[EL] Accounts of campaigning

Thu Aug 11 11:38:20 PDT 2011

Even more dated but an even better read is the account of the Eatanswill
election in the Pickwick Papers.

Actually, much of it still holds up

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Dale Eisman <DEisman at commoncause.org>wrote:

> 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 [mailto:
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> 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).****
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> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Bonin, Adam C. <ABonin at cozen.com> wrote:*
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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.
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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.
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> *From:* law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:
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> I recommend David Plouffe's Audacity to Win. Very detailed.
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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>
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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
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> 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:
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> > I will be teaching a seminar this fall focused on campaign speech and
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> 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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