A great holiday gift idea: The Presidential Slogan Mug.
Here’s another: Presidential Campaign Posters.
A great holiday gift idea: The Presidential Slogan Mug.
Here’s another: Presidential Campaign Posters.
Here is a very cool mug that shows stars giving way to the full flag when hot water is added.
For the political junkie on your shopping list: Etch A Sketch 2012 USA Election Red vs. Blue Edition.
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The perfect gift for political junkies: The Kindle Paperwhite 3G with wireless delivery of Political Wire.
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When the Democratic Dream Mug is filled with coffee all 50 states turn blue.
Just released: A Visual History of the U.S. House.
Other highly recommended visual histories: The Presidency, U.S. Senate, Democratic Party, Republican Party and the Supreme Court.
Really great vintage-style political postcards: Democrats, Republicans and Combo Set.
Just out: Swing States 2012: The American Presidential Election, a solitaire board game simulating the U.S. presidential election.
Here are a few quick gift ideas:
1. Any of the Robert Caro books on Lyndon Johnson: Path to Power, Means of Ascent, Master of the Senate and the forthcoming Passage of Power. They’re insanely great.
2. Every political junkie needs one of these: The Almanac of American Politics or Politics in America 2012.
3. A new Kindle Touch with automatic wireless delivery of Political Wire would make anyone happy.
4. Wreck the Nation: The Game of Political Misbehavior.
5. The Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy Bundle from Edmund Morris is perfect for any library.
For more, check out Political Stuff.
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.
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