[EL] Accounts of campaigning

Thu Aug 11 11:47:29 PDT 2011

I have to concur with Mike on *All Too Human*, especially--and an earlier
author on the Caro work about Lyndon Johnson's 1948 race for senate. I
recommend that folks working in political communication read Stephanopoulos'
memoir.

A few others, since folks have thrown out some works about campaigns (since
we do campaign work for a living, naturally we also obsessively read about
political campaigns, ha ha):

Some of these have first-hand accounts from candidates, others do not.

*•Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady* is a good account of the 1950 Senate Race
in California between Richard Nixon and Helen Gahagan Douglas.
•*Tip O'Neill and The Democratic Century* by John Farrell contains some good
accounts of Several of Tip O'Neill's campaigns, particularly the Democratic
takeover of the Mass. General Assembly early in O'Neill's career. O'Neill's
autobiography, *Man of the House*, has additional accounts, but I prefer
Farrell's book for the electoral accounts.
•*Madam President* by Clift & Brazaitis has some good segments and
interviews with first-hand accounts from female candidates like Marjorie
Margolies-Mezvinsky, the late Geraldine Ferraro, and some others. A lot of
the content is dated because it was published prior to Hillary Clinton's
rise to power in her own right, but the stories from the ground on various
campaigns are excellent.
•*Chief Justice* by Ed Cary has great accounts from Earl Warren's
gubernatorial campaigns, as well as the 1948 presidential campaign from the
VP nominee's perspective.
•*Empire Statesman* by Slayton also has a good account of Al Smith's various
campaigns including his presidential run.

For more regional or statewide campaigns, *Allan Shivers: The Pied Piper of
Texas Politics* by Sam Kinch and Stuart Long has some interesting accounts
of his gubernatorial campaigns. I believe this is out of print, though.
Also, *Gavels, Grit, & Glory*: *The Billy Clayton Story* by Jimmy Banks
(probably also out of print) has interesting accounts of a rural legislative
race in the middle of the last century as well as a great picture of what it
is like to engage in an election for Speaker of a legislative body. Much of
the book, however, is dedicated to other Clayton issues, including his
indictment and trial on a corruption charge.

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Mike Altschule <mikealtschule at yahoo.com>wrote:

> 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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> *Subject:* Re: [EL] Accounts of campaigning
>
>  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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>  *From:* law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:
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> Woodruff
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>
>  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/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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> 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?
>
> > Thanks for any suggestions!
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