[EL] Accounts of campaigning

[Jonathan Singer]

If we're on the topic of fun and Game Change, Richard Ben Cramer's "What It
Takes" is a fantastic read of a campaign (though probably too long for your
course).

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Bonin, Adam C. <ABonin at cozen.com> wrote:

>  Game Change is, obviously, a lot of fun, but it's all presidential (while
> the Shrum book has a lot of Senate races) and the Edwards campaign in
> particular presented issues that are not likely to recur in many campaigns.
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> That said, my favorite campaign chronicle is Robert Caro's account in *Means
> of Ascent* of the 1948 US Senate Democratic primary in Texas.
> Whirlybirds! Alphabetical voting!
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> I recommend David Plouffe's Audacity to Win. Very detailed.
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> James Woodruff
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> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "EDWARD FOLEY" <foley.33 at osu.edu>
> Date: Thu, Aug 11, 2011 11:30 am
> Subject: [EL] Accounts of campaigning
> To: "Jim Gardner" <jgard at buffalo.edu>
> Cc: "Election law list" <law-election at department-lists.uci.edu>
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> Jim,
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> I'm not sure what other responses you got (I'm just back from two weeks of
> vacation), but the following two books come to mind, although I confess I
> haven't read either (just reviews of them).  One's by a D and the other by
> an R:
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> Robert Shrum, *No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner*,
> http://www.amazon.com/No-Excuses-Concessions-Serial-Campaigner/dp/0743296524/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1
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> Allen Raymond, *How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican
> Operative*,
> http://www.amazon.com/How-Rig-Election-Confessions-Republican/dp/1416552227
>
> I'd be curious as to what you settle on.  Best, Ned
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Gardner <jgard at buffalo.edu>
> Date: Thursday, August 4, 2011 11:40 am
> Subject: [EL] Accounts of campaigning
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>    > Dear Colleagues:
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> > I will be teaching a seminar this fall focused on campaign speech and
> finance.  For purposes of context, I would like to provide the students with
> some kind of very general overview of what the modern campaign environment
> is like.  Can anyone suggest a lively and illuminating (but hopefully short
> and accessible) account of what it’s like to be a candidate today?  Maybe a
> political memoir?  A tell-all article by a campaign operative?
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> > Thanks for any suggestions!
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> > Jim
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