[EL] Accounts of campaigning

Thu Aug 11 10:58:30 PDT 2011

A bit dated now, but "The Boys on the Bus" is still a terrific read.

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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
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Jonathan Singer
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 1:43 PM
To: Bonin, Adam C.
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Subject: Re: [EL] Accounts of campaigning

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.

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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James Woodruff
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [EL] Accounts of campaigning

I recommend David Plouffe's Audacity to Win. Very detailed.

James Woodruff

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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>

Jim,

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:

Robert Shrum, No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner,
http://www.amazon.com/No-Excuses-Concessions-Serial-Campaigner/dp/074329
6524/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

Allen Raymond, How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican
Operative, 
http://www.amazon.com/How-Rig-Election-Confessions-Republican/dp/1416552
227

I'd be curious as to what you settle on.  Best, Ned

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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:

> 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?

> Thanks for any suggestions!  

> Jim

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