Holiday Gift Guide for the Political Geek or Just Geek in Your Life.
Each year we at The Campaign HQ post a holiday gift guide. They are Christmas gift ideas for the political geek or just geek in your life. They are things we have purchased and or used in the past year and things we think you or your someone special might enjoy!
Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need
From Author’s site:
Here’s what started the phenomenon: the best seller that’s in its 18th printing! Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny and candid look inside the movie business. “Save the Cat” is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and your script more satisfying, including:
- The four elements of every winning logline
- The seven immutable laws of screenplay physics
- The 10 genres that every movie ever made can be categorized by — and why they’re important to your script
- Why your Hero must serve your Idea
- Mastering the 15 Beats
- Creating the “Perfect Beast” by using The Board to map 40 scenes with conflict and emotional change
- How to get back on track with proven rules for script repair
This ultimate insider’s guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by a show biz veteran who’s proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat.
Democratic Orators from JFK to Barack Obama (Rhetoric, Politics, and Society)
This is undoubtedly intended for college classroom use but is a great resource for someone who takes their writing seriously.
From the publisher’s site:
How do leading Democratic Party figures strive to communicate with and influence their audience? Why have some proven more successful than others in advancing their ideological arguments? How do orators seek to connect with different audiences in different settings such as the Senate, conventions and through the media? This thoroughly researched and highly readable collection comprehensively evaluates these questions as well as providing an extensive interrogation of the political and intellectual significance of oratory and rhetoric in the Democratic Party. Using the Aristotelian modes of persuasion ethos, pathos and logos it draws out commonalities and differences in how the rhetoric of Democratic Party politics has shifted since the 1960s. More broadly it evaluates the impact of leading orators upon American politics and argues that effective oratory remains a vital party of American political discourse.
The Kennedy Films of Robert Drew & Associates
Not only interesting as a political case study it’s a terrific time capsule of the 1960’s. What is produced now has the blessing/curse of hindsight, these documentaries are not burdened with knowing how things will turn out and offer a truer view of the time.
From Criterion site:
Seeking to invigorate the American documentary format, which he felt was rote and uninspired, Robert Drew brought the style and vibrancy he had fostered as a Life magazine correspondent to filmmaking in the late fifties. He did this by assembling an amazing team—including such eventual nonfiction luminaries as Richard Leacock, D. A. Pennebaker, and Albert Maysles—that would transform documentary cinema. In 1960, the group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy—Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis—and, following the president’s assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles, early exemplars of the movement known as Direct Cinema and featuring the greatest close-up footage we have of this American icon.
The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics)
The organization of the book makes its use for reference quite easy and includes copies of the U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Article Confederation and more.
From Publisher:
Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. Still hotly debated, and open to often controversial interpretations, the arguments first presented here by three of America’s greatest patriots and political theorists were created during a critical moment in our nation’s history, providing readers with a running ideological commentary on the crucial issues facing democracy.
Today The Federalist Papers are as important and vital a rallying cry for freedom as ever.
This edition features the original eighteenth-century text, with James Madison’s fascinating marginal notations, as well as a complete text of the Constitution.
ZAGG InvisibleShield Glass Screen Protector
Not only does in offer protection from damage but actually, make the screen easier to see and clean. iPhone, iPad or other devices it’s the only way to go!
From ZAGG:
- Scratch-proof your device with the exclusive, patented film
- Exceptionally clear and virtually indestructible, you can show off your gadget and use it without fear of scratching
- The ultra-thin film will not add bulk to your device, so you can easily slip it into everything from charging docks to pockets and purses
- Nano-memory technology is visible as a very subtle texture in the surface of the film, and allows ZAGG to create precise
- Made from a Military Grade film originally developed for the U.S. Military to protect helicopter blades
- Protective: Made of fortified tempered glass, it delivers unprecedented scratch protection.
- Crystal Clear: High-grade tempered glass provides ultimate clarity.
Canon Office Products LiDE120 Color Image Scanner
From Canon:
- The CanoScan LiDE120 Color Image Scanner is a compact scanner that offers advanced features and affordability; The “Send to Cloud” functionality, for example, lets you upload photos and documents to the Cloud with remarkable ease
- The LiDE120 scanner provides a maximum optical resolution of 2400 x 4800 dpi for dazzling scans of both photos and documents
- The Auto Document Fix feature automatically produces beautiful scans with advanced image analysis and area-by-area data correction, while Auto Scan Mode3 automatically evaluates the item being scanned and saves it with the appropriate settings
- The LiDE120 scanner can help you work efficiently with four EZ Buttons that enable you to scan, copy, Send to Cloud or create a PDF in a snap
- LiDE120 scanner uses one USB cable for both data and power, so plugging in is easy; Compatible OS : Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows 7 SP1, Windows Vista SP1, Vista SP2, Windows XP SP3 32-bit, Mac OS X v10.6.8 – 10.9