motorist.
Scott Brown: Ease up on big oil companies to avoid high price of gasoline.
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Gun Control
Elizabeth Warren: Extend the federal assault weapons ban.
Scott Brown: Extend the state assault weapons ban, but not federal.
Scott Brown: Reliably pro-gun, but opposed right-to-carry reciprocity.
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Health Care
Elizabeth Warren: ObamaCare provides free preventive care for women.
Elizabeth Warren: No privatizing Medicare, nor voucher program.
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Homeland Security
Elizabeth Warren: Reduce size of standing army to reduce deficit.
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Immigration
Elizabeth Warren: Strongly supports the DREAM Act.
Scott Brown: DREAM Act provides "back door amnesty".
Elizabeth Warren: Support the DREAM Act: Let kids stay.
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Jobs
Scott Brown: Proud union member.
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Principles & Values
Elizabeth Warren: My Indian heritage played no role in Harvard hiring.
Elizabeth Warren: My family is part Cherokee and I can't change who I am.
Elizabeth Warren: My father's family rejected my mother's Indian heritage.
Scott Brown: Warren claims Native American; but you can see she is not.
Elizabeth Warren: I know I'm 1/32 Cherokee because my mother told me so.
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Social Security
Elizabeth Warren: No unnecessary cuts or risky privatization schemes.
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Tax Reform
Scott Brown: Never raise taxes in a recession; it hurts job creators.
Elizabeth Warren: Stop protecting loopholes for millionaires.
Scott Brown: Guilty as charged: I don't want to raise taxes.
Scott Brown: I'm not going to raise taxes on our job creators.
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War & Peace
Elizabeth Warren: Bring US troops home from Afghanistan before 2014.
Scott Brown: Rely on guidance from generals about Afghanistan withdrawal.
Elizabeth Warren: Take nothing off the table with Iran's nuclear weapon.
Scott Brown: No nuance with Iran: no nuclear weapons.
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The above quotations are from 2012 Massachusetts Senate Debate.
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