AnyBook4Less.com	Find the Best Price on the Web Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Home  |  Store List  |  FAQ  |  Contact Us  |
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money Keyword AuthorISBN

Title: Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy by Kathleen Hall Jamieson ISBN: 0-19-508553-1 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: October, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95

Your Country USA Canada United Kingdom Australia Austria Belgium France Germany Italy Netherlands Switzerland Currency AutoUSD CAD GBP EUR AUD CHF Delivery Only cheapest delivery All delivery options Include Used Books Are you a club member of: Barnes and Noble Books A Million Chapters.Indigo.ca

Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Engaging Arguments
Comment: As a professor of communication, I have enthusiastically used Kathleen Hall Jamieson's Dirty Politics as a text that makes sense of so much of what we see in nationally televised politics. Students invariably come away from reading Jamieson with a much deeper apprecation for politics--and what ails it. The strength of this text is in the attention to detail; specifically, Jamieson grounds her study in focus group research. And in those instances where she doesn't utilize such research, her readings of various televisual advertising is usually nuanced and insightful. The one drawback to the text, one that Jamieson would perhaps actually endorse, is its elitism; that is, only certain sorts of elites watch the Lehrer News Hour (to which she contributes frequently), and have the educational skills to do the hard work of argument, engagement and debate that she so heartily endorses. Politics isn't a spectator sport; in this text, Jamieson encourages us to get up off the couch and actually engage--and thereby hold candidates accountable for the discourse of Democracy.

Rating: 2
Summary: This book is badly written.
Comment: Upon entering 1oth grade Honors Government and Economy, I was forced to read this book to enhance my summer project. Throughout reading this book I came to the conclusion that this was a poorly written book. Although Kathleen Hall Jamieson's book contains good thoughts, she uses an over-exceedingly amount of adjectives in the process of communicating her philosophies. However, despite my distaste for her writing, Kathleen Hall Jamieson's book, "Dirty Politics", contains valuable information and is a decent book for someone who enjoys researching the medias' influence on presidential campaigns.

Similar Books:

	Title: Everything You Think You Know About Politics...and Why You're Wrong by Kathleen Hall Jamieson ISBN: 0465036279 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 20 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00
	Title: The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories That Shape the Political World by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Paul Waldman ISBN: 0195152778 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00
	Title: Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate by Stephen Ansolabehere, Shanto Iyengar ISBN: 0684837110 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95
	Title: Packaging the Presidency: A History and Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising by Kathleen Hall Jamieson ISBN: 0195089421 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95
	Title: Campaign Craft: The Strategies, Tactics, and Art of Political Campaign Management Revised and Expanded Edition by Daniel M. Shea, Michael John Burton ISBN: 0275970949 Publisher: Praeger Publishers Pub. Date: 30 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95