Jules Witcover

No Way to Pick a President (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Never before has so much money poured into a presidential campaign as flowed into the election of 2000. Jules Witcover, who has covered every election since 1952, here combines unparalleled knowledge about presidential politics with a scintillating, wise analysis of what's wrong with the way American presidents are chosen. He shows us, in memorable and dramatic detail, how professional mercenaries -- with little party loyalty and diminished political principles, driven by skewed priorities and an insatiable need for money, are corrupting American public life.

At the same time, he shows how television dramatically, even destructively, distorts the election process, discouraging voter participation and dissuading some of our most promising public figures from seeking higher office. In this lively, story-filled account, Witcover examines the many ways in which politicians themselves have condoned or encouraged these developments and how they are responding to the new demands of a media-driven, money-conscious age. He assessses the effects of campaign funds, both "soft" and "hard" , and of a press corps that practices invasive, "gotcha" journalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grand Central Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780759521230
• Artikelnr.: 39702107

Autorenporträt

Jules Witcover is the author of many books, including The Year the Dream Died: Revisiting 1968 in America and The Resurrection of Richard Nixon. A longtime political reporter and syndicated columnist, formerly based at the Baltimore Sun, he lives in Washington, D.C.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Then and Now 1. Me for President 2. The Era of the Hired Gun
3. Television Raises the States 4. Main Street to Madison Avenue 5. Sour
Mother's Milk 6. Anything Goes 7. The 800-Pound Gorilla 8. Watchdogs and
Laptops 9. A Process Gone Berzerk 10. Coronations, Not Conventions 11.
Rolling the Dice 12. The Grand Facade 13. Moments of Truth 14. An Accident
Waiting to Happen 15. Whither the Parties? 16. Time for an overhaul
Bibliography Index