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Hilary Weston Prize for NonFiction Series: 7 Things You Need to Know About Susan Delacourt’s Shopping for Votes
Submitted by Grace on October 7, 2014 - 11:14am
This year's book prize season means list after list of fabulous books to read! To help you get a handle on all that's out there, we've partnered with The Writers' Trust of Canada to post a new series called The Hilary Weston Prize Dinner-party Digestible: 7 Things You Need to Know, featuring seven fascinating facts about and related to each title nominated for this year's Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Consider this an appetizer to the book's full feast, whetting your appetite for great reading. Today we start our series with Susan Delacourt's Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose Them (Douglas & McIntyre). The jury called Shopping for Votes "a revelation of how political marketing works. With ace investigative research and insight, Susan Delacourt lays bare the history and machinations of the branding, niche market, intuition, and gut feeling approach to viewing voters as consumers." So read on for the first instalment of the Hilary Weston Prize Dinner-party Digestible! 7 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT… Susan Delacourt’s Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose Them
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