[EL] Accounts of campaigning

Thu Aug 11 11:21:26 PDT 2011

I usually just lurk on this list, but I wanted to second the recommendations of Game Change and Audacity to Win.  Both are compelling reads (at least for political nerds).  Audacity is more of a wonky account of the Obama campaign's operations and tactics, while Game Change covers multiple candidates and has more sensational revelations. 

I'm not sure how timely you want the book to be, but going back a few years, James Carville and Mary Matlin's All's Fair: Love, War and Running for President, is a fascinating account of the 1992 presidential campaign, with different perspectives on the same events, interspersed with how their personal relationship developed during the race.  I also really like George Stephanopoulos'All Too Human, which covers his time with Bill Clinton (both on the campaign and in the White House).

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

James Woodruff

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Date: Thu, Aug 11, 2011 11:30 am
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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/0743296524/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/1416552227

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

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Date: Thursday, August 4, 2011 11:40 am
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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!  

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