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Presidential Campaigns by Paul F., Jr. Boller (1996, Paperback, Revised)
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- ISBN
- 9780195097306
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195097300
ISBN-13
9780195097306
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102844464
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
Presidential Campaigns
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1996
Topic
Topic / Politics, Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, United States / General
Features
Revised
Genre
Political Science, Humor, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Item Length
5.3 in
Item Width
8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
95-026484
Reviews
Lively and informative, Boller's compendium of U.S. presidential campaigns will certainly appeal in an election year, *Praise for the first edition: "For anyone seeking a lively resource book on America's quadrennial spectacle, Presidential Campaign is happily present."-- The Washington Post "An excellent handbook for the campaign junkie."-- The Wall Street Journal "[Boller] has a good eye for the offbeat and the ludicrous, and he spins the anecdotes together with the skill of the old-fashioned Yankee yarn master."-- The New York Times Book Review "Boller has a wonderful knack for extracting the color and drama from political events....Simply an entertaining survey containing a barrelful of interesting historical tidbits, well worth the reading."-- Business Week, *Praise for the first edition:"For anyone seeking a lively resource book on America's quadrennial spectacle, Presidential Campaign is happily present."--The Washington Post"An excellent handbook for the campaign junkie."--The Wall Street Journal"[Boller] has a good eye for the offbeat and the ludicrous, and he spins the anecdotes together with the skill of the old-fashioned Yankee yarn master."--The New York Times Book Review"Boller has a wonderful knack for extracting the color and drama from political events....Simply an entertaining survey containing a barrelful of interesting historical tidbits, well worth the reading."--Business Week, "[Boller's] illumination of the historical events and the tone, character,or 'personality' of the campaigns contains a dynamic 'mix' of seriousness andhumor that mirrors quite accurately the paradoxes of American life."--TheJournal of Sociological Studies, "Lively and informative, Boller's compendium of U.S. presidentialcampaigns will certainly appeal in an election year."--Publishers Weekly, "For anyone seeking a lively resource book on America's quadrennial spectacle, Presidential Campaign's is happily present."--The Washington Post, "[Boller's] illumination of the historical events and the tone, character, or 'personality' of the campaigns contains a dynamic 'mix' of seriousness and humor that mirrors quite accurately the paradoxes of American life."--The Journal of Sociological Studies, "[Boller] has a good eye for the offbeat and the ludicrous, and he spins the anecdotes together with the skill of the old-fashioned Yankee yarn master."--The New York Times Book Review, "For anyone seeking a lively resource book on America's quadrennialspectacle, Presidential Campaign's is happily present."--The WashingtonPost, *Praise for the first edition: "For anyone seeking a lively resource book on America's quadrennial spectacle, Presidential Campaign is happily present."--The Washington Post "An excellent handbook for the campaign junkie."--The Wall Street Journal "[Boller] has a good eye for the offbeat and the ludicrous, and he spins the anecdotes together with the skill of the old-fashioned Yankee yarn master."--The New York Times Book Review "Boller has a wonderful knack for extracting the color and drama from political events....Simply an entertaining survey containing a barrelful of interesting historical tidbits, well worth the reading."--Business Week, "Lively and informative, Boller's compendium of U.S. presidential campaigns will certainly appeal in an election year."--Publishers Weekly, *Praise for the first edition: "For anyone seeking a lively resource book on America's quadrennial spectacle,Presidential Campaignis happily present."--The Washington Post "An excellent handbook for the campaign junkie."--The Wall Street Journal "[Boller] has a good eye for the offbeat and the ludicrous, and he spins the anecdotes together with the skill of the old-fashioned Yankee yarn master."--The New York Times Book Review "Boller has a wonderful knack for extracting the color and drama from political events....Simply an entertaining survey containing a barrelful of interesting historical tidbits, well worth the reading."--Business Week, "[Boller] has a good eye for the offbeat and the ludicrous, and he spinsthe anecdotes together with the skill of the old-fashioned Yankee yarnmaster."--The New York Times Book Review
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
324.973
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
Campaigning for the presidency demands strength and courage. Teddy Roosevelt was once shot in the chest just before a campaign speech--but he insisted on delivering his hour-and-a-half oration anyway. Presidential nominees have to know how to play the game, moreover, whether they care for it or not. When Andrew Jackson was visiting one town, according to a campaign tale, a proud mother handed a dirty-faced baby up for him to hold. "Here is a beautiful specimen of young American childhood," said Jackson obligingly. "Note the brightness of that eye, the great strength of those limbs, and the sweetness of those lips." Then he handed the baby to his friend John Eaton. "Kiss him, Eaton," he cried, and walked away. And all presidential hopefuls have to find ways of smoothing over the unfortunate gaffes they sometimes commit. During the 1992 campaign, Bill Clinton provoked so much mirth when he said he once tried marijuana but found he couldn't inhale, that he subsequently appeared on television to play his saxophone and told the host he took up the instrument because it didn't require inhaling: "You blow out." Now, in a revised and updated edition, this enlightening and endlessly entertaining book unveils the whole history of American presidential elections from Washington to Clinton--those clamorous showdowns that have so perplexed, pleased, amused, irked, and fascinated the American people from the very beginning. As Charles Dickens observed, American voters are scarcely finished with one campaign when they start in on another. Presidential Campaigns brings these boisterous contests to life in all their richness and complexity. In the old days, Boller shows, campaigns were much rowdier than they are today. Back in the nineteenth century, the invective at election time was exuberant and the mudslinging unrestrained; a candidate might be called everything from a carbuncle-faced old drunkard to a howling atheist. But there was plenty of fun and games, too, with songs, slogans, rallies, leaflets, torchlight parades, picnics, and, inescapably, a lot of hyperbolic oratory, livening up the scene as party workers sought to get people to the polls. Despite the mudslinging and hot air, however, many of the campaigns touched off popular debates about vital public issues, and there were many candidates (like Adlai E. Stevenson in 1952) who insisted on "talking sense to the American people." Presidential Campaigns takes note of the serious side of the elections even as it documents the frenzy, the frolic, and the sleaze. Each chapter contains a brief essay describing every election from 1789 to 1992, and then presents some "campaign highlights"--songs, poems, slogans, jokes, and anecdotes--that help bring to life the quadrennial confrontation in all its shame and glory. Presidential Campaigns makes one thing clear: the "great American shindig" (as one Englishman called it) is, for all its shortcomings, an essential part of the American democratic system and, for better or for worse, tells us much about ourselves.
LC Classification Number
E176.1.B683 1996
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