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No Way to Pick A President: How Money and Hired Guns Have Debased American Elections Paperback - 2001
by Witcover, Jules (Author)
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- Title No Way to Pick A President: How Money and Hired Guns Have Debased American Elections
- Author Witcover, Jules (Author)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition New
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge, London
- Date 2001
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0415930316
- ISBN 9780415930314 / 0415930316
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.94 x 6.08 x 0.86 in (22.71 x 15.44 x 2.18 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Politics and government -, Presidents - United States - Election -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001019126
- Dewey Decimal Code 324.973
Summary
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
From the publisher
First line
Every American mother likes to think that her son (or, nowadays, her daughter) can become president.
From the rear cover
For all the confusion and frustration over the way the 2000 presidential election ended, it did serve the useful purpose of proving how far things have gone wrong. Veteran reporter Jules Witcover has covered every presidential election since Eisenhower and in No Way to Pick a President, he blasts the current system, from the money-drenched, front-loaded primaries to Election Day itself. Sharp, revealing, and rich with presidential history, No Way to Pick a President takes a journey through the debased thickets of presidential campaigning and concludes with an intelligent set of prescriptions to improve the way America selects its leaders.
