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No Way to Pick a President Hardcover - 1999

by Jules Witcover

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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" journ

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Every American mother likes to think that her son (or, nowadays, her daughter) can become president.

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  • Title No Way to Pick a President
  • Author Jules Witcover
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 303
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
  • Date November 1999
  • ISBN 9780374223038 / 0374223033
  • Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.31 x 6.38 x 1.08 in (23.65 x 16.21 x 2.74 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Politics and government -, Presidents - United States - Election -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99034933
  • Dewey Decimal Code 324.973

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